GeoGeoGeo
Supreme Member
- 28 March 2007
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Re: SONY Bravia W4000
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In fact, from the disaster of the W3000 we've gone to a position where the 40W4000 is one of the most accomplished motion-handlers we've seen in the LCD world, even without 100Hz. This leaves us free to appreciate the other things the 40W4000 has going for it - of which there are many....
Equally remarkable are the 40W4000's black levels. Dark Braveheart scenes like the one where Wallace is visited in the forest by the French princess achieve depths of blackness that have previously only been achievable by plasma technology. What's more, the black levels we're talking about look completely stable, with no trace of the sort of brightness ‛stepping' that can trouble many LCD TVs with dynamic contrast systems....
So what's next? Let's go for colours. Once again the 40W4000's handling of Braveheart's unusually varied palette - which takes in everything from rich greens for the Scottish landscape through bright fabrics in the clothes of the English nobles to lots of naturally and low-lit skin tones - is as good as anything we've ever seen on an LCD TV. It hardly puts a foot wrong at any point, shifting effortlessly from the vibrant hues of the shot where a bloodied, blue-painted Wallace stands against a rich blue sky to the dull browns and greys of a meeting of Scottish nobles in a dingy castle room....
It's important to stress following our problems with the 46W3000 that the 40W4000 is also unusually accomplished with standard definition, upscaling it to the screen's full HD resolution with a noiseless assurance that's now up there with the best of the similarly priced LCD competition.
TEST: Sony Bravia KDL-40W4000 Full HD
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