Editorial Review :

Experience Sony's highest level of picture quality in a sleek, elegant design with the Sony BRAVIA LX900 Edge LED Backlight LCD HDTV with 3D. Enjoy incredibly high contrast levels for true blacks and bright whites plus sharp, vibrant colors and crisp, fluid motion. Connect to the internet and instantly stream the widest variety of online entertainment. Add the Sony 3D Sync Transmitter, put on the Sony active glasses and enjoy 3D movies, sports, and video games in Full HD 1080p picture quality or convert your 2D personal content to 3D with the push of a button on your remote control.

Customer Review :

Sony's 3D Dreadnaught

I first want to say that I based much of my decision to buy the XBR-52LX900 on my past experience with Sony HDTV's and the research I did on the internet (especially from the tests done by [...]). I've paced the big electronic stores and compared many brands and technologies firsthand in the past 5 years and try to make the best decisions I can for what's right for me. Do all the research you can before you buy any TV and try to see TV's in person before you make any decision.
I've had my LX900 now for 4 days and I can say that it is a mammoth of technology. With so many features, you can get lost and even side tracked with all the settings and features you can meddle with. I can't count how much personal time I've personally lost to this glowing marvel. I got my LX900 to replace my XBR4, which I thought was pretty good at the time when I purchased it 3 years ago and should be better than my XBR9 that I bought earlier this year. First impressions were the size and design. It's huge, but very thin and quite an elegant, angled creature. I had contemplated the HX909 with the full LED and even the 8000 series Samsung, but decided to go with the LX900 since it's slimmer and comes with the 3D glasses as well as a built-in 3D emitter and WiFi. The HX909 does have a slightly better picture since it achieves deeper blacks due to full LED lighting, but the LX900 touches off an explosion of LEDs's to achieve a brighter picture, so I think the LX900 is just a step behind the HX909 visually in terms of contrast ratio. Right out of the box I wasn't that satisfied with the picture and kept playing with the settings (especially the motion flow). I finally went to [...] and used their "calibrated" settings which really optimized the picture and cleared it up significantly. You really have to come to terms with the fact that source video is everything when it comes to the picture on HDTV's no matter what settings you choose. The colors on the LX900 are really good and it nearly blinds you with the whites that it can display. However, the screen does glow too much in the deepest blacks with splotches of light on the sides of the screen due to it being an edge-lit LED screen and not full LED with localized dimming which lets a tiny bit of light bleed through. However, my blu-ray 1080P source from the PS3 looks impeccable on this behemoth! HD cable channels are pretty sharp, but anything below that is a bit too cluttered. Sadly, I do get excessive judder on fast motion and I'm trying to hold off on tweaking the motion flow since it seemed to degrade the brightness of the screen and have an overall negative impact on the image (something that an elite HDTV shouldn't be doing). There's a "theater mode" on the remote that can benefit the picture of some video sources more than others when you engage it. Some of the signals would get very washed out and grainy, the theater mode helped settle the picture back into a nice soft texture and clear the image up in many cases. Then there's that little 3D button at the top of the remote. Here's where things really heated up! You power up the glasses with a single button, hit the "3D" button on the remote, and poof, any image on the screen is converted to 3D! My first experience was "humph", but that was until I found the 3D settings. The TV default to a "medium" setting in the 3D effect. When I punched it up to high and set the glasses to auto darkness, you really got the feeling that you were looking through a window to the world (something much like looking through an old viewmaster). I unconverted some football, racing, tennis, and golf - which is pretty neat. When I put in "Planet Earth" or any Blu-Ray 1080P source, it really got deep, clear, and started popping out inside the TV! I figured only 3D on a Blu-ray could perform a decent 3D effect, but the LX900 proved me wrong! Since then, I've been re-watching all of my Blu-ray media again in 3D - it really is completely different in 3D. The 3D is really good on the LX900, but I know that it wouldn't look that great without the crisp details and color that it serves up even before you convert it to 3D. I was truly floored when it converted my personal photos into 3D from my PS3! I can't wait to get the update to my PS3 to play 3D Blu-ray in September. The remote really is a stand out also. I know that sounds ridiculous, I thought the same thing reading other reviews that went on about the remote. I fully understood what they were talking about when I actually got to play with this thing first hand. There's no battery door to break or lose when you pop it off. Instead, the whole bottom of the remote is a sliding sleeve that moves forward to expose the battery compartment (pretty slick). You can engage widgets and the streaming video over the internet with the press of dedicated buttons (there are plenty of buttons dedicated to one function) as well as navigate the xcross media bar and pull up any settings. The streaming video channels like YouTube and How To TV are pretty neat, but most of the videos are really all sub-par standard definition which looks badly muddled as you could expect. Amazon HD video and Netflix look very good and I have had no buffering problems at all with my WiFi streaming that content. What I can't understand is why there are so many movie services that do pretty much the same thing as the other. Netflix or Amazon should be all you need for movie service. Same with Slacker radio and Pandora, they do pretty much the same thing, no? The widgets are okay, but they really function way too slow and have a clunky feel to them. There's not a lot of variety except for the typical Yahoo and Facebook widgets and I can't stress here how long they take to load. My computer pulls these up quicker and they function much better with a computer and a keyboard. I hope the future holds the integration of app support like the apple store and the android marketplace - are you listening Sony? I am very dismayed by the built-in speakers on this TV, they really sound "tinny" and cheap. I have played with the sound settings trying to get something decent out of them, but for now I have had no success in improving this at all. The i-manual doesn't really give me any help on this either, but I hope to be able to correct this in the future. Since I have it hooked up to my theater system (which sounds outstanding), this is not a problem yet. That's another thing that I don't like about the LX900. It comes with no physical manual. You have to press the button on the remote that's dedicated for the "i-manual" so that it can pull it up off the net. Navigating the manual is again slow and clumsy. They could have used one branch of tree pulp to manufacture and include a printed manual which would be a big improvement over the i-manual.
So, was this TV worth the price that Sony wants for it? I'd say no. This is why I only gave 4 stars for it. It's pretty nice to have built in WiFi, 3D emitter, and include 2 pairs of glasses, but for the price it should be a full LED design and really "wow" you with a flawless picture. Then again, the slim monolithic design of the LX900 is the trade-off where you have to make the call. It's a decision between full LED and edge-lit LED or thicker versus thinner. Since my picture is still one of the best looking pictures I've seen (along with the eye popping 3D effects), I am pretty happy with my monster. The widgets and streaming media really weren't very impressive. I would have to say that it's a toss-up between the LX900 and the HX909 (might have got the HX909 if they threw in their 3D package and a WiFi dongle), but since the LX900 is supposed to be their flagship model I chose the LX900. You might even consider the Samsung 8000 series, since they're cheaper. But, I've found that there's something about the Sony (must be the processor) that makes them just a hint more clear to me when they're side by side with the Samsungs and an identical 1080P source. At any rate, I'd let prices settle at least $900 dollars less before buying one a Sony or wait for the next generation in a year or so.


