Sony Bravia KDL-40XBR4

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"Great Set Best one that I like however not perfect"

by the computer genius on December 5, 2007

Pros: Color, sound, sharpness of picture, Blackness level

Cons: not good interlacing from a 1080 I Source in vivid mode
Summary: Hi,

I've had this tv for about 3 weeks now. I love it. As I said the color, sound sharpness and black levels are great. I've looked in the stores and this is the best set I've come up with. Old dvd's work great also. However I have some bad news but a I invented a work around

Upon reading up on the blogs It says that there is a de interlacing problem in vivid mode. It's really not that terrible but I notice it. You can see it in a basket basket ball game or a movie in 1080I mode comming from a cable box.

To confirm this I went to my Blue Ray DVD player and programed the player to think the tv was only 480p so the tv would have to up convert (instead of the player) That worked out pretty good.

I then programed the player to think the tv was 1080I again so I can use the TV's convertor instead of the blue ray players converter. This is when I saw the problem. It was distored. (from interlace to progressive) After spending 2200 I was a little upset. I called sony and I also spoke to a tech on line of course they denied the issue.

Per the blogs I saw the test only failed in vivid mode So I put the mode onto custom and adjusted the controlls to look like vivid and There is no distortion anymore and I'm happy.

I hope sony admits this problem and comes out with a fix.

Again I've seen scores from other set's other tv's have problems with black levels, non accurate colors and other things so I guess it's the nature of the beast.

The fact I found a work around made me feel a lot better and now I can enjoy tv (with expected limitations) as much as my 1080p blue ray

Again in the store to me this still looked like the best set

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