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Sony Bravia KDL52W5500U 52-inch Widescreen Full HD 1080p LCD TV with Freeview, 100Hz Motionflow
 
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Sony Bravia KDL52W5500U 52-inch Widescreen Full HD 1080p LCD TV with Freeview, 100Hz Motionflow

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Technical Details

  • Intelligent software creates additional frames with Motionflow 100Hz to reduce blur during fast-moving images
  • BRAVIA ENGINE 3™ for unique HD picture enhancement technology delivering unbeatable image quality
  • Dynamic Contrast of 100,000:1 to deliver high levels of detail in darker scenes
  • DLNA technology to share your multimedia content with DLNA certified devices in your home network
  • USB Media Player allows easy access to photos, music and video through your TV
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Product details

  • Product Dimensions: 11.5 x 126.2 x 82.2 cm ; 35 Kg
  • Boxed-product Weight: 42 Kg
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  • Item model number: KDL52W5500U
  • ASIN: B002685I88
  • Date first available at Amazon.co.uk: 24 April 2009
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 72,017 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

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Product Description

Manufacturer's Description

A BRAVIA LCD TV is no ordinary television. Design is sleeker, pictures are brighter, details clearer. All BRAVIA televisions are HD Ready as a minimum, with up to 4 HDMI connections, and come with an integrated digital tuner so there is no need for a set-top box to view Freeview TV and radio channels. Most of the BRAVIA LCD TVs feature BRAVIA Sync technology, it takes just one button to turn on your entire Sony home entertainment system, while XrossMediaBar helps you navigate your TV easily with its best-in-class menu screen. After all advanced technology should simply mean technology that does more for you.

The BRAVIA W5500 has all the Sony technology you need to experience a new level of entertainment. BRAVIA ENGINE 3 digital processing delivers a depth, richness and clarity that will take your breath away. Motionflow 100Hz technology keeps fast-moving sports and action crisp and clear. You can connect it to your home network using DLNA and enjoy music, video and pictures from other compatible devices on your TV. Plus you can use the AppliCast™ feature to check on-screen RSS feeds of news and other information while you’re watching your favourite programmes.

Savour every moment with all-action Motionflow 100Hz
Motionflow 100Hz for super-smooth, ultra-realistic sport and action scenes

Motionflow 100Hz for super-smooth,
ultra-realistic sport and action scenes

Motionflow 100Hz lets you see fast-moving sports and action scenes like never before by unlocking the amazing detail they contain. This blur reduction technology produces super-smooth, ultra-realistic viewing by doubling the conventional number of frames in a sequence. After every frame it creates an additional unique frame before the next one, based on key factors in the preceding and following images. While similar technologies simply duplicate frames, Motionflow 100Hz intelligently applies information to make movement appear even smoother.

BRAVIA ENGINE 3 for the ultimate HD experience
The unique technology of BRAVIA ENGINE 3 optimises the quality of every single scene

The unique technology of BRAVIA ENGINE 3
optimises the quality of every single scene

An LCD television creates pictures by switching millions of pixels on and off. In the W5500 this process is controlled by the BRAVIA ENGINE 3, the latest version of Sony’s advanced digital processing technology. Using a collection of unique Sony algorithms it applies a digital perfecting process to reduce noise and produce cleaner images, higher contrast and smoother motion sequences, resulting in enhanced overall performance regardless of source.

Specifically, it analyses each individual scene, controlling the peak brightness level to generate advanced colour and brightness, and optimising the noise level. It also detects and adjusts the overall colour distribution of each frame and smoothes diagonal lines of pixels in fast-moving pictures to prevent jagged edges and bleeding colours.

In short, it delivers exceptional performance in every single scene.

Connect your home with DLNA
Create an entertainment network in your home with DLNA

Create an entertainment network
in your home with DLNA

The BRAVIA W5500 means you can finally create an easy-to-use home network that lets you share music, video and pictures from around the house on your TV. As part of the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA), Sony has adopted a universal standard for connectivity that enables your electronic devices, regardless of brand, to ‘talk’ to one another. So now it’s easy to move files between your TV, PC, printer, music player, phone, camera and more, wherever they are in the home. By integrating your TV into a home network, either wirelessly or via a cable, you can use your BRAVIA remote to find photos on the DLNA-enabled laptop in your bedroom and call them up to your living room TV screen. If you want hard copies, just send them to print on the colour printer in your spare room.

