Picture: I have been comparing TV's now for almost a year to get the best set that would keep me happy for years to come. I can't say enough good things about the picture quality; it's just the best out there. After making some minor adjustments to the picture settings, in the custom mode, skin tones and colors are amazing. The only big screen sets I have seen that appear to be better are the LED XBR8's, but not by much, or the new Samsung UN55B7000 and these sets come at a substantial premium.
TV is easy to set up and sound quality through its own speakers is even good, but I have mine connected through my audio system for true 5.1 sound. If you have a room with a lot of windows, the matte finish glass has a much lower reflection quality than say the gloss finish on the Samsung's, which was impossible to see in my family room.
Delivery: I was really worried about purchasing a big screen TV and having it delivered by a freight company. The company that delivered the TV was great. The box looked as though I had just picked it up local store, they unpacked the unit and placed on the stand for me. Very nice people. And did I say the delivery only took 7 days from when I ordered it.
Price: I got a great deal from Amazon.com, the price was about $600 less than Best Buy for a lesser Sony Model TV.
Friday, October 30, 2009
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Sony KDL-52XBR7 Excellent 52"
This 240 hz 52" XBR7 Sony is excellent in all respects. Wish it had a memory stick though. Easy to set up and menu is quite friendly. Not sure if the 240 hz makes a great difference over 120 hz but I like what I see. Color and definition is excellent with lots of features. Originally priced at $4M(!), within 4 months it dropped to a little less then $2.5M. Highly recommended. I have had a number of Sony XBR's and they have all been reliable. I expect this one to be the same.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Sony KDL-52XBR7 Great Television set
After reading review after review, I was a bit skeptical with this purchase...especially since it is pretty expensive. Well this has turned out to be a very good purchase for me. I have had no problems with the blacks as some reviews mention. t.v was really heavy and hard to put up on a wall mount; but other than that, the quality of the picture is awesome. I have to add, this is my first high-def big screen and i couldn't be happier with this purchase. I don't have anything to compare the 240Hz to, but I can't complain about the clarity on the screen. Great purchase, do recommend.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Sony KDL-52XBR7 Good results
The government pushed me over the edge. I tried to get their digital conversion signals, but up in the mountains of Colorado no such luck. Analog signals work just fine, but the low power HD signal was my downfall. Signed up for Dish Network HD, then I needed some HD TVs. We bought two 52XBR7 TVs and hooked them up to two Dish Network 722K DVRs. They work just great for satellite reception in HD format. Both were delivered on the date Amazon suggested. I had to do some research for the adjustments to the TVs, but once dialed in they work great. I'm very happy with this purchase experience through Amazon.
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Sony KDL-52XBR7 Great TV, Great shopping experience
This is an excellent tv. It is almost $1000 dollars cheaper than best buy. Sports are extremely smooth with the 240 motion flow. Blue ray movies are unbelievable. Looks like your looking through a glass window at a live event. I would highly recommend this tv, and buying it through amazon. They are 5 star!
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Sony KDL-52XBR7 Great TV
I bought the XBR7 after 5 months of study and research. I am very pleased with my decision. The picture on the set is beautiful, far exceeding the other Hi-def TVs that I own. Delivery was one day longer than estimated, but that was not really a problem. A potential headache was the fact that the price increased while I was in the process of purchasing. After I started the purchase process I investigated the warranty (my decision was no extended warranty). The price went up $154 while I was investigating the warranty. I called Amazon, got an agent who could not help me. I told her I felt like I had been "bait & switched". She passed me to a supervisor, who investigated, and sold me the TV for the price at the start of my transaction (the lower price). So all worked out, it just took about 20 minutes on the phone.
Set up was as easy as others have described. The sound quality is excellent. I have seen no negative performance issues, including slo-motion of hi-def football games I had on my DVR. My only comment to my wife was that I bet the actresses really hated Sony and Hi-def, because they don't look nearly so good now that you can really see them, LOL. I could not really tell as much on my other Hi-def TVs. This Sony is clearly worth the money. There may be better sets out there, I am not an expert. But I am very careful at spending money, and I definitely feel like the XBR7 from Amazon is a great value.
