Sony BRAVIA V-Series KDL-52V5100 52-Inch 1080p 120Hz LCD HDTV, Black
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Customer Review: Sony TV
Summary: 5 Stars
TV works great. It was delivered a day early and the price was the best of all that I checked. Good job AmazonCustomer Review: sony tv
Summary: 5 Stars
tv arrived on time and was as advertised. The delivery service was ******.Am very happy with the product.Customer Review: great tv; great cost
Summary: 5 Stars
amazon was great. terrific product at a very competitive price. also, easy delivery and installationCustomer Review: 2 Defective Sony BRAVIA V-SERIES KDL-525100 LCDs!
Summary: 4 Stars
7/24/09 I received this tv one week ago from Amazon's delivery service and it is a beautiful tv and the picture is awesome! Problem is, when I turn it on in the morning or when it has been sitting for more than a couple of hours turned off and turn it on, there is no sound? I have to turn it off & on several times before the sound kicks in. I have contacted Amazon several times and they tell me that I have to contact Sony and trouble shoot the problem with them myself! And I have to get a case number from Sony to prove that I contacted them. This is ridiculous and insulting to think that I spent this kind of money on a product from Amazon and one week into it, I have a problem with the tv having a defect and I'm supposed to contact Sony and take time out of my day doing so, sitting on hold, waiting for a repairman to come out at his convenience? Amazon should replce this tv at once! I'm very dissapointed in Amazon on the way their handling this situation and would urge anyone thinking about buying this tv to think about this first...
Update:
7/27/09 Amazon is sending me a new Sony BRAVIA V-SERIES KDL-525100 today after talking with a Sony rep for 45 minutes this morning and troubleshooting the sound problem, they determined in fact the tv is defective. I will keep my fingers crossed that this one performs without any problem!
Update: 08/05/09 & my replacement tv has now been lost in transit. I am speaking with Amazon right now trying to figure out where it is and how this could happen. This is beyond ridiculous!
08/07/09 I received my replacement this morning and the delivery & setup went great! I just pray that the tv is performs like it should and I can finally enjoy my purchase...
08/10/09 Unbelievable! The second tv is also a defect doing the same thing as the first & I just contacted Amazon and I have to wait for this one to be picked up and make it's way all the way across the country, before I can get a different tv. I do not recommend this tv to anyone...
08/19/09 The tv is finally being picked up on Friday and returned to Amazon for a complete refund. Good riddens!!!
Customer Review: A Solid HDTV if you Like to Tweak - FiOS users beware!!!
Summary: 4 Stars
I received this HDTV as an Xmas gift to replace a 5 year old Sanyo tube-based HDTV that was going nutty (green tint to the picture suddenly).
Pros:
* The blur motion control, Bravia Sync, and input switching are great.
* The menus for calibration of the picture (if you have a THX calibration disk) are simply very easy.
* Watching Blu-Ray movies or playing PS-3 games on this are awe inspiring- incredible details, rich blacks, no motion glitches.
* Hooking a Nintendo Wii up to this TV via component cable was a nice surprise too in terms of picture quality and motion tracking.
* So many inputs, you will be hard pressed to fill them up.
Cons:
* The sound of the TV speakers requires you to have a separate receiver/speaker array system. The speakers are rather tinny sounding with no bass.
* The quality of this HDTV, like most on the market, requires that you learn how to calibrate the TV to THX or another standard. Otherwise, you are not getting all the quality that the TV is capable of.
* The HDMI input does not communicate well with the current Verizon FiOS Motorola HD QIP 71001 set top box. The picture flickers intermittently, goes to green screen, or goes to black depending upon the channel selected. Switching the set top box to feed this Sony using component cables solves the issue, but it is disappointing that neither Sony, Motorola, nor Verizon want to take ownership of this HDMI problem.
Overall, the picture quality of this TV blew away other 120 Hz LCD HDTV's both priced at this level & even $1,000 more. To get a better picture, if you know how to calibrate an HDTV, you would have to spend several thousand dollars more. Even then, the amount you will spend versus perceptible picture quality improvement is not really worth the bang for the buck IMHO. I would recommend this TV with the above 3 caveats.