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Philips TV picture tube with invar mask gives less defor-mation and therefore can provide 80% more contrast than conventional picture tubes for brilliant colours andminimal reflections, even when viewing in daylight.
This Real Flat tube is from the the latest generation of tubes where the tube face is trully Flat.
The advantages of this
lie in appearance, wider viewing angle, and in bringing thepicture nearer to the front of the glass for less distortion.

100Hz Digital Scan
Conventional Televisions scan the picture at 50 times per second (50 Hertz).
This Frequency can be detected by the human eye in the form of a flickering picture.
100 Hertz sets scan the picture at 100 times per second eliminating the overall area flicker.

Digital Natural Motion
Philips 100hz technology produces the most stable pictures free from flickering.
In our top sets this is allied to Natural Motion which solves the problem of objects juddering or losing shape when they move fast across the screen.
Movements become smooth and natural.

Digital CrystalClear
A unique package of picture innovations including combfilter, scavem, and dynamic contrast adjustment giving natural colours, high contrast and high level of details.
In Digital Crystal Clear the contrast is assessed 50 times per second to optimise the picture further.

Full Active Control
The tv automatically analyses the incoming signal and adjust the key picture parameters of noise, sharpness,colour, contrast and format giving the best possible at all times.
In addition the tv has an ambient light sensorand adjusts the picture according to how much light is 0,34W Stand by in the room.

It's 500 NOK (think roughly $50, £50, €50 etc.) and I was able to rope a buddy into coming with me.

What could possibly go wrong?

Going for it!

The product sheet that ldmadao linked to says that handles NTSC.



How exactly it does that with a 100 / 50Hz refresh rate is anyone's guess when NTSC is 60Hz.

Probably a bit of flicker in the image like when I would display a PAL DVD on my old CRT Computer monitor.

That 100hz thing is weird. It’s going to make that display fairly unique and if that’s a good thing or a bad thing I don’t know. I don’t see any real reason why it wouldn’t be a great TV for LD unless it has a million hours on it. I assume it does NTSC? PAL LD is pretty much a waste of time unless you already have a collection from back in the day.

Video the loading, it could be on failarmy, been watching that for days now, great stuff.

Looks like the screen is heavily marked. Was it already like that or did you transport it without taking into account the weight being mostly at the front? Or even worse, transport face down?

Yeah, this was all me, see above.

All exuberance; poor execution :S

Have a very close look at the glass and see if most of the damage is the anti-glare film (or whatever it's called). You can remove the film from crt's like that, it's a trick a lot of people do so they can lower brightness to extended tube life but also handy if there are some screen marks.
Of course once the film is removed reflections from lights and daylight will be more of an issue. Use a light behind the tv and you won't notice.

How depressing.

Nothing to lose now, so I might as well give that a try.

There were some solutions involving cloth and light cleaning fluids but things can't possibly be that easy.

Model specific guide probably isn't necessary unless you need help opening the case, but crt's have always been fairly easy to deal with in my experience (monitors or tv's).