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Sony KDL-40W3000 - 40'' Widescreen Bravia 1080P Full HD LCD TV - With Freeview | 
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| Brand: Sony
Category: CE
Buy New: £1,243.00
New (2) Used (1) from £1,040.00
Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 38726
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 48.5
Dimensions (in): 49.2 x 29.5 x 9.8
MPN: KDL40W3000U
Model: KDL40W3000U
EAN: 4905524418811
ASIN: B000VYYU9W
Release Date: September 12, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | SONY 40" LCD TELEVISION IN BLACK | | • | 3 X HDMI INPUTS | | • | 1920 X 1080 PIXEL RESOLUTION | | • | 1800:1 CONTRAST RATIO | | • | IN BLACK |
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Product Description
Sony KDL40W3000U 40 inch HD Ready LCD TV 1800:1 1920 x 1080 with Digital TV Tuner.Main Features:40 inch LCD TVHD ReadyContrast ratio: 1800:1Brightness 500 cd/m2Native resolution: 1920x1080Turbo Boost safety feature - built in protection function which defaults CD speed to 40x as a defence against poor media quality (Can be changed to maximum speed at the touch of a button)FREEVIEW3 x HDMI (2xRear, 1xSide)Force Front Surround Sound / Digital DolbyLive Colour CreationBRAVIA Engine EXBRAVIA Theatre Sync2 x SC...
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 **** SIMPLY A STUNNING TELEVISION **** October 17, 2008
M. Shell (Heathrow)
Unless you are a total geek, you cannot fault this tv. 99.9999% of the masses will find this tv to be perfection. Anyone who finds faults with it, needs to get out more often and find a hobby !!
When you watch Blu-Ray or Sky HD the picture is faultless. Colours, when calibrated correctly - I searched online for advice & it DOES make a difference to how it comes out of the box - are true, vivid and most importantly LIFELIKE. The only one channel which is poor is ITV in Standard Definition (SD), however, this is down to ITV's poor technology, not the fault of the SONY.
The setup and calibrating the settings was easy, even for a relative simpleton like me. Wall mounting was a doddle - you don't need to pay someone to do it once you have the right bracket. The remote controller is great, especially the backlight function - handy if you're watching HD footage in the dark - WOW !!!
I would also consider the replacement model - W4000, however, the W3000 looks so much more classy and superior with it's polished dark chrome surround. All the others, even the new ones have a cheap plastic appearance.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED PRODUCT
 Fantastic Picture, let down by extremely poor EPG June 30, 2008
Mr. M. J. Geileskey
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm sure you've noticed that the majority of reviews for the Sony Bravia KDL-40W3000 LCD TV are favourable, and it is true to say that the picture on the Bravia was the key selling point when I bought the TV, and this was after spending many hours in Sony/Panasonic shops to find the best 40".
I'm only giving the TV 3 stars because this is the lowest rating anyone should give for the TV as the picture is amazing. It's not the picture I have a problem with though, but the EPG (electronic programme guide).
I'll have to say that although text is displayed in hi-res, the EPG is awful. I've had freeview for years now, and even the most basic box I've owned can let a user browse through the information of other channels whilst watching the current TV broadcast on-screen. You can then switch to the channel you want via this on-screen info if you find a channel you like the sound of.
You can't do this type of on-screen browsing with the Sony Bravia KDL-40W3000 at all.
Another problem is that you can bring up the Sony's EPG in full, but programmes display their title only and not their information so you can't view their content. The only way you can bring up a programme's information is by pressing the i+ button on the remote and this will fully close down the EPG and display the channel you're interested in with your current broadcast in the background every time.
This is a useless and time-consuming procedure if you use a programme's infomation/content to choose your channels.
Sure, you can go buy a copy of the Radio Times for this info, but this defeats the object of having an EPG in the first place.
I have no idea why Sony have implemented such a useless EPG in their Bravia W3000 series.
I own a Sony Freeview box (VTX-D800U) and have that connected to my Bravia now so that I can use a better EPG. Unfortunately this means that the picture I get isn't as good (as the freeview tuner that comes inside the Bravia is far superior), but I simply can't do without a decent EPG.
