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SilentLeviathan

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I was looking at one of these the other day but a friend of mine who sells TVs said he has had a lot of complaints with Sony TVs but he didn't have time to clarify. Anyone have any experiences with them?
 

Tyler1

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I hate Sony with a passion. They are overpriced pieces of shit. I can't even get into the amount of products I owned that have broken. Literally almost everyone, and I've owned alot. I used to be in the same mindset as everyone else. Since Sony was the biggest name in consumer electronics they must be the best. Lots of broken products and a lot of warranty work later I saw the light and stopped buying Sony. My friends and family all think Sony is the best despite all their broken products too.
Sony does produce one of the best pictures for tube TV's but just watch out for quality. BTW, most 36" TV's are half the cost of that Sony these days. Also, why not get into the HDTV's. CRT's are a thing of the past IMO.
 

TheNiteHwk

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No more Sony's for me...

I also was very disappointed with a Sony flat screen TV a couple of years back. Like others I thought Sony was a good product. I sure went through enough Walkmans over the years. I even worked at The Sony Store years ago when I was taking a Marketing course at Vancouver Community College as part of the course. So with that mind set I bought a 26-inch flat screen at The Ex about 3 or 4 years ago. It lasted me just a little over a year before it f**ked up. I got a repair estimate from a place in The Annex where somebody I know works there. He told me the same story as above. Lots of problems with the KV flat screen models. Told me the cost for repair… I might as well buy a new TV… that this one was not worth fixing. So I went and got another TV… a used RCA… and I will never buy Sony again.
 

Kenwoody

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I agree with everything Tyler said! I have a $600 DVD player and a $500 Minidisc player/recorder that I have left in Sony's repair dept. because not only do they break down easily, their customer service is crap. That being said, their TV's are the only electronics I would buy. IMHO Panasonic is the most reliable mass market manufacturer out there. They make the best Plasma TV's and VCR's for sure. Sony for CRT and LCD.
 

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A few years ago I was in the market for a new big-screen TV. At the time, plasma was $10,000.00 and there was no LCD or DLP so I looked at regular rear-projection. I went to the store determined that I was buying a 50" Sony RP TV. After looking at the picture quality side-by-side (playing the same DVD from a common DVD player) of the Sony and a 51" Hitachi, I spent the extra $75 and went with the Hitachi. Sony is fine if you want a name, but the difference was night and day. The Hitachi is still in use (4 years old I think) and the HD channels are amazing in quality.
 

andrew-g

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One word, HEAVY. I have the old version of that TV and it weighs in at 237 pounds. Remember this is not something you can move by yourself.
 

SilentLeviathan

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Yeah but Sony is the only one with a 36" CRT. I've never had any problems with Sonys though. I was talking wioth some people who work for Sony and they were saying they haven't had any problems with it. I'll think about it.
 

xarir

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Sony CRTs are fine and generally IMHO are amongst the best. The rest of their stuff is fairly low-end.

As a company Sony has lost its way. I wonder if they even invest that much in basic R&D. They used to be at the cutting edge with products no one could match until years later. Then when everyone else came out with similar products, Sony would just raise the bar again. But in the 1990s I think they started to lose the edge. Eventually they just compromised by using lower quality parts in order to maintain profitibility. Today it's hard to find a really top-notch product with the Sony name on it.

As for the original question, the TV in question is a Trinitron Wega. It's a nice TV but if you could find an XBR, the picture quality will be better still. With the larger Wega TVs you can sometimes see the scan lines. Get close to the TV and you'll see a bunch of black lines running horizontally across the screen. This doesn't show up on XBR models.

Having said that though, I do agree with others - CRT is dead. Why would you want to buy one these days?
 

Berlin

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xarir said:
As for the original question, the TV in question is a Trinitron Wega.

It's a nice TV but if you could find an XBR, the picture quality will be better still. With the larger Wega TVs you can sometimes see the scan lines. Get close to the TV and you'll see a bunch of black lines running horizontally across the screen. This doesn't show up on XBR models.

Having said that though, I do agree with others - CRT is dead. Why would you want to buy one these days?
XBR CRT kicks ass indeed.

I wish we could still get a hold of CRT XBR models in Canada. Since a year ago, Sony discontinued all CRT XBR distributions in this country, which caused me to settle for a lesser, but still great , model.

CRT XBR was still available in US last year. The CRT with closest performance would be this one

http://www.sonystyle.ca/commerce/se...&productId=173119&navigationPath=n32050n32052

KD34XS955

Currently top of their line here, it was on sale at the Sony store for 2299 CAD last week downtown. With ATSC tuner, HD ready. I am using one in my den for DVD viewing and have nothing to complain about. Well, the weight of it can kill a grown up LOL...

If you still have the real estate in your house and don't mind the thickness of CRT, it is a good deal. Mind you, the performance is slighltly lesser than their CRT XBR models which could be still available south of the border.

Guess I am one of the lucky ones, I have been owning and using Sony , both TV and stereo for over 20 years. Never had any premature deaths from them. My last Sony TV kicked the bucket after 15 years of duty, while in my other room still sits a 24 inch Sony proview monitor from 1985, still working great.
 

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I have an older (at least 12 years) XBR CRT. It has only required two service calls in that time and both were less than $250.00. They fix it in home as it's to damn heavy to move!
 

SilentLeviathan

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xarir said:
Having said that though, I do agree with others - CRT is dead. Why would you want to buy one these days?
I have no plans to get HDTV so a wide screen model is pointless.
 
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