Set up was as easy as others have described. The sound quality is excellent. I have seen no negative performance issues, including slo-motion of hi-def football games I had on my DVR. My only comment to my wife was that I bet the actresses really hated Sony and Hi-def, because they don't look nearly so good now that you can really see them, LOL. I could not really tell as much on my other Hi-def TVs. This Sony is clearly worth the money. There may be better sets out there, I am not an expert. But I am very careful at spending money, and I definitely feel like the XBR7 from Amazon is a great value.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Sony KDL-52XBR7 Great TV!!
TV was delivered in perfect condition a few days ago as promised by CEVA/Eagle. The delivery folks were good - they unpacked and set it up on the stand before they left. I did not turn it on immediately because it was cold outside and the unit needed time to acclimatize.
I have now been playing around with it for a few days and still have a ton of settings and options I have yet to explore. I am happy to say I have none of the clouding issues that some others have mentioned here. Some of the cool features I have found so far.
Picture quality - One word describes it - Fantastic! Default picture quality is great. However, I have yet to calibrate the color/brightness settings to tone it down, conserve energy etc.
Favorites - I like how the favorites GUI lets you scroll through all the channels you have surfed.
Networking and USB - Pictures on a USB stick or on my desktop computer look great. Plugged it into my network, went through a few basic setup steps and it was able to find and display all the pics on the computer. Various slide show effects are great too. Not been able to play a video clip off the computer yet. Need to check compatible formats.
TV Guide - The interactive TV Guide is the best I have seen. Better than those provided by the cable and satellite companies.
Web Browsing - Computer looks great on it. As soon as my Logitech Mediaboard bluetooth keyboard arrives I will have my computer hooked up permanently to the TV.
Only thing left to do is to properly calibrate the color/brightness settings yet. Will update later.
Watch the price on Amazon and buy when low.
I have now been playing around with it for a few days and still have a ton of settings and options I have yet to explore. I am happy to say I have none of the clouding issues that some others have mentioned here. Some of the cool features I have found so far.
Picture quality - One word describes it - Fantastic! Default picture quality is great. However, I have yet to calibrate the color/brightness settings to tone it down, conserve energy etc.
Favorites - I like how the favorites GUI lets you scroll through all the channels you have surfed.
Networking and USB - Pictures on a USB stick or on my desktop computer look great. Plugged it into my network, went through a few basic setup steps and it was able to find and display all the pics on the computer. Various slide show effects are great too. Not been able to play a video clip off the computer yet. Need to check compatible formats.
TV Guide - The interactive TV Guide is the best I have seen. Better than those provided by the cable and satellite companies.
Web Browsing - Computer looks great on it. As soon as my Logitech Mediaboard bluetooth keyboard arrives I will have my computer hooked up permanently to the TV.
Only thing left to do is to properly calibrate the color/brightness settings yet. Will update later.
Watch the price on Amazon and buy when low.
Monday, October 5, 2009
Sony KDL-52XBR7 52 inch
Awesome performance. A bit pricier then other this class but worth it. great with sports and movie. Mounted on wall and love it.
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Sony KDL-52XBR7 Outstanding picture!
This TV has the best picture we've ever seen. It's absolutely stunning.
Lots of Amazon review comments out there about the refresh rate and stutter on the 120Hz model. That isn't a problem at all with 240Hz.
An HDTV is only as good as the signal it receives. We had a heck of a time with Time Warner (they gave us the wrong cable box, even with the right box the HD channels didn't work, they eventually came out and put a signal booster on the box) but once that was straightened out you cannot beat the picture on this TV. We have two other, older Sony TVs in other rooms that we'll probably sell because no one will want to watch them after seeing the picture on this one.
We have a small living room and were worried the TV would be too large for the space. It isn't.
We did alot of research before buying and made the right choice. You can't go wrong with this brand and model.
Lots of Amazon review comments out there about the refresh rate and stutter on the 120Hz model. That isn't a problem at all with 240Hz.
An HDTV is only as good as the signal it receives. We had a heck of a time with Time Warner (they gave us the wrong cable box, even with the right box the HD channels didn't work, they eventually came out and put a signal booster on the box) but once that was straightened out you cannot beat the picture on this TV. We have two other, older Sony TVs in other rooms that we'll probably sell because no one will want to watch them after seeing the picture on this one.
We have a small living room and were worried the TV would be too large for the space. It isn't.
