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4.5 stars
"Highly Adjustable 120hz Picture Is Amazing At All Defs"
Pros: Finely tunable aspects of picure quality and color, from 1-100 or 1-10, not just Warm/Cool/Neutral. 120Hz refresh = geat quality on fast pics! Lots of HDMI inputs. SPLIT SCREEN viewing! Great looking thin frame with easy access to ports & controls.
Cons: I bought in Feb 2009 and paid 1299. It's more expensive than what you can spend on some other brands. Then again, this is really a superior TV. But we'll say price is a con.
Summary: I love this TV. All of these TV's need some tuning out of the box, and I was able to adjust every picture component (color, red, blue, greean all seperate), sharp, background, bright, contrast, everything, until it looks fantastic. Even has advanced settings like white balance. Most adjustments are either 1-00 or 1-10, and not just Hi/lo or the dumb Warm/Cool. You can really make this thing look how you want it to look.
Picture in picture is virtually a split screen, so I can play my PS3 game while my wife watches TV and we both get a good sized screen to watch - love that, don't underestimate how nice that is for 2 people to enjoy seperate things together.
Game mode has auto-settings that make the picture look great with the Playstation, and these settings are not what would want for TV or movies, so it's s a valuable pre-set to have built in - and you can apply it only to the HDMI input port if you want, which is very handy for keeping your picture settings seperated and not have to re-do them if someone else in the house messes them up.
I play Playstation and watch sports and this TV exceeded my expectations with sheer picture quality. Looks better in my house than it did at Fry's, which say a lot.
Sony has superior up-processing...it takes a low def signal and makes it fit a 40" Hi Def screen. Some manufacturers do this better than others, and this is a huge impact on how Non-Hi_Def pictures look. This set also has 120Hz refresh...most TVs have 60 right now and manufacturers are in the process of all going to 120 except for one Sony model thats at 240. This TV looks really good even without the Hi Def input...you know how regular TV signal can look like crap on a Hi Def TV?...well this TV has great processing and a "dejudder" feature that smooths motion and reduces pixelation without making the image blurry or soft. Bottom line is 120Hz refresh + great processing + dejudder means it looks really nice even without a hi Def input.
Controls are on the front (bottom or ride side, easy to get to and easy to see without being obtrusive or gaudy. The silver frame is very classy. The TV is slim and doesn't weight that much either. Has a nice TV Guide feature if you're not using the cable box, I epxlored it a little and even though we use the cable box the TV guide feature is great for info on what's on.
I don't work for Sony, and I have no interest in them seeling these TV's. I'm just really impressed witht his model and extremly glad I bought it. I wish I could have gotten in cheaper, but I am really happy with it.
Updated on Feb 17, 2009By the way, the KDL-40Z4100 is not a 46 inch TV like you referenced in your review...it's 40". The number before the Z tells the size. Maybe you saw a 46" TV and its price tag, and thats why it was more than you expected?
I got my KDL-40Z4100 for $1299 in Feb 2009 at Fry's, at the same time the comparable Samsung was sitting right next to it on the dislay shelf for $1099, a $200 difference. The Sam really was noticably worse in picture quality.
Updated on Feb 17, 2009Pls disregard update above, was meant for a different review of this same TV
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