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Sony KDL-46W3000 - 46'' Widescreen Bravia 1080P Full HD LCD TV - With Freeview | 
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| Brand: Sony
Category: CE
Buy New: £1,200.00
New (7) Used (1) from £899.99
Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 56352
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 63.9
Dimensions (in): 55.5 x 33.5 x 9.5
MPN: KDL46W3000U
Model: KDL46W3000U
EAN: 4905524418798
ASIN: B000VZ2QTW
Release Date: September 12, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand new send by Securicor /Dhl Next day delivery
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| Features:
| • | Full HD 1080P LCD Television | | • | Screen Size:46 | | • | Tuner Type:Analogue with Freeview | | • | Teletext:Smartext with EPG | | • | Nicam sound system |
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Product Description
46" Full HD W3000 LCD Sony BRAVIA TV features stunning 6.2 Mega Pixel High Definition resolution, BRAVIA Engine EX picture enhancement, Live Colour Creation for vibrant and natural colours, 24p True Cinema for the most realistic movie experience and 3 HDM
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| Customer Reviews:
 Dissapointing for Blu rays October 13, 2008
The Zodiac (UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Ok, i actually live in Switzerland but bought this based on reviews from the UK. My sole reasons for buying this TV were 1) for Blu rays (with my PS3) and for gaming (also PS3), i am not a big tv watcher so SD good or bad was not an issue for me.
Now, ive read the other 2 reviews here and am slightly puzzled. I completely agree from a gaming point of view this TV could not be better, it literally is perfect. I recently finished metal gear solid 4 and it was nothing short of stunning, same goes for COD4 and many others, so really no complaints in the gaming dept.
However, i am shocked when it comes to blu-rays.. they are really rather appauling on this screen. I kid you not, i initially thought there was a problem with my screen, or some button i simply hadn't pushed. But no, the fact it doesn't have 100htz really hurts this thing to the degree i am thinking of selling it already (have only had it 6 months). It blurs on any kind of movement on screen, and the blacks are SO bad i'd go as far as saying it's worse than SD in the darker parts of some films, honestly i cringed during 10,000 BC last night (the film was awful too by the way..) in pretty much every scene. Every now and again in a bright part of a film it really shines through how amazing this could be, but any sort of darkness and it goes horribly, horribly wrong. I am totally new to this HD stuff, but thought Sony was a reasonable brand to start with, however i think id try something else next time. The fact Sony have already brought out the 3500 and 4000 series Bravias should say something about how dated this 3000 series is.
Make no mistake people, this is GREAT for gaming, really amazing, so if all you want is gaming then you're fine, but if you are hoping to enjoy blu-rays in all this "HD glory" people keep talking about, then this ain't the one you want, seriously!
I have looked on the net for reviews of this tv since and similar comments are all over the place. Avoid if you want to watch films on this tv is my only advice.
 Great Customer Service & Fab 1080p TV February 11, 2008
T. Morphy
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Hiya,
I ordered one of these from amazon, the 1080p / 24 picture from bluray on PS3 is crystal. Watched a few blurays and tried dvd upscaler / call of duty on ps3 with great results. As mentioned in the other reviews, the SD picture is not an option here. Freeview picture is up to a good standard. The out of box setting are good but worth playing round to get an idea. The sound from the tv itself you can enjoy, but a 5.1 surround will do it justice.
One important thing to note is, i recieved this LCD with a dead pixel, returned and received a replacement in a matter of days. Well done Amazon for making this a painless experience.
Cheers
46w3000 January 12, 2008
A. Bennett-Jones (Oxfordshire, England)
38 out of 39 found this review helpful
Hiya everyone,
I'm lucky enough that my parents decided to shell out for one of these this Christmas. Well, we have been living in the stone age of CRT for the last 10 years!
First thing I'll talk about is the SD picture. Before it arrived, I knew that the SD picture wouldn't be beautiful, but when you're getting a TV like this, you kind of expect it to be, despite knowing that it can't be. I would just like to warn people now that the SD picture is fairly imprecise. I would say that it is fairly similar, or even worse than the picture I used to get on our old CRT. It is susceptible to motion blur, especially when the picture is very bright or vivid. I've been fiddling about with the settings, and the more soft and dark I make the picture, the less motion blur there is. I don't think we're going to get Sky HD, so we're living with a compromise between slight motion blur and a dark picture for the moment, with Sky +.
