Sony Bravia KDL-26M4000

Summary: White line at the top is very distracting and everyone loves to point it out like I've never seen it before. I thought I was getting the best but obviously not. I'm electronically homeless at this point. I need a third TV now but I think I'll look more closely at other brands this time. Also, those Sony people sure are arrogant.

Summary: great bedroom tv, its better than the competition in audio, 10 watt x 2 instead of 5Wx2 like Samsung and LG. Obviously not great sound but if you're concerned about not having to hook up to a separate audio source, this tv had the bigger speakers. The HDMI-CEC works with my Samsung HDMI-CEC compatible DVD player, so good cross compatibility. I would put in a dvd and the tv would turn on and change inputs automatically. Lots of inputs and awesome picture (with one exception).

ACE Technology. This feature automatically dims/adjusts the backlight to enhance contrast and you can't turn it off. If the picture is dark, it dims even more so its hard to see the picture. No fix on Sony's support for this model, although they do have an upgrade/firmware fix for higher end models that feature the same technology and problem. It's the whole reason I ended up returning it. the screen is also backlit from the four corners and it's pretty apparent when you have bars or a really dark scene. You can see that the corners are brighter than the rest of the screen. Somewhat annoying, but I could have lived with that.

Too bad for the auto dimming feature. If you're never planning on watching a scary movie, or hell, even a movie with a shot of the sky (it dims so much that you can barely even see the moon) then you can buy this tv, otherwise, don't. I really loved everything else, but this was just bad and not typical of good Sony products. Sony CS couldn't help at all. Also, the digital tuner would not pick up stations until I plugged in an antenna.