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Date: 2005-01-05 Lamp only last for 1 year! It cost $200 to replace it I bought this kind LCD projection TV back oct. 2003. Less than 2 hours per day watching by average. It's lamp burned out last week and cost $200 to replace it by yourself. It is hard to open panel to reach the lamp box. Too expensive to maintain. Date: 2004-11-26 Breathtaking Breathtaking is the only way to describe watching at a nature documentary on this television. I'd admired this model long before it came out on the Sony website, but I became somewhat concerned as I heard reports of initial problems. Finally, after I had several friends who had this tv who hadn't experienced problems, I decided to bite the bullet and get my own. (No, I didn't become friends with them just because they owned my coveted television.) I've been immensely pleased with my purchase. It's just beautiful. The only thing strange about it is that it (the case?) makes this strange noise on occasion that sounds as if something is expanding or contracting inside. Date: 2004-10-25 Made a good choice after hours of research I did hours and hours of research before buying a new television. I was thinking of a Plasma screen but found too many negatives about those. I really hesitated to buy this TV at first. I heard that the bulbs go bad within a month of purchase. Luckily mine has been running for 4 months without a problem. With low quality TV broadcasts you do have a little bit of the screen door effect. It's not that bad at all and you can barely notice it. I just probably sit too close to the television. It's magically disappears when you watch movies, or least I myself just can't see it. The picture quality is amazing with DVDs, especially Pixar films. I don't use the built in speakers much but they sound just fine. I suggest getting a good calibration DVD for this unit, such as AVIA or Video Essentials. It's a pretty good investment. I have a Playstation 2 connected to the TV with component inputs and widescreen mode in games make everything look so much better. I was worried about ghosting, but I have no noticed any of that and I do play fast paced games such as Gran Turismo 3 etc. I'm trying hard to come up with some negatives about this TV. There isn't many at all. When turning on the TV it takes 30 seconds to get a good image, but that's normal. If you accidently turn off the power and turn it back on it takes even longer. Not more than a few more seconds. The remote is well made. The TV has 6 input channels and I wish there was a way to instantly switch to the one you want instead of having to press 'input' up to 5 or so times. I also should note that at first I was worried that DVD players with upconversion and DVI connectors wouldn't work on this unit. They do work just fine, but stayed with my old DVD player when I realized it wasn't worth the $199 upgrade. UPDATE: June 10th 2006 Had my first EVER problem with this television. The picture would come up and then disappear after 5 seconds. When I turned off the TV the red light would flash 5 times. All I did was a little research and I found out I needed to replace the "Lamp Driver". It cost me a couple hundred and I did it myself. Problem fixed! Dead TV one day and fixed the next! Date: 2004-09-14 Broken after ONE WEEK WARNING!! My 42" SONY KF42WE610 worked well for one week and then we lost all of the red color in it. It took hours just trying to reach someone at SONY--they have over 1 hour wait times when you call for technical assitance. Usually they will not even accept your call if the wait is over one hour long, so it may be days before you get to talk to a tech at SONY just to troubleshoot the problem. Unfortunately we could not return it to the online store like we could if we bought it locally. So, we had to use a Sony Preferred TV Repair store, of which they had only 1 store in a city of 120,000 people. And unfortuntately it has turned out to be not the most efficient store, for it has taken almost 3 weeks just to order the part we need now. So, please heed this warning, I would not go with a SONY product anymore; not only over 1 hour waits just to speak to someone, but also for the lousy back up service as well. We even bought the extended warranty and this what we get! This is not anti-SONY propaganda, this is a true story. Date: 2004-05-11 Plasma with Reliability If you want to hang your TV on the wall I understand the attraction of Plasma. If not (I believe the majority of people out there do not hang their TV on the wall yet)this is a real alternative with significant advantages. If it breaks buy a bulb, not a whole TV as you would with Plasma. Burn in is very unlikely with this technology, whereas Plasma is very prone to it. Picture quality is better in my opinion in normal conditions, additionally you do not have to suffer the irritation of pixel distortion that currently is a fact of life with Plasma. There is no comparison with CRT, just the 60lbs of weight and the fact it measures around 14" in depth make it worth the change for me. The picture is truly excellent and unlike non LCD projection TV's the light conditions in the room have a minimal effect. The viewing mode can be adjusted (vivid, standard etc)to taste and used to enhance the mood of a movie or offset light conditions. Freeze frame and PIP are cool allthough I don't see me using them very much, my brain can only watch one thing at a time unlike other people. One bonus I did not know about when I bought it but love, is that I can insert the memory sticks from my digital camera and watch a slide show of my pictures in seconds after getting back from a trip. If you are a non geek you will love how easy and quick it was to set up, with no knowledge I hooked it up in minutes. If you want to move it any time you do not need to hire a fork lift and three big guys to help you, at a push I can carry it myself limited by size more than weight. At the end of the day it's just a TV and compared to CRT a very expensive TV at that. But if you want Flat Screen, HDTV, that is big but light and has outstanding picture quality but you don't want to take on the Plasma risk this is one great package. * Price is subject to change. |
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