| For consumers who want an HDTV that keeps pace with fast-action movies, sports, and game play, Sony BRAVIA V-Series Flat Panel HDTVs combine Full HD 1080p performance and Motionflow 120Hz technology for an amazing viewing experience. Motionflow 120Hz takes both high-definition and standard programming a step further by increasing sharpness and detail in fast-moving images for more fluid, natural motion. In addition, BRAVIA V-Series HDTVs use proprietary Image Blur Reduction technology to further enhance the picture for even better performance. The HDTVs also feature BRAVIA Engine 2 technology, which uses exclusive Sony algorithms to reduce visual noise and sharpen and enhance an already-striking dynamic contrast ratio. Additionally, they include seven versatile HD connections to ensure you get impressive image quality from all your HD components. Take advantage of four HDMI inputs, component and composite inputs, and a PC input, as well as a USB input that lets you play audio files from USB storage devices, or connect a compatible camera to your HDTV for a quick and easy slide show. Sony knows your home theater set-up doesn't stop with your HDTV, which is why the BRAVIA V-Series HDTVs are compatible with BRAVIA Link Modules -- including the BRAVIA Wireless Link, BRAVIA DVD Link, and BRAVIA Input Link Modules (all sold separately). The HDTVs also support BRAVIA SyncTM technology so you can control all of your compatible devices with a single remote. And all BRAVIA HDTVs exceed ENERGY STAR 3.0 requirements for in-use and stand-by power consumption, meaning you don't need a lot of power to get a lot of performance. |
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 Great for family room |
| Review Date: February 23, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Mrs. Write, Chicago, IL USA |
| This TV made for an awesome Christmas present, especially since I got an amazing Black Friday price on it. This is our first flat screen, and we have been very impressed with the picture quality, ease of use, and look of it hung up on our family room wall. We were a little surprised to find how much more we have to turn it up in order to hear well, but it's not any kind of dealbreaker. Overall, super pleased. Highly recommended. |
Disappointed--must be a defective TV
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| Review Date: February 23, 2010 |
| Reviewer: J. D. Wemmlinger, Bridgeport, CT |
I purchased this TV on a Sunday, was very impressed with the good price and the excellent reviews it had received, for the most part. The TV arrived by a box truck shipper on Wed at 7:30 AM, having been shipped from around 60 miles away. I had to run after the driver for his invoice, and he could only deliver it to the door without an "additional charge", but I was very happy with the speed of the delivery, carried it up the stairs, and happily set it up, expecting an upgrade from the 32" 720P Bravia I have watched for a couple of years, which is excellent and I have no gripes about, and was a big factor in "going SONY" with this one.
Unfortunately, the picture quality is poor, and I am going to send it back to SONY at their expense and they will replace it under the manufacturer's warranty within 5- 7 days of faxing them the receipt, which I did today. The problems with the TV are blurriness of numbers and images...the Olympics for example, were of a much better quality on the 2 yr old 32" ,720P Bravia than on this one. It is not extreme defect, but it is not "excellent HD" and the quality in important ways is similar to an old style television. I replaced the cable box, tried a new HDMI cord, and ran a newer DVD through it that should have had an excellent picture. Nothing was better. The words "stunning, and "amazing" that I've read in the reviews here certainly don't apply. There is also too much black in the picture, the black colors predominate. Hopefully this is a defective product and these will not be problems with the new one they send...if so, then I can't understand the other reviews here and I probably have forgone the "return" option (which would cost about 25% of the cost considering the restocking fee and shipping).
I must say the customer/tech support with SONY has been excellent so far, and I hope after the replacement arrives, I can write another review saying "the picture is stunning". If anyone has comments or suggestions I'd love to hear them. |
Red flashing and some sound issues
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| Review Date: February 7, 2010 |
| Reviewer: J. Edwards, |
This TV has pretty decent sound and picture, but is plagued by a few issues which could likely be resolved with a simple firmware update (if sony ever provides it)
I am talking about the "red flash" issue. This is actually an issue involving automatic jumping up and down of color temperature during normal operation of the set, but has garnered the name "red flashing" since it can become very noticeable during scenes with lots of red in the background as you can plainly see the colors getting brighter and dimmer at random times during the scene. Scenes with deep blue backgrounds (The Daily Show) can exhibit some pretty severe blue flashing at times too.
The sound pops and crackles a bit when you change channels on this TV, and there is a little barely audible fuzz and static on the built-in speakers. The sound on certain HDMI connected devices may not work if you turn them on before turning the TV on. I think these issues also boil down to the firmware.
The inputs on this TV are awesome, and the experience is otherwise great, and the price is very affordable.
If the above mentioned issues can be addressed by firmware (if only the red flash, since I find it most annoying) I will gladly upgrade my rating to 5 stars. |
Sony KDL-40V5100
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| Review Date: February 2, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Robert C. Brown, San Diego, CA |
| Received in excellent condition, mounted to wall with easy (and only needed one person). Has been an excellent choice in picture, sound and ease of use. Would recommend a PS3 to go with it for ease of accessing internet, and streaming video from Netflix. Haven't played any games on it yet, but sure with the picture quality already seen it will be a great time. |
Stay Away from V series
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| Review Date: January 28, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Arno B. Schwarz, Connecticut |
| I bought this TV for my living room. This is my fourth Sony TV. I thought it would be great. I have it hooked up with a comcast cable box via HDMI. Every time I went from an SD channel to an HD channel or HD channel ot SD channel my screen went "BLACK", but I still had sound. I had to go back to an SD or HD channel and then it would allow me to change channels. This is crap. I upgraded the firmware, changed the cable box and hdmi cable. It still did the same thing. At times it also shows split screen as well. I am sending it back. I am giving Sony another chance. I recently purchased the W5100 series and could not be more thrilled. Stay away from the V series it is junk! |
Nice television for its size.
