SONY BRAVIA W4000 LCD TV REVIEW

SONY BRAVIA W4000

The BRAVIA W4000-Series LCD TV from Sony offers 1080p Full HD visual excellence for movies, games and photos.

The BRAVIA W4000 comes with the special Picture Frame Mode which displays beautiful HD photo images when the TV is not in use.

Bravia's Picture Frame Mode switches the set to a reduced brightness and displays digital photos in HD quality, with the natural warm characteristics of traditional film.

You can even import your own pictures from the USB Photoviewer or use the six pre-installed pictures, which range from Pop art to Van Gogh. Picture Frame Mode uses approximately 35 per cent less power than TV viewing mode¹, so it helps reduce overall power consumption.
 
The BRAVIA W4000 features BRAVIA Sync technology which uses HDMI connections to send commands to the various components of a Home Theatre system. So you can start watching a film on the Blu-ray Disc player with one press of a button on a single remote.

10-bit signal processing3 and a 10-bit LCD panel yield 1024 shades of gradation between colours compared to the 256 available from normal 8-bit panels. In other words the BRAVIA W4000 has 64 times more colours, meaning a huge step closer to the subtle tones of real life.

A special Wide Colour Gamut Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp (WCG-CCFL) boosts the backlight spectrum beyond the limits of standard CCFLs, adding a further level of realism to on-screen colour.

The Series also supports the extended xvYCC colour space for moving images -set to replace sRGB as the industry standard. Implemented under the brand name x.v.Colour, this feature gives BRAVIA W4000-Series televisions the ability to display content recorded on very new digital camcorders that use xvYCC. In the future, as xvYCC colour becomes widely used within the broadcast industry, the BRAVIA W4000-Series will be ready.

The BRAVIA W4000 features an integrated HDTV tuner and AVC-HD decoder alongside the DVB-T digital tuner so there’s no need for a set-top box to access terrestrial HDTV programming where available. In addition, the Series is equipped with a cable TV tuner which can also handle HD services.

Home Cinema enthusiasts are likely to be drawn to the 24p True Cinema mode. Cine cameras film at 24 frames per second, but televisions operate at a higher frame rate, so conversion has traditionally been necessary. The result is a 4% discrepancy from the original – the film on TV actually runs 4% faster than the original, and the soundtrack rises by 4% in pitch. When a BRAVIA W4000-Series TV is connected to a film source such as a Blu-ray Disc player, the original 24 frames per second are played just as the camera first recorded them. You see – and hear – exactly what you should.

The physical design of the Series combines perfectly judged minimalism with the quietly luxurious Midnight Sky bezel colouring and subtly illuminated Sony logo.