Summary

24" flat tube TV by Panasonic, originally manufactured in Mexico in 2004. Includes RF, composite, S-Video, and component video inputs.

(Special thanks to Michael Lopez for the pics!)

Manuals

• User Manual
• Service Manual

Media & Promo Materials

• Product Page

Notes

This set uses a chassis (NA10) with a design flaw in the video processing. For whatever reason all signals have haloing artifacts, noise, and black crush. Perhaps the jungle chip may be the culprit, or perhaps its a configuration error on Panasonic's part. Whatever the case may be, it looks bad. I personally recommend using this set for VHS or LaserDisc content so that the haloing will be less noticeable.

The jungle chip is an all-in-one design with a digital OSD that cannot be modified for RGB.

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 (guide here) and sending that to the set's component input would blend all dithering patterns, reduce edge artifacts, and remove the dot artifacts.