[old_tv_nut]

Watching the superb owl gave me a chance to see any remaining problems with the CTC-5, and I see two:

1) The color oscillator setup has drifted, and loses lock when the tint is set extreme counterclockwise (worse when cold). Will have to redo the oscillator alignment, which is a multi-step pain in the butt on this chassis, not just a simple "tune for zero beat."

2) The burst gate is too wide, and bites into video, causing varying tint streaks depending on what's on the left side of the picture. This will probably require checking all R and C values in the gate circuit and looking at the gate pulse with a scope.

Otherwise, it was interesting to note a couple of things about the show's production:

Broadcasters are no longer afraid to put important info (like the current score) outside the 4x3 window.
Commercial producers sometimes deliberately use super-short letter box that is inside the HD picture height (black bars top and bottom even on the zoomed/cropped 4x3 picture).

Will post some pix when I get them off the camera.