Customer Reviews:
 Absolutely superb! August 18, 2007
Bristol Mark (UK)
83 out of 83 found this review helpful
I am very very very picky about AV equipment (3 very's) so it was after much research and deliberation that I finally settled on this TV. I have to say I am *totally* delighted with it - its a real belter.
The colours are rich and vibrant - perhaps too rich and vibrant unless you turn off the expanded colour gamut that is enabled by default. The picture has bags of detail and the black levels are really excellent, right up there with good plasmas. I would say it gives my Panasonic plasma a damned good run for its money in this respect, which for an LCD TV is quite amazing.
The electronic wizzardry does and incredible job at upscaling and enhancing SD pictures and fast moving sports channels pose no problems at all with no motion judder, smearing or other nasties. I found the 3:2 and 2:2 pulldown detection to be faultless with both NTSC or PAL DVD's exhibiting a very film-like appearance, especially with the Theater mode enabled. Although I suppose no-one will need to test this, the 3D comb filter is just off-the-scale good. If you feed the TV a composite video signal (I can't see many people would) the processing is so good, its almost indistinguishable for RGB with no visible dot-crawl. Amazing.
Of course the set really comes into its own with HD with images that have an incredible WOW factor.
I really can't praise this TV enough. My only two gripes (and they are very minor) is that some of the more advance picture settings are quite deep in the menu hierarchy, making initial set up and picture fine tuning slightly cumbersome. (Of course it doesn't matter after you have set it up, because you don't need to use those adjustments again). The other thing is that *perhaps* the light sensor is a bit over-zealous, dimming the picture maybe just a bit more than I prefer if you switch off all the lights. That very much a personal thing though, I think. And you can always switch the light sensor off if you want to.
I give this TV a wholehearted 5 stars.
Incidentally, Amazon's service and price was very good. Not the lowest price around, but next day delivery (delivered Saturday morning) for peanuts extra, so overall a very good deal.
Don't hesitate, just buy it October 31, 2007
Lucky Del (North Lanarkshire, Scotland)
27 out of 27 found this review helpful
I felt compelled to write a brief review of this TV as all the previous reviews gave me the additional confidence in buying this TV.
I read review after review both online and in magazines over which LCD TV would be best to buy between the £500 / £800 mark. Initially I had decided that the Panasonic 32LXD70 or 32LXD700 would have been my choice but the offer of a free 3 year guarantee on the Amazon website swayed my decision toward the Sony for £659.99, now going for £10 cheaper! Most of my other equipment is Sony anyway and I've never had any problems with the brand before and it too was also getting excellent reviews just the Panasonics.
I've connected my Sky+ (Thomson) box via the RGB Scart connector on the rear of the TV, mucked around with the numerous on screen settings and the picture quality is excellent. I have a very good signal going into m my Sky box, so that is bound to help a lot! Absolutely no motion problems at all and that's with the motion enhancer turned off. (This was one of my concerns when reviewing LCD TV's!)
I've also connected a Playstation 3 via one of the 3 HDMI connectors to try out Hi-definition gaming. The smiles on my children's faces said it all when I loaded the first demo game of Ratchet and Clank which I had displaying at 720p. Astounding picture quality, absolutely crystal clear. Colours are fabulous. No comparison to my old 28" CRT TV. (And I thought the picture quality on that TV through the RGB connector was great?) The HDMI cable was only a cheap £10 cable, so I don't know if much dearer cables would really be worth buying.
I just wish I had a Sky HD box now to compliment this fantastic piece of equipment. Connectivity is brilliant and I would thoroughly recommend this TV to anyone who is considering it, even though I've only had it now for less than one day. Don't look around any further, just buy it!, I'm well pleased.
 Excellent TV, poor setup out of the box! November 8, 2007
A (England)
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
I've been debating getting an LCD TV for ages. I've been idly looking in electrical stores for a while and the displayed pictures in these stores are usually really bad, over bright, over coloured, grainy etc. Well, I can confirm it is the fault of the people setting them up, not the TV itself!
This SONY TV arrived today and out of the box the picture was awful! All over coloured and horrid to watch. About half an hour of fettling gets it sorted though. The TV does run at 100HZ, but this option needs to be turned on manually to eliminate ghosting on motion pictures. I also knocked the colour and contrast down and the brightness up.
