I had a hard time looking for close up pictures myself.
I found the tv through the first image. When I was looking around I also found a ridiculously giant tv by GE.
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Yeah these were rear projection TVs and could get pretty large. The picture was terrible though. 
Impressive how wood was used a lot in TVs
Kanji? Which Kanji would your like to know?
I think the reply will be late due to the time difference.
Japan used to have a huge cathode ray tube called “JumboTron”. 
In fact, a game competition was held on this huge TV. The name of the game is Roadrunner.
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lol. All the little Kanji by the knobs and buttons in this image.
@Telmo has been kind enough to interpret for me over the years, but I need source decent enough to read.
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The model name is TH20-B205.
However, even if I looked for the image, I could not see it blurry.
I’ll try to find the exact documentation.
I also tried Kindle but can’t find it. I searched the internet archives and could only find a few. I feel like I can predict Kanji, but the letters are a little hazy and I can’t be sure…
I was no help.
Found a few more. This is all past transaction history of Yahoo auction.
The control panel on the right can be read. The problem is the lower right control panel.
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But learn the Kanji, if they are only about 40 thousand. 
I’ll give you a couple of tricks.
1st. Learn the order of writing.
2nd. Use kanji.sljfaq.org, it is possibly the best handwriting recognizer.
3rd. Entrust yourself to the gods.
The page https://jisho.org/ has a recognizer, it is not good but it writes very nice animated ideograms.
From the front of the TH20-B8 TV:
音量
小
大
主電源
切
入
電源
押
(Direct Remocon)
音質
低
高
バランス
左
右
音声切換
副
主·副
主
モノラル
Sometimes you have to be resourceful, the 電, is not distinguishable and I could not write it, but on the back of the TH20-B205 it appears.
低, I did not distinguish it, but I deduced that it is the opposite of 高.
The missing ones I leave to you. Many symbols are repeated on the other TV, it is easy to deduce them with these. Little by little you get used to them and distinguish them better.
I leave it here.Searching for Kanji makes the bravest cry and I am a coward. 
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I don’t know if it works well even if it’s a ray gun because it’s outdoors (sunlight).
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Thank you for your work, but the Kanji on my TH20-B8 are all accurate and verified.
If you read some of my posts while I developed, it you will see that I did use a lot of tricks.
Including KanjiTomo - OCR Program for Japanese text, some kind effort by @Telmo who is fluent in Japanese, (Among other members of the community I am sure.) and even Google translate. 
If there was any doubt about the accuracy they were dispelled when I compared it to the new images.
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I really do appreciate your effort though, and the advice. Thank you.
If anyone manages to tackle the TH20-B205 I will add it to my list, but it is off for now.
If it was the only multi-screen option I would use place holders, but we have the Sampo.
I did go into the TH20-B8 source and make some changes.
I added detail to the channel buttons and number windows, worked on the PanaColor logo plate, did some work on the power button, added some fine detail to the “Channel Lock” switch on the lower right, and created the missing panel release on the upper right.
The mesh on the main speakers is also wrong, but the complexity changing it would add to the source is really not worth it.
Most of the changes will be invisible to the casual user, but I feel better.
I will also be renaming the presets and graphics to TH20-B8.
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I did some more work on the Infocom version of the Sampo.
I redid my extras so they are 4x3 and have reflections on all four sides.
It will do until such a time when @HyperspaceMadness adds features to the shader.
There are images for every game Emumovies has boxart for, although only a small number are compatible with the core. (Hopefully that will change.)
I am using their naming format so you will have to name your roms to match. (There are only 25.)
The preset isn’t final just yet, but it is getting close.
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I don’t think so, that’s 4375 posts in this article. 
It would be great if you had a classified catalog and search engine.
The idea was to learn how to write Kanji without anyone’s help, then you can look them up in a dictionary, it’s the best way. If you are going to make Japanese TV, you will need it.
The TH20-B8 has the same ideograms, the ones below, I can’t even read them, but if you look for other models, there are some that share fronts. It is even easier because it has fewer words.
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It is necessary to wait until it gets dark. 
Is this one like the SONY back-illuminated ones, which have a projector inside? Like the giant monitor of Virtua Racing and Daytona USA?
Those Monitors are pretty badass, but I would have loved to have something like this, this decorates any room. Desing <3
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I meant my recent posts about the very new graphics. I tend to post WIP reports and give inside info on the journey.
Thanks for the advice but I have many graphics that contain both Kanji and Katakana, and thus far I have done pretty well with Telmo’s help.
I don’t want to sound rude or unthankful but…
Thank you again for your advice.
BTW. The plan isn’t to do a series of Japanese TVs, it is a series of vintage TVs. These just happen to be two models I committed to doing a year or so ago.
I have many possible manufactures on my list.
- quasar
- motorola
- zenith
- general electric
- admiral
- hoffman
- philco
- sylvania
- rca
- westinghouse
- magnavox
- capehart
- packard bell
- fleetwood
- setchell-carlson
- emerson
- airline
- hitachi
- Telefunken PALcolor
I have not committed to anything further than the two, so each will be a surprise.
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Both projectors and rear projectors are prone to burn-in, and it was said that using them in games should be avoided (in Japan, it was also written in the manual).
As for the jumbotron, I’m not sure if it’s a projector. I have seen the real thing with the naked eye, but I only recognized it as a normal TV.
According to English Wikipedia, it is written like this.
Originally, the JumboTron was not an LED display (light-emitting diode display), since blue LEDs were unavailable at the time, and the only green LEDs available were of the traditional yellow-green variety, which were unsuitable for an RGB display. Each display consisted of multiple modules composed of 16 or more small flood-beam CRTs (cathode ray tubes), each of which included from 2 to 16 pixels composed of red, green, and blue phosphors. Sony displayed one of the earliest versions at the Expo '85 World’s Fair in Tsukuba. Eventually, JumboTron systems adopted LED technology as blue and pure green LEDs were developed. LED-based systems have about ten times the lifespan of CRT-based systems, a key reason for the change.
I would like to end the conversation on this thread here, as it is getting too long and unrelated to @Duimon purpose.
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I think you need to re-verify. 
小 - 大 (not 低 - 高)
And the infrared panel, it would look good.
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