Sony Bravia KDL46X2000U - 46″ Widescreen 1080p Full HD LCD TV - With Freeview
Sony Bravia KDL46X2000U - 46″ Widescreen 1080p Full HD LCD TV - With Freeview
The new HD Ready X series LCD has 1920×1080 resolution Live Colour Creation and BRAVIA ENGINE for high performance picture quality. Size: 46 HD ready HDMI Digital Tuner Aspect ratio: 16:9 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Brightness: 500 cd/m2 Contrast Ratio: 1300:1 Inputs: PC HDMI x2 Component x2 Composite Scart x3 S-Video Other features: BRAVIA Engine EX Dolby Virtual (Prologic II) and BBE Digital Warranty: TBC
Customer Review: Its not cheap but …….
Second best decision I ever made was to get a PS3 ( first one was to divorce my whinging first wife !). PS3 is superb, but I wanted a HD telly to go with it.
I had heard of the new X range but was all set to get W range telly, but the day I went to get it I bottled it and didn’t get it. What an escape that was.
Next week, I went to the Sony shop, and they had the above telly, with the RDR-HXD860 DVD player, playing Toy Story 2. The film was not Blu Ray, just normal DVD, and I was amazed at how good the picture was, and that it was not even HD. So that was that got it !
Got the telly home. Do not under estimate just how big this telly is. Its HUGE!.
The picture on the PS3 running at 1080p, is without a doubt mid blowingly good. The detail from just inches away is amazing, and sat in my chair playing games its truly awesome. On the W series the PS3 still had a slight gainy look about it, but with the X running at 1080p that has gone just to leave perfect pictures.
It does a good job of normal analogue TV. I don’t have Sky HD, as we don’t watch much TV, but even that is watchable.
I bought the above DVD player too, as it upscales, and the picture quality with the 2 combined is excellent.
So although expensive, you get what you pay for and I wanted a good picture for the PS3 and my DVD collection. What I got was way beyond my expectation, and even normal standard definition poictures are watchable. If I got Sky HD, then that would be excellent.
I watched Revenge of the Sith, which it upscales to 1080i, and that for non Blu Ray was superb. Light off, some pop corn, its like you were at the cinema. !
Customer Review: Staggering
We treated ourselves to one of these after Christmas, to replace an ageing 32″ CRT.
Connecting it up was pleasantly simple. Two new HDMI devices (Sky HD and a DVD player), worked perfectlythough we haven’t yet worked out how to connect our (previous generation Sony) HD Recorder to it properly via SCART. There’s a helpline number provided with the set which we’ll get round to calling sooner or later.
As with most flatscreens, you have to adjust the default settings to get the best picture. We used a THX setup feature (available on most THX-coded DVDs) to adjust the picture settings. The colour capability is astonishing. THX uses 4 slightly different white patches to help you set the contrast - the Bravia could separate them across the whoile rangeo contrast levels.
The first thing that strikes you when watching is just how large it is. We have enough room that we can sit over 3m from the TV, but it still shocks you at first when a close-up is delivered at greater than life size. Make sure you have space to do it justice…
Once you’ve acclimatised to that, you sit and stare at the detail it’s able to resolve. Even from ordinary TV broadcasts, it lets you see individual hairs on people’s heads, and gives a real sense of depth to the picture. Sky HD broadcasts are even more stunning; you can almost feel the texture of whatever you’re watching.
It’s also a very good TV receiver. Our television reception is dire (I had to chain two aerial boosters to watch terrestrial with the old telly) but the Sony’s freeview digital pictures are noticeably better than regular Sky (though SKY HD tops them both, as you might expect). Even the analogue signal is watchable.
There’s a workable menu system and a classy remote, and the sound is good enough that we only feel the need to use our home cinema setup for movies and live sports.
Oh, and it’s got full 1080p capability, so it will keep up with the eventual winner of the BluRay / HD-DVD showdown. You won’t need to upgrade for a long time.
What does it lack? They could have built in an HD recorder. Given that it has a timer function (so you can set it to pipe the right picture to an external recorder), it would have been fairly cheap to include and a nice touch.
And it can’t solve Sky’s dodgy signal and rather cheeky revelation that you need two aerial feeds to make Sky+ (and by extension Sky HD) work properly. But that’s not the Sony’s problem.
