Sony BRAVIA KDL46EX713 46-inch Widescreen Full HD 1080p LCD Internet TV with Edge LED Screen, Motionflow 100Hz and Eco Features: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics

Product details

Item Weight: 19 Kg
Boxed-product Weight: 21 Kg
Batteries: 2 Lithium ion batteries required.
Item model number: KDL46EX713U
ASIN: B00421BMJG
Date first available at Amazon.co.uk: 6 Sep 2010

Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (20 customer reviews)

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,786 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

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Manufacturer's Description

The new super-slim EX713 is the ideal TV to suit any living room, thanks to its innovative sleek design. Watch stunning Full High Definition 1080p TV with Freeview HD built in and great picture quality thanks to the latest LED technology. Its BRAVIA® Engine 3&trade high definition video processor displays TV, movies and games with higher contrast, superior colours, and amazing clarity. This cutting-edge BRAVIA® features MotionFlow 100Hz (with Image Blur Reduction); delivering twice the number of images than conventional 50Hz TVs for smooth, sharp images in fast-moving scenes - perfect for enjoying the latest movie releases. Experience the full effect of digital surround sound thanks to its innovative S-Force Front Surround audio technology and your TV speakers. Its stunning, slim design will take pride of place in your living room - and a range including 32", 40", 46" and 55" sizes means the EX713 fits any space effortlessly. With its Presence Sensor that knows when you're not there, and Ambient Sensor to optimise brightness, you enjoy top performance and save on energy bills too.

The clean, super-slim design fits seamlessly with your room interior thanks to the latest Edge LED technology. Click here for a larger image

Enjoy style and substance

The EX713's stunning, slim design fits in gracefully with any space and even looks great when the picture is off. Truly a TV you'll be proud of. For enhanced colour intensity the TV comes with Edge LED backlighting with GigaContrast for the whitest whites and blackest blacks within the same frame; this innovative backlight technology also delivers thinner screens and energy savings too. Switch it to Picture Frame mode and you can turn your BRAVIA® into a work of art by displaying pre-installed images or your own photos and make great use of your wall space even when you're not watching TV. To allow you to enjoy the perfect fusion of image and sound, the speakers are hidden in the TV design and positioned for ideal sound elevation.

Enjoy full High Definition 1080 picture quality

To add to your viewing choice, the set has a built-in Freeview HD TV tuner so you can enjoy instant access to a huge range of free-to-air digital TV and radio channels, including HD programmes. The 1080 refers to the number of horizontal lines of pixels on the screen. The more lines, the better the picture quality. To compare, HD Ready sets have 768 while standard definition (SD) sets have just 576 lines. The letter p refers to its progressive or non-interlaced picture-scanning process where all the lines of the image are refreshed by every vertical scan. 1080p is the maximum resolution defined for HDTV use and this format is used for Blu-ray Disc&trade and PlayStation® 3.

Enjoy the in-built Freeview HD TV tuner and instant access to a huge range of digital TV and radio channels. Click here for a larger image

Watch subscription-free, built-in Freeview HD

To add to your viewing choice, the set has a built-in Freeview HD TV tuner so you can enjoy instant access to a huge range of free-to-air digital TV and radio channels, including HD programmes. There’s no subscription or contract and no need for a set-top box or satellite dish. It’s all easily accessible using just one remote control and your external TV aerial.

Never get bored with Internet TV

Enjoy the best internet content on your television with BRAVIA® Internet TV. It seamlessly streams online content through your broadband connection so you can access a world of online video entertainment direct from the comfort of your sofa. From video sharing sites like YouTube&trade and Dailymotion&trade, to catch-up TV services like BBC iPlayer and Demand Five or the latest movies with LOVEFiLM, it couldn't be easier to find and watch what you want, when you want it. You can even bookmark your favourite online video clips to share with friends.

Watch the best of the internet through your BRAVIA® with BRAVIA® Internet TV. Click here for a larger image

Enjoy smooth, detailed picture quality

MotionFlow technology boosts the refresh rate from standard 50Hz to 100Hz for super-smooth, ultra-realistic viewing. It creates 50 unique frames between each of the existing 50 frames, doubling the frames displayed per second in real-time. MotionFlow 100Hz works with both film-based content and standard TV and DVD.

Connect wirelessly

This BRAVIA® model features a range of energy saving features including an Energy Saving Switch which cuts energy consumption to zero when the TV set is not in use. Enjoy internet content, through your TV screen, while keeping your home free of unnecessary wires.

Maximum performance, minimal environmental impact

This BRAVIA® model features a range of energy saving features including an Energy Saving Switch which cuts energy consumption to zero when the TV set is not in use. It's a smarter, more convenient alternative to manually unplugging the TV. Its Ambient Sensor automatically adjusts the backlight for the best picture setting depending on the colour temperature of the ambient light in the room. A Presence Sensor detects when you leave the room and turns off the picture to save energy, leaving you with just the sound. The picture returns when you do, or the TV switches to standby.

Connect to your favourite technologies

With its USB Media Player, you can connect a wide range of USB devices straight to your BRAVIA® TV. From MP3 players to cameras, laptops to camcorders - even content from your USB memory stick. Just plug in to enjoy your favourite multimedia files on screen. You can stream movies, music and photos to your BRAVIA® from compatible devices, such as your laptop, mobile phone or music player, no matter where in the home they're located, thanks to DLNA technology. Enhance your BRAVIA® experience by connecting other HD products such as a Blu-ray Disc&trade player or PlayStation® 3 thanks to four High Definition Multimedia Interface&trade (HDMI&trade) inputs. These connections are specifically designed to carry high quality digital video and audio content. BRAVIA® Sync lets you control other Sony devices you've connected using your BRAVIA® TV remote control.

