Disabling Velocity Modulation
Most of Sony's flat Trinitrons contain a velocity modulation circuit. VM enhances dark outlines on screen, which helps hide composite dot crawl and can make TV and movies look better. However, it ruins pixel art and significantly degrades the appearance of 2D games.
In this model, turning off VM in the user menu does not completely disable it. To address this problem, go to the service menu and set "VMOF" to zero.