This is it, the TV everyone has been waiting for. Built-in to this Sony Wega Trinitron is a High Definition, digital cable ready tuner with CableCard. What this means is you contact your local cable company, and they will provide you with a CableCard. When installed in the CableCard slot on this Sony, you can receive all standard and premium channels, standard definition or High Definition that you subscribe to. No external, ugly, hard to use cable box required. Plus, you don't have to use cable at all, this built-in tuner will receiver over the air digital broadcasts with an antenna for free. Cox Cable has these CableCards. They do not sell them, but charge a monthly fee of $1.99 per month for the card. The cable card standard is a one way digital interface, so the on screen guide and pay per view is not available through this interface. For that you will be to get the external cable box.
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frames per second, but video has 30 frames. To compensate the way film is shown on video, a reverse 3:2 pulldown circuit creates a video picture that emulates film more accurately.
Sony iLink. Sony has incorporated one front panel and two rear panel iLINK connectors on this XBR. These allow satellite tuners, cable box tuners, hard drive recorders, Digital VHS HD recorders and digital camcorders to be hooked up directly with a digital interface directly to this TV. This would allow you to record, using the built-in HD tuner programs in High Definition on a Digital VHS in true HD quality. That includes 1080i broadcasts and the digital VHS records each and every digital bit of HD quality without compression.
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34in 16:9 HD SuperFine pitch Wega $2200 2 year warranty |