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.


One of Sony's most unique accomplishments was the introduction of the Trinitron color TV picture tube.


Introducing the Sony KV34XBR960 Super Fine Pitch Trinitron
. The Super Fine Pitch Trinitron CRT. Super Fine Pitch increases the number of vertical slits by 65%. This increases the resolution. A new improved high luminescent phosphor is used. The electron gun has been further improved also. The KV34XBR900 Wega Trinitron was named video product of the year.


CineMotion.
Motion picture film has 24

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.


DRC. Digital Reality Creator is an proprietary Sony technology that displays 960 lines from conventional 480 line analog pictures. It's more than a line doubler and creates a picture with 4 times the data. The new version allows adjustment of detail (Reality) levels and smoothness (Clarity) to make the best picture.


Memory Stick. Sony is the world leader in Digital Still Cameras. They store the digital pictures on a small Memory Stick. The new XBR has a Memory Stick slot. Insert the Memory Stick and you see beautiful, big, slide show of your photos

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.

 

KV34XBR960 34in 16:9 HD SuperFine pitch Wega $2200
39 1/8 in wide 24.5 h 23 1/4 deep

2 year warranty

The Flat Screen Wega Trinitron XBR