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- From: jeh@cmkrnl.com
- Newsgroups: rec.video
- Subject: Re: SONY KV27XBR55 Complaints
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.195409.1293@cmkrnl.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 19:54:08 PST
- References: <1993Jan26.180908.17609@walter.bellcore.com>
- Organization: Kernel Mode Systems, San Diego, CA
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- In article <1993Jan26.180908.17609@walter.bellcore.com>,
- fvr@broom.bae.bellcore.com (Frank Ricciardi) writes:
- > I posted a dissertation about having to service my new TV myself for
- > geometric distortion, and one of you kind people mentioned that I could
- > purchase the service manual for the set.
- > How does one go about this? Are they generally available from some source?
-
- Yah. Sony is VERY good about selling service manuals. They are relatively
- inexpensive (I haven't heard of one that costs over $20, most are much less)
- and fairly complete with schematics and etc.
-
- Note: The instructions for alignment and such do assume that you are
- experienced in the color tv service field and just need the info that's
- specific for the particular set -- ie if you need a tutorial on color tv setup,
- you need to go elsewhere.
-
- Anyway, one of the following two numbers should do it: (copied from a posting
- late last year in rec.audio)
-
- 816-891-7550/parts 800-551-7669/everything else
-
- If your XBR is like mine, you will also need to order some of the small
- permanent magnets that are used to perform the adjustments. (I don't know the
- numbers -- they're in the service manual).
-
- You will also need a crosshatch pattern generator, unless you use a handy
- computer with NTSC video output to do the job.
-
- By the way, if you can markedly improve a 27" XBR's geometric (pincushion)
- distortion, while preserving horizontal and vertical linearity and convergence,
- Sony would probably like to hear from you -- assuming that they'll admit that
- there's a problem. There have been many complaints in rec.video from folks
- with 27" (and larger) XBR's and EXR's who have tried -- repeatedly and
- unsuccessfully -- to get Sony to fix this aspect of their sets.
-
- (And btw, Sony fans, I've seen Zenith 27" sets without this problem -- so it's
- NOT inherent in the screen size.)
-
- --- Jamie Hanrahan, Kernel Mode Systems, San Diego CA
- Internet: jeh@cmkrnl.com, or hanrahan@eisner.decus.org Uucp: uunet!cmkrnl!jeh
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