Timmy, I work extensively on sony products on a daily basis and am a factory trained CET. You set is not a progressive scan unit, so if your DVD is progressive, we have a compatability problem. The regulator problem sounds very familiar, Hmmm? While attending a Sony seminar, we were faced with the geometry problem that the Vega tubes often suffer, the best we got was acceptable at best to the average consumer, certainly not to someone who knows whats going on. The units often exhibit smearing on the sides due the beam becoming elliptical at that point of the geometry. I feel that this probably going to be Sony's downfall ( as do some at Sony). I agree that the units look concave as Swampwalker states, I noticed thia anomoly after the addition of the new yoke and quadropole magnet assembly. I think that the new focus assembly overcompensates in the corners and as a result the rest of the screen looks out of focus in relation to the corners, giving the illusion of concavity. To get to the HDTV problems that are arrising. Most complaints that I get is that the pix has a fuzzy characteristic to it, kind of like a soft focus (i.e moonlighting with Sybil Shepard). This is the result of the up conversion that takes place in the video processing of the unit. You are asking a 480i signal to look like 480p or more. This requires the horizontil scanning frequency to be doubled from 15.735hz. trust me these are not line doublers that compare to let's say Faroudja that cost $10,000.00 plus. I saw the same faults with the RCA proscan line around 8 years ago when Proscan meant progressive scan in the RCA lingo. The problem isn't solved yet. For now I'm sticking with my Sony Kv32xbr96s
that I bought about 6 years ago, it dosen't have the Y, PR< PB inputs but I'l suffer with my georgeous picture through the S input.
that I bought about 6 years ago, it dosen't have the Y, PR< PB inputs but I'l suffer with my georgeous picture through the S input.