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1. Features Ambient Sensor and LightSensor Technology that automatically adjust the color and backlight based on a room's lighting
2. Full HD 1080p Resolution Experience Full HD 1080p picture quality

Editorial Review :

Sony Bravia KDL40EX400 40" LCD 1080p HDTV

Customer Review :

An outstanding set, especially for TV viewers and gamers

Sony has long been one of the better TV makers, going back to the Trinitron and later the WEGA. The Bravia series has remained high quality machines, boasting great pictures, not to mention some of the lowest repair rates in the industry. The 40EX400 lives up to that billing, sporting a terrific picture and some solid features at an astonishingly low price.

It's tough cutting through a lot of the mire -- LCD vs. LED vs. plasma, 60Hz vs. 120Hz -- but this TV will prove to be more than adequate for the vast majority of owners. The LCD image is eye-popping, with good contrast and vibrant images. (While there is no substitute for professional calibration, drawing from the calibration settings available from reviewers here and elsewhere will yield really rich color.) The screen diffuses glare very well, unlike the glass screens on some plasmas, so it is a good TV for those who deal with a lot of light.

Some people are liable to wonder if they should go for this 60Hz or "upgrade" to 120Hz, but for most functions this TV works just as well, and for a lot less cost. For one, virtually all TV (including sports) and video games both refresh at 30 or 60 frames per second, which is perfect for this TV, since 60Hz equates to 60 refreshes per second. Football and baseball alike look great on this TV, and video games run like silk. Gamers will also appreciate the brisk input response time, which makes playing first person shooters and other action games very satisfying; Sony clearly wanted to make sure their PS3 crowd would be at home in front of this TV. The one Achilles Heel of 60Hz TVs - 24fps Blu-ray movies - still run well on this set thanks to the Cinemotion "pulldown" technique, and only the most visually trained will notice any motion stutter.

The TV has a few other features worth noting. The system boasts a generous collection of inputs, including 4 HDMI inputs and a USB port for playing music and movies. The digital tuner works quite well, pulling in HD programming over the air with no trouble and even displaying the resolution of each channel. (It actually did better in this way than the vaunted Zenith DTT901 Digital TV Tuner Converter Box.) The calibration menus are very specific and allow for a lot of adjustments and customization, even allowing for different configurations across inputs.

Of course, no TV is perfect, and this one has a few drawbacks. There is no online connectivity, unlike a lot of other TVs out there today. The digital antenna tuner pulls signals fine and will offer descriptions of current programming, but it has no functionality to display upcoming programming, something even cheap digital converter boxes do. The sound is adequate but not extraordinary, although I wager most buyers will attach the set to a stereo or surround system. Last but not least is the infamous grey bar along the bottom of the TV paneling; to be honest, I hardly notice it anymore and it's not as bad in person as it might seem, but some may still question Sony's tastes and prefer a more unified black look.

Those nitpicks aside, it's really hard not to like this TV. At the time of this review the set goes for a little over six hundred bucks, which is extraordinary considering what a TV of these specs would have gone for just a few years back. It's not a top-end TV but it's a darn good one and for the vast majority of viewers, especially if they care less about the particularities of Blu-ray and more about TV/cable/satellite and video gaming. Highly recommended.

