Sony KD-27FS170 27-Inch FD Trinitron WEGA Digital TV
- 27-inch flat-screen CRT television with built-in digital tuner; measures 30.25 x 23.25 x 19.6 inches (WxHxD)
- Receives digitial ATSC (high definition) programming via terrestrial signals (over-the-air)
- 3-line comb filter enhances horizontal resolution and minimizes video noise; 480i (interlaced) resolution
- Connections: 2 composite A/V (1 front), 1 S-Video, 1 component (Y/Pb/Pr), 1 analog VHF/UHF, 1 digital ATSC
- Two stereo speakers, 5 watts apiece (10 watts total); Dolby Digital
FD Trinitron WEGA Flat Screen — FD Trinitron WEGA Flat Screen Technology is the basis of Sony’s award-winning line of visually flat televisions. The FD Trinitron sets deliver incredible image accuracy, wide viewing angles, outstanding contrast, and cornYou don’t have to take out a second mortgage to enjoy crisply colorful, high definition-quality video and audio with the 27-inch Sony Trinitron KD27FS170 flat CRT television. The visually flat FD Trintron tube minimizes annoying glare from light sources, enhancing contrast, and corner-to-corner detail is rendered more accurately because images aren’t distorted by a curved screen. It features both built-in analog and digital tuners, which enables you to receive digital ATSC programming via terrestrial signals (over-the-air) for watching highly detailed HD broadcasts. You’ll get great picture reproduction from compatible cable/satellite set-top boxes and DVD players using the three-jack component video (Y/Pb/Pr) inputs, which provides s
List Price: $ 399.99
Price: $ 399.99
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Eddie
September 23, 2011
Sony KD-27FS170 27″ FD Trinitron WEGA Digital TV,
This is a great TV by means of picture quality. Component input is superb. S-Video is really good also. I only have a few complaints though. There is no option to adjust the treble or bass for the audio. Also there is no audio out so you cant hook up a stereo or other speakers. Also when the screen is almost all white such as watching a hockey game you can see two pink shades of colored lines about 3-4 inches thick running vertical on the left and right side of the screen, which is probably the speaker’s(built in the tv) magnetic field causing that. Other than the few complaints the tv is really nice. Thats why I give it 4 of 5!
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|Travis W. Hill “Angry Games”
September 23, 2011
Excellent “second” or “bedroom” television,
After spending the last two weeks reviewing as many $300-$400 27″ tv’s as I could find (that were also for sale locally as I refuse to purchase such an item over the internet and have it shipped), I finally went off to Best Buy last night.
They had this television, and a nice Samsung SlimFit 27″ tube SDTV, as well as a couple of Insignia and Samsung and Toshiba tube HDTV’s (both 4:3 and 16:9).
After wandering around the tv department for almost two hours, I finally made the girlfriend happy by selecting one. For $405.99, and being a Sony Trinitron, I decided this was the best deal going. I liked the Samsung 30″ widescreen 720p HDTV, but didn’t want to spend $699.
The main reasoning is that it is replacing a 12+ year old Sony 19″ tv + vhs combo unit. We have DirecTV TiVo in the bedroom, and a dvd player, and an original Xbox game console. The old tv just wasn’t cutting it anymore, and the menu/description text on the TiVo was almost unreadable.
We hooked it up, fooled around with it a bit, and I have to say I am extremely impressed:
1. The picture is definitely the best non-HD tube picture I’ve seen. After staring at that 19″ Sony combo for almost 12 years (we do have a 42″ Mitsubishi HD as our main tv for NHL hockey and Xbox360), I’m still sort of amazed.
I’m using the DirecTV TiVo unit with S-Video out + the RCA audio (white/red) into the S-Video and secondary RCA inputs
2. The Xbox games…you can actually see what is going on clearly, and you can read all of the text in all of the games properly! The Xbox is plugged into the Component input with Monster Cables (we had it plugged into the 42″ HD until Xbox360).
3. The DVD still looks fantastic. I wish I could set it (and the Xbox) to Progressive Scan mode (480p), but honestly, it is just a bedroom tv after all, and I didn’t want to pay anymore for a better LCD/Plasma/HD-tube tv, and I didn’t want to buy a weak LCD/Tube HD unit for around the same money ($500-ish is where they were for 24″ to 27″ tube and LCD HD’s).
I have the DVD player plugged in with the audio/video RCA cables to the front inputs on the tv.
Overall, a great looking television, but there were some issues:
1. Tickers from CNN or ESPN, etc, they were very blurry/fuzzy at the bottom right and bottom left corners on Vivid and Standard settings.
Movie sharpened up most of these lower artifacts, but left the picture too dark.
Pro lightened up a little over Movie, but not much, and the colors were “cool” instead of “warm”.
Raising Picture and Sharpness and Brightness would correct this, but then the top half of the picture would get a bit blurry or fuzzy during fast action (we watched a bit of the Predators vs Coyotes NHL game as well as news where we could see real skin tones, and ESPN Sportscenter for some basketball highlights, all good ways to judge color mix to get it right)
A little tweaking in Pro and Movie however, fixed this right up. Got a little brighter, but still not as bright as Standard (and Vivid is just awful anyway). The entire picture seems evenly sharp and clean, the colors are not really all that warm overall but a lot warmer than before, and the color tones are still a little dark but after spending 10 minutes watching anything, you tend to stop noticing (and then turing on the Xbox…you forget all about it as the Xbox is bright and shiny like it should be!)
2. Everytime you turned it on, it wanted to go through initial setup and wanted me to connect a coaxial cable (again, I have the DirecTV box hooked up via S-Video). Finally I did, just to shut it up (I’d have done it anyway if this was a PiP model as the tv doesn’t have enough inputs to accept anything more than coaxial).
Just for testing, we watched a bit of each channel for a while for about 15 seconds on the coaxial, and then switched it to the S-Video and you could instantly see the picture sharpen up. It wasn’t really bad with coaxial, but it definitely is noticeably sharper with S-Video and Component Video inputs.
The message went away.
3. Digital…I guess since I am using digital satellite, I have no need of this (and I have no digital antennae anway). I wish I could turn this off though so I wouldn’t accidentally have to go into the menus then back out once in a while.
4. As previous reviews have said, not enough inputs, and especially no side inputs. Front inputs are still great for DV cams etc, but side inputs or enough rear inputs is necessary with every darn device a lot of us have these days (PS2, Xbox, Xbox360, Wii, DVD, DV cam, VHS, TiVo, etc).
5. Audio outputs are missing too, and that is a shame, but not as bad for us as for some others. I wish it had headphone jack more than anything as I have a nice pair…
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|gabe
September 23, 2011
digital audio too loud,
This is a great tv in general. Actually, I returned 6 to the store until I found one with minimal tube distortion. If you don’t know what tube distotion is just try looking at an image with static straight lines. Most tubes will bend in random areas (most sony flat tubes anyway!).
On the digital broadcast input the volume is approx. 30% louder than on the analog inputs. I like to listen to TV at low volume, and this makes the digital signal basically unusable for me.
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