Box Contains

Television

AC Cable

Operating Instructions

VESA Mounting Holes

VESA Screws

Table-Top Stand

Remote Control

Customer Reviews

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64 of 65 people found the following review helpful

Super Telly! 15 Nov 2010

By Tim Burr

Just got one of these last week as a replacement for a sony 46v4000 which had suffered an unfortunate mishap. It is so much lighter that the old one and consumes about half the power 120W max as opposed to 238W. The profile of the bezel makes it look smaller but it isn't. However it does sit lower down on the video cabinet. When I first turned it on setup was easy apart from the external freeview box was unplugged so the TV found no digital channels. Easy to fix I thought. You have a choice of shop or home mode I chose home. (Note Shop mode is vivid mode). When the picture first came on I was less than impressed it was dull and lifeless so I went into Options to change the picture mode. When I got there are only 3: standard (dull), custom (flat/dull) and vivid (very bright backlight max but sterile, colour temp cool). It was at this point I hated the set and the picture quality. The paper manual is sparse and the i-Manual full of text that seems to give no real information while stating the obvious. Example try finding auto tuning for the digital freeview.

Giving up on the manuals it was lets just play. To cut the story short the settings I found to give me a nice bright sharp colourful picture were starting at the defaults: Options-Picture

HDMI input and a cable HD box
(Note you have to scroll down for some of these)
Picture Mode: Custom
Backlight: 8
Colour: 60
Colour Temp: Neutral
Sharpness: max
Film Mode: auto 1
Advanced settings:-
Black Corrector: High
Live Colour: High

(Note if you are unsure of where you started you can Reset to get back to the defaults)

Once I had these setting the picture is great, sharp and smooth. The freeview digital picture is inferior to HDMI HD and the Analogue, well watch if you only have to.

I have a wired internet and plugged it in. I watched a youtube video but this is no web browser.
There is only 1 USB so if you get a wireless Sony Adapter that's it.
Loads of inputs, put the Wii on component video.
Sound is OK but rather than get cinema sound an effective alternative is just to plug in a sub woofer into the stereo out phonos on the back. I have a sub from an old 5:1 system and it just adds that umph to the bass so I won't be adding anything else. Just one note Sony in their wisdom do not mute the stereo out so if you mute with a sub woofer attached you get a muffled rumble in the background, also the volume on the TV does not seem to affect the level on the stereo out.

By the way if you need to retune the digital channels you will find out how to do it on the back page of the paper manual. The Settings page is obtained after the blue Home button is pressed and then scrolling left many clicks. I had expected this to be in the options but obviously SONY are learning software user design from Microsoft.

By now after so many key presses you will be getting irritated by the key beep on every remote press. Luckily buried in the Settings pages is a setting to turn it off.

There is so much you can control for the picture settings I am sure you will find something to suit. You will also find how awful you can make it as well.

Once setup I really like this TV and would recommend it. I gave it 5 stars because of this. If I was judging it on the manuals and picture out of the box I could have been tempted to send it back as that was not what I expected of a SONY TV. Hope my ramblings give you something to work with, it is a great TV.

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful

Big disappointment 21 Dec 2010

By Jon

Good next day delivery from Amazon. However I felt this item had been returned before as the stand had been assembled, the screen repacked and the box resealed.

It wasn't too much of a surprise then when I discovered very bad light bleeding from the sides of the screen several inches from the edge into the picture. My wife spotted it straight away too. Especially noticeable on the blue screen when you tune to a radio station on Sky. An easy test is to switch to the SCART input with no source connected, then open the Home screen.

I checked 2 more ex713 46 inch sets in local stores and found the same problem, the 40 inch was maybe slightly better. I thought the 55 inch was stunning but pricey.

For what it's worth the sound was better than I expected, motion handling and UI were excellent, and it's a very good looking set. Also the internet features were well executed.

But the backlight bleeding meant it had to go back. Who knows, maybe there are some good ones out there. Returned as faulty and got the usual good returns service from Amazon.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful

Superb - but not flawless 8 Feb 2011

By M. D. Harris

I have had this TV for a few months now and would have to say I am very pleased with it.

Out of the box set-up is easy, taking only a couple of minutes in my case, but I did go back and fiddle with the picture settings to get it how I wanted.

Blu-Rays look amazing showing levels of detail I have just not seen on other sets, it's worth re-watching films just to see what I'd missed first time round. Colours are rich, blacks deep and pictures sharp. PS3 games look great too with not smearing during high action scenes. Hi-def TV looks good too (via a Virgin Media+ box) if not quite as pristine as Blu-Rays and even standard definition transmissions look acceptable blown up to 46 inches.

I can't comment properly on sound quality as I use an AV amp and separate speakers for all audio, although I did use the inbuilt speakers briefly just after setting it up to make sure everything worked and it sounded ok, if unremarkable.

Backlight issues seemed to have plagued some peoples experiences, but for me at least it's something of a non-issue. In use the only time I have noticed it is when I shut down the PS3, which has a black screen with small white text in the centre and some light bleed is evident on the left and right edges. But as this isn't a screen I look at for more than a second or two it doesn't really bother me (but it is there). While watching TV, Blu-Rays or playing games it's not apparent even if I make a conscious effort to look for it. Viewing Blu-Rays of The Watchmen and Batman: The Dark Knight (both with plenty of dark or night scenes) no backlight bleed could be seen, and I am picky about such things. It should be noted there is a drop in contrast if you look at the screen from an angle, but it's still perfectly watchable even at extreme angles.

Overall I'm very impressed with this screen, and without fail all of my friends and family have been blown away by it. With mine at least the backlight issue is so insignificant as to be ignored, but judging by some of the other reviews your mileage may vary. Being brutally honest I'd give 4 and half stars, but I can't so it gets five.

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