Sony Bravia KDL-46Z5500 46in LCD TV
August 26, 2009 | Component, Display, Electronics, Gadgets, Sony | Comments OffSony has announced it is ready to give you a “scrappage” value of your old duffer with a television if you exchange it for a new Bravia today seems the perfect time to check a scenery of the Japanese megacorp latest range of TV: 200Hz-sporting 46in 46Z5500. If you think this does not seem so long since Sony started seriously pushing its screens 200Hz previous range Z4500, you would be right, the brand (in) famous Kaka / Campaign zoetrope has really started booming in the first quarter of this year. But do not worry, Sony is not rushing its second generation of 200Hz televisions because of major problems with the television home – honest!
In fact, as evidence, the Z4500 range continues to run alongside the new Z5500 range, like a cheaper alternative. The idea with the 46Z5500, then, is to deliver a step-up 200Hz experience. Something he seeks to attain in a number of potentially significant ways. The most obvious sign instantly from the relatively high status 46Z5500′s End can be seen in its design. For starters, his glass is remarkably slim, barely one inch in diameter on top, left and right, and only a few centimeters along the bottom edge.
Glasses brilliant, slightly opaque finish on top of a dark gray color is striking. And of course there is the mark (deactivate!) Illuminated Sony logo along the bottom edge. The 46Z5500 also improves on Z4500 models by proposing four HDMIs rather than three, and by its Ethernet port able to access Sony service (currently quite limited) AppliCast online, as well as documents stored on a DLNA PC. The Z4500 port Ethernet does not offer online functionality.
Fans of Mother Nature, meanwhile, will be pleased to hear that the Z5500 series is claimed to consume as much as 35 percent less energy than their brothers and older sisters, and even sports economics of energy ‘picture off’ option if you listen to MTV or something that does not really need pictures. Trees will be happy to note, too, that the direction of the Z5500 is “manual” is actually hidden in the menus on the TV screen, rather than being splashed in expenses trees chewing paper .
If you are more interested in image quality that saving the planet, the biggest improvement of 46Z5500 over the Z4500 is its Bravia Engine video processing 3. BE3 I found to be a great leap forward over the Bravia Engine 2 system carried by the Z4500 models, especially when it comes to processing speed and noise suppression, so it will be interesting indeed to see how links BE3 in the engine of 200Hz. [via trustedreviews]
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