Sony come up trumps again !

I bought a little know branded 19" tv from a shop only to find that when I hooked it up the sound was unbelievably tinny. We tried to ignore this but after only two days of trying the wife and I had had enough and it had to go back.
Scouring through the internet, researching the numerous brands and models & reviews I seemed to return to those on Sony which were predominantly favourable. I could have kicked myself for not settling with this to begin with as most if not all our other audio & visual goods are Sony anyway.
When I hooked this small tv up, I was astonished by the quality of sound,much richer/fuller than you would expect for it's size, the picture is sharp with true colours and much scope to play with. As it's a bedroom tv we needed a remote control that would be easy to use and this fits the bill perfectly, the buttons are arranged logically and uncluttered but as an only gripe it would have been more preferable if the sleep button was placed on it's own rather than part of a menu with other functions (those who use it as often as me will know what I'm talking about)
I must also add that Amazons service is second to none, I have used them a few times before, the service is always quick, well packaged and the price always more favourable than the high street.

Superb

This TV was bought after a fair bit of research online and in stores and i hasn't disappointed at all. Had this TV almost a year now and can say it was a fantastic buy. The 2oohz really shows when watching sport as there is no motion blur compared to my older LCD samsung. The picture is brilliant in HD and still watchable in SD also friends that have been round have said that the SD picture is far better than the SD on there cheaper TV's. The sound isn't something to shout about as you would get with a surround sound system, however it is still very good for a flat screen and this is probably because it isn't built in internally and is actually at the bottom of the TV.

Expected better

Since writing the report below I've had cable TV installed and connected by HDMI cable for High Definition with the resulting picture quality improving significantly. The colour is stronger, definition and contrast improved so the settings for each programme do not have to be changed as I did in the past.

Although now happier with it I will leave my first report as I firmly believed in what was written at the time ( before HD and cable connection ) so have upped the stars to 3 but still think there are better TV options out there.

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I have one of these and overall quite disappointed. The image looks washed out on the whites (like you would see white on a negative) and the colour appears to run, almost ghostly, on many different programmes. I seem to be forever changing the backlighting for a decent picture in daylight where as in the darker evening the picture looks as if it has too much contrast. I bought it because I have a smaller 20" Sony which is great but the larger one no thanks. Overall I wish I had bought something else.

Sony Bravia 20" LCD TV

Sony KDL-20S3000 - 20" Widescreen Bravia HD Ready LCD TV - With Freeview - Black Excellent performance, Picture quality second to non. EPG (Electronic Programme Guide)is a bit crowded compered to the excellent Panasonic Veira System. All in all a good easy to use TV.

Perfect

This is our 3rd Sony TV. We have been more than happy with them all. The picture on this one is perfect and we are very happy with all asspects of it. Could not fault Amzon's service it arrived even before the day they set for dispatch. Plus it was very easy to set up.

Sony LCD TV

Great picture , great sound. Just what I wold expect from a Sony TV. Does exactly what it says on the tin.

Sony kdl 26v400

Only my second time dealing with amazon and I cannot fault them! Excellent service and you can track more or less exactly when your purchase will arrive. And no problem with this TV either! High quality whichever way you look at it. My only quibble is that I now want a 32-incher!

Brilliant TV

I thought long and hard about which tv I should buy but in the end having back lit LED seemed to make sense compared to edge lit and conventional LCD tvs.
I am so glad I bought this tv as the picture it produces is outstanding especially from blue-ray and HD. SD broadcasts are excellent too but the tv really excells with the former 2 formats.

Only downside is the sound quality whilst good does not match the excellence of the picture quality. Some people may not like the bulkiness of the TV but it looks great on my wall. I can thoroughly recommend this tv especially at the bargain price it is today.

You have to get one of these!!

WOW WOW WOW

Had this TV for over 8 months now and it still brings a grin to my face when viewing HD.

Good size TV with instant plug and play menus. Was set up and running in under 10 minutes. Good selction of inputs (including 3 HDMI).

"Normal" programmes looks so much better than a CRT TV. Built in Freeview is easy to use. Have hooked up SKY+ HD box which is where this set comes into its own. Colours are always sharp and bright. Also run XBox360 through it and again WOW, what a transformation this set gives to the gaming experience.

Sound quality is very good.

Comprehensive menus for detailed personal tuning.

Throughly recommended. So glad I stay loyal to Sony.

Even better than I expected

After reading all of the positive comments about this set, I decided to go ahead and spend the extra money hoping that the quality of the Sony would be worth it. Well, I was rather nervous switching it on but I was blown away by the picture. I think that the set looks great (perhaps not the speckled finish) and it has really changed my television experience. As regards to the sound, I also purchased a Sony Cinema sound system and I just love the whole package. Very much recommended!

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

best 1080p tv there is

this is easily the best 1080p lcd tv on the market, response times arent beaten by anyone other set other than led's and this is still very expensive and the gap between quality isn't great enough to warrant the extra dosh, blu rays look amazing, but so does the built in freeview channels, the glass surround ozzes class when its off, sony really do know what there doing and this tv is world class.

The best 1080p for your hard earned and a 'Best Seller' for Christmas!

I love Sony products and am not ashamed to say it. They always deliver good, honest, quality and still at an affordable price.

This 52" version has what I want exactly. (KDL52X3500U)

It has 3 x HDMI sockets (2 x back and 1 x side), plus 3 x Scart (all on back) for all you long-term upgraders. (One dedicated PC socket? You must be rich!) Several other connections are given (I don't use 'em) but on the side are connectors for the old Camcorders and Digital Cameras, wow! Using these, you can view your pics and then decide whether that was the right shot, on a HUGE acreen!

This TV looks amazing. If you have a PS3, this is a 'must have' for Christmas. DVD - even without Blue-Ray tech, anything on this looks good, but make sure yours' can upgrade the signal to 1080i or p.

I have Sky HD and everything I see on this wonderful piece of SONY tells me, I chose very wisely.

I may be biased, but my money bought one of these magnificent SONY LCD's. The New Bravia X series 3500's.

I am pleased.