Television Technology In 1992-1994

[kx250rider]

Early 90s was Sony's last grand high-end day in the sun. The KV-36XBR400 was an incredible set, but not so reliable as they got to be 8 and 10 years old. Mitsubishi was probably the most high-end set for big screen sets, and also excellent with CRT direct view. They came out with the 40" standard CRT, then Sony came out with the 40" flat CRT shortly after. Those sets all had component video and SVHS, and a few had TTL and VGA ports. No HDMI or DVI at that time.

The "fad" sets; the ones the young professionals needed to brag ownership of, were the NEC and the ProScan. NEC was a great set, but not worth the inflated price, and the ProScan was a glorified cheapie RCA-GE, and although it had an OK picture, they were terribly unreliable (blowing flybacks constantly, and blowing power supplies, etc). And let's not forget the Proton, which was basically a Hitachi. Great set, and great picture, but unreasonably high-priced. The worst fad set was the Zenith Inteq. It was the worst POS I've ever seen.

Charles