Bastards!!!

[Jose]

This reminds me of the HQ100 crt TV from them. It has a SuperFinePitch trinitron tube, the best HD crt tube ever, at least in the consumer market, and also pricey it was. But surprise, the european models with SuperFinePitch tubes (32" and 36" variants of the HQ100 model) don't have HD input!!!!!
It's like selling a car with a super power engine but putting an accelerator that only goes through half the way...
It's most likely some marketing department assholes like what happened in Commodore, coming in and totally wasting a great machine that took a lot of hard work to design by very good engineers and the saddest part is that having an HD input on the HQ100 would probably not even market predate any of their LCD / plasma (they still sold plasmas in 2004 I think) tvs.
The TV probably even has internal HD inputs cause the picture processing upscales the image, so someone could hack it, but probably they were not sold in high enouph numbers to get the attention of good electronics hackers.

[Jose]

Well, at the time I managed to find the service manuals for the american and european models and the chassis were different (probably due to different electrical standards too etc.) so it wasn't worth it. If there was a mod available I'm sure I would have tried it. BTW I found out the later Toshiba CRTs accept 1080i signals using a VGA to component video transcoder and some custom settings on Powerstrip (PC program to tweak image parameters, a bit like Picasso96's mode editor). They also accept some interesting frequencies and resolutions like 1200x 833i (probably the limits of the tube). The image needs some tweaking though and since I'm not into electronics (CRT image frequency and timing adjustments etc.) it becomes harder and boring to try to go further...

Very OT I knoew but I had to say it:)