As well as BRAVIA TVs, Sony offers a range of DLNA Certified™ devices such as VAIO notebooks, the Sony Ericsson mobile phone, the PLAYSTATION®3 and the GigaJuke hard-disc drive music system.

AppliCast™ brings live internet feeds to your screen while you watch TV

AppliCast™ brings live internet feeds to
your screen while you watch TV
AppliCast™ keeps you in touch while you watch

AppliCast™ lets you see internet information on your BRAVIA TV while you're watching television. You don't have to switch on your PC - just call up widgets onto the TV screen. Three widgets, including a clock and calendar, are already installed on the on-screen XrossMediaBar and you can add RSS feeds of news, weather and more by connecting your TV to the internet via the Ethernet port at the back. Just select the information you want with your BRAVIA remote and it's right there whenever you need it.







Product Description

  • BRAVIA ENGINE for unique HD picture enhancement technology delivering unbeatable image quality
  • Dynamic Contrast of 100,000:1 to deliver high levels of detail in darker scenes
  • DLNA technology to share your multimedia content with DLNA certified devices in your home network
  • USB Media Player allows easy access to photos, music and video through your TV

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars stunning, 9 Jun 2009
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Daniel (Cambridge, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Sony Bravia KDL52W5500U 52-inch Widescreen Full HD 1080p LCD TV with Freeview, 100Hz Motionflow (Electronics)
I have been waiting for Sony's new model for weeks and am not disappointed.

Even turned off it looks great with its piano black finish but when turned on the picture is truly stunning. The images are clean and crisp and the colour is extremely vibrant. The 100000:1 contrast ratio makes most of the other sets I considered look shabby in comparison. It seems to handle fast moving images with ease without much of the noticeable juddering that I have seen on most TVs. I have seen no sign of the uneven back lighting problems that have been discussed with the smaller version of this model.

I intend to use my surround sound system for most applications but the quality of the TV's own sound is much better than you might expect and as is perfectly adequate for general viewing purposes.

I bought this TV with the Sony BDP-S550 and, as I have said, the results are extremely impressive. However I am also very impressed with the picture from the digital receiver. I had expected it be stretched and grainy but this is just not the case. I fully intended to make sky hd my next purchase but am now seriously reconsidering if I need this.

Setup is extremely easy and is completed with a few button presses. It did take about 20 minutes to download all the tv guide but I don't know if that is normal or not. This model has the stand pre attached so it is just a question of lifting off the box and placing the TV on the cabinet.

My one and only gripe would be that even though I spent nearly £1900 on a tv and blue ray player I still had to purchase a separate HDMI cable as none was provided. Very tight Sony!

In summary, an awesome bit of kit and definitely the best purchase I have made in years.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars What a stonker, 11 Jun 2009
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This review is from: Sony Bravia KDL52W5500U 52-inch Widescreen Full HD 1080p LCD TV with Freeview, 100Hz Motionflow (Electronics)
I also have placed an order for this Sony set and have received it. I also like the other reviewer placed an order for the Sony BDP-S550 Blu-Ray drive, as it was version 2.0.
I have had a few LCD's in the past, but nothing above 40" and I was a little weary of picture degredation on a bigger screen. How wrong could I be it is gobsmacking. Also like the review above I can not see anything on my set that warants people going on about the levels of black. No problems here at all.
I really love the fact that it's DLNA and I can use my media server and other gadgets with this LCD. Applicast is also great as I have my RSS feeds come through, and it looks like these will be updated and new stuff come via updates as it is connected to the internet.

9.5/10 overall. Sound could just be slightly better although the one I have is connected to a 7.1 reciever.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars So good I bought the company ..., 1 Feb 2010
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Brian Lee (Warton, Preston UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sony Bravia KDL52W5500U 52-inch Widescreen Full HD 1080p LCD TV with Freeview, 100Hz Motionflow (Electronics)
... well - another Sony 52W5500 TV anyway!

I originally bought a Sony KDL-52W5500U TV in May 2009 for my Lounge which is reasonably large (25 ft long), anything smaller than a 50" is too small for the room IMHO (the wife disagrees but what's new?). I bought that one from my local Sony Centre as they were actually cheaper than Amazon - for at least a week - just as the 52W5500 was released. In fact I was informed I had only the second set in the country!

