Sony KV-27FS120 27-Inch FD Trinitron WEGA Flat Screen TV
Good, but flawed
I was looking for a good 27&quot; TV and of course everyone mentions the Sony.<br />Not a Sony fan, I see them resting on their name more than anything these days, but I figured I'd give it a shot.<br />Hooked it up - Component DVD, S-video gaming, antenna.. all of it.  First things first, clarity is really good.  I went from a blurry as heck 25 to a pretty crisp 27.  Nice.  Games looked outstanding.  DVDs looked.. well.. wrong.<br />I bought the TV because it had 16:9 mode.  Great, I love anamorphic dvds.  Turned the option on in my dvd player, turned 16:9 on with the tv.. Hmm, it doesn't look right for some reason.  I checked online and it is a known issue that the sonys oversqueeze the picture.  And we're not talking a mm or so, we're talking over an inch.  So a 2.35:1 movie was more like a 2.45:1 or 2.5:1.  Something that was grossly distorted.  Soo, I had to break into the service menu, grab some measuring tape, and used a setup disc to make a circle, well, circular.  Something Sony obviously couldn't do.  Flaw one, but fixable.<br />I tried watching the Simpsons on this Tv - not a good idea.  Homer is Yellow, not orange.  People don't all have sunburns on TV.  I tried fixing the colour and it got to the point where to make skin tones look even tolerable, everything else had a noticeable drop in saturation.  Checked online, surprise surprise, red push for sony tvs.  Only on the newer FS100s they've changed the registers in the service menu, so good luck finding out exactly what to change because it's not what it used to be.  Flaw 2, not quite fixable.<br />Then there was the geometry.  Images shouldn't bend out near the top few inches.  Also, when I was playing games there was major distortion in games that had letterboxed cutscenes - to the point where it looked like the few inches between the blackness of the letterbox and the bright scene resembed a scrambled cable station.  NOT good.  Flaw 3, I didn't even want to try to fix it.<br />Took the thing back.  From what I've read, it's definitely common enough that I didn't want to bother with another Sony.  Maybe I'm picky, but for 400 bucks I deserve to be.