Sony KDE-42XS955 42

User Reviews for Sony KDE-42XS955 42

• Reviewed by: georget1105

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  Strengths: Nice picture and cabinet design

  Weaknesses: None

  Overall Evaluation: Picture is sharp even without using an HD satellite receiver. Television quality is what I expected and hoped for. I am glad I bought an HD quality television as opposed to the ED quality sets that are much cheaper.
• Reviewed by: rk99

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  Strengths: Colors look bright and vibrant.

  Weaknesses: Fan noise, scaler is useless, user interface is bad, remote is poor, delays in switching channels via guide.

  Overall Evaluation: I own a sharp 45" LCD and this sony. The stretch mode on the sharp is excellent and is a requirement for watching regular TV (stretches non-linear, sides of picture are stretched the most), sony just does a linear stretch. The HD picture on the sharp blows this one away, the sony is a bit grainy in the translation whereas the sharp has all 1080 lines. The user interface on the sony is also comparatively bad, a complete dissappointment. The sony's plasma colors are brighter and more vibrant, but that's the only plus.