Another feature lacking in the KDL-40W3000 is the fact that the UK model doesn't have Picture in Picture (PiP), and instead has a feature called Picture AND Picture (PAP), where you have two unsizable (apparently the American model of the Sony will let you size both pictures equally) screens next to each other.
In practice this is pretty useless, as you can only have a large AV picture in the left-hand part of the screen, and in comparison a really tiny picture in the right-hand part, (which is usually the freeview broadcast) and you can't swap them over. In fact I don't think you can even have the Sony freeview picture in the larger portion of the Picture and Picture mode at all. A great feature of Picture in Picture on a lot of other televisions is that you can switch the source screens around with each other, but you can't do this with the Sony's freeview picture and any other AV source (like a console game, DVD or SKY+). How frustrating!
My advice is to go to a Sony store and get given a demonstration of their EPG and PAP mode before you buy. If you're like me, then you're going to be pretty disappointed with it.
 So far so good March 17, 2008
skiffybrummie (England)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
After many years of holding out for the Next Big Thing in TV hardware, I finally caved and spent a small fortune on this "reassuringly expensive" TV and a companion HD recorder. I'm sure they'll get cheaper, but I (hope) don't think they'll get much better.
The worst thing you could say about it is "it's big ... REALLY big", but oddly on a clear glass stand it doesn't dominate the room any more than our bulky old 28 inch CRT.
Setup was a doddle. Channel auto-search was quick and the digital EPG loaded up almost instantly. It's true the picture needs to be tweaked to taste, but for immediate purposes switching from "vivid" to "standard" and notching the backlight down a couple of points took the searchlight brilliance out of Channel 4's on-air showing of "The Fifth Element".
It's a joy to watch. I have no HDMI sources but everything from off-air to DVD and Divx playback looks great. Saturday's C4 movie looked as detailed as any disc-based playback. Upscaled DVD images from a HDMI connected player are spectacular - amazing depth and detail in season 2 Doctor Who story "The Impossible Planet". The images from a SCART connected player set to RGB are softer but a lot of people probably wouldn't notice, and until I buy an external surround decoder I'm happy to live with it.
The only real demerits are learning to navigate the remote and the slightly clunky mechanism for switching between inputs. Get the connections right and these seem to be automatic for switching on but don't always revert after switching off. A minor nuisance.
Audiophiles will quibble, I'm sure, but the built in sound is strong and clear.
Buy one while they're still out there!
Excellent TV January 14, 2008
Shawade (UK)
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
This will be a non-technical review. The Sony KDL40W3000 is a simply outstanding TV. We are running upscaled DVD's, PS3 Blu Ray, PS 2 games and SD Sky through it.
There is a great deal on the web about settings out of the box for this TV and I would agree that for standard TV or even high quality TV DVD's (eg Sopranos, upscaled) then the 'VIVID' setting that the TV arrives in is not ideal. Colours look OTT and certainly not what you dreamed about when you ordered the TV. There are plenty of sites you can google for that come up with settings for the TV to get the best out of it. This TV has an incredible range of parameters that you can change which is great if you know what you are doing so be prepared for some playing around. If you prefer not to touch them then I would recommend switching from 'VIVID' to 'NORMAL' which at first will make colours look relatively muddy but will, over a few hours, look a lot better as you get used to them.
Sky SD is watchable but clearly not as good as HD would be. Most channels apart from heavily compressed channels are clear enough to view, I would regard quality as watchable. Remember this is the fault of the input source, not the TV. Switching on noise reduction does remove some of the noise in the picture but does so at the expense of sharpness, you can play around in the menu and see the impact on the screen instantly so you can try the options out quite easily. I turned noise reduction off altogether but for Sky SD a bit of reduction does make an improvement.
With Blu Ray however the detail and colours are mindblowing. There are enough reviews on Blu Ray and the PS3 so I will not add to them here other than to continue to be amazed at the picture quality. Upscaled DVD's do not have the same impact but are certainly good enough to not require a major upgrade of DVDs to Blu Ray discs. I suspect that at larger screens than 40" this may be a different story.
