Archive for March, 2008
Sony KDL32S2530 Widescreen Bravia 32” HD ready LCD TV with Freeview - black
March 26th, 2008
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
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Sony KDL-52W3000 - 52” Widescreen Bravia 1080P Full HD LCD TV - With Freeview
March 22nd, 2008
Sony KDL-52W3000 - 52” Widescreen Bravia 1080P Full HD LCD TV - With Freeview
Customer Review: Class Kit
awsome piece of kit. picture excellent even without HD. easy set up and all componants easy to use. sound excellent thro external amp and connected by HDMI cable to enhanse quality
only prob is that we had to upgrade DVD recorder due to reduced quality! now have Sony DVD recorder an the systems work perfectly together.
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Sony KDL20S2030 - 20” Widescreen Bravia HD Ready LCD TV with Freeview - Black
March 18th, 2008
Sony KDL20S2030 - 20” Widescreen Bravia HD Ready LCD TV with Freeview - Black
51cm visible screen size. 16:9 aspect ratio.
Customer Review: You get what you pay for!
This is a fantastic TV, replacing a broken 19″ CRT in our bedroom. Great picture and Bravia processing works a treat. All kinds of adjustments including colour, contrast and even backlight control. Sound is clear and well rounded. Despite questionable viewing angles of 178, which it clearly doesn’t have, I still give this TV 5 stars as the blacks and colours are without doubt the best I have seen on an LCD of this size. The remote control is a treat to use and all on screen menus are intuative. My 32″ CRT has also just packed up (two broken TV’s in less than a fortnight, what’s the chances of that?) I know which manufacturer I will be buying from.
Customer Review: the great price hike!
amazon needs to sort our their pricing, one week this was 369.99 ( and is still on price comparision websites) now is 465.76
poor form amazon
intend to buy this product once the price returns to normal level, otherwise will go else where.
oh, every review says this is excellent product.
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Sony KDL-46W3000 - 46” Widescreen Bravia 1080P Full HD LCD TV - With Freeview
March 14th, 2008
Sony KDL-46W3000 - 46” Widescreen Bravia 1080P Full HD LCD TV - With Freeview
with Integrated Digital Tuner
Customer Review: 46w3000
Hiya everyone,
I’m lucky enough that my parents decided to shell out for one of these this Christmas. Well, we have been living in the stone age of CRT for the last 10 years!
First thing I’ll talk about is the SD picture. Before it arrived, I knew that the SD picture wouldn’t be beautiful, but when you’re getting a TV like this, you kind of expect it to be, despite knowing that it can’t be. I would just like to warn people now that the SD picture is fairly imprecise. I would say that it is fairly similar, or even worse than the picture I used to get on our old CRT. It is susceptible to motion blur, especially when the picture is very bright or vivid. I’ve been fiddling about with the settings, and the more soft and dark I make the picture, the less motion blur there is. I don’t think we’re going to get Sky HD, so we’re living with a compromise between slight motion blur and a dark picture for the moment, with Sky +.
A couple of tips for people using it with an SD picture.
1) Immediately go to the settings menu and turn the picture type from “Vivid” to “Standard” or “Cinema”. Vivid looks horrible with an SD picture, so do this before you start to get too worried.
2)For me, the motion blur seemed to burn out a little with time, so give it a little time
However, I’ve used a couple of HDMI inputs with this, and this is what this TV is about. Really, when you’re buying a TV like this, you should factor in getting a couple of HD inputs. An HD-DVD or Blu-ray player will look STUNNING with this TV.
The HDMI inputs I used were
1)My XBOX 360. The picture on PGR4 was so, so good. The intro video was just awesome. I was so impressed by the picture. However, on Halo 3, there was a bit of motion blur. I’m going to fiddle about a bit and hopefully I can eliminate this. The TV is not 100hz, which is the only let-down on the Technology front. But at this price, you should be getting it. This may be part of the reason for the motion blur.
2)A Sony DVD upscaler, which we got with the TV. Despite the fact that it’s upscaling ordinary 420p DVDs, the picture is brilliant. That quality surprised me, I wasn’t expecting it. I watched Black Hawk Down. Colour is very rich and when using this on an HDMI input, there is NO motion blur. Obviously not quite the quality you’d get from a proper HD-DVD player, but very good. I’d recommend one of those upscalers if you’re going to get this. I watched a DVD on our old player, and I think the upscaler improves the picture by about 5 times, by eliminating Motion Blur, and delivering a picture that is about 4 times crisper.
Basically, what I’d say about this TV is that you should not get it if you don’t have any HDMI inputs, and are not going to get any. You’ll just be disappointed with the SD picture. However if you’ve got kit capable of being HDMI inputs, then it’s great. I mean really, really great. Stunning. The difference between an SD picture and an HD picture on it is huge. That’s because the TV is geared towards delivering you an excellent HD picture. There’s no point in having all this expensive HD technology in the TV if you’re not going to use any of it, and are thinking of sticking with the old SD kit for a while. I’m saying this seemed to be the view of my parents. Apart from the DVD upscaler, they don’t want to get any HD inputs. I might get one of those HD-DVD player add-ons for my 360, because I now realise that the TV is for HD, so use it for HD! Not to do so just makes the whole purchase pointless.
So when you buy this, factor in how much the HD-DVD player/Sky HD etc is going to cost.
All of this was written from my perspective, i.e moving from a 26″ CRT to this. I can’t really compare between the different HD LCD models, as I havn’t really experienced this TVs competitors. I’m just talking about what you gain/don’t gain from making that move.
