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<h1>20150604 - Panasonic CT-34WX59 = Piece of Junk</h1>
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<i>Waiting for "Updating dependencies...", time to reflect on a fail while CRT hunting...</i><br>
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Majority mass market consumer "HDTV ready" CRTs closing out the CRT TV era scanned out 1080i
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using an aperture grille (and some with a shadow mask) which could never resolve 1920x.
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Because of that they were effectively 960x540p displays limited to a smaller resolution by overscan.
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This is not a problem, this is exactly what I wanted.
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The CT-34WX59 is a 34" 16:9 CRT which can do 896x512 displayable at 60Hz via an HDMI cable and a custom modeline.
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I grabbed it for $10 on Craigslist.
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That was a 180 lbs mistake.
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I knew the display had a sharpen control,
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I didn't know Panasonic's idea of sharpen=0 adds ringing to everything: they don't support fully turn sharpening off.
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Some Panasonic displays don't have a Scan Velocity Modulation (SVM) disable,
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so just in case I opened up the TV and un-did the <a href="http://www.keohi.com/keohihdtv/brandspecific/panasonic/disabling_svm.html">physical connector which I believed was for the SVM feature</a>: didn't fix it.
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Attempted to find an override in the service menu, nothing there.
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Did some more testing: all 1920x1080i, 1920x540p, or 960x540p based modelines all get the same over-sharpening effect.
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Effectively this display was garbage even when new,
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avoid Panasonic when CRT hunting...
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