The sound quality is 'very good' rather than excellent and I would probably disagree with statements that claim a separate sound system is not necesary. We run this with a reasonable quality 2.1 sound system that is without question superior to the speakers on the TV. Bass and channel separation are clearly going to be better with a separate system.
Blacks appear to be very good, not in the range of a high end Pioneer Plasma (twice the price) but simply outstanding for an LCD TV. Significant improvement on the KDL40W2000 previous model to this one. There is a backlight control that reduces the backlight in the TV when the screen is dark, this is fine until you get to end credits on a movie which are generally scrolling words on a black screen. This confuses the backlight control which then darkens, lightens and darkens the screen depending on how many lines of text (and I guess therefore average brightness of the image) are there. If you bother with end credits this may trouble you but I would not make it a deciding factor for the TV.
Another point - the Playstation 3 is an amazing piece of kit whcih will show the best on this TV, however at 40" this TV also allows you to play multiplayer (split screen) Playstation 2 games with ease. The TV is not so big that PS2 screens are blurred but it is big enough to ensure that on a split screen (Socom Navy Seals, Colin McCrae Rally or Killzone) you can actually see what you are doing when in multiplayer split screen mode.
Last point on the Amazon 'White Glove Delivery Service' which you have to pay for with Amazon. I paid an additional 29.99 for the 'white glove delivery service' which I understood meant that the item would be delivered, checked and unpacked with all packing materials removed. 'White glove delivery' also implies something about the level of care that would be taken too.
The TV did arrive on time (and after a phone call from the courier to confirm delivery within a 2 hour slot which is good), however when it arrived the delivery guy had it balanced on his shoulder which he then asked me to sign for. He was not expecting to unpack the item and, when asked about this, said 'I don't know anything about that and no one else asks about it'. I am sure if pressed he would have done it but clearly it was not in his expectations. On this basis I signed for the TV as 'unopened'.
I have no complaint about the delivery guy but I am not happy that I had to pay Amazon an additional 29.99 for a 'white glove delivery service' when in the end, what I got was a normal 'drop off' delivery just like any other from Amazon. Ran a Google search on this subject and I have since found out I am not alone.
5 stars for the TV but not entirely happy with Amazon for the delivery charge.
Colour Like No Other!! Simply stunning!! January 3, 2008
Zee (London)
26 out of 27 found this review helpful
I had been researching LCD panel TVs for a while before finally deciding that i should get this one. As a rule of thumb, i never leave any stone unturned.
It's predecessor the W2000 seemed to get brilliant reviews everywhere i looked, with an average rating of 9/10 in each magazine or online reviews. But as it was being discontinued, i initially thought that the picture and quality could not get better as it was simply stunning. But i went to a sony style store to compare the W2000 with the W3000 and it was truly breath-taking. There was a distinct improvement in sharpness and contrast, and there was no motion judder which you could get on the W2000 (I read and witnessed motion judder on the W2000 with a Blue Ray disc)
Sony have only improved. The W3000 you can get from other online stores with a free 5yr warranty included up until the 31st January 08.
Playstation 3 just looks amazing on the TV. With newer games now coming through with the 1080p resolution, I am now starting to see the benefits of this TV. Most games at the moment are 720p (HD Ready) and not 1080p (Full HD) but there is certainly a difference.
I also compared the screen side by side with Toshiba, Samsung and Philips. Philips is the closest match to the Sony in terms of quality build and picture quality, but they are expensive. That's not to say that Sony isn't, you are just getting more for your money with the Sony. Samsung pictures were vivid, but the only drawback is the tedious reflective screen. LG and Toshiba(which i have owned for years) in terms of picture quality were no match in terms of sharpness or picture quality.
For the extra 150- 200 you will pay for this sony, it is a worthy investment and you will NOT be disappointed.
And a free 5 yr warranty, surely it costs about 300 by itself.
I now understand what they mean by Colour Like No Other.
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