I gave this 5 stars because I’ve seen what this TV can do with an HD input and it’s awesome. In the Sony shop, I saw this hooked up to a Blu-ray player (well, it would be blu-ray in a Sony shop wouldn’t it), and WOW. So that’s why it gets 5 stars. I almost knocked off a star for the SD picture and the lack of 100hz. The lack of 100hz is bad at this price. But the SD picture is bad on all these TVs from what I’ve seen, so it would be silly to knock off a star for that.
And the TV does have lots of good technology in it. It’s got 24P. That’s cool. When films are shot, 24 frames are taken every second. However, in Britain, the TVs normally output at 25 frames every second. So the film is sped up by 4%. 24P gets the film back to its original fps, so you see it how the director intended to see it. So your favorite film of all time is now 4% longer. How’s that for a service. Donnie Darko is 4% longer, that justifies the price in itself. It’s also obviously 1080P, the latest HD format to come out, so it’s up to date.
Oh and lastly, one thing I forgot to mention is that the first thing I noticed with this TV was the sound quality! You never really think of sound quality as being important when you’re watching TV, but it’s so crisp. I’m hearing things I never heard before. And it’s got this virtual surround sound system which kind of works. For me there is now NO reason to get a seperate surround sound system.
So to sum up, the pros and cons that I noticed
Pros
Awesome Sound Quality
Stunning HD picture when used with HD inputs
Good technology in there, e.g 24p
Quite future proof, with 1080P and 3 HDMI sockets
Stylish with brushed Aluminium frame
Large size
Lots of Adjustment in the settings menu
Cons
SD picture no better than on old CRTs
Lack of 100hz technology
Motion Blur with SD picture and on some HD pictures (XBOX 360 for me)
Yeh think that’s about it
SDS
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Sony KDL-20S3070 - 20” Widescreen Bravia HD Ready LCD TV - With Freeview - Pink
March 11th, 2008
Sony KDL-20S3070 - 20” Widescreen Bravia HD Ready LCD TV - With Freeview - Pink
with Integrated Digital Tuner
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Sony HTDDW790 - 5.1 Home Cinema System - With Bravia Theatre Sync
March 10th, 2008
Sony HTDDW790 - 5.1 Home Cinema System - With Bravia Theatre Sync
with FM/AM radio tuner
Customer Review: Very good for the price…….
Having just bought this unit recently I am surprised with the sound quality for the price. Although the sub woofer is massive, the 5 satellite speakers are quite small, yet I have not come across a situation where they have distorted. This unit is perfect for most size homes where the cinema is in one standard room such as a lounge. In my opinion:
Pro’s:
Great Sound
Easy to setup
Future Proof as other items such as a DVD player aren’t integrated
Very expandable (lot’s of connections)
Con’s:
Surround rear speakers are wired
The AV processor unit is large by today’s standards
MP3 “portable” function not very good
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Sony KDL26U2000 - 26″ Widescreen Bravia HD Ready LCD TV - With Freeview - Granite
March 6th, 2008
Sony KDL26U2000 - 26″ Widescreen Bravia HD Ready LCD TV - With Freeview - Granite
Aspect ratio: 16:9
Customer Review: Good Value
This is the first LCD tv I’ve ever bought, I’d been putting it off each year believing that they still had some way to go before being as good as the best CRTs (old Sony Triniton 100Hz tvs for example).
I have to say I was nicely surprised once I had set it up, as long as you’ve got a healthy reception the digital broadcast images are very good. I find the colours a bit intense on some channels, though I suspect this is due to the broadcast signal rather than the TV.
Plenty of inputs though for connecting a PC you are limited to analogue VGA, that said with a good graphics card the picture is still very good (way better than what’d you’d get on a CRT tv and more than adequate for web browsing, watching movies etc).
Sound is also better than expected, the audio line out is brilliant for connecting to a hifi-amp, though is fixed in level so you’ll need a hifi remote to adjust the volume from the sofa.
The rec-timer funtion is one of my fav features, it can be programmed to send any digital broadcast down the smartlink Scart port to your older VCR/DVD recorder while the TV is off (effectively giving you a Sky+ style recorder). Of course you still have to set the timer on your video 
This also removes the need to pass the broadcast signal through the VCR before connecting to the TV which can often cause interference.
All in all, good value, perhaps not quite as good as the best CRTs but for ?425 you really can’t complain.
Customer Review: You get what you pay for
I needed a TV for my daughters bedroom makeover. I very nearly bought a cheaper 32″, strange make, with fair reviews from Ebuyer.
But I didn’t.
I virtually always go for a premium brand, and am a great believer in the phrase Price is forgotten long after quality is remembered.
In the end I found this ?100 off, and I was able to use my company discount. Bottom line I Paid ?380. So a good price.
I was not expecting the digital free view, so we were delighted to get this as a bonus. Loads of extra channels, and some really good ones, Film4/ Sky news/ music channels plus a raft of others.
Picture quality - from my aerial was crystal clear, its HD ready, but I haven’t used this mode yet.
Wall mounting - easy to do. It didn’t come with a kit, I bought one online from www.av4home.co.uk (?33 including next day delivery).
I had to cut off the moulded plug, and replace with another one, so I could hide the wires away. It comes with a lead, which you cannot detach from the TV, and it is about 1.5m long.
Looks great on the wall, and picture quality is fabulous.
Nice one.
Adam
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