Sony KV-32XBR51

Matt Ross
April 16, 2025, 11:10 pm
April 25, 2025, 11:16 pm

Summary

High-end 32" Trinitron by Sony. Made at Sony's San Diego plant in 1991.

Literature

  • [Owner's Manual]()
  • [Service Manual]()

Notes

My particular set has an aged chassis and tube that is not reflective of the full quality a healthier example. Nevertheless, most of my state

In my own personal opinion, picture processing quality from the Sony jungle chip is a mixed bag. Firstly, there is red push, and there is no service menu setting to turn off the oversaturation. The only workaround is to turn down the color saturation in the standard menu and perform a white balance. Secondly, there are luma transition errors in the signal. Turning down sharpness can reduce the artifacting, but it will not be fully eliminated. Lastly, there is chroma bleeding, and there is no way to minimize it.

The original remote is required to enter the standard menu. Contrast can only be adjusted via the PICTURE buttons on the remote.

TRINITONE toggles between color temperatures: LOW for 6500K, and HIGH for 9300K.

This set has nasty Velocity Scanning Modulation (VSM) that cannot be turned off in the standard menu. The only way to disable it is to pull jumper >>> from the VM board __ (The provided pictures are of the set with VM disabled.)

Sound

stereo...

sub...

RGB Modification

As for RGB modification, the process is rather complicated. Basically,

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