Dynamic picture quality. Interoperability with my sound system

so far - it's the fact that the HD tuner does not seem to operate immediately after powereing up - - oh yeah - - there is the weight of this beast - almost 200 pounds!!

This is the best picture that I've seen for a widescreen image. I wanted a larger screen, but don't feel the time is right, pricewise and technology-wise to step into plasma, DLP or LCD. Although I'm extrmemly happy with the purchase, I am currently plagued by the HD tuner not seeming to operate fo the first 15 or twenty minutes after I turn on the TV. A service tech said it was the antenna, but after changing antenna, I have same problem.

Excellent picture, HD tuner.

Heavy

I was looking at projection and plasmas under $3K but decided to purchase a tube tv because the room that it was going into is bright during the daytime. It has an amazing picture and picks up quite a few HD channels from the built in tuner. I have it hooked up to an indoor Zenith antenna and it works pretty well. There was a problem with the HD tuner not working occasionally on cold starts. There turned out to be a service bulletin that said a capacitor needed to be added which took the service rep about 15 minutes to fix.

Simply the best picture from any consumer television set, period. (The picture from the upmarket Qualia front projector tv looks better, but it costs over $40k). The sharpness, brightness and color accuracy are superb. There is no pixelized motion or sign of jagged edges on slanted straight lines whatsoever. This is due to the Digital Reality Correction Sony uses to ensure an immaculate image, even from an interlaced signal. The image is always smooth as the source. On really good HD signals, the image "comes alive". The "screen" feature or zoom works well to remove the letterboxing you get from certain sources, and utilize the entire screen. The image is effectively much larger than you can get on a 4:3 aspect ratio screen. You can make adjustments in the "standard", "vivid", and "pro" modes and set them to memory, so the picture can be adjusted from HD to VCR to DVD with the push of a button. The set is a great value, and fits my smallish living room viewing area nicely.

It is bulky (24' deep)and heavy (205 lbs.)The digital tuner requires that you punch in a decimal point, such as "124.11", in order to view some high definition and pay-per-view channels. This feature is not available on most universal remotes and may only be accessible using a learning type. So don't lose or break the remote that came in the box. It also only has a 90 day as opposed to a 2 year warranty for labor, as it is not an XBR model. However, there are no problems to be had. When I first used the set, a greenish tint appeared in the upper right hand corner of the screen. But this anomaly completely went away after I turned the tv off and on again the next day. But I am just nitpicking. I love the set. I am completely satisfied and happy with the selection. It may cost more than some of the competition, but it's worth every penny.

After years of reading reviews on television sets: Rear Projection, LCD, Plasma,and direct view, I decided the tried and true CRT was the way to go for both pioture quality and overall value. After owning a Sony for almost 20 years, I was leaning toward buying a new XBR model. When I saw this set on the SonyStyle website, with the identical super fine pitch aperture grille, I decided to save a couple of hundred over the XBR for this baby. It was brand new, and at the time, was only available from the Sony Store. After waiting a couple of weeks, I saw one of the sets in the CC showroom, and the HDNet broadcast it displayed alongside an equivalent sized Panasonic and LCD set. I was sold on how much more realistic the picture was on the Sony. The additional detail and rendering of nuances (such as flesh tones)was clearly superior to the other sets. As this is a model just introduced in September, it is outfitted with an NTSC and digital tuner, making it a "high definition" and not simply an "HD ready" set. It also has cable card capability, meaning you can do away with the pesky and ugly cable box, that is, unless you get your signal from satellite. It helps me pull in the WB in HD over the air from a master roof antenna, which otherwise is not available from my cable company. The built-in tuner is much better than the digital cable box my sister has. It takes only a moment to tune between channels, and does not "black out" the way her cable box does on occasion. On the advice of an HD enthusiast website, the next thing I will do is purchase a calibration DVD and fine tune the image properly.

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Sony 20" Trinitron, circa 1985 Blows away competing direct view, plasmas, LCD's, RPTV's, etc. It even automatically degausses the screen each time you turn the set on, so there is no static electricity crackle and the constant dusting associated with it.