Sony BRAVIA V-Series KDL-46V5100 46-Inch 1080p 120Hz LCD HDTV, Black
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Customer Review: Sony Bravia 46" HDTV
Summary: 5 Stars
TV-great - just to bad that we saw the same TV on your website the week after we brought this one for $150.00 cheaper.
Customer Review: Great LCD
Summary: 5 Stars
Good color, refresh rate is fantastic and advanced color setting allow experienced users to dial color to perfection.Customer Review: Sony 46" Bravia
Summary: 5 Stars
I am very pleased with my purchase. Picture is even better than I expected. Feel like I got a great deal!Customer Review: Sony Bravia KDL-46V5100
Summary: 5 Stars
Bought this product two months back and since then I am happy with the product.Customer Review: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
Summary: 4 Stars
I'll start off with the good stuff with this TV, excellent sound and great picture (except for really high motion which i'll get to later). The sound on this TV exceeded my expectations by a large margin as the sound quality is really crisp and clear. Sony got the sound on this TV right, and i don't think it could get better from just having a standalone TV set. One note: My cablebox makes a poping sound when switching channels - Sony has noted that this is a problem from the cablebox on their website.
The picture is really great once you get the correct settings put in as well (do a google search for best settings). Only use HDMI cables unless your cable box or other device doesn't have an HDMI port for the best picture. One thing you will notice if this is your first dip into HDTV waters is that not all HDTV broadcasts are going to be in true HD quality. Some stations stretch the picture which looks terrible. It's not the Tv's fault however, it's the stations that are broadcasting. Some are good, some are bad, and some are just plain ugly.
Where i knock this down 1 star is for fast motion. Sorry Nascar fans, im talking fast zoomed in motion - mostly football. Most sights that tell you how to calibrate your TV will tell you to turn the "Motionflow" portion of your settings off. I tried it and can say for me personally i can't watch the TV like that because the motion isn't smooth. If i put "Motionflow" on standard it looks better but i wish there was a setting between off and standard, like low for example. Getting back to my point though, i do not recommend this TV for viewing spaces UNDER 10 feet. Pixelazation starts to show up alot at the under 10 feet distance - especially in fast camera moments like football. Over 10 feet in your viewing area and i would probably give this TV 5 stars and not 4. Putting "Motionflow" on standard helps, but it doesn't cure it, and the level above standard is just silly because everything looks really fake. Would a TV at 240hz do a better job of making the motion blur go away? It may, but from what i have been reading on the internet the motion blur is from the TV stations broadcast itself. I don't have a 240hz TV right now (they are a little too expensive) to compare, but i have a feeling that you would still have some of the motion blur. Im just not sure at this point if the motion blur comes from the TV itself or from the HD broadcasts, it's there nonetheless even with HDMI cables and thats why i knock it down to 4 stars.
As a side note i want to add that you should get a Blu-ray player if you like to watch movies. Most DVD's i own (around 500) look pretty bad on the new HDTV set's. Even with upconverting, the quality does not hold. Can you watch it - yes. Does it look good - sometimes depending on the encoding. Does it look great - no, only blu-ray will look great from now on if you purchase any HDTV set. It sucks, but it's the truth.
UPDATE - Seems that i have found some settings that work alot better for fast motion after playing around with it for quite awhile and i wanted to share it with you guys:
I'll start under "advanced settings" and remember these are what I like best (you may not):
Cinemotion - Auto 2
Motionflow - High
With these settings i have found that football and high action for that matter is much better on this TV, but beware, i have found that if you don't use them both in combo you end up with scenes in movies that tend to go a little too fast making it look fake. Using them both together really helps eliminate MOST of the blur or pixelation (there is still a slight bit but i would say 90-95% is eliminated)
The rest of my settings are (these are to your own taste, the motion settings are more important):
Picture mode - Standard
Backlight - 6
Picture - 95
Brightness - 52
Color - 49
Hue - 0
Color Temp - Neutral
Sharpness - 6
Everything else is in "off" mode
Good luck, hope it helps!