Wow - to say I was knocked out by the picture is putting it mildly - it is absolutely superb when playing a decent Blu-Ray disc. I had Planet Earth and South Pacific (the recent documentary not the film!) on (ad nauseam according to the wife) and they were both (to use a tired word which nontheless is still approriate) stunning. I was even pleasantly surprised by the built-in Freeview tuner's picture - depending on the source of the programme it can be very good too - but if you get closer than about 12 feet you can notice digital artefacts on some programmes depending on their age and the care taken in production. If this is a problem there are several noise reduction settings or even resolution reduction options if required.

Sound is not particularly good - in common with most LCD TV's. It is by no means the worst I have heard, but it is not brilliant. However, hook up a decent A-V amp with Dolby Digital / DTS capability and 5 or 7 small speakers plus a sub-woofer and wow - you have sound that really matches the picture! IMHO it is also essential to have an A-V amp with good old Dolby Pro-Logic capability as well to produce rear (surround) channels from the ordinary stereo output from the Freeview tuner. Otherwise you will only have surround from DVD and Blu-Ray discs (or Sky plus) whereas Dolby Pro-Logic produces quite acceptable surround sound by decoding the stereo outputs intelligently. Most modern stereo programme tracks are mixed with Dolby Pro-Logic information encoded in.

One niggle was the Programme Guide (EPG). The selected default was some third-party guide which apparently took hours to download initially and then apparently bombards you with adverts from then on. Blow this thought I (after waiting over 30 minutes for the download) - from experience with earlier Sony TV's there is nothing wrong with the standard Sony EPG. You have to know where to go on the menus to select it though (Settings - Digital Setup - Technical Setup - Programme Guide) ...

Having done that - it's as good as I had hoped. Even better - you can use it as a 52" Photo Display screen if you want via the inbuilt USB connection. Predictably - these look great! Plus there are loadsa other goodies but I haven't tried many of these.

(Cautionary note - correspondence in another forum indicates that this TV is not ideal for gamers - there is lag on the HDMI inputs - presumably caused by the picture enhancement technology used in this TV - essential for producing a good picture on such a large screen with such a detailed resolution. This lag renders some fast games unplayable - apparently even when (as I suggested) you turn off the 100Hz motionflow. This same lag can cause echo effects if you have two TV's (e.g. in different rooms) tuned to the same channel, one of them this set and the other a cheaper TV with less resolution enhancement processing etc. You can hear an echo effect between the TV's. This is not actually a problem (unless you have both TV's in the same room!) just a bit disconcerting to begin with. I suggested to the gamer that the lag was non-existent if you use SCART inputs - he was not impressed as he had a PS3!)

Anyway ...

Hmm ... thought I - this TV is really good ...

Hmm ...

Now then ...

I had a Sony KDL40W4500 in my Hi-Fi room which I thought was great. I bought this from Amazon in December 2008 based largely on good reviews - it was voted not just "TV of the Year 2008" by "What Video and Home Cinema" magazine but "Product of the Year 2008" which included any Audio-Visual product of any genre. So - thought I - it should be good! And it was. Very good - and particularly when viewing Blu-ray.

Hmm ... but - after seeing the 52" TV in the lounge with Blu-Ray - the 40" TV didn't quite cut it.

So - I found a willing customer for the 40" (I didn't let him see the 52" initially) and ordered a second 52W5500 for my Hi-Fi room. And this time Amazon (October 2009) were about £[] cheaper than Sony Centre! It arrived quickly with courteous and friendly van drivers wearing white gloves (as Amazon had promised - mind you the drivers didn't seem to know anything about that!) who carried it upstairs for me no problem. (Some delivery drivers refuse to cart heavy stuff upstairs.)

Now in the smaller room (viewing distance 9 feet) the artefacts on some external inputs (e.g. from VHS tape) are a bit more noticeable but Freeview is usually perfectly OK and, of course, Blu-Ray is extra stunning!

(Another cautionary note - being a bit bigger than the 40" set and being on a cabinet in front of the window - it makes the room dark! But who cares?)

I now have two ideal set-ups with my two 52W5500's, two Sony Home Cinema sound systems (with 200 watt sub-woofer and 5 peanut-shaped speakers each) and two Yamaha A-V 5.1 Digital Surround amps. Currently my favourite demo disc is Baraka on Blu-Ray - watch this on a Sony KDL-52W5500 if you want to understand the true meaning of the word "stunning"!



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