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Originally Posted by jstout66
Zeno, I'm with you on that one. I'll throw out a bigger bomb... ( ready to duck and take cover.. haha) IMHO Sony is not one of my faves either. They started out with a premium product ( and I am a HUGE fan of the Trinitron tube), but in the early days, they were a bitch to get parts for if you weren't an authorized service center. They had a "tude".. Then towards the late 80's they started shipping out crap, and rolled with it because they were SONY. I look for older Trintrons, but have discovered that it's "good luck" finding a decent tube on one.
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We are on the same page on Sony. The early ones were better than most
sets of the time. In the 80's they got easy to deal with & easy to fix
but reliability started sliding. Other top of line sets were just as good, pix
quality became just a thing of taste. In the early 90's with Zenith going
to the dogs were got a Sony franchise NOT easy to do. It took a year to
get & the thing that finally got it was a visit from one of there tech
who was impressed by our operation. In the end the Sony CRT sets
were probably the most unreliable sets. Tons of FBT's, power supply &
bad connection problems & tuner problems. Parts on 2 yr old sets
were coming back NLA jugs were shorting & dealing with sales became
a real pain. It all ended abt 4 yrs ago, in business since 1957 & the
last real surviving Mom & Pop in the area. All worth nothing
73 Zeno
