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New Series of Sony Wega XBR Televisions?

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Mike Burns

I went shopping for a new TV yesterday, looked at the picture on a lot of models, and decided that I liked the Sony Wega XBR 250 model the best. The owner of the store told me that I should not get the TV now, but should wait a month because Sony was coming out with an XBR 300, at the same price, that has a much better picture and will be "fully HDTV-ready". He said that he had seen it and that it was so much better that if I bought the TV today and came back into the store and saw the new one, that I would be both disappointed in the 250 and angry because Sony would likely offer a big price incentive to get rid of the 250 series. This dealer has given honest technical and "wait-for-the-rebate/sale" advice on other products in the past. Has anyone else seen or heard about this? Thanks.

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Re: New Series of Sony Wega XBR Televisions? Rick 15:11:20 03/12/00 (0)
The model you are refering too is the xbr 400 not 300, it will have 2 componet inputs, it is the same tube, so I doubt if there is going to be much improvement in picture, you should actually wait a little longer because shortly after the xbr 400 , sony is comming out with the xbr 500which will also have a fire wire connection, since the industry still has not settled on what connector is going to be standard for hd, I would not buy a tv at his time, it could be rgb, fire wire or who knows what, people buying so called hd ready tv's right now could be in for a surprise, good luck

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