Sony KD-30XS955 Review
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ม.ค. 2022
- The Sony KD-30XS955 was one of Sony's last CRT TVs made for the WEGA line. Unlike most CRTs, this one has an HDMI input. In this video, I go over some the features of the 30XS955, as well as some pros and cons.
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imagine how far display tech would be if they had simply contnued to expand crt tech instead of swapping to lower tech lcds and having to start over with response times/hz. Id for sure buy a modern day crt if such a thing existed.
I often think about the same thing. They are so much more reliable than current monitors and such. Also, some of the CRT monitors made in the late 90's and early 2000's were way ahead of their time.
@@Ex_Savior if I could get the 16:9 Sony monitor I'd be better off than most modern day monitors, that thing was amazing. It's a Shame they're unobtanium for sane prices
@@Ex_Savior Use to have Saba VT2927 with my PS1. I've always wanted something like this but they were so overpriced. Didn't know about HDMI version. Which res is of this TV set? ;-)
@@bamcorpgaming5954 Use that output on TV and show us real quality instead camera footage. ;-)
I have the 34" version of this set. Bought it used in 2008, absolutely blew me away. Still the best TV I've ever owned, and that includes several Sony LCD LED sets
It make cry...how many times I watched that screen. I love it!!!!
Driving 12 hours round trip from Northeast FL to central GA tomorrow to pick one of these babies up!
The lag was barely noticeable even with 0.25x on. I bet half of it was just the latency of the wireless controller.
Thanks for this vid, getting me excited!!
how much did you pay?
@@michaelbeltzer469 $325 It was a single owner unit and I haven't had any other SFP widescreen HD CRTs pop up in the time since in my area, so still happy with it, although an OLED will probably make it mostly obsolete someday.
I have one of these along with the bigger 34" KD-34XBR960. Great TV sets!
I have this exact TV and it's my favorite TV of all time. And I own multiple plasmas, a high end FALD LCD and an LG CX OLED. My Kuros are my second favorite.
But this CRT has the best combination of image quality, low input lag and fantastic motion clarity and smoothness.
I agree. There just something special about playing your current gen consoles on a CRT like there. I will admit that the color saturation takes a bit getting used to but this can be fixed or adjusted in the menus. Overall, the colors and black levels are very nice on these TVs.
Back in the day, hdmi didn't have audio, my first cable box required me to use analog in for the audio back when this tv came out.
I'm sure someone mentioned below but the control 3.5mm in/out is to control other sony components like their vcr/dvd/avr systems. This if you had them remotely stored away, then the TV would repeat their IR signals down the chain. You missed the cable card (which is just a built in cable box feature so you can rent the card from a cable company instead of a set top box). VHF/UHF is a direct antenna input while the Cable RF is for direct to the wall cable connection if you didn't have your own set top box. Usually back then the TVs could tune up to 125 channels. Anything beyond that would require a set top cable box. Back in the 90s, a cable ready TV set was a thing to save people on renting the set top box.
You can stretch the picture to fit if you wanted using the wide button but its not worth it. Calibration on these flat screen sets are always wonky, CRTs are meant to be curved so without magnets and other tools, so I've also accepted the imperfections that come with owning these units. My own set actually doesn't even accept 480p correctly, only 720p and up works; analog 480p circuits are messed up for some reason.
I passed over this one at Circuit City for the more-expensive KV-30XBR910 with the stand ($2,300; $200 stand was only “free” after a $200 merchandise card). It looks like it would fit my stand because it is the same design. In 2009 they threw out an XS955 where I was working in San Diego but I couldn’t bring it back to Georgia with me and had to leave it.
Oh yeah, these were not cheap back in the day. Definitely a premium product. This might be an unpopular opinion, but I feel the 910/955/960/970 WEGA HD CRTs have aged very well, even with their output resolution limitations.
great contet! glad to find your chanell. you can check geometry and lag by using 240p test application
Great video as always man! We dont have this models in Russia but I've found nice 36" Toshiba HD CRT for 480p/720p/1080i content. Looks also awesome kinda like yours. But it doesn't have hdmi, only component. So I use HDfury X4 to convert hdmi to component AND it can downscale 1080p to 720p. In the end I got downscaled 1080p on 720p on CRT and its beautiful 🤩
toshiba HD CRT in russia ? how ?
in europe we dont have that
Thank you! I have seen photos of those Toshiba TVs and they look great! It is still a great way to play games!
