Sony KDL-37P3020 - 37” Widescreen Bravia HD Ready LCD TV - With Freeview

January 29, 2008 | By Doug In Freeview TV |

Sony KDL-37P3020 - 37” Widescreen Bravia HD Ready LCD TV - With Freeview
with Integrated Digital Tuner

Customer Review: I nearly sent this TV back to Amazon
I bought this TV a couple of months ago but have held off reviewing it until my issues with it were resolved. The TV arrived fairly quickly and it certainly looks good. The colours are great and it’s really easy to use - but my issue was over the picture quality.

I can’t easily describe the problem I was having. Non-HD souces such as ordinary DVD’s and TV did not produce a particularly great image quality. This I suppose wasn’t a huge surprise but did disappoint. The biggest issue seeing dark, coloured or textured areas of the screen moving in the opposite direction to the movement of the camera - especially on shots with hand held cameras. It was very odd and very off-putting. I contacted Sony, who were very good but had no idea what I was referring to, and neither did my local Sony Centre.

Amazon were good and said they were prepared to refund me if I returned the TV. However, I dragged my heels over this as it’s just such a pain to return such a large item and be without a TV until I bought another one (I had got rid of my previois TV by this point).

Then my old Sony DVD recorder started to misbehave, so I bought a Sony RDRGX350B DVD Recorder with upscaling. I also bought an HDMI cable to attach the DVD player to the TV - and this has solved my problem!! The wonky imaging has gone and there is a definite difference in DVD image quality - Disney’s Cars looks so good, it’s hard to imagine how true HD DVD could improve upon it!!!

I now really like this TV and would recommend it, good for the price, great colours and looks great when using an HD-like source. The last thing I need to do now is actually try a proper HD source!

Customer Review: Absolutely Brilliant!!!!
Bought this TV at Christmas - the picture is absolutely brilliant and so is the sound quality. I turned up the volume to max and there was no distortion at all. Linked up to my Sony Home Theatre System - no need to go to the cinema ever again.

The set up, as mentioned in previous review, is so simple - it does it all for you when you first switch it on.

Bought from Argos for ?499 - can’t go wrong. If you want to become future proofed, this is the TV to get - even includes built in Freeview, HDMI sockets, Blu Ray socket - the works!!!!

Sony KDL32S2530 Widescreen Bravia 32” HD ready LCD TV with Freeview - black
The new HD Ready 32 S series is High Picture Quality Digital LCDTV which can be realized by BRAVIA ENGINE high performance LCDpanel dynamic contrast and 2 HDMI inputs.
Customer Review: Brilliant tv
Ok, I actually got the 42 inch version of the telly, but I can’t find it on amazon, and i’m guessing they are the same except for the size. This is a great tv and I will now discuss the good and bad aspects to it. Good things: If you have digital tv or HD tv it is great quality. The dvd and playstation/xbox quality is brilliant. The tv looks great especially since it is so big. It has some of the best quality of the lcd tvs. It is easy to set up. The shopkeepers will try to sell you loads of extra features for it, but it is great without them and it doesn’t really need them. It is a great price for what you get Bad things: It isn’t brilliant quality without digital or HD tv. Extra features: These are not important and are quite expensive, I know some people will want them, and they are probably worth buying ( I didn’t bother though ). A lot of people have commented on the surround sound system, the regular sound of the tv doesn’t have anything wrong with it, but i’m sure the surround sound system is good for movies. This is probably one of the best lcd’s out and I highly reccomend it.
Customer Review: Sony’s best lcd yet
As usual sony stands for quality. Just updated my 3 year old Sony lcd and they certainly have come on. Superb picture (especially via blueray!). I ALSO GOT IT FREE! Sounds too good to be true, but it works. get this free if you sign up to a free trial of Lovefilm (just remember to cancel it, after 21 days) go to - hdtvgifts.gotskills.co.uk - and sign up! enjoy

Toshiba USB DVB-T TV Tuner - PC/Laptop USB FREEVIEW RECIEVER
Minimum System Requirements: Pentium III 800Mhz or above, 256 MB Ram, 35MB Free hard Disk Space, Direct X 9c Compliant, USB 2.0 Windows 2000, XP Home/Professional, DVB-T Signal Coverage
Amazon Price: ?64.01