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From: gjphw@mhuxo.UUCP
Newsgroups: rec.video,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: SONY XBR monitor/receivers discontinued
Message-ID: <1269@mhuxo.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 10-Feb-87 09:02:28 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 10 09:02:28 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 12-Feb-87 00:21:13 EST
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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Keywords: monitor, RGB, television
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    After telephoning several mail-order outlets, we have found out that the
 SONY XBR line (KV-25XBR, KV-20XBR, KV-1311CR) of monitor/receivers has been
 discontinued.  These were "high resolution" monitor/televisions that served
 well with the Atari ST and other home computers.  HIGH FIDELITY magazine
 called them the standard in home monitors by which all others must be
 measured.  One "high end" video store which I visited claimed that SONY would
 continue them for the next decade.  Oh well...

    If you look around, primarily at retail stores, there are some very good
 prices to be had for hold-over XBRs.  If you can find one, the prices from
 mail-order houses are often better.  Our favorite ordering place, PLANET VIDEO
 in Michigan, is out of XBRs.

    It is purely speculative on my part but I would guess that SONY's next move
 will be the introduction of a line of high resolution monitor/receivers,
 comparable with the XBRs, that also have a "full spectrum" tuner.  First
 introduced by RCA, these "full spectrum" televisions are capable of processing
 the full broadcast chrominance channel of 1.5 MHz (rather than the usual 0.5
 MHz bandwidth used in a television).  One person here who has a "full
 spectrum" RCA set says that the colors, especially the reds, appears richer on
 his set.  Whether or not these new sets will have RGB connectors is anyone's
 guess.  Anyone with better SONY contacts care to comment?

    Happy hunting!

                                       Patrick Wyant
                                       AT&T Bell Laboratories
                                       Naperville, IL
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