KDL40V4000

KDL40V4000 reviews

Sony kdl40v4000 reviews. Find out what other customers had to say about the KDL40V4000:

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"I was rather reluctant to replace a 32 inch Toshiba that had served me well for about 5 years. Why get rid of something still working well? I'm not fussed about paying for high definition. I just got fed up with the sheer size of my Toshiba compared with these new HD sets.
The sony kdl40v4000 is truly excellent. I have it set up with Sky+ and an Apple TV box and an HDMI link to a Blu Ray DVD player. Pictures from all sources are far better than I expected. The quality is so good that I don't think I will be rushing to pay more for an HD Sky box yet awhile. It is also so much lighter than a 4 year old plasma I have in another room and therefore more easy to manoeuvre. So for picture quality, sound and general appearance, I'm delighted with it. I was a bit reluctant to go back to black but it looks good on a black glass stand. Even my old black Rogers floorstanders look good with it. I play the TV with all sources through an integrated hi fi amp. Can't be doing with too many speakers in the lounge. Buy with confidence".

"I've just bought the KDL40V4000 as part of a (slow) move to HD across my ageing home cinema system, and I'm absolutely delighted with it. I'm glad I finally decided to buy just after the V4000 replaced the Sony V3000 and V3500 models I've been looking at all year. I tend to be a Sony fan for TVs, having had a long history of reliable models over the years, although I've also bought Panasonic, JVC Toshiba and even Samsung in the past. I looked at all of the available models, and although it was close the Sony picture kept looking the best in the various showrooms. Then a favourable, 5 star What Hifi review pushed me over the edge. For me, this 40 inch LCD TV replaces a JVC 32inch widescreen TV, which looks and feels like a monster alongside the latest LCD technology (not looking forward to carrying that up to the bedroom where it's going next!). The new slim TV, when fitted on an Alphason ST600 90 stand takes up pretty much the same footprint as the JVC, sitting between the two stacks of my hifi/av system. The simple and elegant piano black styling is a definite improvement over the earlier models, and it looks very stylish (except for that big mess of cables to my particular hifi configuration that are now in view - have to think of a solution for that). I couldn't stretch my budget to the W or higher models which have some extra bells, whistles and processing, but this TV has all of the things I wanted - 1920x1080 resolution / 1080p, 24p for true cinema, enough HDMI inputs (3), PC connectivity (just in case), and Freeview.

Eventually I'll upgrade to BluRay and Sky HD, but for the moment my main sources are a Sky Plus box, a veteran Sony DVP-S725D DVD player, a Sony VCR/DVD recorder, and a Canon HD camcorder. I haven't bothered to listen to the sound, as I use my surround system (which for the record has a Yamaha DSP-E800 processor, Roksan and Rotel power amps and Monitor Audio and Boston Acoustics speakers). The TV only has 2 SCART sockets, so I switched the DVD player to component input with a QED Qunex cable. Setup was easy, and the remote and menus are good. The performance of the TV is everything I hoped for, and a bit more. The colours are natural, there is a real sense of depth, with great contrast and blacks that are really black. Of course with standard satellite material, you can see more of the imperfections of the medium, or more detail on a newscaster's face than you'd really like to see, but putting that aside my favourite shows, or the current coverage of the Olympics look great. With DVD I was blown away. Tested with LOTR The Return of the King special edition DVD, the detail, depth and sharp edges are just excellent, the landscapes awesome - I started to watch the movie and forget what I was doing, a sure sign that a test is going well. Whereas I was expecting to be pushed in to buying a BluRay player very quickly, I'll be more than happy to use this with my current DVD player and material for a long time. Overall I think this is an excellent LCD TV, and at this price is fantastic value for money".

I have just bought the KDL40V4000 just over a week ago and am really please with it. I wonted a TV to replace my 3 year old 32" LCD as have had a PS3 for a few months I wanted - 1920x1080 resolution / 1080p, 24p as have a few Blu-ray films now. Am really happy with the picture and don't bother spending loads on HDMI leads the cheap ones give just as good a picture as the silly price leads. Blu-ray looks fantastic on it in 1080p and the BBC HD on Sky looks great. Blacks don't seem to have a problem as don't have that slight grey like on a lot of seats and haven't notes any ghosting on fast moving scenes . Have my PC on HDMI input 2 and unlike some other makes of TV you can run in 1080p without the over sizing problem. Only problem I found is the piano black surround seems to attract the dust but this seems to be a problem on other makes to as friends who have Samsung seem to suffer the same there 40" 1080p cost more though but not as good a picture as this.

Another month, another Sony TV... The '4000 number indicates this set comes from one of the most recently released series of sets, while the V shows this is a slightly stripped-down model compared to the W, E or even X ranges. Naturally, this is reflected in the price, with this 40in LCD in the Sony online store for £1000, and less than £800 online.

This model features the company's 'draw the line' concept design styling, though you'll have to fork out the extra for the W series should you want the 'midnight sky', sparkly blue finish.

Once turned on you'll see that this set doesn't have the PlayStation3-style Xross MediaBar, but there's a perfectly slick, easy-to-use remote instead.

There are a number of other differences beneath the surface, too. For starters, this is an 8-bit panel rather than a 10-bit panel, so Sony says offers fewer steps of colour gradation, and it doesn't support x.v.Colour or Live Colour Creation – though these technologies are reliant on a quality of source material that is currently simply not available.

While there are still three HDMI inputs, support for 1080p/24fps and of course a Freeview tuner, there's no USB input here or Picture Frame mode.

Sharp edges, natural colours and excellent detail
Watching the best quality 1080p/24fps Blu-ray content, this Sony has sharp edges, vivid but natural colours, excellent detail and a real sense of three-dimensionality. Fantastic Four shows dark blacks can be rendered faithfully alongside bright, clean whites, while motion is handled as well as any screen we've seen.

Switch to DVD and you realise why we've taken to HD content so merrily, the picture looking poor by comparison, especially if the TV does the upscaling. That said, a good quality DVD disc looks as good as the best in class we've seen – it's just not a patch on HD content.

The onboard Freeview tuner delivers a detailed, colourful, largely stable picture with only the odd hint of noise at times, while sonically it's admirable for a TV, avoiding harshness and delivering clear, solid dialogue and movie sound.

If you can cope without some of the frills missing on this model, and we see no reason for now why not, then this Sony TV is a real bargain.