But overall, it thoroughly deserves 5 stars. I expected a lot and have not been disappointed.
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LG RH266H Upscaling DVD/HDD Recorder 
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Vivitar 6308 Digital Camera. 6MP, 5XDigital Zoom, 2.4″ TFT LCD Display. 
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Lite-On Home DVD Recorder (LVW-1105HC+) 
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Zennox DV-10 Digital Camera/Camcorder. 5MP Up To 8MP. 
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Pioneer RCSLX60D 1080p Premium Home Cinema System with DVD/250GB Hard Disk Recorder 
in Black
Customer Review: Good value, all rounder with some very minor snags
The Pioneer RCS LX60D is a good choice if you want an all-rounder which doesn’t necessarily excel in any particular area, but it won’t break the bank either. There’s loads of features which you can read on the pioneer website, but not many user reviews so I’m going to concentrate on stuff I’d like to have known when I bought it. The system is basically three components - the Pioneer DVRLX60D (can be purchased separately) and a multi channel receiver/subwoofer (SX-LX60D) and speaker system (SSP LX60D) which can’t be bought separately. Set up was a bit fiddly with the speaker system comprising 6 cube speakers (Front L, Front R, Centre x2, Rear L, Rear R) which can be positioned in traditional surround around the room or fastened together with the supplied brackets as front surround. Pioneer recommend the front surround, avoiding the need to hide wires and perch speakers around the living room, so that’s what I went for. There’s a few miles of speaker cabling to hide behind the unit, although you are provided a tiny little bit of spiral wrap to get you started on cable management… The subwoofer doubles as the digital audio receiver/processor and there’s a separate lcd display unit (it’s the thing sitting on the HD/DVD in the picture) which is connected to the subwoofer by a 1.5 m cable. I put mine under my Panasonic 32LXD700 and it goes nicely. Once the speakers are set up you can set the EQ, channel balance and optimum surround setting with Pioneers MCACC, and the supplied mic. This works really well in my living room, which is a rectangular shape (TV in the corner) and has patio doors/fire surround/curtains either side - in other words plenty of accoustic variables. The front surround is accurate and sounds excellent at low volume as well as high, with the specific Quiet & Midnight settings on the receiver which alter the balance. You can adjust all the settings manually if you need to. There’s a range of audio settings which you can try, but I have always come back to the auto feature which selects the best output depending on whether you are listening to music on the AM-FM radio, a cd or watching a film with DTS, Dolby digital/prologic ii. Connected with HDMI, the upscaled 1080p picture quality on my TV was spectacular, as expected. Not much more to say - it’s up there with the Sony RDRHXD970 and Panasonic DMR-EX87 both with 1080p up-conversion for standard DVDs, although the Panasonic might have been a better choice for the ease of use with Viera link, this system has a host of extras which I thought it worth spending another ?300 on, including the surround system and connectability. This system has 2 remotes - one for the receiver and another for the HDD/DVD (but both have a flip-down bit with some common controls for both). This was a bit annoying and another mark against the system. There’s an analogue and freeview DVB tuner, and a CA slot for paychannels. A dual dvb tuner would have been nice, but I haven’t seen any systems with this spec and 2 tuners. The Gem Guide EPG is good, easy to use, although it does not show the digital radio channels and takes a while to set up (downloading from the analogue tuner ITV channel). If you have a Sky box or external cable system, you can upload the channels to the EPG on the HDD/DVD recorder via a G-Link infra red link. You can then control the recording of your external devices connected to the DVD recorder. The on screen display is simple and easy to use, record programmes or edit from the menu. The blurb says you can save your whole CD collection on the 250GB hard drive - but only if you have 999 tracks. This is a bit disappointing, as the sound quality of the surround system when playing back MP3s (or WMAs only without DRM!!) and CDs is very good. I would have liked to upload a few more tracks onto the HDD - although I can connect my MP3 player either via the optical or analogue audio or there’s a USB link. You can also only see 999 tracks at a time from a PC or MP3 player (hard drive or flash). You CAN get a pre-converted Multiregion version of this system - it’s worth checking other websites . Finally, if you can get this system for under ?700, you are not going to be disappointed with the quality. This is easily the best sounding complete HD/DVD/Surround system I have tried and that more than makes up for the minor niggles mentioned above.
