thats a big TV! o.o

Yes! The biggest of its type! xD

You lost me right after "40 inch"

Holy dicks from hell that's a huge screen

I know, it's hyooge. I had to giggle every time I looked over at it for the first couple hours I had it. xD Makes everything else in my bedroom look tiny!

This one is probably the same set, it does both 1080i and 720p.

I believe there is a setting for that; I'd need to look my controls over again, hang on...

Try repeatedly pressing the DRC MODE button on the lower left of the remote. Is the source you're using 16:9 or 4:3?

The only real problem, as far as I'm concerned. is the set's sheer massive weight. xD

Being trained in TV repair I know what kind of defects those things commonly suffer. Picture tubes that fail and display nothing but red. :(

Ah yes, the dreaded blinking timer LED. xD I just swapped out the horizontal output transistor in a KV-27S66 that had that problem, it's a great set now. Gotta love CRT TV repair. xD

Oh yeah! That and leaky capacitors in the vertical circuit are common as well in these models. XD

That they are. xD Can be murder to find the bad one!

My rule of thumb is to start near the vertical IC and work your way outward. Unless the caps are puffed on top, then that is easy to see. XD

Oh yeah, when they vent. xD Telltale!

Cool beens. I have its smaller cousin, the KV-32FS120 (yes, I had to look at the model number with my cheek against the drywall with a small flashlight; you're welcome :] ). It's 32" and like yours, back-breakingly heavy, but it's done well.

My best friend has a 32FS120, that one has the all-silver faceplate, right? They are great sets!

My smallest Trinitron is a KV-13FS100, but it still has all the cool stuff that the big ones have! :B

Sweet dude

My parents have the 35" version of that set.

Very nice! Probably a KV-36XBR800? xD

Neat.

Dad almost bought a 1080i Sony 34" widescreen back in Summer '04...but he was worried about weight and tube depth. (The family needed a set with an ATSC tuner, so it was either that or the half-as-expensive Samsung 30" widescreen...I tried my darndest, and the Sony did have a better picture, but...oh well.)

It would have been SO worth it. Was that Sony one of the widescreen-format CRTs?

Yup. After all, NOVA and Enterprise were in widescreen format, and they were the only HD content that was worth watching at the time. The former still is, and it's one of the few television programs I actually care about.

Ah yes, NOVA is a really cool show.

I have a 34" Trinitron 16x9, thats been brilliant, got it in a duff state in 2004 and replaced the control transformer (loose winding, not varnished properly) and thats been excellent ever since. Have the 40" samsung LED backlit screen in the living room with blu ray player, hd dvd and a media PC and a sound system of my own concoction.

Very nice ^^

ever had that realisation wny you never have any cash in the bank, i got it after looking at the amount of tech gear in the house :p

Nope, 'cause most of my stuff is second-hand, from Craigslist, Goodwill/other thrift, garage/yard sales, and even the trash!

Playing the Wii on that TV looks better than the TV I have to use to play on the Wii at home.

What TV do you have? xD

The older full screen.

Is it a Sony, or a CRT?

I don't know what the specific model is, but my parents had a 36" CRT Toshiba that would take 1080i, 720p, etc. Sexy CRT. I need to find its model cause now I'm curious of its resolution. HEAVY ASS BITCH THOUGH... LOTS of glass in the front of them. It was also 4/3; they eventually splurged for a 42"-16/9 LCD.

Really?! I was not aware of anyone besides Sony and Mitsubishi that made an HD CRT that big! Was it a flat screen model? I wonder, do you still have it, and does it still work? 8D

Its currently at my grandmother's and yes. It works quite well, my only issue with it is it didn't have a VGA input... :(

VGA as in...HDMI, DVI, component. or standard monitor connector? The latter doesn't seem to be common on anything except the latest HDTVs and professional monitors.

VGA is VGA...

HDMI is retarded... (DVI could do what it does "they" just invented it so everyone who bought a TV with DVI to future proof their purchase had to buy a new TV... DVI is superior to HDMI because it doesn't have this lame HDCP BS...

Anything HD has component inputs. ;)


I have seen plenty of TVs that had VGA inputs. Granted the majority were Rear Projection CRTs...