We did alot of research before buying and made the right choice. You can't go wrong with this brand and model.
Sony KDL-52XBR7 Incredible!
I just received my TV today. All I can say is: OH MY GOD! The picture is gorgeous. The sound is incredible. Setup was a breeze. The guys delivering it were nice and courteous. They set it up for me, and even offered to take the packaging away (I kept it in case there were problems).
I've read reviews that state there were screen problems, especially with rain or fog. I don't see it. No artifacts, no blurring, nothing. I think as long as it is setup correctly, the problems don't occur. There are a lot of settings, but the menus are clean and easy to understand.
I am a little hard of hearing. My old TV was cranked to the max, and I could just hear it. Not my new Sony! Even at 50% it is too loud even for me.
Just a note (in case someone else has this problem): I initially didn't have sound at first through the HDMI cable (and panicked a little). The problem was I had to configure my cable box audio setting specifically to HDMI. You'd think as an engineer, I would have known...
The picture is awesome with my Oppo up-scaling DVD player (I don't have a Blu-ray yet).
A nice touch: because of the multitude of connectors on the TV (and the compactness of HDMI's combined audio/video cables) I was able to get rid of a huge rat's nest of cables (coaxial, composite, S-video, and various combiner/splitters).
Update:
I've had the TV for a few weeks now, and still love it. I bought one of those DVD kits to calibrate the color, et. al., but all I had to do was change the color setting from "vivid" to "standard." The TV's settings were already spot on!
I've also noticed that the picture is much better if you turn off a lot of the "extra" settings that affect the picture, like the CineMotion. I have a set of PAL DVDs that looked all jerky. I turned this off and now they look great. My NTSC DVDs were OK most of the time, but certain scenes were jerky. They now look great, too. The Motion Enhancer seems to be best at "Standard."
I've read reviews that state there were screen problems, especially with rain or fog. I don't see it. No artifacts, no blurring, nothing. I think as long as it is setup correctly, the problems don't occur. There are a lot of settings, but the menus are clean and easy to understand.
I am a little hard of hearing. My old TV was cranked to the max, and I could just hear it. Not my new Sony! Even at 50% it is too loud even for me.
Just a note (in case someone else has this problem): I initially didn't have sound at first through the HDMI cable (and panicked a little). The problem was I had to configure my cable box audio setting specifically to HDMI. You'd think as an engineer, I would have known...
The picture is awesome with my Oppo up-scaling DVD player (I don't have a Blu-ray yet).
A nice touch: because of the multitude of connectors on the TV (and the compactness of HDMI's combined audio/video cables) I was able to get rid of a huge rat's nest of cables (coaxial, composite, S-video, and various combiner/splitters).
Update:
I've had the TV for a few weeks now, and still love it. I bought one of those DVD kits to calibrate the color, et. al., but all I had to do was change the color setting from "vivid" to "standard." The TV's settings were already spot on!
I've also noticed that the picture is much better if you turn off a lot of the "extra" settings that affect the picture, like the CineMotion. I have a set of PAL DVDs that looked all jerky. I turned this off and now they look great. My NTSC DVDs were OK most of the time, but certain scenes were jerky. They now look great, too. The Motion Enhancer seems to be best at "Standard."
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Sony KDL-52XBR7 Review
From the Manufacturer
Sony continues to push the limits of display innovation and technology with the first production-model LCD HDTV to offer 240Hz high frame rate technology in its BRAVIA KDL-52XBR7 1080p LCD flat panel high-definition television. The Motionflow 240Hz algorithm goes beyond traditional 120Hz technology by quadrupling the frame rate of conventional LCD TVs and interpolating three new frames, producing remarkably crisp and natural motion and delivering exceptional motion detail in movies, sports and video games.
Advanced Contrast Enhancer (ACE) helps deliver a dynamic contrast ratio of 80,000:1. The BRAVIA Engine 2 fully digital video processor enhances all incoming signals to match the TV’s 1080p resolution. Sony’s new 3D Favorites Menu complements the Xross Media Bar graphical user interface, which has also been enhanced with integration of TV Guide's program listing, providing easy access and navigation of content and menus through colorful thumbnails and logically placed icons. Rounding out the feature set is Digital Media Port (DMP) compatibility, which provides access to video and music from portable media devices like compatible Walkman and iPod players and other DMP accessories.
