by Marc Bidderman
The Sony KDL46W4100 is an attractive and extremely featured LCD tv set. We were mostly impressed by its performance, black color is very dark, accurate white colors and a brilliant display. This TV has also some negative sides, as the color gamut is a little off and the viewing angle are not very good.
If you look often some type of fast moving action on your TV, then this HDTV television has got a plenty of things to offer you. The Sony KDL46W4100 performed good in our motion tests. We experienced smooth movement with movies that contained lots of movement, and the televison had no problem serving a good image.
This Sony supports a full High Definition or real HD signal. The selection of input and output ports is great, having a 4 HDMI interfaces. Regrettably it does lack a USB port or some card reader.
This TV set also offers TruSurround and that is a patented SRS technology that enables running 5.1 channel content over two speaker units. This Sony delivers a excellent virtual surround sound with any two speaker units, including internal TV speaker units and also headphones. It is fully compatible with all multichannel formats up to 5.1 channels. This tv set also has three sound enhancement technologies to produce an awesome sound. Outstanding sound with the solid picture quality truly makes this Sony Bravia TV a great one.
The Sony Bravia KDL46W4100 executed good in our tests of blacks and whites. Black colors were precise deep, particularly for an LCD TV of this price tag. White colors and greys were brilliant and precise. This television really has superior colors, we have seen consistent white colors and a clear, accurate representation of the primary colors that are used to make all colors on the screen. We were happy with color precision, but we have noticed a really small problem with the TV’s color gamut, which means colors may not always be precisely they should.
Maybe the largest problem with the Sony Bravia KDL-46W4100 is a viewing angle. Looking from aside we found that the contrast ratio was decreasing. Contrast ratio is the difference in reproducing the black and light colors. This tv set doesn’t have a very good viewing angle, even for an LCD TV, which usually don’t perform as well in this area as Plasma TVs.
The remote control of Sony Bravia KDL46W4100 is really enjoyable to take in your hand and it’s well designed with the exception that the controls for direction are at the different ends of the remote control from the channel buttons. The menu on the television is corresponding of that used in the PS3, and will require some time to get used to it.
Energy consumption is around average. You can use this LCD TV without worrying you will get a large bill for electrics.
This Sony KDL46W4100 is a very great TV, with a full feature set and brilliant performance on nearly all fields. The viewing angle matter will be serious for pickier ones. If you need a TV that will sit in a place where people will be looking at it from all angles you may want to go with a Plasma. If this isn’t an issue for you, then you you are going to get your money’s worth with the Sony KDL46W4100.