@@ismiismael I dont know 😁 They are really reeaally rare here I think. Just lucky.
@@ismiismael, In Russia, there are Toshiba models- 34SH8UC and 34SH9UC with Fine Pitch Picture Tube (type M80LYV350X), HD 1080-i Ready. And other HD 1080-i Ready models with standard resolution CRT (34JH9UH, 34JH7UC, 34CSZ8UR, 34VH9UR), also diagonals 29. 2003-2004 year of production.
I picked up this same exact model for free! Owner said it was barely used. But my tv needs some geometry tuning. And the sharpness also needs some adjustment.
Yes, it has left and right for devices with DVI output. The XS955 is basically still a DVI monitor, just like my XBR910.
This makes sense lol.
Our was made Jan 2006. It is a beast, we had gotten earlier the 36" MONSTER version also but 200 pounds. It has been in a room unused before 2013. Like new 30" not super sharp. What can I really do with it? cost a small bundle back then, love the old Crutchfield reviews of 2005+ .... incredible picture 1080i.... best tv ever
Your showing how it performs with various resolutions/consoles was freaking neat. How does this compare to your FW900 and BVM D24 for 720p/1080i stuff? It's a SFP tube (1440x1080i) while most other HD Trinitrons have only a Hi-Scan tube (853x1080i). I've a 30HS420 and I love it for 7th and 8th gen consoles but do you think a SFP tube would improve the image by much?
When it comes to 720p and 1080i, the D24 doesn’t really show much of a difference between the two. As for the 955, 1080i actually looks way better than 720p. I’m assuming this has something to do with the SFP tube. From what I’ve seen, 720p is a bit softer in terms of image quality. It’s also safe to say that the D24 looks way better than the 955 lol. I’ve never owned a 30HS420 before, but I would assume that the SFP enhances the sharpness of higher resolution content. Would be nice to see a side by side one day.
@@Ex_Savior 1080i has twice the resolution, so I'd expect it to look better than 720p. Unless you just can't stand the flicker. I had to set my Wii U to 720p cuz my boyfriend couldn't stand the flicker of interlaced video.
Which extron device are you using for the switching in this video?
Great TV man!!! Would be great for sixth generation and 7th generation consoles great asking price on Facebook I hope you find a good home for it cheers 🙂
A lot of older hd TVs don’t have the option to remove the overscan on the hdmi input. I had an older Panasonic lcd that did this and I think the only way around the overscan issue was to use the vga pc input. I don’t think your issue is related to any resolution mismatch on 1080i signals I think it’s just the way most early hd TVs were.
Since there isn't much documentation on this exact model, I had to figure that out myself lol. Overall, this is a very minor inconvenience.
cool TV
Any advice on service menu adjustments? My 34 has pretty significant overscan and geometry issues.
get yourself an external scaller device and avoid internal processing with all costs. all super fine pitch HD CRT's from Sony are processing 480i/480p/720p/1080i internally and output it as 540p. so you need an external scaller capable to do 540p or let you program your own custom resolution an timings to fit in that 33.7khz deflection frequency. Kramer VP-728 should do the job.
What was that small screen behind the tv? & never seen a see threw Super Nintendo , what does the extra buttons do on your metal game cube?
It's a Panasonic Q. It's got DVD functionality, so buttons like Play and Skip. And Eject for the disc tray.
nice 1
Thank you.
I just got one of these, how to you set up the audio?
I’m trying to hook up the audio so I can play Xbox but I’m not sure how
Hey congrats! These TVs are awesome! It depends on how the audio is set up. Normally they should be coming out of the speakers, but if they are not, I would look in the audio menu options.
i wanted to see modern games running on it.
What about his black level?
The black levels are very black. Best point to see this would be around the 16:20 mark when the Gamecube boots.
Do you still have this, and would you be willing to sell?
This isn’t a sales channel. Please go to eBay our check out your local listings. Thank you.
This made me lose faith in LED TV every LED TV models to my eye are all trash. Sony perfect the picture quality on Sony WEGA in 1998 and in 2024 All Mini-LED TV don’t look quarter as good as the Sony WEGA. I hope LED TV go extinct soon they are too crap. 4K mean nothing if black level is horrible along with blurry motions. My Toshiba CRT TV performed 100x better than Hisense U9G