Sony Trinitron MTV?
 

I can't tell if this is one MTV gave away or the guy is selling it as LIKE the one MTV gave away. pretty expensive to me

EBAY Item number: 260525403705

Hard to tell from the way the ad was written... Nice set, but the top of the Sony line in that era IIRC, was a larger version that had a 30 inch trinitron tube in a very stunning hand rubbed burl cabinet, that sold for $10,000.

Anybody got one? or a link to a picture?

jr

In the first part of the ad "BOUGHT in '82"... I think they're carefully wording it to sound like it was awarded by MTV.

That's a great Sony, and I've fixed a lot of those over the years. It has a removable glass top, and it had the most advanced features of any TV at the time, including the first on-screen bar graph display for all of the adjustments. And as jr tech says, it was the little cousin of the $10,000 KV-3000R 30" set with electric tambor doors.

Unfortunately for the seller, I'd be shocked if the KV-2648 sells for any more than $50.

Charles

I guess it's possible M-TV gave those away but I don't remember anything like that. Anayway M-TV had been on the air for about six months or so by 1982. For that price I'd want to know how good that CRT is. Sony's have a way of having weak tubes.

Notice that there are no screen pictures? I too was thinking the tube is probably soft since it looks like a daily driver. $1175? I want to avoid what they're smoking :P

I was hoping they'd share some :smoke:



Now on the tube, I found out about a year ago that Sony no longer sells the upgraded version of the 26" tube. They knew there was a big problem with the 710AB22, so they came out with an improved one in the early 90s. They sold it at cost, which was very polite. It was about $166, if I recall. I think it was an A67JHG00X, or something like that. So your only hope would be to get it rebuilt, or find a good used one.

Charles

It would have to be good stuff to come up with a price like that and if I had to reuild or get a used CRT ugh I would want even better stuff to ease the pain lol

Second try
 

Well, he tried it at a bit higher price, last year, with no response...maybe 2010 will see it sell...or not!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=250542361247

Interesting. About 1993 or so, I tried to "fix" one of the early 26" Sony sets-it was the white plastic one, KV2643R or KV2644R maybe. This was before I knew how easily Trinitrons went bad (other than all of the drifting problems with the KV25XBR). I did figure out it was a bad CRT, though. I called Sony and gave them the part number, and the cost they gave me was $375 if I remember right. For $166, it might have been worth replacing.

I know the set... Chrome pedestal on wheels, and white cabinet? KV-2644R. That was the first year of the 26" Sony.

The replacement upgrade tube had a different part number, and you had to ask for it by part number (8-xxx-xxx-xx). I installed dozens, and maybe even over a hundred of them during that time, as it was easy to get a $300 estimate approved on those sets back then.

Charles