Was the Sony KV-10FMR20 the only 10-incher?

[rca2000]

Originally Posted by kx250rider

I pulled the dash monitor out of an '89 Buick Riviera at Pick-A-Part, just out of curiosity (paid $12 for it, if I recall). It was a Zenith monochrome monitor. I don't remember it being a touch-screen, but I don't know. It was definitely monochrome (amber CRT) though.

Charles

On the Oldsmobile Trofeo...the CRT monitor IS a color one--and the tube IS a trinitron, with the touch-plate in front of it, the VIC monitor unit is a LOT bigger and heavier than the Zenith 5" green one you(and I) have lying around, The case says "Sony trinitron" (along with "Denso"), and the tube has the trinitron label--and look--about it. Like the green Riviera monitor--the Desno/Sony one is WAY overbuilt, with a HUGE flyback and heat sinks inside of it--for a 5" color monitor--compared to a normal 5" color set. .

I guess that GM decided to "go one better" when the decided to put a touch-screen computer option on the Trofeo from 89-92, and made it in color and MUCH easier--and more user-friendly--to use. (I have owned 3 of the Riv's over the last 20 years with the green touch-screen, I liked them, but they are NOWHERE NEAR as nice--or as easy to use-- as the color one in my 89 Trofeo is.) GM had even planned for a GPS system on them--but the system was not ready in time(probably due to the shuttle disaster.)

If only the VIC system would have 'caught on " back then--instead of OVER 10 YEARS later .