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HD-DAVE · Joined: 16 Feb 2007 Posts: 223 Location: Delta, BC

Any huge Sony lovers out there ? I have a KV-25BXR - Sony's first ever XBR set that I want to get rid of....its the plumb coloured one. At the moment its in storage packed in its original box with all the packing materials. Comes with the way-cool pedestal stand with foot controls for power/chan/volume. I also have the rare model PC-701 RGB interface for it and the factory service manual. I don't know if it still works after sitting in storage for many years - I recall it had an intermittent darkened/reddened image problem when I mothballed it. I paid $1400 for it back in 1986 I recall...the most expensive direct view CRT television set available back then.

If someone wants to pay me shipping and maybe 10 bucks for my time/labour to get it to UPS or a bus based transport company I will happily send it out - one catch is I am in Vancouver, Canada. If no one here wants it i'll either end up throwing it on CL or e-waste it.

Googled (stolen/borrowed ) pictures of someone else's XBR attached....

ecrabb · Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 8:59 pm Post subject:

Wow, that brings back some memories... My dad bought my grandpa that exact set as a year-old model b-stock or floor demo. It went in my grandparents' lake home, so only used spring and summer. It ran perfectly until lightning destroyed in the late-nineties.

I loved that heavy metal stand with those big rubber buttons... Only TV I could change the channel on with my shoe on... Watched many a Little House on the Prairie rerun with my grandparents on that set. Wink

Good luck finding it a new home.

SC

Jeremy112 · Joined: 28 Sep 2006 Posts: 2645 Location: Fond du Lac, WI

I'd take it in a heartbeat if you were in the USA, You have what I would be looking for... the original box, packaging... and heck its an odd TV to boot Razz

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Thu May 09, 2013 1:48 pm Post subject:

If you look up Bryan Adams' 'Heaven' video, you'll see 25 of them there. The company I worked for bought all of them when they were done, and we sold them at $600 each. THey were new, only used in that video shoot, and new they were $1200+ back in 1985.

HD-DAVE · Joined: 16 Feb 2007 Posts: 223 Location: Delta, BC

Watched the Bryan Adams video - didn't remember it having all those sets. What blows me away are the literally hundreds of what looks like commercial chassis XBR's (with the rear grab bars) where the audience would be. Must have been a fun set up !

I just realized I also have a second KV-25XBR tucked away in my workshop - this one has the blueberry coloured sides/top. Grabbed it during a local spring cleanup 8 or 9 yrs ago as a spare parts unit.

Jeremy112 I also still have the original box for the pedestal stand ! ... that stand had some crazy list price like $350.

Watch for me on the next episode of Hoarders - Buried Alive... lol

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Fri May 10, 2013 4:06 pm Post subject:

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that they didn't use that many. All I remember is that they had about 25 of those silver sets. Loved the pix on them back in the day...

camredfield · Joined: 29 Jul 2013 Posts: 1

Dave, could you give some info on the PC-701 in the forum because there is literally nothing on the web about these things. Your post seemed relatively recent so I thought I'd shoot.

I was really curious whether or not this can you output a modern VGA running at 15Khz to the TV (with various graphics cards around). I would love to run a modern signal through this thing (MAME) at 15Khz, and there's so many questions around about the KHX era monitors but such a small amount on the PC-701

undwrld · Joined: 01 Mar 2017 Posts: 3 Location: Las Vegas

Do you still have the Sony KV-25XBR available? I know this is an old post. I am looking for this TV at the moment.