Summary

Panasonic's Tau line was their entry into the world of flat CRTs. This is a standard 20" model and is similar in design and specifications to Sony's Wega and JVC's I'Art series. Includes composite, S-Video, and component video inputs.

Literature

• User Manual
• Service Manual
• Product Page
• Target Product Page

Notes

The CT-20SL14J can be differentiated from the CT-20SL13G (produced the previous year in 2003) by the lack of a BBE logo in the bottom right corner.

This TV has a 1 chip design and cannot be modified for RGB.

The speakers on these (and other Panasonic TVs from the early 2000s) are prone to foam rot. Equivalent replacements can still be found as of 2024.

Composite 240p Performance

by Eli Krause

For composite decoding this set uses a Panasonic MN101E11GTD1, a 3-line digital comb filter/unified jungle chip. Depending on the console/revision, dot artifacting ranges from slight to severe, blending effects may be broken, and edge artifacts are slight to moderate. An example of the many dot artifacts are highlighted in the second picture below in red. Using an external notch filter to decode composite instead (such as is available in a RetroTink 2X, 5X, etc.) and sending that to the set's component input would blend all dithering patterns, reduce edge artifacts, and remove the dot artifacts.