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Tony, When doing the anamorphic squeeze, the TV squeezes all "480" scan lines into a 16:9 image. Whether or not all 480 lines contain actual "information" is dependant on the aspect ratio of the material itself. Many movies have ratios greater than 16:9, and so some of the 480 lines (at the...

Adam, Use the "2" and "5" buttons of your remote to scroll through the main service categories. One of them will be 2170D_2 (horizontal deflection), and the 1st paramter shown is HCNT. Use the "1" and "4" buttons to scroll through the individual parameters within the service category (or from...

Jorge, I'm not familiar with what the "funhouse effect" is supposed to look like, but if you mean compression and/or expansion of straight lines along the perpendicular axis, then that would probably be it. In my case, the overscan rectangle was perfectly centered around the edges of the...

Adam, While almost any set can benefit from ISF calibration, the problem you describe sounds pretty straightforward. You should be able to (depending on your own confidence level!) go into the service menu and correct the horizontal positioning of the raster. As I previously mentioned, this...

Sang, The service mode settings ("hidden" settings as you put it)for each display mode are different. Thus, if you simply make the normal user settings the same, the four display modes will still be different.

Adam, If you're talking about horizontal adjustment only, then HPOS is the service parameter for that. However, I would recommend using something like Avia to determine exactly what your problem is. It could also be a left blanking issue. Try Avia's overscan pattern and using different TV...

Jeff, The "HD Detailer," as Sony calls, it is a wideband video amplifier (nothing to do with SVM in case you were worried - that's their "ClearEdge VM" which is user adjustable / defeatable). By wideband they simply mean having a wider bandwidth (higher frequency) capacity for more linear...

Thik, You can purchase it through J & J International (http://www.samsungparts.com/ ). Brian

I believe the 40XBR800 is due out this September.

As Dave suggested, you really need some sort of defined point of reference (as provided by the mentioned sources) if you really want to maximize your settings. However, the washed out grayish picture you describe sounds like the result of high Brightness (black level) and possibly low...

Jeff, Normally, non-XBR direct view TV's only have a 90 day labor coverage, while XBR's have 1 year labor (both have 1 year parts and 2 years tube). However, I just double checked the warranty card that came with my TV and it is a HDTV/XBR/Projection TV level coverage with the full year of...

As stated, the 32HV600 is Sony's top of the line 32" model, and is basically identical to the 36XBR800 except for cabinet style and warranty. As for picture quality, I can only say it is superb. While I never was able to do a side-by-side with the old 32XBR450 or the new 36XBR800, it is...

Mike, The two main differences are the DRC V1 and the HD Wideband amp. The 32HV600 (which I own) offers the exact same (as far as I could tell) Twin View features as the HS500 (no PIP on either). The DRC V1 feature is quite useful if you watch source material (such as cable or VHS)...

Hello all, I recently purchased a Sony 32HV600 (same basic chassis as 32HS500, 34XBR800, 36HS500, 36XBR800, and 40XBR800), and am quite pleased with it so far. However, out of the box the color decoder was really out of whack. For a given blue level, red was pushing about +25% and green was...

Mike, Like Richard mentioned, these are "color axis" settings for PAL and NTSC. Whether you need to pick "1" or "0" is sometimes misleading as Sony seems to switch their convention now and then. I would recommend bringing up the color decoder test screen on the Avia DVD (hopefully you have...