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Find what Fits your vehicle Remove. Please Select Make. Jun 1, Sony strongly recommends that you use the Wall-Mount Bracket model designed for your TV and that wall- mounting of your TV should be performed by We also noticed a few artifacts produced by the Sony's processing, particularly in High mode. During Chapter 7 of Flags the camera follows a plane as it takes off quickly, and at a certain point in the pan the entire frame suddenly "locks in" to smooth mode, and a palm tree in the foreground unnaturally becomes solid where before it had evinced judder.

We saw that effect in both modes, but in High the plane also evinced a faint, decidedly unnatural "ghost" that followed behind it. Sony's engineers told us they'd designed the set to function primarily in Standard mode, and that some artifacts might arise from the more aggressive smoothing action of High. In a scene from Digital Video Essentials on HD DVD, we also noticed in both modes again that the yellow fence behind a pair of frolicking youths suddenly scrambled and broke up, then resumed normal appearance the next instant.

Again, the scrambling was more apparent in High mode. While Hollywood films mostly suffer to our eye from Sony's smooth treatment, one area where we felt the processing was entirely welcome came in nature documentaries, specifically Planet Earth. This spectacular production includes numerous helicopter flyovers of mountains, caves, glaciers and the rest.

In all of them judder was quite apparent and, when seen next to the smoother Sony and Toshiba, quite unwelcome. The smoothed-out camera movement and other motion throughout the series looked entirely more natural in Hz mode. We attribute this difference to the, ahem, natural setting of the content; we expect nature documentaries to look as realistic as possible, whereas films should look perhaps less so, and more like film.

Of course, as we said with the Toshiba, you can disengage these modes at will according to preference, and merely having them is a great option. The reduction of blur during motion is supposedly another strength of Hz processing, but as with the Toshiba we found it hard to find a real instance where the mode cleaned up blurring considerably compared to the 60Hz Sharp.

The most obvious example we saw was during ESPNHD's ticker, where the moving white-on-black words appeared slightly less blurry when we engaged the mode. People highly sensitive to motion blur might see more obvious examples in program material, but we did not during our testing.

The Sony looked very sharp on all scenes, although not noticeably more- or less-so than any of the TVs we watched alongside--including the 1,x resolution PDPHD, which looked every bit as sharp as the p Sony. Turning to test patterns, the Sony resolved every line of the i and p horizontal resolution charts from the Sencore VP Like most HDTVs we've tested, it properly de-interlaced i video content and failed to do so with i film-based content.

We found it difficult to spot this failure in other program material; even the RV grille from Chapter 9 of Ghost Rider , which often reveals improper de-interlacing, didn't betray any artifacts. In case you're keeping track, the set failed the i film de-interlacing test regardless of whether Hz was engaged or not, and choosing either of the two DRC modes actually made the pattern and the pan around Raymond James stadium look worse, with more artifacts, edge enhancement and moire.

Other performance considerations : One complaint leveled at last year's XBR2 models concerned uneven backlight uniformity, and while we didn't notice untoward backlight issues on any XBR2 we reviewed, we have no reason to doubt that many samples of those sets did suffer from uneven backlights. Our sample's screen remained even in all but the darkest fields, where we noticed that the left and right sides of the screen appeared slightly lighter than the middle.

This effect wasn't noticeable on letterbox bars but only on the very darkest scenes, such as the black behind rolling credits or a scene from the Caves episode of Planet Earth where the screen was mostly black aside from a small pinpoint of helmet light. With an LCD this expensive, it's worth mentioning that the Pioneers, and indeed all plasmas we've tested, exhibited essentially perfect uniformity.

While the Sony's image stayed truer from off-angle than just about any LCD we've reviewed, compared to plasma it still washed out when seen from the sides and above or below,and from extreme angles darker areas gained a reddish tinge. The effect was again most noticeable during dark scenes; from our 7-foot seating distance, for example, the blacks in the aforementioned cave scene appeared quite a bit lighter when seen from just one seat on our couch to either side of dead center.

Unless we sat directly in the sweet spot, we didn't experience those excellent black levels we mentioned above. Although most cable and satellite boxes convert standard-def sources to HD resolutions and many, when set to output HD at all, must perform this upconversion , which can make a TV's standard-def processing a moot issue, we still put the KDLXBR4 through our gamut of standard-def tests using the HQV disc on DVD connected via component video at i.

It did an average job overall. In general, setting DRC to Mode the only one available with i sources--or leaving it turned Off made little difference, although if we had to choose, we'd pick the slightly softer, more forgiving with low-quality SD sources look of Off.

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