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Summary: What can I say....WOW!
Review: My 14 year old Sony 27" Trinitron died so did my research and came home with this new Sony model. Incredible picture and sound. Combine it with a good DVD player and watching movies becomes a whole new experience. Flawless in operation. Quality seems very high. Highly recommended purchase.
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Summary: Excellent quality
Review: The picture quality is off the scale for DVDs when in "vivid" mode, sound quality is also excellent even without attaching extra speakers. Sound quality is changeable through surroundsound, WOW, and standard stereo/mono. The remote is programmable to operate your VCR,sat/cable box or DVD player as well as the TV. PIP is a snap to use. All interfaces needed are present, including some (with s-video) on the front to handle your camcorder.
The TV weighs a heavy 106 pounds, nicely finished in silver.
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Summary: Excellent quality
Review: The picture quality is off the scale for DVDs when in "vivid" mode, sound quality is also excellent even without attaching extra speakers. Sound quality is changeable through surroundsound, WOW, and standard stereo/mono. The remote is programmable to operate your VCR,sat/cable box or DVD player as well as the TV. PIP is a snap to use. All interfaces needed are present, including some (with s-video) on the front to handle your camcorder.
The TV weighs a heavy 106 pounds, nicely finished in silver.
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Summary: Does not power on
Review: The set has a sharp picture, plenty of settings to get just the right picture. The audio is awesome, considering the lower-end price of this set, and it has lots of input jacks, including S-video. However, the first time I tried to turn on the set after unpacking it, the TV would not turn on. A little red light kept flashing next to the power button, but nothing happened. After leaving the TV on all night, it powered on the next afternoon, so I decided not to return it. That was a big mistake. About three months later, right after the warranty ran out for labor, the set stopped powering up entirely. The customer manual and Sony website referred to my exact problem (to me, this was an indication that this set has had a tendency to have this problem) -- both said that the set needs to be repaired if it does not turn on and a tiny red light keeps blinking next to the power button. It was a major hassle lugging this 106-pound set in for repair, and the repair was expensive! Overall, nice features, but technically unreliable, and really heavy if you need to move it.
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Summary: High-end features, but broke down right away
Review: The set has a sharp picture, plenty of settings to get just the right picture. The audio is awesome, considering the lower-end price of this set, and it has lots of input jacks, including S-video. However, the first time I tried to turn on the set after unpacking it, the TV would not turn on. A little red light kept flashing next to the power button, but nothing happened. After leaving the TV on all night, it powered on the next afternoon, so I decided not to return it. That was a big mistake. About three months later, right after the warranty ran out for labor, the set stopped powering up entirely. The customer manual and Sony website referred to my exact problem (to me, this was an indication that this set has had a tendency to have this problem) -- both said that the set needs to be repaired if it does not turn on and a tiny red light keeps blinking next to the power button. It was a major hassle lugging this 106-pound set in for repair, and the repair was expensive! Overall, nice features, but technically unreliable, and really heavy if you need to move it.
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Summary: Amazing with DVDs
Review: This Sony model is packed with features and yet is easy to use. With the flick of a button you can set 4 different video choices: vivid, standard, movie or sport. Vivid is too strong for some channels, producing graininess, so switch to standard and watch the picture instantly improve. Where vivid can be used (most live or videotape broadcasts, DVDs) it is fantastic. Hard to believe that HDTV could do better. Sound quality is also exceptional even without external speakers attached. PIP is a snap to use.
There are enough interfaces to satisfy almost any video freak, including a few in front to connect video cameras for playback.
Drawbacks? Not many. The unit is a heavy 106 pounds and the silver finish, although nicely done, strikes me as a faddish affectation. A good buy.
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Summary: Great sound, great color, but major flicker
Review: This TV (the Sony KV-27FV300) gets great reviews from Consumer Reports and other www.Amazon.com customers, but I couldn't get along with it. In the end, after a week of trying to live with it, I returned it and bought the Philips 27PT8320 (which also handles progressive scan input from my DVD player and copes pretty well with PAL input from playing PAL DVDs in their native format).If you're someone who is sensitive to screen flicker, you won't like this Sony. Yes, it has a nice flat Trinitron screen, but it seems like they used a short-persistence phosphor (the kind used for computer monitors). TVs aren't like computer monitors; CRT monitors refresh faster (75 Hz usually) and without interlacing. NTSC is interlaced, which means every 60th of a second, only half the screen lines are updated. Unfortunately it seems like the phosphor for this screen fades within about 1/60th of a second, and so by the time it draws the second set of lines, the first set has faded. When looking at the screen dead on, it looked fine, but if I looked away, just for a moment I could see that every other line was black. And if I saw it out of the corner of my eye, it looked very flickery. Ultimately, I decided the flicker was too distracting. I checked to make sure it wasn't some kind of weird fault with that particular set, but once I knew what to look for, the same flicker was perceptible on this TV in store displays, and not in evidence for other brands. Yes, the on-screen menus are nice, the sound is great (plenty of bass, thanks to the subwoofer), the color is good. But ultimately, I need something that doesn't drive me crazy when I'm looking at it.
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Summary: Great sound, great color, but major flicker
Review: This TV (the Sony KV-27FV300) gets great reviews from Consumer Reports and other www.Amazon.com customers, but I couldn't get along with it. In the end, after a week of trying to live with it, I returned it and bought the Philips 27PT8320 (which also handles progressive scan input from my DVD player and copes pretty well with PAL input from playing PAL DVDs in their native format). If you're someone who is sensitive to screen flicker, you won't like this Sony. Yes, it has a nice flat Trinitron screen, but it seems like they used a short-persistence phosphor (the kind used for computer monitors). TVs aren't like computer monitors; CRT monitors refresh faster (75 Hz usually) and without interlacing. NTSC is interlaced, which means every 60th of a second, only half the screen lines are updated. Unfortunately it seems like the phosphor for this screen fades within about 1/60th of a second, and so by the time it draws the second set of lines, the first set has faded. When looking at the screen dead on, it looked fine, but if I looked away, just for a moment I could see that every other line was black. And if I saw it out of the corner of my eye, it looked very flickery. Ultimately, I decided the flicker was too distracting. I checked to make sure it wasn't some kind of weird fault with that particular set, but once I knew what to look for, the same flicker was perceptible on this TV in store displays, and not in evidence for other brands. Yes, the on-screen menus are nice, the sound is great (plenty of bass, thanks to the subwoofer), the color is good. But ultimately, I need something that doesn't drive me crazy when I'm looking at it.
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Summary: After 10 days tv broken
Review: TV quality was excellent, plenty of inputs, Easy to set up. Bought TV cause of Sony name. But after 10 days of use screen shrunk and became distorted with rainbow throughout picture.
Spoke to store where I bought it from and got the impression this may be a common problem with this set??
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Summary: Does not power on
Review: When I first bought my t.v. and took it out of the box, I could not get the t.v. to turn on. After re-setting the t.v. several times I was finally able to get the t.v. to power on. I've had the t.v. for about 2 years now and have had nothing but trouble with it. Sony said they would warranty the parts but I would have to ship it to California at my expense. No thanks. I recommend that you do not buy this product.
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