Hi-scan is a marketing term for trinitron displays with a screen aperture grill able to resolve a 1080x853 resolution. What this means is there is there is moderately more resolution than from a TV with a more basic aperture grill.
From what I've found online it looks like there is very little chance your TV will accept a HD signal or do anything in HD. But it should do SD really well, better than most of Sony's HD CRTs do at least.
It supports S-video and yPbPr inputs so hook up your equipment via those instead of via composite and it should give good quality.
The manual linked above indicates nothing about this set being HiScan. It appears to be a 480i set but does do vertical compression of widescreen sources.
I have another one a KVFS120 specifically says 480i only on progressive input in manual no mention in the XBR's will it take 480p? They both have excellent PQ
So the HD CRT's don't do SD very good I was thinking of looking for one, can be had cheap even free working properly. Was going to say I heard they did it good but now that I think about it was always coached with 'compared to others' tubes and especially LED's etc.
HD CRTs do better with SD than say an HD LCD imo. But HD anything makes SD look crappier. SD sets will always handle SD better than HD sets.
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