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151 of 154 found the following review helpful:
 As Always - SONY, No Baloney Nov 26, 2007
By James Cooper
"Conspicuous Consumer"
I've been buying Sony TVs for more than 30 years, and they rarely disappoint. The 40" Bravia is no exception. Last year I bought the 70" SXRD model for my living room, and the 40" is for the bedroom. Many televisions are high quality and prices are dropping, so why get the Sony?
Picture quality is excellent, especially in high def.
Sound quality is very good without a home theater setup. Not always the case with flat panel TVs with small bezels.
Remote is well laid out and easy to use (although it does lack backlighting, but I have no trouble finding the buttons I want in the dark). It's easy to change between the 4 programmable picture settings or screen aspect ratios. Sleep timer button is right up on top when your ready for bed and is in 15 minute increments.
It has 2 HDMI inputs for easy connection of compatible devices and several other inputs. You can customize the display to choose between only the inputs you are using and label them appropriately (so it's easy to switch between my TiVo, DVD player, TV and cable box, and hide the other inputs)
There's a zillion other settings that I haven't figured out all of yet, but most are relatively intuitive (except PnP, which has me baffled so far).
I got the flat panel LCD because it uses less power and generates less heat than a plasma, and won't burn-in (although plasmas have improved). The screen doesn't reflect as much, and has a wide viewing angle.
For viewing from about 6 feet, the 40" size is perfect.
Lots of other things I could say about this TV, but it's all good. You can't go wrong with this model. Also highly rated in Consumer Reports, the consumer's bible...
Amazon shopping tip: Amazon offers price protection for 30 days from date of purchase. After you buy this, put it in your cart again and check your cart regularly for a month. The price goes up and down almost daily. When you go to your cart you will be notified of price changes. If it goes down, grab the phone and call for a credit. I paid $1630 a couple of weeks ago and the price has gone as low as $1450, so I've gotten $180 in refunds. Delivery and unpacking are free, and combine with excellent customer service, making buying from Amazon a no-brainer.
I'm delighted with Sony and Amazon for this purchase.
update 3/2009: Forget my last comment. Amazon no longer, sadly, offers 30 day price protection on purchases. Advice now is to go to camel camel camel dot com (leave out the spaces). A great site for tracking Amazon price history.
50 of 53 found the following review helpful:
Great TV Oct 03, 2007
By Carl Moore
Very good picture quality, no glare problems and no discernible viewing angle problems. The Amazon price was several hundred dollars less than any other place I checked, ie Best Buy, Circuit City, Sears, Sony and even better than Army/Air Force Exchange service. The delivery was painless. The delivery compary called and made an appointment, delivered, unpacked, placed the unit where I wanted, helped with initial on screen setup and hauled the trash away. I recommend buying an extended warranty from Sony instead of the third party warranty available through Amazon. You have something like 30 days after purchase to get the warranty from Sony. All in all, a great TV and a great buying experince.
36 of 37 found the following review helpful:
Good value Sep 28, 2007
By J. Moore
I've been really pleased with this HDTV. I had read that one of the weaknesses of LCD monitors is that they tend to blur fast moving images (like in action movies) so I held out for a model that had a 10 bit processor and 8ms response and I have yet to see any blurring in either movies or video games.
Another complaint I've heard about LCD is that they have difficulty producing deep blacks. Again, this has not been the case with the KDL-40V3000. To get a picture I was really happy with took a little work with the settings, but the easy-to-use controls made this a fairly painless process. I've found that the contrast is superior to my Philips 30" CRT HDTV.
I've been pleased with the playback from DVD, however I have not seen playback from a HD source other than an XBox 360.
Overall, I've been very happy with this item. The picture is excellent; it's easy to use; and my purchase price was lower to the Samsung with similar features. There are models with superior features, but for the money the KDL-40V3000 is hard to beat.
18 of 18 found the following review helpful:
Sony's back: 2500V vs. 3000V Dec 18, 2007
By Samuel Chell
First, it's good to see that Sony has decided to go with competitive pricing and regain some of the ground it's lost to Samsung in market share. But with the 2500V and 3000V series priced so closely, a consumer could be forgiven for postponing a decision. Suffice it to say that either set is capable of delivering a stunning picture, with the differences more dependent on settings and calibration than on internal specs. A difference of 2 bits in the color processor or several thousand degrees in the contrast ratio is meaningless to the naked eye (Samsung is now touting contrast ratios of 500,000:1 and Sony 1 million:1). The significant differences to my eyes come down to these:
1. The 2500 has a swiveling stand; the 3000 is permanently affixed to its base.
2. The 2500 is a couple of inches less wide and pounds lighter than the 3000 because the speakers are on the bottom rather than appended to the sides as is the case on the 3000.
3. The 2500's frame and screen itself is brushed and non-glossy. A true geek (i.e. HD purist or connoisseur) deeply resents either a distracting shiny frame or a reflective screen, one of the reasons that Samsung's newer but super-shiny 6500 series can occasionally be seen underselling and underpricing the older 6100 series). The 3000's glossy and "fashionable" piano-black frame is therefore not seen as a point in its favor by most videophiles.
For me, there are two compelling points in the 3000's favor:
1. It comes with "Theater-Synch," Sony's one-touch, single-control solution to operating the TV and all of its peripherals (providing it's all Sony equipment) with a single convenient switch. (Of course, Sony's Universal Remote for twenty bucks extra will do much the same.)
2. The remote switch that comes with the 2500 inexplicably preempts the "Normal" setting when the set senses a 720 or 1080 signal even if the source material is 4:3, thus stretching and distorting aspect ratio. It's really a minor inconvenience since the desired aspect ratio can be set through the TV's menu system as well as at the level of the DVD player and/or set-top box. Nevertheless, it's an annoyance to a few of us, suggesting that at the time the 2500 was designed, Sony was overly optimistic about the amount of HD 16:9 source material that would be available in the near future (still comparatively meager). This is not to suggest that the 2500 series is "older" technology: the set I saw showed a manufacture date of late fall 2007.
So the choice is not a no-brainer--nor is it a decision to lose sleep over. The discussion threads at AVForums for both of these sets show about the same number and kinds of praises and criticisms (with a disproportionate amount of obsessing about "clouds," leakage, etc. for both models). My hunch is that the controversy about Sony's alleged "clouds" is what has led to the recent price break as a way for Sony to rival Samsung in sales--so I won't complain). But there's also plenty of griping about Samsungs, including the very latest ultra expensive model with LED lighting. If you're not a stock analyst but someone who lets a mutual fund manager sweat the small details, I'd recommend going no further than Cnet or Consumers' Reports and, based on your findings, simply pulling the trigger on one 1080p set or the other.
52 of 60 found the following review helpful:
Amazing... Oct 02, 2007
By Niawt Kram
I already have a 25 year old Sony 27" tube that still works beautifully. I also have a 35" Sony tube that has a gorgeous picture, but is huge and heavy. This unit is replacing the 35" (it will be sent to the basement for the kids to enjoy movies). I've had great success with Sony television products, with only one repair in the past 25 years!
Just amazing. In side-by-side comparisons with the major LCD competition (Sharp, Samsung IMHO), all members of my family felt the Sony just had that extra edge. The crispness of the image is amazing. The colors are vibrant. You are simply pulled into to the image. With the HD feed from Comcast the television was stunning.
Pay a few extra bucks and it will be will be worth your investment.
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