Yes, this is true. The rear projectors tend to have them. My only RP set does not. (It's for sale xD)

I was wondering about HDMI...thanks for telling me that. So, it's no real loss that my 40-inch Trinitron has DVI, but not HDMI? I did not know that HDCP was integrated with HDMI O_o

*Some* devices that have HDMI outputs will work on DVI inputs... However, those that don't require HDCP on both ends (to make you pay.) Also any digital communications medium/protocol suffers from an effect called "Digital Cliff." Pretty much there is a maximum length an HDMI/DVI-D cable/signal will work flawlessly, go past that length and it just drops off. Whereas analog video/signals would still work, they just might have more noise in the signal... (I'm obviously NOT a fan of the big digital convergence of TV stations. They suffer from the same effect.)

I've also not had good luck using HDMI from a computer to a TV, the TV seems to over-scan. Correcting for this in the computer causes the pixel for pixel resolution to decline. (It looks like shit) Though from what I've heard It might have just been the LCD I was trying this on... (I just use VGA, it works much better and more reliably.)

Also, most people like HDMI because you don't need another cable for Audio. With the cable box we have, the audio just goes away every so often... quite annoying.

Oh my God, don't get me started on the digital conversion...I HATEEE its guts. I miss being able to tune channels with my knobs! All of my vintage sets require cable now. D:

Hah, having the separate audio cable for DVI is no big deal. What I really want to do is connect my Trinitron to my PC and use it as my monitor. 8D

*searches on craigslist*

found a 42" one xD

oh, and it's $200 might see about it xD

edit 2: with stand xD

It is a 40" set; that's the largest size made. The ad's size is misrepresented.

I am still searching for the original SU-40XBR8 stand with no luck. D:

And that's what I call the BIG TV. It is a king of not only Trinitrons, but the king of all CRT TV's indeed!

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You are indeed correct on all counts, sir :B Thank you! ^^

I found mine on Craigslist; they are becoming common on there as people switch to those soulless flat things. xD

You're completely right saying that flat TVs are soulless. (maybe because they're deFLATed?)

The most soulful TV's were using vacuum-tubes. I once had a russian TV - Rubin 707P Beutiful, soulful and... heavy (23" TV that weigh 57kg IS heavy). Unfortunately I had to give this one away (because I didn't have space for it) :c But it's in good hands, and I know that for sure.

Oh, awesome! I love vacuum tube TVS too; I have a 1963 GE that is all tube, and an Emerson from the 60's, too. :3

Well, I love all Vacuum Tube things. Unfortunately I have only two: gramophone (Bambino 3) and my homebrew hybrid (tube & semiconductor) power amplifier. But I have quite a big collection of radio & TV vacuum tubes (mostly european).

I need to set up my vacuum tube collection again--it got put away when my bedroom was re-arranged. xD

You are so lucky to own one of those. I've heard of that beast and I've always wanted one of those too. But I do have a 30" Panasonic CT-30WX15N CRT HDTV from 2006 and it looks amazing. My favorite thing about it though is that even SD signals look beautiful and perfect on it while LCD HDTV's look like crap with SD signals.

Yes, this one looks fantastic with standard NTSC 480i as well!

There is another KV-40XBR800, with the ORIGINAL SU-40XBR8 STAND, for sale at a local thrift shop...for $25!!!! If only I had the space and manpower...!

I just got a Sony KV-32HS420 32" HDTV a few days ago for $1 at the Goodwill near my house. c: It's awesome. It's the second HDTV I got from there.

That must be similar to my KV-32HS20, a very good set!

Also purchased at a Goodwill, I might add XD

Very, very similar. Other than a few cosmetic differences, and yours having more powerful speakers and no HDMI input. It's pretty much mostly the same. I bet they both use same tube inside though. Isn't Goodwill awesome sometimes. My family jokes about me going to Goodwill so much, but then I show up with a flawless 32" Sony Trinitron HDTV to replace the crappy 15 year old 36" 480i TV in the living room that's really blurry, has a deformed image and has color splotches all around the screen.

Seeing our PS3 connected to that crappy old TV made me want to hurl. It's like night and day going from a messed up, broken 480i TV to 1080i HDTV.

I have a soft spot for the Sonys...even their SD sets have fantastic pictures when well-maintained. My oldest one is a 5-inch KV-5200 from the early 70s!

I have a soft spot for them too. Nothing really compares to them. My goal right now is to put a Sony in EVERY room of the house to replace the not so great TV's currently in them. Just 3 more to go and I'm done.

I had that realized at one point, until I came across a Samsung (rebranded Akai) that I REALLY like, and put it in my parents' bedroom. XD

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