My old TV was 32 inches. I did some math and determined that a 37" TV would have the same vertical viewing size. This was important to me, because I wanted a regular 4:3 aspect signal from my DVD player or non-HD TiVo to appear in the middle of the screen in the same resolution as I had on my old TV. I was happy with that, and I didn't want to go blowing those pictures up to giant wall-sucking sizes that would show off how low-res they really were. At 37" my TiVo and DVD player look good. At 42+, I think I would feel more pressure to swap them out faster.
On the tecnical side, this is a 16:9 aspect full HDTV LCD with a native resolution of 1080p. The rest of the litany of features (such as DMex and Bravia Sync) are mostly Sony proprietary features for interacting with Sony equipment or future features, but I'll tell you what shocked me the most about this TV: HD broadcast TV looks great! I find myself watching football or Fringe as broadcast instead of from my TiVo, and that's something that I never would have done before this TV. Sure, it's not the TV, it's the high quality of these digital broadcasts, but seeing them on a big, sharp screen is just a joy!
I've connected my laptop to it. There's no HDMI cables that ship with the TV (annoying, that), but I went out and got one and hooked it up to my HP Pavilion laptop
, which has built-in Blu-Ray
, and was just floored by the quality of the picture when I watched Casino Royale
. This film has an opening (a typical Bond intro, really) that just blew me away on the Sony Bravia! I have to say that I was a Blu-Ray skeptic, but after this, I went and converted many of my Netflix queued movies over to Blu-Ray.
Other features include the availability of composite and component inputs as well as HDMI and S-Video; several picture modes, each of which can be customized and four width modes that I find annoying in most cases, and just leave it on the default.
Overall, I have to admit that this is the finest TV I've ever owned. It does everything I want a modern TV to do, and it does it well. Sony as a company has annoyed me in the past, but it's hard to feel anything but impressed when I use this product.
On the tecnical side, this is a 16:9 aspect full HDTV LCD with a native resolution of 1080p. The rest of the litany of features (such as DMex and Bravia Sync) are mostly Sony proprietary features for interacting with Sony equipment or future features, but I'll tell you what shocked me the most about this TV: HD broadcast TV looks great! I find myself watching football or Fringe as broadcast instead of from my TiVo, and that's something that I never would have done before this TV. Sure, it's not the TV, it's the high quality of these digital broadcasts, but seeing them on a big, sharp screen is just a joy!
I've connected my laptop to it. There's no HDMI cables that ship with the TV (annoying, that), but I went out and got one and hooked it up to my HP Pavilion laptop
, which has built-in Blu-Ray, and was just floored by the quality of the picture when I watched Casino Royale. This film has an opening (a typical Bond intro, really) that just blew me away on the Sony Bravia! I have to say that I was a Blu-Ray skeptic, but after this, I went and converted many of my Netflix queued movies over to Blu-Ray.
Other features include the availability of composite and component inputs as well as HDMI and S-Video; several picture modes, each of which can be customized and four width modes that I find annoying in most cases, and just leave it on the default.Overall, I have to admit that this is the finest TV I've ever owned. It does everything I want a modern TV to do, and it does it well. Sony as a company has annoyed me in the past, but it's hard to feel anything but impressed when I use this product.
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