Good picture

Very poor reliability

This set replaced my 5 year old JVC 27". The JVC had performance problems on the video input. When bright flashes happened on the television's video input, the picture would momentarily scramble. Like some component was overloaded and failing. Granted, I at least got 5 years out of it, while bad, not nearly as bad as the Sony.

I've had the Sony less than one year. It has a permanant distortion that resembles arches on the left side of the screen. These look like faults more in the tube than anything. Also, on the same left side, there are vertical bars(like jail bars) that extend to the center of the television. The bars get lighter as they approach the center. I was told that both were a normal fault of the television and that service wouldn't be done, by the stores repair man. I said BULL, this is a defect and I want it fixed. I paid for an extended performance warranty.

In the last month, it has also had interference bleed over from the RF input over into the video's composite inputs. Not the S-video, just the composite or RCA input. Finally convinced the repair man that it was NOT grounding problems in my system. Man, these Sony's must be known to be unreliable when you got to fight the repair man to fix the thing. This was even with an extended warranty.

Now I'm really wondering if the slight picture quality increase over the competition was worth the bugs and unreliability. I will never buy another Sony product again!

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JVC

Digital comb filter

I recently had all my A/V equipment stolen, including my older Sony KV32-S26 (no idea how they got that out without waking anyone) I replaced it with a KV32-S45, and I am very happy with the replacement. The digital comb filter really makes the picture noticably sharper. I have 5 different video sources, all of which are switched through the receiver and all of which are using composite RCA connectors. I DID use S-Video for the DVD, but in all honesty there wasnt much of a difference, and not all of my sources have S-Video out so I went with RCA. I have the audio set to fixed output going through my receiver, so I cant comment on the sound quality coming from the TV. At $699 its not the cheapest 32" out there, but I saw an open box at Best Buy for $531 (unfortunatelly it was already spoken for)

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Sony KV32-S26

Color, Resolution

Has only 1 set of Inputs, S-video or AV

It is a good television for just casual watching, but if you need to connect a big set of AV equipment, go for the one with more inputs. This has only 1 set.