Is a Sony model kv-27s20 digitally ready

Your TV needs demagnetizing. All tv repairmen have a demagnetizing coil to clear up the pictures on CRT tube televisions. It only takes about 10 seconds by waving the coil around and around in the front of the tube with the tv is on. Another possiblity (without my looking at the screen) is that there is a capacitor that filters the 200 volts to the socket of the tube that could be bad. However, it it is likely to need demagnetizing.

Your set has a NTSC or standard anolog tunner. To watch digital programs you must have a catv box or a DTV converter.

Given the history of the aquirement, I checked the model number and there is no reference to be able to receive digital. You can buy a convertor box anytime they are available to use on the set. There is no deadline to hook it up.

You need to look on the tv and see if has a digital turner symbol. If you can only pick up analog channels, you need a converter box.

This television receiver has only an analog broadcast tuner and will require a converter box after February 17, 2009, to receive over-the-air broadcasts with an antenna because of the U.S.'s transition to digital broadcasting. Analog-only TVs should continue to work as before with cable and satellite TV services, gaming consoles, VCRs, DVD players, and similar products.

No you will need a digital converter box for this TV as of Feb 19th
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Good question, Mike. I wondered about my fs210 model, too, and I found the answer at a Sony tech-support site.

1. Go to: http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/select-system.pl?DIRECTOR=DOCS
2. Enter your TV's model number, which, in this case, is: kv-32fs100 (and then click on Continue).
3. At the resulting page, under "Support by Type" in the left margin, click on "News & Alerts."
4. At the next page, click on: 04/02/2008: Critical: Is my Sony® television ready for the Digital TV (DTV) transition?
5. Your TV and mine are analog, but scroll down the page mentioned in #4, above, to see all of your options.

Consumers can determine whether any Sony TV is digital, just by entering the model number and following the steps listed above. ~ Kind regards, Gilda M. (replied 1/23/09)

if it was purchased back in 2003 chances are that it is not digital TV ready and you would need to purchase a converter box.

This is an Analog TV - you will require converter box.
go here to order it: https://www.dtv2009.gov/ApplyCoupon.aspx

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