You also get a feature including an automatic light sensor which adjusts the screen brightness as the light in the room goes up or down. I thought the picture was really poor in a well lit room, until I turned this option off and the TV picture came alive.
The stock settings are a joke on sound as well. Default is stereo, but the TV is able to do a front surround sound setting, why not have this on as standard?!
Overall an excellent television, very competitive pricing too. This TV in John Lewis is £899 at the moment(with a 5 year guarantee to be fair) Amazon is £649 (when I bought it)
Also, at the moment, Sony give a free one year accidental damage insurance and 3 year guarantee for free (Before the end of November 2007)
Well worth a buy, but remember that setting it up takes a fair bit of fiddling, hence 4 stars, not 5!
Everything went to plan September 10, 2007
Sigmonde (Aberdeen)
43 out of 44 found this review helpful
I'd been toying with buying this model for a few weeks based on various reviews. The Panasonic 700 model and the Sony seem neck and neck in the press so I picked the sony to match everthing else in the house. I placed my current 28" trinitron old set and 32D together and at first there was no real difference. Switching off the light sensor and a few tweaks and the new set had richer tones.
Setting it up the set was simplicity itself and I a very pleased with the result. Even my partner noticed the difference.
So It's definately better than my old set and I'm over the moon with the price and performance, and I've not even put an HD picture through it yet!
The amazon price is way better than the large stores, even if you order on-line and collect locally.
Lastly Delivery
Like the previous reviewer I also took next day delivery (about £7) , I live in Aberdeen. The unit arrived on time , unfortunately I had nipped out for a few minutes (sods law). The on-line tracking seemed to work well also (citilink).
Read This October 29, 2007
Mr. M. G. Warsame
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
Hello,
I originally came across a Panasonic but replaced that with this Sony Bravia model. The technology that comes with it, with the quality in picture, sound, the additional functions, the design; I know others have given this 5 stars but that is a injustice to be honest. This is arguably the most celebrated, and rightly so, 32" High Definition set you can find on the market today.
I will start with the connections. 3 HDMI ports, in my opinion, is a must when purchasing HD Television sets these days. Buying such an expensive piece of equipment you'll have every intention of making use of it for a good amount of years, so why not make it future proof aswell? Don't you just hate it when you invest so much with a new computer yet opted to disregard some of the functions and consequently regretted that? With technology advancing almost every month, more and more devices will use HDMI connectivity. The next generation movie players will use HDMI to ensure the highest quality in picture resolution and sound, and speaking of sound, perhaps those sound enthusiasts will be considering a Surround Sound setup to get their money's worth to show off to their friends?
I personally have a PlayStation 3 (which I will get to in a minute), and its recommended you use a HDMI cable to use that. I also have a SkyHD box on order and you'll need HDMI for that aswell. So already you have two uses, two ports already used. Most High Definition sets have only two. But with this Sony Bravia, you're given three. Crucial in my opinion, to make it future proof.
Although this TV does not support native 1080p, it does upscale it to that resolution. On my PlayStation 3, the XMB displays at that resolution. I put a game into it, and it either upscales or downscales depending on the highest possible resolution of that particular game or movie. Perfect for gaming.
What's unique about this model in regards to most other competing brands is that its amongst the first to offer to Motion 100Hz. 100hz processing has the following MAIN effect: the rate at which the picture on the screen is re-drawn is doubled from the normal 50x per second to 100x per second eliminating blurring and smudge for when watching high speed moving images e.g. racing or sports.
The Sony Bravia D3000 also is probably one of the Television sets that closes the border with native 1080p displaying sets by offering "24p". In video technology, 24p refers to a video format that operates at a true 24 frames per second framerate with progressive scanning. Capturing video at 24p offers film-like motion, which is arguably more suitable[citation needed] for narrative projects and creates more film-like images. Incidentally this leaves the picture quality as how the director intended, giving you the best possible performance.
In shorter words; just buy this and you will not be disappointed.
P.S. You also get a CD with this which has a free promotional code to LoveFilm which you can get a free DVD with (currently Casino Royale) and 8 free DVD rentals of your choice.
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