Customer Reviews

Love at first sight
I recently got my Sony KDL-32L4000, The Amazon price was great, It saved me sales tax and time and gas to pick one up locally. The delivery by CEVA was prompt and on the due date. The Sony was taken out of the box and pluged in by the delivery man. Later I promgramed and did some set up. Using an old roof antenna I started to get up wards of 50 chanels most all chanels broadcast in one HD chanel so I get superb reception on those, The Sony upped my Converter box chanel count from 26 to 48 with the new Sony. The converter box I had gave a pretty poor picture with lots of fade out. This new Sony is like seeing TV for the first time, the picture is great!! So far my only quibble is that the menu info is a little small so it’s hard to do programing.

The LCD seems to work well and keep up with fast action, the picture is great, the sound quailty is good. As time goes along and I do some more set up it will only get better. If this TV lives up to the Sony quality reputation, I will enjoy this tv for a long , long time. It’s better to upgrade to an LCD than get the converter as the old tube TVs don’t seem to take the HD signals very well.

I love my Sony!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No balony!!!! Amazon was great TOO!!!!!

Review of Sony Bravia 32″ TV
It is a very good television. It does everything I would want a television to do. What more can you ask?

Great display and ATSC tuner; good sound
I recently purchased this item from another vendor.

Picture quality is very good to my eyes. The blacks are black, not washed out as on, say, a Westinghouse lvm37-w3. Sound from the built-in speakers is good, but nothing to compare with external amplified speakers. The built-in ATSC tuner does a great job.

Setting up the channel list was easy and took only a couple of minutes, but I do wish there were an obvious way to skip analog channels during setup. I don’t have cable and didn’t want to include any analog channels in the channel list. Since they were automatically identified, I had to manually hide them once channel setup was complete.

Of course, it will be easy to skip analog over-the-air channels after February 2009

I wanted to set up a laptop with a TV tuner, for use as a DVR. It was easy to connect to the Sony. I’m using a MacBook, so for the video connection I used a Mini-DVI to DVI adapter connected to a DVI-D to HDMI cable. For audio I used a 3.5mm male to 2 RCA-type male audio y-cable. With the cables connected and the TV turned on, the MacBook recognized the display and automatically configured it to 1280×720 resolution, without so much as popping up a preference pane.

The owner’s manual warns not to connect a PC to the HDMI ports, and to use the RGB IN port instead; I’m not sure why, or whether this is specific to PCs with VGA video-out ports. Given the MacBook’s Mini-DVI video port, I guessed the warning didn’t apply to it.

Pros:
* Very good picture quality
* Good ATSC tuner
* Plays well with computers

Cons:
* No obvious way to skip analog over-the-air channels during channel setup

Great TV, so-so delivery
I went to look at this TV (and others) at the local Circuit City, and couple of things struck me. First, these TVs will look much larger in your home than in the stores. You need a big room for a big TV, unless maybe you have a dedicated theater room with nothing but AV equipment and a couch. This is not that kind of TV … but it is a huge step up from your typical CRT (old style) TV.

Next, all these TVs look good, but the Sony’s picture is wonderful - I received my TV just in time for baseball’s All-Star game, and it was great. Setup is easy. The only downside might be that you will be disappointed in the appearance of any NTSC channels you still watch… partly due to the large screen and partly by comparison to HD channels.

Seems like the “white glove” delivery service varies by locale. For me, the driver clearly wanted to do as little as possible and get out. Delivery, but nothing more … plus they require the usual 4 hour delivery window.

Amazon did have the cheapest price I found for this TV though, when you consider the sales tax. You can buy the TV locally for the same price, but you’ll have to pay tax.

All in all, I’m very satisfied.

Never received
Item was lost by (stolen from) delivery service and order canceled. Bought similar item locally from Best Buy.