Sony Trinitron KV-32XBR48 CRT TV Overview, Features, and my Overall Thoughts on this XBR

[@MarcoRetro316]

Geometry looks acceptable, I’d tweak pin amp to pull the corners in a bit. Sony’s engineering can be a blessing and a curse; amazing when they’re working but a PITA to service. 32” is huge, then add in an aperture grill and it’ll be one of the heavier CRT’s to transport. It looks very high end for a consumer TV and I get the sentiment when a tube just fails to impress. Keep em coming my friend!

[@TheMatthiasRiots]

That’s a pretty bad ass TV! Congrats

[@blazuma111]

I have the Sony KV-35XBR48 that I got for free over 2 years ago and enjoyed this set for quite some time. Unfortunately, as I was making adjustments, I accidentally turned up the flyback transformer screen potentiometer too high and the set now powers on without any picture showing up. I am not sure what the problem is and have been trying to fix it for over a year now and plan on selling it since it's a rare set.

[@bsanchez3563]

Ooh the model nujber should be on topp bottom by the label sony on said remote commander unit or fwiw I feel it appears to be in small characters to the right of that just up a little bit below the buttons.

[@mohamed5824]

Greetings to you, my dear friend. Very wonderful work. Thank you very much

[@crtautist220]

Ohhh my dream crt. i have an xbr45 which has a similar tube, and same chassis excrpt it dosent have component. even on composite signal ive found the colours to be amazing. like yours, it blooms like crazy but the colours r so nostalgic looking. i look forward to seeing how it looks using component video

[@TheMikeyb86]

I have the KV-27V35 and it also has the buttons on top. No component though. It's a great TV. Like you, though, it's not my favorite TV. I have a Panasonic Gaoo and it's my favorite.

[@px4cz]

can you do a review on jvc pro video monitors? i have the jvc tm 90 psn and i been really enjoying it. better colors than my trinotron ssm 14n1e

[@P-0-Seventeen]

Whenever I can get them in, I will

[@Geryboy666]

that's a good one, gg.

[@MSUTri]

One thing I'm having a hard time finding about this set and it's older non-component input KV-32XBR45 brother is an accurate weight measurement or specification. Are these any lighter than the flat screen Sonys with the same screen size?

[@DARTH-REFLUX]

Is "Web" the only option under video label settings that you notice actually affects the picture? All other choices (Game, DVD, etc) are the same?

[@gamingtv394]

I have this same set and I like it a lot, the colors really stand out on it compared to my FS120. I wouldn’t say anything bad about the XBR48 if the issues are age related.

[@c0rpse1]

do you realize its prob the most sought after crt in existence? why even compare it to an fs120 lol. if it has any issues, im sure they can be fixed. besides dim tube.

[@davidbenning10]

@@c0rpse1I mean, yeah, the FS120 doesn’t compare to an XBR48, but tube condition at this point is more important and even more so as time goes on.

[@davidbenning10]

@@c0rpse1Doesn’t matter how sought out it is if the tube is very worn lol. Riggel here on KZbin had the XBR48 and got rid of it. He preferred his XBR200.

[@c0rpse1]

i think sony's having those issues are from heavy use. I got a 1993 trinitron with the 80s looking chassis, and the grid is literally flawless. its actually insane. it may as well be an LCD its so straight. a couple smaller trinis i have look similar. i do also have ones that come with wretched convergence/geometry though.

[@HayabusaPaul]

No way you transported this yourself?

[@RetrofIex]

How’s the comb filter look? Any moire or rainbow banding? That’s usually present if the comb filter is too weak

[@P-0-Seventeen]

No comb filter, has a notch filter that's pretty awful lol so it's always off

[@RetrofIex]

@@P-0-Seventeen Ah that reminds me of my KV20FS100. Terrible filter. Always have to look at the moire on solid gray backgrounds. Even with a HD retrovision component cable, you still see the moving moire noise.

[@gamingtv394]

⁠@@RetrofIexXBR48 does have a comb filter. VM enhancement is a what’s terrible, only in movie settings it is disabled

[@MetalJoycon]

What's the game at the beginning? My katakana reading skills are not that good

[@P-0-Seventeen]

It's Magical Drop 3 for sega saturn, but I also will play it for Neo Geo

[@palvag3698]

I have this tv model and need to sell

[@cesar6479]

If you're ever interested in a CRT projector, i got one for ya.

[@Chattanoogachoochoo_0105a]

These crts weren't design for gamers...they were for general tv viewing. You gamers should think about connecting your games to todays HD tvs bid screens intead! Good grief!!

[@P-0-Seventeen]

@Chattanoogachoochoo_0105a You're leaving out the part that many crt tvs have media inputs to plug in a vcr, dvd player, or game console. Not to mention games of these eras were made specifically for a CRT in mind as that's what everyone was using. You should see how old consoles look on HD tvs when you plug them in normally. Without a proper external scaler (which can costs quite a bit of money if youre wanting something quality), you not only get non-integer scaling leaving images a blurry mess, but it's also usually being linedoubled to "fit" a certain resolution, and that's not even adding into anything such as widescreen stretching an image, and these old games would be running on a non-native resolution screen to begin with, adding the issues mentioned above that you don't have on a crt. Flat-screen tvs have an inherent disadvantage as they only have one true native resolution (usually 1080p nowadays in a 16:9 format). CRTs on the other hand don't have this issue, and natively run these older resolutions (240p/480i) with the analog effects implemented by game developers (and other media such as vhs) taking hold, creating an otherworldly (and pretty much always BETTER) image. Moral of the story is run it native how it should be, not on something it wasn't meant for. Also most new HD flatscreens only have hdmi in so you're out of luck just normally plugging an old console in, unless it's something 7th gen like an Xbox 360(with hdmi) or ps3. Also, one last thing. There are plenty of comparison pictures and videos showing the benefits of the image presented on crts vs HD flat-screens, and that's also not even getting into stuff such as input lag, ghosting/motion blur, bad black levels (aside from on an oled or plasma), and all the previous issues mentioned. Just from the image standpoint alone is enough to pick up one of these old heavy pieces and continue using them for old games/media. I've never advocated for watching TV purely on these things as they've outlived their time for that (apart from a select few, wide HD crts to name one category), but to ignore everything else it was plenty good if not far better for does not provide a fair comparison. Also I'm not saying you couldn't run your consoles on said HD flatscreens nowadays either, given I mentioned external scalers and all that. But your mileage may vary on the experience given you're running something made for the technology of its time on something modern.

[@carlaustin1093]

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