Sony BRAVIA KDL-40V5100 Review

Date: 2010.11.05 | Category: Sony | Tags: 40-inch hdtv,lcd hdtv,lcd tv,sony bravia,sony hdtv,sony tv

The KDL-40V5100 is the smallest model in Sony’s V5100 series, which includes 46 – and 52-inch siblings. It offers the usual inputs on the side and rear jack panels, including four HDMI connections and added two component-video connections. It also has a USB port to access your photo and music files, but it does not have an Ethernet (LAN) to connect to a home network.

The Sony-single-language, 24-page manual is one of the tightest we’ve ever seen for a TV. Sony must have read studies show that open to most people never crack it. But at least this is not intimidating. It takes you running quickly, even if you do not adequately over most of the functions of the series leaves. Sony also offers a large manual on its website.

In addition to the usual video controls and picture modes (we used movies, tweaked as necessary for the tests), these functions start with the set of color adjustments. As I mentioned above, the Sony does not offer a color management system. But it has the standard color temperature options. You want to choose warm, as we do. There are also white balance adjustments on both the high and low end of the brightness for use in a full calibration.

You can separate the video monitor for each input and picture mode. If you choose the same screen mode for more than one input, you can also use the controls is different for each of them. This offers tremendous flexibility. But if you want to use the same settings for a number of active inputs, you must remember to manually copy it to anyone.

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Sony is the company’s Motionflow 120Hz technology. It worked about as good as any similar function that I’ve seen, although I’m not a fan of this type of processing, especially for movies. It plays smooth movement, which some viewers find it useful to sports or other video-based programming could.

The Sony accepts 1080p 24 material and displays them either by repeating four times each real frame to achieve the display refresh rate of 120 Hz (in other words, 5:5 pulldown). Or, Motionflow, engaged by inserting four interpolated images for each real frame. It does the same with 1080p 60 (either a native 1080p 60 on input or upconverted to 1080i or lower resolution to 1080p by the amount of internal processing). However, in this case, it adds a single interpolated frame instead of four, reached the set’s 120-Hz refresh rate.

The Advanced Contrast Enhancer dynamically adjusts the backlight depending on the characteristics of the image. Sony’s literature claims that the set offers Dynamic Contrast, but unless this is the same as the Advanced Contrast Enhancer, I could not find another control that performed that function. We have no contrast enhancement on each of the sentences for the panel tests. More to the point, the Sony black level and shadow detail does not need.

The Sony offers a multi-level gamma control, but I thought that was the best setting off. This led to a gamma of about 2.2.

I was not able to display the Sony consistently, without geometric distortion, sources that are either necessary or normal aspect ratio zoom settings. A firmware update that Sony sent us for our sample, which has appeared in a preliminary series, to cure the problem.

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Conclusion

The Sony came in a close second in the standings. Two members of the five-judge panel agreed it first overall win and two rated second. No one liked her. I can not tell you how I voted, I was blind to participants, but I like to think I would have it placed on top, as my fondness for serious consideration in a darkened room and the consequent need for great black levels. As I mentioned, the Sony also won raves for his performance on the lights, although that was a very short part of the test and not in the standings.

The Sony can not have victory snatched here, but it is still the clear winner.

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