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| Review Date: January 19, 2010 |
| Reviewer: H. Crosland, Maryland |
I initially started off with the LG 42" and was not impressed with the picture but with this and only losing 2 inches I was very impressed withthe picture quality...here are some of my thoughts:
After playing around with the settings, watching TV, doing some gaming and running some blu rays and standard DVDs thru it here is what I observed.
*for obvious reasons, the PS3 does a better job showing standard DVDs. Upscaling thru a PS3 makes older DVDs look a whole lot better (and worse) which may give rise over the whole double dipping argument.
*Speaking of which, I ran a few standard DVD movies thru just to get an idea of how they would look and if I would consider getting the blu ray and here is what I saw:
Star Trek II and III Collector's edition - @ 120hz it does not age well at all. Between these 2 and Undiscovered Country, they were my faves and the only ones I would consider getting on blu ray, but the upscaling makes it look a lot grainier and "fake".
Sky Captain, 300 and Minority Report - because of the way they were filmed, (the graininess and sepia tones that were used) the visuals are a mixed bag. Would rather watch them at standard def. in 60hz than at 120hz
Saving Private Ryan - does really well upscaled to 120hz. I would be curious to see how this looks in Blu ray.
Predator II - another movie that didn't fare well in upscaling @120hz
Star Wars ESB and RotJ - Looked surprisingly well for upscaling @120hz. Many smaller details I never saw really stood out. I will test the newer ones later.
Lord of the Rings - @120hz, I can wait for the extended edition of the blu ray to come out.
The Godfather - @120hz it looked great also.
The Incredibles - looked incredible @120hz
* Popped in a few HD-DVDs (yes I still have mine attached to my 360) and they benefitted from the 120hz upscale. No surprises there.
* Gaming-wise the resolution is somewhat better. Dragon's Age on the 360 looks sharper and crisper now. MW2 does also but the motionblur could be better.
Assassin's Creed on the PS3 really stands out and actually has me considering switching some of my cross platform titles coming out from the 360 to the PS3.
* TV wise - one thing I did learn is that I cant turn my FIOS box all the way up to 1080i. The TV and box won't register. It goes as far as 720p and then the TV supposedly upscales the pic to 1080p (not sure if that is 100% true). With all the settings on, the picture quality is only as good as the channel and show has been filmed. Depending if you may consider how irritating everything is being handled at 120hz with all the settings on, you could wind up turing some of the most important features off while watching regular TV. Even some of the Hi Def stations had some issues.
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Goog Design Poor quality of image on 480i
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| Review Date: December 22, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Mauricio del Río Calderón, |
| On standard tv signal (480i) I spected a better quality, for HD signal the quality improves a lot. |
Great HDTV
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| Review Date: December 20, 2009 |
| Reviewer: G. Klenicki, |
Got this HDTV within a bundle with a Sony blu-ray for Thanksgiving. Can't mention the price but is was a such a great deal! The picture quality of this TV is just amazing.
I was worried about the negative comments on the contrast but it seems this issue was already corrected.
Amazon delivery service was perfect.
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Happy NOW
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| Review Date: December 19, 2009 |
| Reviewer: M. E. Bell, |
| I bought my set(Bravia KDL 40 VL160 )yesterday and set it up this morning. At first, I was ready to send it back because the picture was dim and if I tried to set brightness higher it grew misty and lost detail while remaining dark. I called Sony, their only suggestion was to take it back. Today was a rainy day here but after a few hours the sun started to come out and at the same time the picture improved as it got lighter ouyside. Even though it is not in the detail of features, I realised the set must have a light sensing dimmer feature. Sure enough, I found it buried in the manual which gives little space to it except for a mention that it is in the setup menu and can be turned off, which I immediately did. The picture now is beautiful, and, thank you, I'm happy to control the picture to my liking as aopposed to some silly, unimportant feature that even Sony's own technicians know nothing about. |
It is what it is
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| Review Date: December 6, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Rosemary Collins, |
| Plain and simple, this is a very good 40 inch flat screen television. Mine replaces a 35 inch, 10 year old Sony tube tv that actually costs me $1,200 when I bought it. The old TV still works perfectly but obviously is not a HDTV. I paid $797.00 for the new one at ABC warehouse after a little haggling. The flat screen 40" is only 10% bigger than a traditional 35" because of the wide screen/lower hight shape. Keep that in mind if you are seeking a major upgrade in size. The 42" and 46" versions are only about $200 more than the 40" and would be well worth the small added cost. My purchase, on the other hand, was based substantially on weight. We intend to put this TV in our travel trailer for 4 months out of the year and take it with us on vacation. For some reason the current 42 and 46 inch televisions carry with them a disproportionate jump up in weight. That is, a 42 inch screen is only 5% bigger than a 40 inch, but weighs as much as 25% more. I think it might have more to do with the heaviness of the stand than the actual tv, but it is a consideration if you intend to move the tv from time to time. Bottom line, we are happy with our purchase. |
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1 Response to Sony BRAVIA V-Series KDL-40V5100 40-Inch 1080p 120Hz LCD HDTV
andy
August 11th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
Excellent image quality, user-friendly menu control, USB port through a very practical option for playback of photos.