Good day Gentlemen,

Scans of two TV Brochures + the first 2 pages of the Servive Manual concerning the SONY KV-7010-UA, nothing less than the first ever Trinitron color TV to be mass-produced in 1968, A 7 inch diagonal CRT unit, NTSC version for the US market. It remained NTSC/USA only and was never produced/modified for overseas markets.

Many Thanks! to VK Forum member Marshall for these beautiful scans and the precious Service Manual as i have acquired one of these historic models.

http://s281.photobucket.com/albums/kk239/jhalphen/SONY/Sony%20KV-7010UA-1968/

Best Regards

jhalphen
Paris/France

Wow! Thanks for sharing!!!

Hi RPM1200,

You're Welcome!

Thanks!

JH/Paris

(Sob)...I had one of those & sent it off to a supposed AK member to fix, & never saw it or heard from him again...Good little set. My dad got it in fall '69 at Hammacher Schlemmer in NYC. I don't think they ever sold 'em mass-market, only in "Boutique" stores, & only in selected markets, like New York, LA, Chicago...

Nice! Thanks for posting. I have heard that there was a 7" set produced before the 12" (KV 1210 ?) but have never seen one! I suspect that the production numbers were very small.

jr

I have long suspected that the caption on the photo on page 141 of "The Sony Vision" by Nick Lyons was wrong.

I have a 12" '69 (I think) Sony out in the garage, now I'm curious as to the model #. I'll check it out tonight and see.

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Supposedly, the KV-7010U (not 7010UA) used a Chromatron CRT. I wonder if any of those have survived?

As far as I know, the U & UA were the same set, with only a tiny engineering update for the A version. U is definitely USA, and the A is 2nd production and later. Other Sony suffix letters:

R=remote
S=cable-ready tuner
X=has multi-video inputs
A=late production

That 7010 isn't the same Trinitron tube we are all familiar with, though. It's basically a conventional envelope, with curvature vertically and horizontally on the face. All other Trinitrons from the earliest models, were vertically flat. I think I also heard the Chromatron rumor, and it may be partially correct, and would include all KV-7010 variations.

Charles

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http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c49/Hawkwind02054/OldColorTV/Sony_Micro_Color_11_1968.jpg

Good day Gentlemen,

Hawkwind, Thanks! for these great scans.

As this Sony KV-7010 seems to interest many readers, i scanned the block diagram and the entire schematic and posted them on PhotoBucket as an add-on to the first documents:

http://s281.photobucket.com/albums/kk239/jhalphen/SONY/Sony%20KV-7010UA-1968/

The CRT is indeed a true honest-to-God Trinitron, not an Indextron and not a Chromatron* - see zoomed section of the CRT representation on the schematic below.

Remember, Sony had a terrible experience with the Chromatron and the Trinitron was invented to get out of the mess and re-establish they good name.

Link here to the original thread, there is a pix of the 1961 Chromatron launch.
VK rule, can't post again the same pix to preserve server space.

http://www.videokarma.org/showthread.php?t=178843

Best Regards

jhalphen
Paris/France

Jerome you are very welcome.


(etype2 a/k/a Marshall)