Sony Grand WEGA KF-50WE610 50 in. HDTV-Ready LCD TV
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- Digital TV Standard: HDTV-Ready
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9 14:9
- Weight: 82.2 lb.
- Projector Technology: LCD
- Built-in Tuner: NTSC
- Screen Size: 50 inch
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Vor_TX
Pros
Fantastic picture
Cons
I can?t get my friends to leave
Recommended it?
Yes
The Bottom Line:
We love it, my clients are impressed and all of my friends want one now.
Review date: July 15, 2004
Purchase date: September 26, 2003
It's now been 10 months since I purchased this unit, and I and everyone else who see's it is still impressed with the picture. Before I go on about how great a set this is, my projection lamp just died on me yesterday, and after 1 call to Sony, my new lamp was delivered before noon today.
I'm a producer in the business of video production with my studio in my home, so the TV I use needs to impress my clients as well as myself. With this TV the widescreen 16:9 DVD videos we produce as well as the commercial Hollywood DVD's look fantastic especially coming from our Samsung HD-931 DVD player via the DVI connector cable. The picture from this DVD player and a good quality DVD looks like a high definition source. The high definition picture from our cable provider looks fantastic as well via the component connectors. I also like the narrow depth of this unit compared to the 60". The custom pre-sets for picture is also a nice feature. The sound is quite good for small built speakers, and we listen to it this way for programs which I feel is not necessary to fire up our surround sound system with subwoofer.
Originally I intended to purchase a Panasonic plasma, but after much research I discovered the many shortcomings of all the plasmas units and decided to wait until the technology improved. After window shopping at Best Buy with a friend who was in the market for a plasma, we saw a Panasonic LCD projection TV that looked very impressive especially for the price. At this time (early Aug. 2003) this Sony model was not even made yet, and I obviously didn't know about it. After researching the Panasonic I decided to purchase it, so I downloaded the spec sheet from Circuit City's web site and about 5 weeks later went down to buy it. After hunting through the store with spec printout in hand and not finding the TV, a salesman told me it was a discontinued model, BUT Sony has a new model which just came out this week that he would sell me for the same price. I suspected this was a bait-and-switch. All they had on the floor was the 42" model, but would be receiving their first 50" in 4 days. He downloaded the Sony specs from the Sony site and gave them to me. WOW, I tried to contain myself while I read over the spec sheet and saw the Sony was actually a much better TV....for the same $2,900.
We love it and all of my friends want one now.
Purchase date: September 26, 2003
It's now been 10 months since I purchased this unit, and I and everyone else who see's it is still impressed with the picture. Before I go on about how great a set this is, my projection lamp just died on me yesterday, and after 1 call to Sony, my new lamp was delivered before noon today.
I'm a producer in the business of video production with my studio in my home, so the TV I use needs to impress my clients as well as myself. With this TV the widescreen 16:9 DVD videos we produce as well as the commercial Hollywood DVD's look fantastic especially coming from our Samsung HD-931 DVD player via the DVI connector cable. The picture from this DVD player and a good quality DVD looks like a high definition source. The high definition picture from our cable provider looks fantastic as well via the component connectors. I also like the narrow depth of this unit compared to the 60". The custom pre-sets for picture is also a nice feature. The sound is quite good for small built speakers, and we listen to it this way for programs which I feel is not necessary to fire up our surround sound system with subwoofer.
Originally I intended to purchase a Panasonic plasma, but after much research I discovered the many shortcomings of all the plasmas units and decided to wait until the technology improved. After window shopping at Best Buy with a friend who was in the market for a plasma, we saw a Panasonic LCD projection TV that looked very impressive especially for the price. At this time (early Aug. 2003) this Sony model was not even made yet, and I obviously didn't know about it. After researching the Panasonic I decided to purchase it, so I downloaded the spec sheet from Circuit City's web site and about 5 weeks later went down to buy it. After hunting through the store with spec printout in hand and not finding the TV, a salesman told me it was a discontinued model, BUT Sony has a new model which just came out this week that he would sell me for the same price. I suspected this was a bait-and-switch. All they had on the floor was the 42" model, but would be receiving their first 50" in 4 days. He downloaded the Sony specs from the Sony site and gave them to me. WOW, I tried to contain myself while I read over the spec sheet and saw the Sony was actually a much better TV....for the same $2,900.
We love it and all of my friends want one now.