A couple of tips for people using it with an SD picture.
1) Immediately go to the settings menu and turn the picture type from "Vivid" to "Standard" or "Cinema". Vivid looks horrible with an SD picture, so do this before you start to get too worried.
2)For me, the motion blur seemed to burn out a little with time, so give it a little time
However, I've used a couple of HDMI inputs with this, and this is what this TV is about. Really, when you're buying a TV like this, you should factor in getting a couple of HD inputs. An HD-DVD or Blu-ray player will look STUNNING with this TV.
The HDMI inputs I used were
1)My XBOX 360. The picture on PGR4 was so, so good. The intro video was just awesome. I was so impressed by the picture. However, on Halo 3, there was a bit of motion blur. I'm going to fiddle about a bit and hopefully I can eliminate this. The TV is not 100hz, which is the only let-down on the Technology front. But at this price, you should be getting it. This may be part of the reason for the motion blur.
2)A Sony DVD upscaler, which we got with the TV. Despite the fact that it's upscaling ordinary 420p DVDs, the picture is brilliant. That quality surprised me, I wasn't expecting it. I watched Black Hawk Down. Colour is very rich and when using this on an HDMI input, there is NO motion blur. Obviously not quite the quality you'd get from a proper HD-DVD player, but very good. I'd recommend one of those upscalers if you're going to get this. I watched a DVD on our old player, and I think the upscaler improves the picture by about 5 times, by eliminating Motion Blur, and delivering a picture that is about 4 times crisper.
Basically, what I'd say about this TV is that you should not get it if you don't have any HDMI inputs, and are not going to get any. You'll just be disappointed with the SD picture. However if you've got kit capable of being HDMI inputs, then it's great. I mean really, really great. Stunning. The difference between an SD picture and an HD picture on it is huge. That's because the TV is geared towards delivering you an excellent HD picture. There's no point in having all this expensive HD technology in the TV if you're not going to use any of it, and are thinking of sticking with the old SD kit for a while. I'm saying this seemed to be the view of my parents. Apart from the DVD upscaler, they don't want to get any HD inputs. I might get one of those HD-DVD player add-ons for my 360, because I now realise that the TV is for HD, so use it for HD! Not to do so just makes the whole purchase pointless.
So when you buy this, factor in how much the HD-DVD player/Sky HD etc is going to cost.
All of this was written from my perspective, i.e moving from a 26" CRT to this. I can't really compare between the different HD LCD models, as I havn't really experienced this TVs competitors. I'm just talking about what you gain/don't gain from making that move.
I gave this 5 stars because I've seen what this TV can do with an HD input and it's awesome. In the Sony shop, I saw this hooked up to a Blu-ray player (well, it would be blu-ray in a Sony shop wouldn't it), and WOW. So that's why it gets 5 stars. I almost knocked off a star for the SD picture and the lack of 100hz. The lack of 100hz is bad at this price. But the SD picture is bad on all these TVs from what I've seen, so it would be silly to knock off a star for that.
And the TV does have lots of good technology in it. It's got 24P. That's cool. When films are shot, 24 frames are taken every second. However, in Britain, the TVs normally output at 25 frames every second. So the film is sped up by 4%. 24P gets the film back to its original fps, so you see it how the director intended to see it. So your favorite film of all time is now 4% longer. How's that for a service. Donnie Darko is 4% longer, that justifies the price in itself. It's also obviously 1080P, the latest HD format to come out, so it's up to date.
Oh and lastly, one thing I forgot to mention is that the first thing I noticed with this TV was the sound quality! You never really think of sound quality as being important when you're watching TV, but it's so crisp. I'm hearing things I never heard before. And it's got this virtual surround sound system which kind of works. For me there is now NO reason to get a seperate surround sound system.
So to sum up, the pros and cons that I noticed
Pros
Awesome Sound Quality
Stunning HD picture when used with HD inputs
Good technology in there, e.g 24p
Quite future proof, with 1080P and 3 HDMI sockets
Stylish with brushed Aluminium frame
Large size
Lots of Adjustment in the settings menu
Cons
SD picture no better than on old CRTs
Lack of 100hz technology
Motion Blur with SD picture and on some HD pictures (XBOX 360 for me)
Yeh think that's about it
SDS
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