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  In September 2004, the first news posted about a Sony 70" rear projection television capable of displaying 1080p appeared on the AVS forum. A news release from Cedia stated the model would be called a Sony KDS70XBR100 and sell for $10,000, with availability in early 2005. That television turned out to be the QUALIA 006 (Original MSRP $13,000), utilizing Sony proprietary technology labeled SXRD. A matching stand sold for $1,500. The entire QUALIA line of products was discontinued by Sony in early 2006. The latest reported manufacture date of a Q006 is January 2006.There were two QUALIA boutiques, located inside Sony Style stores. One in New York and the other in Las Vegas. I placed my order with the QUALIA store in Las Vegas on 12/30/04 and received my Q006 on 1/7/05.Screen Shots:NFL screen shots.CSI: NY screen shots.Various screen shots courtesy of brt3.Reviews:Sound & Vision Magazine.audio video revolution August 2005.JoeC5 posted this comparison between his newly purchased Q006 and Mitsubishi 65813.Picture Settings:brt3 provides these settings after tweaking with DVE (1080i) on his JVC 40000 over Input 4.mauricef provides settings from a Panasonic XP50 DVD player, which he verified were also excellent with a JVC DVHS player and HDTV from CableCard.JP2's settings using a HTPC outputting a 1080i signal via a DVI to HDMI cable to the 006.From Penton-Man, here are his settings.nhey had his set professionally calibrated and posted these results.Miscellaneous:The Qualia 006 Owner's Guide in pdf.Here is a link to the Qualia 006 web page maintained by 006 owner brt3. This site contains photos, and a lot of other helpful information.To view signal strength of a digital station you are receiving from an antenna connected to the 006, go to Menu, then Diagnostics, and while utilizing the antenna feed as source material you can view signal strength and frequency of the station as descibed here.If you do not own a digital camera that utilizes the memory stick format, you can still purchase a memory stick (and reader, if necessary) to copy photos from your computer onto the memory stick, for display on the 006. These are the instructions.Bulb ReplacementYou can order a Sony OEM XL5000 replacement bulb for between $119.95 from TV Lamps For Less.To check the hours on your bulb and/or to reset the hours, this is the Official Sony Protocol.Joe C5 provides these detailed directions for resetting the lamp timer.Here are Tulsa1's instructions for carefully cleaning the glass plate adjacent to the bulb, which is known to accumulate a lot of dirt and dust, which may affect your picture more than you realize.Qualia Customer Support: 877-QUALIA3jb007
  JB007,
  jb007 and kaduku,
  New sets ordinarily need the 100-hour break-in period in order for its electronics to settle down thereby allowing the calibration to be most effective. I had to wait this period of time before the ISF did its thing.
  Some of the new DLPs are coming precalibrated as a selling point.
  Can any of you illustrious gentlemen clairify a question I have. I saw a current 70 inch Sony XBR today and from 14 feet with my tape measure I could not make our any SDE. I brought my tape measure so I could be sure I was viewing things from the exact distance of my couch.
  Thanks DreamCatcher and Ed Weinman for bringing this 100 hour break-in peroid to my attention. This is the reason why I love the forum. The person (calibrator) I talk to didn't even mention this.
  Here's a small treat for those of you waiting for delivery of your 006 . . . a picture of the 006 screen displaying CSI: Las Vegas (in honor of QUALIA Las Vegas).
  Enjoy and welcome to the group
  jb007
  MotorMouth777,
  JB007 and ColorTv - you guys are GREAT! Keep up the very informative posts...
  Regarding break-in period before calibration, another reason to wait about 100 hours is to be sure the set is working correctly... why spend a few hundred bucks more for a calibration until you're sure everything is A O.K., although once you've already spent $13K a few hundred more won't be missed
  Agree with Mark H. about the bulb - that's also a very good point. With CRT RPTVs, the 100 hour break-in rule prior to calibration is even more important - to let the RPTV "settle down".
  I have already ordered this set and will hopefully get it next week. I am wondering what will happen if one plays a computer game at 1920 x 1080 resolution and the fps is higher than 30? Apparently the set can only do 30 fps so would there be artifacts? JP2 was already kind enough to try out Half Life 2 at this resolution but I'm not sure how many fps that game was running at.
  ColorTV,
  Just got my call from Sony delivery. They will deliver on Friday AM. This will be a fun weekend.
  within the setup menu, you can choose to "skip" over some inputs that aren't being used. This menu only shows video 1-7. There is another initial input that I'm not using (I think its for a coax input) but can't seem to find a way to "skip" over that one. I'm trying to setup my harmony remote. I only use the 2 hdmi and 1 component. BTW, only 1 of the hdmi inputs will have a seperate audio input. This is important if you connect a dvi device (my samsung 160 stb for d*) and use an hdmi adapter. If I want to just use the tv's speakers for sound (when watching cnn), I need to make sure that I run a seperate pair of audio cables from my stb to the inputs next to the 1st hdmi input. I originally had my pc hooked up to that hdmi input but then I switched them.