Sony BRAVIA KDL46W4100 Customer Review

April 18, 2009

The Sony KDL46W4100 is an attractive and extremely equipped LCD tv set. We were mostly impressed by its performance, deep, precise whites and a brilliant display. This TV has also some negatives, because the color gamut is slightly off and the viewing angle are not really great.

If you look often some type of fast moving action on your TV, then this HDTV television has got a plenty of things what you are looking for. The Sony KDL46W4100 performed great in our movement tests. We saw smooth movement with videos that contained lots of motion, and the LCD TV had no problem serving a good image.

This Sony supports a full 1080p or real HD picture. The selection of connectors is great, having a 4 HDMI interfaces. Too bad that this TV doesn’t have a USB connector or some card reader.

The Sony KDL40W4100 as well provides TruSurround which is a patented surround technology that solves the problem of playing 5.1 multichannel content through two channel speaker systems. This Sony delivers a excellent virtual surround sound with any two speaker sound system, including built-in TV speakers and headphones. It is totaly capable of reproducing any surround format up to 5.1 channels.
This tv set also has three sound enhancement technologies to reproduce an impressive sound. Great sound with the outstanding picture quality really makes this Sony Bravia TV a solid one.

The Sony Bravia KDL46W4100 performed good in our testing of blacks and whites. Blacks were very deep, specially for an LCD TV of this price range. Whites and gray colors were rich and accurate.
This television really has excellent colors, we have seen consistent whites and a clear, true representation of the primary colors from which image on the screen is made. We were happy with the coloring, but we did notice a really small problem with the televisions color gamut, which actually means colors maybe won’t everytime come out precisely they should.

Maybe the largest problem with this TV is a viewing angle. Looking from aside we saw that the contrast ratio was decreasing. Contrast ratio is the difference in reproducing the dark and light colors. This tv set has a small viewing angle, even for an LCD TV, which generally don’t have good viewing angle as Plasma tv.

The remote control of this TV is really enjoyable to hold and well laid out with the exception that the controls for direction are at the different ends of the remote control from the channel pushes. The menu on the television is corresponding of that used in the Playstation 3, and will require some time to get used to it.

Power consumption is around average. You can have turned on this TV and you don’t need to worry that you will get a big bill for electrics.

This Sony KDL46W4100 is a really good HDTV, with a full feature set and outstanding handling on about all fields. The viewing angle fact will be a bit of a problem for some. If you need a TV that will sit in a room where that will be watched from all angles you may want to go with a Plasma. If this isn’t an problem for you, then you you are going to get your money’s worth with the Sony KDL46W4100.

You can read more about Sony KDL46W4100 on our Sony LCD TV part of our portal. If you don’t like Sony check out this Samsung LN52A750.

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