Gorgeous Colors. Inexpensive stopgap unit for you on the road to HDTV.

No SVHS Input! Only 1 component input, only 1 RCA-style input. Silver colored unit detracts from picture. Occasional hum from internal electronics.

This is neither a HDTV or EDTV unit, but it does at least have a component input. This replaced my old 20" TV which had died after about 20 years of use. I wasn't ready to move up to a larger unit yet, so I was looking for a replacement for my old TV as a stopgap measure. For this small amount of money, you can't go too wrong! At the time of writing this review, there were no other reviews available here for this model TV. For reviews of a very similar, but older model TV, see the reviews on this site for the KV-27FS12. This TV does not have the color banding problem reported with earlier WEGA models, as far as I can tell. I don't get CNN, so I don't know if there is the "ticker tape" issue either. I doubt this TV has the squeezed widescreen enhanced mode that was a problem with those models either, but I haven't tested it thoroughly. Remember in any case to also set your DVD to widescreen mode as well. This stuff is fixable through the service menu anyway - guides to those can be found easily online. There is definitely a buzzing from the electronics at times, not too often, so not that annoying - it seems to get triggered by certain types of video segments during viewing, as has been reported with other WEGA TVs. One fix for those TVs was to loosen the screws a bit in back near the video inputs, so keep this in mind if this is a problem for you and you want to try a fix. Chances are this sort of problem can happen in general with Tube TVs anyway, but that's no excuse. I don't regard it as an issue at this point based on my experience with this TV. The size of the TV makes it so that it's a one-man-job to carry around. If picking up a new TV, it can be fit into a car seat if you unbox the TV first. This is good news versus a larger unit. Note that the 24" model does have a SVHS input, but the 20" does NOT. This is good to know as both models otherwise have identical features (other than size) and online comparison sites may not have figured out that this TV does not have a SVHS input. There isn't much in the way of inputs either, just one of each type other than SVHS or HDMI. I prefer the "Vivid" picture setting. Take the factory settings and reduce the Color Saturation and Sharpness and turn off the Velocity Modulation. Adjust brightness to suit. I found no need to mess with the Hue. I like the "Cool" color temperature setting, again this is a personal preference as I haven't calibrated with Avia or Video Essentials. The standout quality of this TV is the colors, they are quite stunning if you aren't used to Sony TVs. Overall recommended!

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