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Date: 2005-12-15 SONY wega 42" DLP This an awsome TV for the price. I spent a long time researching the right TV to get. It came down to Sony and Samsung. For the price and quality, Sony won in the end. I love watching sporting events in HD and DVD. Its the perfect TV for the hard-core person looking a truely unique watching experience. Date: 2005-11-15 Great TV To Complete Your Home Theater I had spent some time researching what kind of TV it was I wanted to blow my money on. You can't just buy any old TV anymore, you need to research so you can best suit your own needs. I personally watch a lot of DVD's and play a lot of video games. So, I needed something that was going to handle games well, and most of all make DVD's look stunning! The television's design is sleek and stunning. It only weights about 60-65 pounds so you can move it yourself with ease. The display is very bright and vibrant. The TV when you recieve it, has its settings set to contrast and other settings that would make the TV look absolutely magnificent for store displays but will in the long run burn out your bulb faster, and fortunately, those settings aren't the true correct settings you want anyway. Set the 'vibrant' picture settings to 'standard', you may want to add your tint a few notches over to the right a little bit to get a more true red color, reduce your color a little bit, but in the end it's all just minor adjustments you are going to need to make. If you watch a lot of DVD's like I do, if you sit far back enough, they look magnificent watching them with progressive scan and component cables. But if you sit a little closer than you're supposed to like I do, you'll notice all the imperfections that you would see due to the fact that DVD's are not as high in definition as a high definition TV, because DVD's were made to look perfect on standard TV's. You could see some boxes in some high movement, artifacts here and there, but this TV offers numerous ways to adjust the picture to your liking. There's DVD players now that 'upconvert' with technology a DVD that's got a 480i resolution, to 720p by adding lines and throwing out some of the noise on a DVD. But with this TV it's not necessary with the 'Digital Reality Creation' feature (DRC). This helps to upconvert the image to be somewhat closer to HD standards, by adding 4x the lines (twice as many horizontally and then twice as many vertically). This isn't going to give you a high definition image mind you, but you can use this function to adjust the clarity and 'reality' of the image to smooth out imperfections and artifacts that are created by a lot of movement. There's even a function on the TV that lets you adjust just how much 'noise' you want filtered from a picture. Now, all this could be a pain if you were to have to continually make these kinds of adjustments between different inputs on your set and your digital/HD cable, but this TV will save your presets for each input. It may take you some time to get the best possible picture that you want from each component, but the time is worth it because you only need to do it once for each function and it saves them forever. Great set for a great price. Worth the cash. Date: 2005-11-15 Better Value for the Money Over the past few months I have been trying different types of HDTV's with the hope of replacing my old JVC 27 inch tv. I tried a 32" Westinghouse LCD, a 32" Samsung LCD and a 30" Sony widescreen CRT. The LCD's were sharp but blurred too often when playing DVDs... the CRT was very colorful and beautiful but the image was curved at the edges. I decided to try a Rear Projection TV and have found the best of both worlds. My Sony KDFE42A10 has the sharp undistorted picture of an LCD screen and the vibrant, but easy on the eyes, color of a HD CRT. I find my rear projection tv to be a better value because it came with an HDTV off-air tuner and it is much larger than the other tv's I have tried. I paid the same price for this tv as I did the Samsung 32" LCD screen. I am using an upscaling Sony DVD player with HDMI hookup and the picture is superb. Though this projection tv uses LCD technology it does not blur like your standard LCD tv's. Colors are bright and vivid and blacks are varied and do not wash out. I use my PS2 with this tv and I must say that it plays standard definition video games in much better quality than any of the other tv's I've tried. I have run Gran Turismo 4 on the TV in 1080i and I am very pleased with the picture. The only problem is that it shows in great detail the weakness of the PS2. PS3 is going to be awesome though. I love the LCD technology because it does not distort the picture with curves and bends. That's something that drove me nuts about CRT TVs. Menus are perfectly represented with this tv... no bent lines! I just recently purchased a Terk HDTVi antenna to give off-air HDTV programming a try. I must say that I am very impressed with the local channels I can tune in and I am now considering the cancellation of my cable. It's hard to go back to standard definition once you've seen Monday Night Football in HD. Other pluses for the tv are it's light weight, 61 pounds, and it's 24 watt speakers. The speakers are hidden, which yeilds a sleek look to the monitor, and provide full robust sound. The only negative I can think of thus far is the fact that I'll one day have to replace the projector bulb. I have looked this up online and it costs much less than I have been told by others... $190. Date: 2005-11-11 Breathtaking Breathtaking to say the very least! After reading tons of reviews we took the plunge. Frankly I was a bit intimidated by some of what I read regarding color calibration. My concerns dissipated quickly. I suppose one can always find something negative to say about a product. We are so thrilled by the positive facets of this HDTV that we are blinded by anything negative. We just love it. The picture quality is breathtaking. I realize I am repeating myself but my enthusiasm provokes it. The manual was not very difficult to follow. It was suggested by a friend that we use the THX option on a DVD to do a video calibration. Of which we did and it just seemed to all fall right in to place, not to say their were any radical changes from the default. Just some minor tweaking for our tastes and eyes. We put on the new Star Wars DVD Revenge of the Seth. We feel that a movie theater will never do for us again. It was like we were there. As if one could stick out their hand and feel the shape on a cruiser flying by and the field depth was just astounding. This was a investment that we know will bring our family endless hours of enjoyment, but also to a new peak of entrainment that was way beyond our comprehension. We are just so happy about this purchase! Date: 2005-10-25 Reset TV to clear the strange clicking noise and blank screen I just recently bought this TV and had a similar experience to the reviewer that said they had "Strange clicking noise and blank screen". For me, my digital/HD channels no longer came in when this happened. After doing a "reset to factory settings" as described in the manual, the TV went back to normal. My guess is that TV's software/firmware has got a bug. I did an online chat with the tech support from Sony but that had no clue. I can only hope that our complants will get them to find a fix for the problem. I've got a call into the local Sony repair folks, maybe that can fix it as I'm happy the reset cleared the problem but I don't want to be going this on a regular basis. On a lighter note, other than this problem I do really like the TV and am happy with it.
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