“Sony Z zooms past current XBR”
Reviewed By S. Smith
Review of Sony KDL40Z4100 LCD from Amazon.com
The 10-bit Z series 40″ Sony LCDs are the absolute best. This TV sends XBR down a notch. Digital source material will jump out at you like never before. Gorgous color and contrast. The best yet.
1080i TV broadcast looks about 90% as good as Blu-ray on this panel. The delivery of non-HD DVD movies is wonderful and the picture using Blu Ray is absolutely stunning! (I rarely use the word “stunning”)
Also, it’s very future-proof with lots of (4) HDMI inputs and a LAN connection and USB. I’ve had the KDL 40Z4100 Bravia TV for about 2 weeks now and the ranking of picture quality goes as follows: Blu Ray (late release)movies, Digital HD television broadcast or HD digital cable, standard def (480 or 720) movies from a good quality “upscaling” player, and finally – standard def TV broadcast. The 120hz motion control and 24p pull-down on sonys kdl 40z4100 b & s work well on older standard def movies. My only advice is to not scrimp on the DVD player. You’re going to see your old flicks look better than you have seen them…ever – with a good upscalling player.
Even video sources from my computer look near HD. I’ve connected my computers 8800GT graphics card’s DVI out to the Sony’s HDMI input and the look of some of my games is just as good, if not better, than my 22” Samsung monitor.
This is Sony’s best so far, in my humble opinion. Go for it!
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