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Sony Bravia KDL-40W3000

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Pros
Very easy to set up and use
Ffreeze feature uses PiP
Cons
Expensive

$966.05 - $1,999.99
From 7 Merchants

Pricing: Expensive: $2070 (8/29/2007)
Performance: Good: 77
Features: Good: 72
Design: Very Good: 81

Find out how these four scores, and their relative weights, combine to produce the PC World Rating.

Pricing

Expensive: $2070

Wall-Mount Kit, If Not Included in Unit Price - $300

Performance

Good: 77

PC World Tests
Interface Tested	HDMI
High-Definition Image Quality	Good
Standard-TV Image Quality	Good
DVD Image Quality	Good
Color Quality	Good
Brightness and Contrast	Good
Detail	Good
Overall Quality	Good

Features

Good: 72

Screen Specs
TV Technology	LCD
Diagonal (inches)	40Screen
Native Resolution (pixels)	1920-by-1080
Rated Contrast Ratio	1800:1
Horizontal View Angle (degrees)	178
Vertical View Angle (degrees)	178
Pixel Response Time (milliseconds)	8

Dimensions
Depth (inches)	10.5
Height (inches)	27.1
Width (inches)	39.1
Weight (pounds)	56

Features and Characteristics
Cabinet Colors	Black
Speaker Type	Yes
CableCard Ready	No
Primary Color Controls	No
Reset to Factory Settings	Yes
HD Formats	720p, 1080i, 1080p
NTSC Tuner	0
ATSC Tuner	1
Remote Control	RF
Picture in Picture	Yes

Inputs
RF Coaxial Input	1
RF Coaxial Output	0
VGA Input	1
VGA Output	0
Composite Input	3
S-Video Input	1
S-Video Output	0
Component Input	2
Component Output	0
DVI Input	0
DVI Output	0
HDMI Input	3
HDMI Output	0
RCA Audio Input	5
RCA Audio Output	1
Optical Output	1
Other Interfaces	RS232

Physical Adjustments
Panel Tilt	No
Panel Pivot	No
Height-Adjustable Base	No
Swivel	No
Wall-Mountable	Yes
Included Wall-Mount Kit	No

Support & Reliability
Labor Warranty (years)	One
Parts Warranty (years)	One
Weekday Support Hours	24
Saturday Support Hours	24
Sunday Support Hours	24
Toll-Free Support	Yes

Design

Very Good: 81

Sony Bravia 40W3000 Review

by Lincoln Spector

- There's nothing wrong with Sony's 40W3000 LCD set that a good price reduction wouldn't cure. Well, not much, anyway. I noticed some lackluster details in the broadcast high-def tests, but overall the images looked good (in our November issue's HDTV roundup, the Sony came in fourth out of twelve TVs in our picture-quality tests). If I hadn't been scrutinizing the image in a testing environment, I doubt I would have found anything wrong with it.

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User Reviews for Sony Bravia KDL-40W3000

Reviewed by: Batmite

Duration of ownership:

Strengths: Picture, ease of use, # & types of inputs/outputs

Weaknesses: Audio is average

Overall Evaluation: This TV is amazing. It has buttons to quickly adjust the color levels to Vivid, Standard, Cinema, or custom and easily change wide and zoom views. The PIP is great how you can resize and toggle the audio between the two. SD even looks great on this TV compared to my friends HD that looks grainy. The audio seems fine, I can't tell the difference with the virtual surround sound and other audio features I enabled compared to regular TV audio. It all sounds the same. Overall the picture is smooth. I did notice slight ghosting when set to Vivid (or the brightness is all the way up) when there are fast or fast dark images. When I changed the color setting I didn't notice it anymore. I first connected the cable coax directly in the TV and the cable signal got analog and digital cable channels, music channels, and only the network HD channels. It was confusing the way the channels numbers were all over the map and some were 113.1, 113.2, etc. Some channels it was able to pull info like the station id, show name, and show length, but most it didn't. I then used the cable box with coax and that worked a lot better and the rest of the HD channels I was expecting came in. Then I traded in my cable box for an HDMI cable box and the picture is perfect through that connection. I couldn't ask for anything else in an HD TV than what this Sony offers.
Reviewed by: bmain2248

Duration of ownership:

Strengths: Sharpness and quality of picture

Weaknesses: Speakers

Overall Evaluation: This is a great television set, beautiful picture, feature-rich and unmatched by the competition for the same amount of money spent. Watching a live sporting event, it feels as if you are right there in the stands. Outstanding value.