Summary

27" flat CRT by Panasonic from 2002. Made at Matsushita's Mexico facility.

Manuals

• User Manual
• Service Manual (Simplified version, fairly useless)
• Service Manual (For 2001 models, but it has the guide for getting into the service menu)

Notes

There are two possible tube models in this set, a Panasonic or Samsung one. The pics provided are of the Panasonic tube.

Picture quality is fairly underwhelming before you adjust. If you wish to have the YPbPr looking closer to RGB, I recommend the following adjustments:

Aside from the obvious brightness and contrast adjustment, turning sharpness all the way down is advised.

Disabling velocity modulation is also recommended, otherwise pixel art will be chewed up. There is no service menu option for it, as the only way is to unplug a jumper from the yoke.

These sets also have intense red push causing warmer colors to bleed heavily. There's no service menu option to turn it off. Thankfully, there is still a way to counteract it:

1. Turn color saturation down in the standard menu until reds are no longer bleeding.
2. Perform a white balance in the service menu, usually by boosting the blue and green cutoffs.

After this, picture quality should look fantastic, just like RGB. Check out the pictures, it is quite the improvement.

And word of advice: take a picture what you have the final color saturation set to, as whenever you unplug the TV, the menu settings reset.