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Originally Posted by Bobby Brady
I would have been very disappointed in that sale also. Especially after having rebuilt it!
Nice you found another. I am sure you could get more acessories.
I looked inside one when I was a kid and thought it seemed very hi-tech and way beyond my ability to test at the time. It was loaned to the man I worked for to repair by another experienced TV man who didn't want to try to fix it. I only saw it briefly years ago. Funny how fresh the memory is.
I wonder how much that set was in '73? I guess about $400.00 or more but I have no idea.
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I think it was $599, PLUS the cost of all the accessories (battery pack, charger, carry case, etc etc)... They were an executive toy. I think that even the last generation of 5" genuine Trinitron was still around $450 in the late 80s. Then in the early 90s, Sony started buying the 5" sets from Korean makers and rebranding them
Those were in the $225 range, and had a cheap non-Trinitron tube.
The KV-5000s can be hard to work on physically, but the circuitry is typical Sony. Not too bad to work on except for the small size. Usually it's a problem with many, many leaky caps.
Charles