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Review Of The Sony Bravia KDL-40V5500U LCD 1080P TV

Elegant the Sony KDL40V5500 has a polished Piano Black finish, and also has a Swivelling capability to help you find the best position to view the screen. The integrated analogue tuner allows the viewing of non digital television broadcasts whilst the Digital Freeview tuner allows the viewing of terrestrial digital broadcasts

Sony has presents the KDL40V5500. You will be able to watch television, movies and play games with super High Definition details due to the 1920 x 1080 pixel resolution of the screen. The presence of Sony's Bravia Engine 3 ensures the best possible contrast and colours that are alive together with realistic tones to produce a near perfect picture. Sony's live Colour processor provides vivid pictures with realistic colours.

If you like to watch movies, the Sony Bravia KDL-40V5500 is the right TV for you, you can experience a movie just like the director thought you would with 24p True Cinema. You can watch the clearest picture even with just an analogue signal due to Intelligent Picture. You have the choice of four options Off, Low, Mid, and High which alter the colour brilliance for the best possible picture. The Sony Bravia KDL40V5500U delivers the darkest black levels on dark scenes due to the Advanced Contrast Enhancer. You are able to change the sound and picture settings to match whatever you decide to watch by using the single press Scene Select button on the remote giving you the best atmosphere, moving and real results.

The front speakers on the Sony KDL40V5500 create a surround sound experience, without the need for rear speakers, with S-Force Front Surround Technology. Voice Zoom allows the adjustment of voice volume levels in films without adjusting the background sound levels.

The Sony KDL40V5500U lets you turn your television, when you are not viewing it, into a digital picture frame using the Picture Frame Mode. The blank screen of the Sony KDL40V5500 can display its own stored images or your own photos when the television is switched off.

DLNA home networking technology allows the music, photo and video content on your PC to be viewed on the TV. AppliCast allows you to see Internet information on the same screen as your television programming simultaneously. A series of factory installed handy widgets such as a calendar and an analogue clock are included.

One key component of the Sony Bravia KDL40V5500U are the Eco Settings that are environmentally friendly as well as help reduce energy consumption. One of these settings is the Light Sensor, which automatically adjusts the screens brightness levels depending on the light levels in the room

Two HDMI sockets on the rear and two HDM sockets on the side and all with CEC, allow easier connection to High Definition sources such as a Playstation 3 or a Blu-ray Disc player. You can easily share photos, music and videos on the huge screen with the built in USB Media Player.

You are able to have control over the entire home cinema system by using only one click on the Sony Bravia KDL40V5500 remote control, accessing the menu available on compatible devices like the Sony Handycam cameras that are available with BRAVIA Sync.

To summarize, the Sony Bravia KDL40V5500U is probably the best of the TVs you can buy, being highly cost effective and having many desirable features.

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