Greetings from Russia!

[maxhifi]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

A 'shadow mask' is an internal component found only in color CRTs....It is not an external mask or bezel like what you are thinking about.

Of course you're right, and I even knew that - should have has a better breakfast today, sometimes I don't think too clearly on an empty stomach!

[Electronic M]

Yeah, we all are a little less our selves when hungry.

As per the other part of that post of yours that I quoted. Monochrome sets are much easier to feed NTSC. I'd imagine that if you imported a composite video to RF modulator made for it's country of origin, fed that mod off an NTSC source, and tweaked the H and V oscillators (might need some RC component swaps if there is not enough range), and as long as the set's native standard did not use white level synch (some standards did use inverted synch) it will probably work.

For color and inverted synch sets it becomes more challenging....Some cheap DVD players can probably be hacked to put out the right standard, it may be possible to output other standards with a computer that has video card that supports composite video (may need to mess with the OS, drivers, and region), and there is always the option of getting a multi-standard VCR.

I've never owned a non-NTSC set, but I've always though it would be interesting.

[kdegru]

Originally Posted by Gleb

Hi colleagues !
I got here a few days ago to ask a question, and I immediately got the answer, thank you members ! Even though Russian TVs are different, I hope it would be interesting to the community and we'll find a lot to share !

Gleb.

What is the year make and model of the pictured TV?

[Gleb]

KVN-49, 1951
(KBH-49 in cyrillic, the first letters of the engineer's last names and the first year of production). I'm writing an article here about that TV.