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