Old Trinitrons

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I can clearly remember a UK magazine ad for Sony tellies in the late 80s - it had a picture of a sphere with an image on (a "normal" CRT), and a cylindar with an image on (Sony Trinitron).

The slogan said "Why buy a football you can watch TV on when you can have a TV you can watch football on?". Class.

My neighbours got a 21 incher in 1986 and from there on in I was hooked.

I've had Sony Trinitrons since 1992, and am currently using a 1995 KVM-25F2U. I got it ex-demo in 1997 (so that's around 18 months' hard labour on a shopfloor), and it DID need a new motherboard as the original one had flakey firmware - a known issue. That got fixed 3 weeks after I bought it, and it's never EVER put a foot wrong since. 8 years' good service and an excellent bright sharp image off of DVD/cable.

I prefer Trinitrons to everything else because blacks are REALLY black on these. The current range of Panasonic T'Au aren't far behind, but the Sonys still look better to me.

I saw a 1971 14inch Sony once in a motel in Kingsbridge, Devon, UK. This would have been around 1994. Although it went a bit "wibbly" after an hour or so of being on, the image was still typical Trinitron - bright and sharp - 23 years on, even though the motel was by an estuary (nice damp!).