Sony WEGA KV-27FS13 27" Flat-Screen TV

by Sony

Product Details

Product Manual [1.54mb PDF]

• Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 27.6 x 25 inches ; 112 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 112 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005T3DP
• Item model number: KV-27FS13
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #38,389 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 15, 2001

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The Sony 27" KV-27FS13 Wega flat-screen stereo TV packs a high-end picture and sweet stereo surround sound into a great-looking flat-screen package.

Video Features
This set features a three-line digital comb filter, which enhances resolution by removing the blurred edges between colors and reducing dot crawl. It also sports Dynamic Focus Circuitry, which provides better-controlled picture tube rays that produce a crystal-clear picture equally across the entire flat screen. A 181-channel auto preset tuner rounds out the package.

Audio Features
This SAP-enabled set (second language decoding) also features Sony's Matrix surround sound system, backed up by enhanced stereo sound.

Other Features
The Wega KV-27FS13 comes with a component video input, two rear audio/video inputs, S-video Detection, a front audio/Video input, a RF input, and a variable/fixed audio output, as well as Sony's RM-Y180 new silver universal remote commander luminous remote control and V-chip parental control to protect young eyes from adult programming.

Product Description

Choose to watch your movies on Sony's 27" Wega« flat-screen stereo TV. With 3-Line Digital Comb Filter and Velocity Scan Modulation, the picture quality is better than you've ever imagined. Front AV Jacks make it very easy to connect your AV components. The Advanced on-screen menu with Program PaletteM-^Y presets (Vivid/Standard/Movie/Sports) gives you the option to customize your TV settings. Enjoy automatic Closed Captioning when you mute the sound.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

82 of 89 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nice picture, nice sound, but..., November 26, 2001

By 

Ken (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sony WEGA KV-27FS13 27" Flat-Screen TV (Electronics)

My previous TV, a 25-incher, conked out two days before Thanksgiving. After three days of furious research, I ventured out to my "local" electronics store (8 miles away!) at 8 am the Friday morning after Thanksgiving. I had already decided on a Sony 27" flat-screen and didn't need PIP, so the KV27FS13 was the one. It was rather difficult to judge the quality of the picture in the store; I couldn't get more than five feet away from the set, arrayed as they were down narrow aisles. But the price was right, and I've had a good experience with my Sony flat-screen computer monitor.
The punchline: The salesman asked," How many do you want? We have 19 in stock." Ooh. (...)One for every bedroom. As if.

With bungee cords, the box barely fit in the trunk of my Caprice, but I got it home and in the door, courtesy of my trusty handcart.
Getting it up on the TV stand with no help proved harder. At 100 pounds and with few right angles for my hands to get a purchase on, it's a big'un. I'm glad I got the in-home repair plan, 'cause I ain't movin' that thing again till it's ready to go to that home theater in the sky.

But enough of all that. You want to know about the picture. Well, it's flat, and there is less glare, but it's a picture. The ugly little secret no one will admit is that picture quality is dependent on many things, none having to do with the flatness of one's TV screen.

This has been brought brutally home to me during the time I've had the set. On the stations with high quality signals, the picture is fantastically bright and clear. I can see the weave in fabrics, the blemishes, laughlines and stretchmarks on actors' skins, the veins on leaves and petals, the scratches and nicks in football players' helmets. Watching certain cable channels, old family videos or clapped-out video-store rentals, however, is an exercise in frustration. I can only compare the experience to trying to read fine print without my bifocals. Our local peacock-network affiliate has multiple ghosts and scratchy sound, as it has for the last three years.

Around back, it's got more plugs and outlets than my stereo receiver. From the looks of them, you could hook up enough speakers to start a second Northridge quake. The cable connection worked, and that's all I cared about.

A few minor quibbles. There's no flat surface on top to rest the cable guide and TV listings. Why bother putting volume, channel, and on-off controls along the top front edge of the cabinet? And the color of that cabinet can best be described as stained-with-a-few-years-worth-of-kitchen-grease-silver. Sony, please. Either make it bright silver or paint it black.

Once you OPEN AND READ THE MANUAL, this TV's onscreen menus are a joy to use. And I have a Sony VCR, so I can use its remote and the TV's remote almost interchangeably. Very nice.

Moms 'n' Dads who use TV as an electronic babysitter will be happy to know that through the use of this Sony's password-prompted parental controls, their progeny can be blocked from seeing anything but G-rated fare, so hopefully they will grow up be model students and upstanding citizens and not stand around smoking and spitting and making noise in front of my house. We shall see.

Watching old CinemaScope movies that have been letterboxed is a much more pleasant experience than on my old 1989 25" bubble-screen. If you do a lot of that, you might want to spring for a 32" flat-screen, but invite some strong friends over for pizza and beer the day you bring it home. It's close to 200 pounds (Yes, I asked while I was at the store.)

Sound? It's head-and-shoulders above that coming from my old TV, whose two integral "stereo" speakers were partially blocked by the housing. I've already tried hooking the TV up to my stereo system using both the back and front audio ports, and the sound is phenomenal. I got a pretty good idea of what surround sound would be like if I ever went that route. Again, the sound is best on newer shows that were in stereo to begin with. Old movies and TV shows(my favorite kind) didn't have clear-as-a-bell sound to begin with, and there's not much improvement in 1950's audio even on a 2001 flat-screen stereo set.

So there you are, folks. If you're going to buy a Wega or any other flat-screen TV, buy it. Wonderful picture, wonderful sound under ideal conditions. But don't expect it to be a cure-all for weak output from the aforementioned sources. If anything, the high-quality display and the relative power of the speakers will exacerbate the flaws in these sources.As we used to say in the bad old days of DOS and the bad new days of HTML, "Garbage in, garbage out."

23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great quality at a reasonable price, December 8, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Sony WEGA KV-27FS13 27" Flat-Screen TV (Electronics)

Before I made the decision to buy this product, I read a variety of consumer reviews, including Consumer Reports. The reviews gave this product high marks. (Consumer Reports rated this among the top TVs in its category). I was looking for a reliable flat screen TV that would provide excellent picture and sound quality at a reasonable price.

With the Sony KV27FS13 I was not disappointed. After getting some help to get it in place (it is heavy), the connections and setup instructions were a breeze. I am very pleased with the variety of connection options. The S-Video input allowed me to connect my satellite receiver. I can't believe the clear, sharp images. What a difference!

The reviews I read also said that video component input was the way to go to connect a DVD player. I used this connection to hook up my DVD player. The picture quality is superb! I was surprised at the clarity of the sound too. It is the closest thing to watching movies in a theater that you can experience without actually being in a theater.

All in all, I am very pleased with my purchase. I would highly recommend this Sony Wega TV to anyone who is looking for great quality at a reasonable price.

27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent flat-screen TV, November 18, 2001

By 

L. Hower (Providence, RI (USA)) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sony WEGA KV-27FS13 27" Flat-Screen TV (Electronics)

Having read a number of glowing reviews, I was not disappointed by my new Sony Wega - this TV is awesome. I compared a number of 27" flat screen TVs from Toshiba, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung, & Sony. Of the five, I found the Sony to have the clearest and most vibrant picture. Also, only the Sony and the Samsung have the 16:9 picture modes to display widescreen films with the highest resolution. Digital cable (thru composite video input) looks significantly sharper and more brighter than my old TV and DVDs w/ component video input look stellar. I also have PS2 and games look awesome on the Wega.