Sony Bravia KDL-52XBR9 Review Article
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Sony Bravia KDL-52XBR9 Review article
Short of LED backlighting, the XBR9 includes almost everything you would anticipate from Sony’s latest and greatest set, including a 240Hz refresh rate, 100,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio, BRAVIA Engine 3 processor, 10-bit panel, and possibly the most significant addition, built-in net video capability and widgets. That means a chance to stream anything from Slacker Internet radio to YouTube videos without having any additional hardware, plus news, weather, stocks and other info layered right over your whatever you’re watching, in an instant.
Even without the slimming effects of LED backlighting, the XBR9 manages to obtain even thinner than its predecessor: just 59mm compared to 147mm on the chunky 55-inch XBR8. That’s nowhere near the super-slim leaders from the thin movement, but attractive enough to our eyes. Weight stands at 71.4 pounds with the pedestal, or 62.2 without having
In contrast to the glass-trimmed XBRs of years past, the XBR9 looks downright conservative. A slim stripe of smoked acrylic runs along all four edges, looking gloss black for the most part until it reaches the outer quarter inch, exactly where the backing falls away to show off its translucence. The effect is so subtle it could be taken for yet another gloss-black bezel initially. The rather plain pedestal didn’t do much for us, either, and it doesn’t swivel. Fans of conservative styling can chalk this one up to a win, but those who will need that additional glint of style to reaffirm that they’ve sprung for that XBR will be disappointed.
Perhaps you might assume from a high-end HDTV, the XBR9 comes with a healthy selection of inputs and connectors. You may not assume, many of them come on the side, including 3 of the four HDMI ports, the only S-video connection, the only composite movie connection, the only USB connection, as well as the only VGA connection. Even though recessing the side connection panel about 3 inches back from the edge of the bezel helps mask the tangle of cords running to it, we nevertheless would have preferred more of the connections about the back, where the cables look more discreet. The back houses most of the much more obscure ports, such as two component movie connections, optical and analog audio out, as well as the Ethernet jack.
Even without having LED backlighting, the XBR9 is nevertheless an XBR, and it lives up to its top-shelf status in picture good quality.
While numerous TVs come quite amped up with unrealistic color proper out of your box, the XBR9 really delivers superb settings in Standard movie mode. A thorough calibration with Spears & Munsil’s benchmark Blu-ray and Oppo’s BDP-83 required very few changes for proper adjustment.
In movies, skin color struck us as spot on, lacking the blushed look or pale blue tinge extreme that less good quality sets are prone to, and black levels were superb. Does it accomplish the abyss-like depth that LED-backlit sets with localized dimming and also the best plasmas pull off? Not quite, but for that price level, it gets pretty damn close.
Like most sets with refresh rates over the standard 60Hz, the XBR9 includes options for inserting artificial in-between frames above and beyond what the source material in fact offers, to be able to generate smoother motion. Sony calls this option CineMotion, and offers it in two flavors: Auto 1 and Auto 2. CineMotion managed to improve motion without causing it to look unnatural in both doses, which is much more than goes about similar options from many manufacturers. That said, the effect is also much more subtle.
The majority of the home theater aficionados even eying an XBR will probably want to pair the XBR9 with a high-end audio system, but the sound that the humble built-in speakers manage to crank out is surprisingly good. Forgiving the lack of bass that must be expected for any built-in speakers, the rear-firing drivers deliver plenty of grunt most of the way as much as maximum volume, at which point distortion is evident. Sony also includes a comprehensive sound adjustment menu that offers access to everything from basic bass and treble to a full-blown equalizer and advanced settings like voice zoom.
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Writer of this LCD article is Asli Mana. For more information about LCD kinds check out our Televizyon websites.
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2010-05-18 04:36:45 |
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