I'd love to have this in my bedroom if I was filthy rich.
I'd have something bigger in my living room and basement, but for sheer picture quality alone, NOTHING can beat this.

http://bssc.sel.sony.com/BroadcastandBusiness/images/product/front_zoom/bvma32e1wu_z.jpg

http://bssc.sel.sony.com/BroadcastandBusiness/DisplayModel?m=0&p=8&sp=20073&id=80823

hahaha, I could buy 2 nice used cars for the price of that thing.

Damn, I can't help but wonder what it looks like exactly. I'm sure it has perfect geometry, something I've never seen on a CRT.

I'm fine with my 970. BTW that thing looks HORRENDOUS! You couldn't give it to me..

Looks like my microwave :P

LOL yea that thing looks like it's from 1983!

LOL yea that thing looks like it's from 1983!

I would have to change the shell to something else. But even then, I'm not paying $50,000 for ANY TV. Unless of course it can time travel; and maybe this one can! :eek:

A 1980's TV in 2007? Somethings fishy... :p

My two and a half year old KD-34XS955 will be just fine , thanks. Mine is also bigger. Plenty of resolution for 34".

I don't know about you guys but I LIKE the 80's tv look. I hate all the silver crap they sell in stores today.

I'm just bitter that I missed out on the tube era (I'm in high school). Tube repair and the way tubes work fascinates me but by the time I got into tubes (about 2 years ago) all you could find in stores was mostly crap. Now that Sony has discontinued most of its tubes, you have to go the plasma/lcd route if you want a quality TV that will last and I hate lcd's. I wish I had been around back in the early 90's when tubes where the shiznit. Well I was around, but I was a baby back then.

Also, it's a commercial model. They're not gonna waste money on making the casing look nice. I'm sure this thing looks worlds better than any XBR.

Also, it's a commercial model. They're not gonna waste money on making the casing look nice. I'm sure this thing looks worlds better than any XBR.

I know.. and for $46,000 more, it BETTER look 800 times better..

I'm fine with my 970. BTW that thing looks HORRENDOUS! You couldn't give it to me..

I actually like the look. It tells you that it's built like a tank and it's not some toy that has to look all pretty to have a high WAF or GAF. I'm a Film and Media Arts student at my college, so I work with Professional Broadcast Monitors all the time.
I actually like the way they look. It's a no compromise tube that doesn't compromise on weight, size, looks, etc, and its only goal is to have the best image quality possible given the design specs. It's the kind of tube that was used on big budget Hollywood flicks during production as well as post production.
The 24" SGI monitors are good for post production, but sometimes you just need something a little bigger and this is perfect for that role.

It's a real shame that Sony like everyone else dumped the high end tube market.
I'd have loved to see consumer grade CRT HDTVs with Sony's "HR Trinitor" logo.
Only tubes with 2 MILLION plus pixels get that logo.

chool). Tube repair and the way tubes work fascinates me but by the time I got into tubes (about 2 years ago) all you could find in stores was mostly crap. .
Two years ago was the best time to be into CRT TVs. The Sony 34XBR960/34XS955, Panasonic 34WX15, and the last of the good Toshibas (34HFX84) were available.

I wish I had been around back in the early 90's when tubes where the shiznit. Well I was around, but I was a baby back then.That's right about the time when american TV-makers started dying off. And you came along at the right time, as there was no hi-def then. Not affordable HD, anyway.

That's not the actual "best" out there... There was one in 1995 made by Sony. It does more
than 1080p and it's only for testing purposes.

I'm still satisfied with my five year old Sony KD-34XBR2.

That thing looks really cool. I used to have a NEC presentation monitor that had a similar bare-bones look, and I loved it.

They use those Sony monitors back stage in the FMV studio, here at work. They look very nice! F### the case, give me the picture quality! I love tube tvs. A good picture at a good price. I think, slowly, but surely, I'm getting over the "screen size phase", too.

The thing is by the time I started to really get to know tubes Toshiba had died off and so had Panasonic. Sony is almost dead too :(

the input cards alone on those BVM monitors were in the thousands. Top shelf stuff .

Am I reading the specs wrong or is 1080i the best that thing can do? If so that's ridiculous. $50,000 and it can't even do 1080p?

Am I reading the specs wrong or is 1080i the best that thing can do? If so that's ridiculous. $50,000 and it can't even do 1080p?
It's a monitor. It can do 1080p24

At 211 pounds I would never get that thing off the ground.

absolutely love the looks. I wish more TVs look like that.

Wow ! I totally agree with Jack. CRT destroys plasma and LCD for picture quality. I have 2 sony video monitors (PVM 2130 and PVM 2730) that look as good today as the day I purchased them almost 10 and 15 years ago respectively. Plasma sucks less than LCD so I bought one of those for my parents.

I would replace the case with real gold.

Could it be made 100% compatible with HD-DVD , BD and 1080i tv to get the best possible viewing experience?

Are there any other than Sony broadcast video monitors/tvs with 16:9 and 1080p?

What's the smallest screen to do 1080p? 17", 19"?

I would replace the case with real gold.

Gold!?? Come on.. out with the old, and in with the new.....



How about the PUREST form of Platinum... encased by this beautiful $45,000 TV. Now talk about a STUNNING picture! LOL :)

Why not add blue and yellow and pink diamonds to be really different?

Looks like my microwave :P

I was thinking the same thing. It would be cool if they made a microwave with a TV screen, OMG PATENT!

It's a shame CRTs are becoming extinct.. Ive tried various LCDs with my latest being an NEC 20WMGX2 and nothing has been able to top the overall picture quality on my now 5 year old 24" Sony GDM-FW900 PC CRT. My XBR960 is close but is no match for the FW900's 2304x1440 max res, near perfect geometry, convergence and corner to corner focus.

good God!! who in hell is going to pay $46,000 for that piece of crap, you can custom build yourself the ultimate home theater system for that price. I still don't understand why people think CRT's have a better picture quality, I used to have a 36' Panasonic HD ready CRT and my current 42' Panny ED Plasma wipes the floor with it let alone the new 1080p panels.

piece of crap. Interesting. I guess every single person in the movie industry is wrong then.

don't get me wrong, that thing might have an excellent picture quality but for the life of me can't see it outperform what I saw at CC which was a top of the line Sony XBR LCD 1080p being fed a full 1080p demo, you might of seen it, you know the one that shows some outdoor scenes and closeup of different objects to show detail, it was like looking through a window truly breathtaking. That price tag really pisses me off, maybe the tube is made of diamond or something.

for studio works, it's not the size that matters. Colour accuracy, linearity, ability to maintain calibration are very important and the list goes on. One major thing that no plasma and LCD can do to this very second... producing true blacks.