A superb Sony TV

This TV is absolutely excellent. The picture is brilliant when connected to an HD source and freeview is pretty good too.

The sound is very good - with other TVs I have often experienced a problem of speech not being very clear. Not so with this TV.

The settings don't need too much fiddling around with and the User Interface is very simple and easy to use. Furthermore, it looks really nice but gets quite dusty!

This TV is the perfect addition to a bedroom or small living room. This is my first Sony TV and I'm glad I bought it.

Good Product

Delivered intact and on-time. Very simple set-up with my existing Sony RDR-HXD890 DVD Recorder, also from Amazon. Operated straight out of the box with super picture and easy operation.

Great Buy

Bought this 20 inch Sony for the bedroom and it is just perfect, lovely design which hides all the cables. Set up is so simple, just 5 minutes to get a great picture and sound.

Sony KDL40Z4500

A very impressive piece of kit. It has allieviated any doubts that I had about LCD technology.

The new television

So 'needed' a television for the bedroom. Don't ask why. Looked around Curries, liked the Bravia, right size not to heavy, good features, very expensive and not in stock, same at the Sony Centre. Plan 'B' look on the net, Amazon first stop. Very good price, about £70 under anybody on the high street, in stock and free delivery.
Delivered and installed four days later. Set up a doddle (once I put in the cabling), just read the instructions and press the buttons, even sorted them into logical order, BBC1, 2, ITV1, Channel 4, Five and the rest. Amazing picture, good features and Freeview. In our area an enormous bonus (according to the BBC [who should know] not liable until 2012). Hung on the wall, Sunday lie in's will never be the same, a really good piece of kit. There may be cheaper out there but maybe not better. Next planned buy an upscalable DVD.

The Best Tv & Picture I've Ever Seen

An avid fan of home cinema and What Hifi reader. Spent ages choosing a new tv, reading reviews and blogs etc and i LOVE this one. The picture is just awesome. 200hz screen is brillinat for sports or fast moving pictures with NO hint of blurring. The sound from the speakers is far better than other screens at this price. The USB input to display photo's etc is great and the xbar set up is so easy. The remote is intuitive and is back lit for when watching movies in the dark. My PS3 looks fantastic on it as does any DVD or any HD content icluding SKY HD whichs looks superb. I could go on forever, it is a great set. Use the THX set up disc from any Star Wars DVD to tweek the settings and you'll have a superb TV.

the best digital reciever ever made....

bought 2 of these boxes when first launched 4 years ago,still running,upgraded to latest software,super quick,simply one of lifes items that performs faultless,even at £199.99 it's worth every penny!

AMAZING

an amazing TV set form an amazing brand it's a 40' full 1080p HD and at the cheaper end of the market ps3 xbox 360 sky HD etc are amazing on it i have a little problem with film grain on my blu-ray movies but that is just down to their bad formatting i think. Games look superb on it it does get dusty but who cares it takes nothing to wipe it with a cloth overall a fantastic tv well worth the price good job sony you amazed me yet again !

Great TV, great price and it's a Sony

Superb television at an amazing price, especially for a Sony who I've always regarded as the best. Very easy to set up, it's out of the box and ready to use in 20 mins.
To people who have complained about the picture, I suggest they do what I did and check on line, there is lots of good advice on how to get the best picture and I'm sure it would help them, it did me.

Might be good - don't know

The TV arrived from a returned / refurbished supplier. Out of the box everything was OK. Could tell that the TV had been out of the box and re-packaged but the TV itself was in excellent physical nick.
Plugged it in, connected the aerial and turned in on. The setup was really easy and the picture looked fab, for 5 minutes, then the screen developed a fault with vertical multi-coloured bars.
Turned it off and left it for 30 minutes then tried again. OK for 5 minutes then the dreaded multi-coloured bars.
In fairness, the supplier took it back the same day, tested it and said there was a problem and gave my money back - thanks.
So, it was a good TV for 5 minutes! Decided to buy a Mac computer and watch TV on the Apple instead!

Sony tried too hard.

