Sony Bravia KDL46W3000 LCD TV

iim proud to have a sony 52" TV

I purchased the Sony KDL 46W3000 in December 2007 as a replacement for my Sony 36in CRT and find it is an excellent HD TV. However for general SD viewing from SKY and Freeview which is after all 90% of what is available, the set suffers from it being only a 50 mghz panel. You will find that a close up image will distort as the actor turns their head even when viewed through a SONY DVD 160 upscaler recorder via HDMI or scarted directly from the digibox to the set. The sets software also has difficulty in controlling shadows with the result that on many occasions the shadow is not black but shades of blue and green and on facial images yellow. The retailers answer to these observations was for me to use very high quality (expensive) scart leads and HDMI leads ( didn''t help) or upgrade to the X series, at an additional cost of £400.00. Apparently the X series runs at 100+ mghz which will resolves the image distortion but they could offer no solution to the shadow colour problem. Sky was very helpful and suggested that I change my digibox picture setting from RGB to PAL - good idea but it did not offer a solution. If considering buying this model ask to see a normal digital transmission, say BBC1 or SKY 1 and not the HD picture retailers seem to use. Caveat emptor!