Summary

13" model from Sony's flat screen Wega line, with RF and composite video inputs. One of three 13" Wega models sold at the time, it features an attractive dark blue case. The other two variants were the KV-13FM12 (silver) and KV-13FM13 (white).

Literature

• User Manual
• Service Manual
• BA-5 Chassis Repair Training Manual
• Sony Product Page

Notes

While this TV only has composite video inputs, it can be modified for RGB, component, or S-Video.

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 one has component inputs on their set, then using an external notch filter to decode composite instead (such as is available in a RetroTink 2X, 5X, etc.) and sending that to the component input would blend all dithering patterns and remove nearly all dot artifacts.