I bought this model for my wife's 34th birthday. We keep it on the 4th floor at the top and it looks really sexy. But there is a a big but. The picture keeps freezing, it can't keep up with the resolution. Sony has just concentrated on the size not the quality. I would much preffer a 32" Samsung instead of a good-looking 55" Sony. Very bad response time aswell, wich is a real let down for the wii and ps3 that my kids have got. not reccomended. also Sony were rude and impatient with me on the phone. 2/5 4/10

Sony KDL-32W4000

It's exactly what am looking for. Picture & sound quality are fantastic. No regrets. Thanks.

Awesomely Awesome Awesomeness

I'd just like to start off by thanking each reviewer of this item prior to me, as you all really gave me the nudge to buy the item. Much more honest than the"Oh, of course, I have one of these at home myself" speech from a sales person in a store. I was looking for customer's opinions on the item......boy did I find them. When I bought mine in March this year, it must have been the most favoured TV on Amazon.co.uk.

I probably spent more than six months eyeing up different TVs. This would have been my first LCD, and I was intending to get the best possible for my money. Not knowing anything about HD, and not wanting to, I just basically wanted to get a nicely sized TV with the best picture quality I could find, and plug a DVD player into it. That's it, no ifs, ands, or buts. I specifically noticed that many reviewers informed that the set is easy to get going, and that it literally is a no-brainer with regards to the picture quality and reliability.

After visiting local stores to gawp at the vibrant colours that all the Bravias offered, stand in amazement at the incredibly shiny piano black Samsungs, and vomit uncontrollably at just how god awful Phillips efforts were, I just couldn't find anything that I didn't like about the Bravias. I was of course, drawn to the 32S3000 due to the reviews on Amazon.co.uk. I'm naturally one of those people that has to make sure that the item has exactly what I want before purchasing. If you spend as much time watching DVDs as I do, you really need to make sure you will be satisfied.

After some more investigations, I found a bundle price that I just couldn't pass up. The bundle contained the 32S3000, one majorly sexy glass stand, and the miracle-worker Sony DVP-NS78 DVD player with upscaling to 1080p. Within minutes of seeing this offer, the items were in the boot of my car on their way to a new home.

As the other reviews say, this TV is an absolute wonder to set up. It takes literally a couple of minutes to get past the initial start up, and from then on you're pretty much sorted. Seeing as I'm in Ireland, I can't receive any freeview channels, so unfortunately, I'm unable to comment on this feature. Regardless, I never watch TV, so even if I had freeview it probably would go unused. Okay, off goes the TV again, better sort out my DVD player.

Once I mopped up all the drool, and plugged in my wondrous DVP-NS78, in went"Touching The Void". The picture settings were set as"Vivid" by default, and let me tell you, they were vivid as vivid can be. There are a lot of moving shots in"Touching The Void", panning slowly across the mountains was so clear it made me dizzy. The motion of these shots was very smooth, regardless of the fact that this TV doesn't have 100hz. After watching lots of different DVDs on this set, I noticed that the"Vivid" setting, although very impressive, was not great with regards to darker areas. For example, if you watch"American History X", all the black and white sections are a little off. The whites are too white and the darks are too dark.

Of course, like anything, you adjust and adjust until you eventually get that sweet spot. I've found the perfect settings for me, and I'm sure everybody else that owns this TV has as well, as there is so much tweaking available that you can really just get what you need from it.

I was absolutely blown away by this TV, it simply astonished me as to how clear the picture is, and how amazing the colours are. I apologise for the lack of comments on games consoles and Blu-Ray/HD DVD, but I have no interest in gaming, and I absolutely despise the idea of my 300 strong DVD collection becoming redundant in a few years when Blu-Ray/HD DVD fully take over. (Although they practically have already).

GREAT LARGE TV. GOOD PICTURE QUALITY

Excellant TV. Picture quality is fantastic. Sound is OK. Good features like tv guide.
Recommend. Good looking

well good

this tv is really really good ,picture quality is awsome i have a 360 and it look amazing i also use it for my pc and that is cool as hell too ,all in all its amazing really really pleased with it.