The models also can display digital photos and play digital music using a creative multi-plane 3D graphics slideshows from USB devices, as well as access photos from your PC in another room using Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) compliant devices via your home network. Inputs found on the KDL-52XBR7 include four 1080/60 24p HDMI connections (HDCP), two 1080/60p HD component inputs, a 1080/60p-capable PC input, and an Ethernet (RJ-45) port.
And with the gorgeous piano gloss black finish with floating glass accents, it will be the sharpest wall in your home.
The 52XVR7 is DMeX-enabled, so it is compatible with the BRAVIA Internet Video Link (BIVL). The BIVL module attaches to the back of the panel, and seamlessly streams on-demand entertainment including movies, TV programs, your favorite YouTube videos and a variety of other content not found on network or cable/satellite TV. The service connects to the Internet via your existing broadband Ethernet connection.
Sony continues to push the limits of display innovation and technology with the first production-model LCD HDTV to offer 240Hz high frame rate technology in its BRAVIA KDL-52XBR7 1080p LCD flat panel high-definition television. The Motionflow 240Hz algorithm goes beyond traditional 120Hz technology by quadrupling the frame rate of conventional LCD TVs and interpolating three new frames, producing remarkably crisp and natural motion and delivering exceptional motion detail in movies, sports and video games.
Advanced Contrast Enhancer (ACE) helps deliver a dynamic contrast ratio of 80,000:1. The BRAVIA Engine 2 fully digital video processor enhances all incoming signals to match the TV’s 1080p resolution. Sony’s new 3D Favorites Menu complements the Xross Media Bar graphical user interface, which has also been enhanced with integration of TV Guide's program listing, providing easy access and navigation of content and menus through colorful thumbnails and logically placed icons. Rounding out the feature set is Digital Media Port (DMP) compatibility, which provides access to video and music from portable media devices like compatible Walkman and iPod players and other DMP accessories.
The models also can display digital photos and play digital music using a creative multi-plane 3D graphics slideshows from USB devices, as well as access photos from your PC in another room using Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) compliant devices via your home network. Inputs found on the KDL-52XBR7 include four 1080/60 24p HDMI connections (HDCP), two 1080/60p HD component inputs, a 1080/60p-capable PC input, and an Ethernet (RJ-45) port.
And with the gorgeous piano gloss black finish with floating glass accents, it will be the sharpest wall in your home.
The 52XVR7 is DMeX-enabled, so it is compatible with the BRAVIA Internet Video Link (BIVL). The BIVL module attaches to the back of the panel, and seamlessly streams on-demand entertainment including movies, TV programs, your favorite YouTube videos and a variety of other content not found on network or cable/satellite TV. The service connects to the Internet via your existing broadband Ethernet connection.
Sony KDL-52XBR7 Features
Features
- 16:9 Full HD 1080p Resolution Panel (1920x1080)
- Motionflow¿ 240Hz further enhances motion performance
- DMex¿ capable
- BRAVIA Engine¿ 2
- Advanced Contrast Enhancer circuit (ACE)
Sony KDL-52XBR7 Product Details
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #15882 in Consumer Electronics
- Color: Black
- Brand: Sony
- Model: KDL-52XBR7
- Released on: 2008-12-01
- Dimensions: 32.75" h x 4.87" w x 49.50" l, 94.00 pounds
- Display size: 52
Sony Bravia XBR Series KDL-52XBR7 52-Inch 240Hz 1080p LCD HDTV
Product DescriptionWatch your favorite HD TV show, movie, or play your favorite videogame in extraordinary detail with the Sony� BRAVIA� KDL-52XBR7, the world's first 240Hz LCD TV. Featuring Full HD 1080p resolution, the BRAVIA� KDL-52XBR7 also boasts innovative Motionflow� 240Hz technology that quadruples the frame rate of standard HDTVs, providing unprecedented motion detail for a superior viewing experience. Additionally, its BRAVIA Engine� fully digital video processor further reduces noise, sharpens image detail, and improves color accuracy. Even more, the BRAVIA� KDL-52XBR7 has an Advanced Contrast Enhancer (ACE) dynamic backlight control that produces deep blacks in darker scenes without sacrificing shadow detail.
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