Sony KV-13FM13

Andy King, Mike Morisette, Myles
June 10, 2023, 8:36 pm
February 21, 2025, 7:15 pm

Summary

13" model from Sony's flat screen Wega line. Has RF and composite video inputs. The FM12 is silver/grey color, FM13 is white, and FM14 is blue.

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Notes

Unlike the 27" and larger BA-5 Trinitrons, this TV does not have native component inputs. However, its jungle chip is very versatile and can be modified for RGB and YPbPr component video. Please note that due to a different M board design and jungle chip, the RGB mod procedure for the 27" BA-5 Trinitrons doesn't apply.

RGB Multi-Mod Guide

S-Video mod instructions

The user menu includes a tilt control. To have a warmer color temperature closer to reference 6500K, in the service menu section VP2, set DCOL to 0 (instead of 1).

Composite 240p Performance

by Eli Krause

For composite decoding this set uses a Toshiba TC90A49P, a 3-line digital comb filter. Depending on the console/revision, dot artifacting ranges from slight to severe, and blending effects may be broken. If the set has an s-video or component YPbPr input, then using a good external notch filter to decode composite instead and sending that to the set would blend all dithering patterns and remove nearly all dot artifacts (full guide here).

TC90A49P

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