Beware!!!
I got a great deal on the 32 XBR 250, and it sucked.
Total nightmare.
Just check audioreview for some accurate nightmare stories.
The first and second generation Wega TV's were really awful, but you couldn't generally notice the abberations until you spent a couple of hours in front of them.
My local TV repair Sony Authorized center had no knowledge of the service menu, they used magnets (like in the 1950's) to "fix" my picture, not to mention, making the pic worse, and scratching the cabinet in the process.
Sony said, it's in spec, we're not fixing it again.
Nice treatment for a $2000 purchase, right?
Thankfully, when I was ordering a service manual, I got a nice (so far only 2 that I know of) person on the phone who gave me the # for Sony Corporate.
Within 1 week I had a brand new XBR 400 delivered, free of charge.
THankfully, I didn't have to boycott Sony, as I had planned.
As with all large corporations, some products are good, some are bad.
Sony, unfortunately, is driven to produce a new model each year, and many times, good products are discontinued and replaced with inferior ones.
My next TV money will go to a smaller company, like Loewe.
As for Sony, I like the 34" 16:9 XBR, but it costs $4k, although it does have a built in HD tuner (great, I wonder how useful that will be).
I got a great deal on the 32 XBR 250, and it sucked.
Total nightmare.
Just check audioreview for some accurate nightmare stories.
The first and second generation Wega TV's were really awful, but you couldn't generally notice the abberations until you spent a couple of hours in front of them.
My local TV repair Sony Authorized center had no knowledge of the service menu, they used magnets (like in the 1950's) to "fix" my picture, not to mention, making the pic worse, and scratching the cabinet in the process.
Sony said, it's in spec, we're not fixing it again.
Nice treatment for a $2000 purchase, right?
Thankfully, when I was ordering a service manual, I got a nice (so far only 2 that I know of) person on the phone who gave me the # for Sony Corporate.
Within 1 week I had a brand new XBR 400 delivered, free of charge.
THankfully, I didn't have to boycott Sony, as I had planned.
As with all large corporations, some products are good, some are bad.
Sony, unfortunately, is driven to produce a new model each year, and many times, good products are discontinued and replaced with inferior ones.
My next TV money will go to a smaller company, like Loewe.
As for Sony, I like the 34" 16:9 XBR, but it costs $4k, although it does have a built in HD tuner (great, I wonder how useful that will be).