“Good deal, fantastic picture quality, beautiful set”
Reviewed By ‘Marty Bartreau’
Sony Bravia KDL46XBR5 Review Courtesy of Amazon.com
This was a terrific buy. The price has dropped considerably at local stores, but the best deal was from Van’s with free shipping. We was able to track delivery all the way, and it came in a day early. It arrived in perfect shape and the driver even helped me bring it into my living room. I had to offer him a tip at least three times before he’d accept it.
We almost didn’t spend this much money on a flat screen based on what I looked at in the Best Buy showroom. This one is worth it. We have a brightly lit family room during the day, and it doesn’t get washed out at all. When we first tuned in to an HD channel our jaws dropped. HD channels are amazing and there’s enough of them now that we spend most of our time watching only HD programming. We have an older DVD player, but movie rentals and home movies look great. With the 16:9 aspect ratio it feels like we’re really watching a movie compared to just watching a movie on TV. There are a few artifacts and some of the older TV shows are blurry, but about 95% of what we watch is excellent. FIOS should fix these minor problems.
Setup was easy, about 30 minutes. To setup the TV you’ll want to connect your cable directly to the TV first, then connect it to your DVD player and the HD box you get from the cable company.
We’ve been able to watch an HD movie from my new laptop that came with an HDMI output. We’ve also been able to work on the laptop hooked up to the LCD TV using a wireless mouse and keyboard from the couch. At 1920 x 1080 pixels, I had to increase the font size in the browser but I was off surfing in no time.
The style of the TV is beautiful. We placed it in a Stanley Furniture Lincoln Park Plasma TV Bookcase and the combination is stunning. We bought the bracket to mount it, but when we set the TV in the bookcase on it’s own pedestal it was just fine. We love every aspect of it.
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