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1. Full 3D Ready HD 1080p
2. Wireless Network Ready
3. PC Streaming Capable
4. MotionflowTM PRO 240Hz Technology
5. BRAVIA Engine? 3

Editorial Review :

This Bundle Includes:

Sony KDL46HX800 46 inch Full HD 240Hz LED HDTV
Experience premium picture quality with the BRAVIA? HX800 Series 3D Ready LCD HDTV. Enjoy amazing contrast with the Dynamic Edge LED backlight plus sharp, vibrant images and crisp, fluid motion. You can also connect to the internet and stream the widest variety of online entertainment. Add the Sony sync transmitter and enjoy 3D movies, sports and videogames in Full HD 1080p picture quality or convert your 2D entertainment to 3D with the push of a button on your remote control 1. 3D viewing requires a Sony 3D Sync Transmitter and 3D Active Glasses (each sold separately).

Sony BDV-E570 Blu-ray Disc Player Home Entertainment System, Black
Experience Full HD 1080p and powerful 5.1channel HD surround sound with the Sony BDV-E570 Blu-ray Disc Home Theater System8. You can also wirelessly stream Netflix, Amazon Video on Demand, Slacker, YouTube and more or turn your iPhone or iPod touch into a remote control by downloading a free app.

1. 1080p 120Hz Widescreen LCD HDTV
2. Easy connectivity with 4x HDMI, USB
3. BRAVIA Engine processor, BRAVIA Sync
4. Get perfect picture brightness & save energy
5. Motionflow 120Hz Technology

Editorial Review :

Bring the big game home with this 40" LCD HDTV. The Motionflow 120Hz technology provides smooth motion by doubling the frame rate and applying image blur reduction to deliver a fluid and realistic viewing experience. Enjoy vibrant and life-like images with the BRAVIA Engine video processor that optimizes color and contrast while reducing noise. Two 10-watt speakers provide rich sound through Dolby Digital sound and surround audio effects.

Customer Review :

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1. World-Wide NTSC/PAL/SECAM Color System - Watch any video signal on this TV!!
2. World-wide Dual Voltage 110-240 volts 50-60 hertz
3. World-Wide NTSCM, PAL BG, PAL I, Secam BG, DK/ PAL DK TV tuners
4. 32 inch WEGA GATE LCD TV with 3 HDMI input and PC input
5. Component Video Input offers the best video quality for DVD (480p and 480i), and digital set-top box (1080i, 720p, 480p and 480i) connections

Editorial Review :

32 inch WEGA GATE LCD TV with 3 HDMI input and PC inputNew Video enhancing features:- Motion flow processor allows better display of sports scenes, movies and other fast moving images.- 10-bit video panel allows reproduction of colors naturally, almost 4 times that of 8-bit panels.- 24P True Cinema processor allows you to view blu-ray movies at 24 frames per second (also known as 24hz), the way you see video at the movie theatre!World-Wide NTSC/PAL/SECAM Color System - Watch any video signal on this TV!!World-Wide NTSCM, PAL BG, PAL I, Secam BG, DK/ PAL DK TV tunersWidescreen 16 X 9 Format World-wide Dual Voltage 110-240 volts 50-60 hertz HDTV monitor (HDTV tuner required for HD reception) WEGA GATE Easy Operation Guide is a new feature that allows you to easily navigate to the most convenient TV functions: favorite channels, TV channel list, external input list or settings. Moving pictures will appear clearer and more natural-looking. Wide Screen Mode allows you to watch conventional 4:3 aspect ratio broadcasts in wide screen (16:9) mode. VESA compliant mounting holes. Favorite Channels with the WEGA GATE function, allows you to select from eight of your favorite channels. Steady Sound® equalizes volume levels so there is consistent output between programs and commercials. Built-in Speakers includes 2 (5W x 2) speakers to deliver dynamic sound. Component Video Input offers the best video quality for DVD (480p and 480i), and digital set-top box (1080i, 720p, 480p and 480i) connections. Parental Control V-chip technology allows parents to block unsuitable programming from younger viewers. Caption Vision/Info Banner allows closed caption and/or Channel Programming information to be displayed. Light Sensor allows the picture brightness level to be optimized to ambient light. PC Input allows you to connect your PC and display the PC screen on your TV. SRS® TruSurround® Audio Effect

Customer Review :

Be aware if purchasing for use in U.S.A.

Be aware of purchasing this item for use in the U.S.A. - our TV broke after 3 months and we cannot get it fixed because it is a multi-system (and non-US standard) TV. Sony just gives us phone numbers for Asian parts suppliers and says that is all they are able to do and the Amazon reseller, VCT, has been no help so far. I'm not even sure at this point if Sony will honor any kind of warranty because we bought a foreign system within the U.S. - something I honestly did not even consider when buying this multi-system TV. It is looking like we are out a brand-new TV and a ton of money. Until the TV broke it was great - we loved being able to watch our Region 2 DVDs on it. Picture quality was good and everything worked just fine, but then in the middle of watching something there was a loud popping noise and the TV went blank and so began our many, many e-mails and phone calls with Sony and VCT. Just be aware of this issue when considering a multi-system TV in the U.S.

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