Two new Sony Bravia lines for the European market
By Erik Hanson 
posted Mar 29th 2007 6:10PM
posted Mar 29th 2007 6:10PM
You can't be expected to buy up one of the newly-released PlayStation 3s in Europe without a Sony Bravia to back it up, can you? Soon you will have your chance, with two lines of LCDs set to be released in the near future. The S3000 series will initially come in 32- and 40-inch sizes -- with 20 to 46 coming later in the year -- and sport three HDMI and two SCART connectors, as well as a built-in DVB-T digital free-to-air tuner (or "over-the-air," if you're American). Stepping up to the D3000 series grabs you 24p movie-mode frame rate and 100Hz refresh rate for greater smoothness, as well as a 10-bit panel for better color gradations. Both series also come with Bravia Theatre Sync via HDMI, using any connected devices to pass command and control signals around and help reduce the pile of remote controls on your coffee table; what, you don't have a Pronto or Harmony universal remote yet? Pricing and release dates are forthcoming.
Price doesn't matter, Europeans ain't cheap people anyway.
Well, that'd be like saying "everyone living in the area from Alaska to Bolivia are "....
Norwegians are usually quite different from most Mediterranean people, and I'd guess an expensive Sony unit would be easier to sell in Scandinavia than in, say Turkey.
Aside from that - why don't Sony offer up at least something at the 50-inch mark?
"Over the air" makes more sense. "Free to air" makes it sound like you're free to air your own programming or something.
I disagree. Free-to-Air makes it sound like exactly what it is - TV, for free, over the air.
Either way, they're both acceptable in their respective regions.
Over the air isn't right as you can have encoded broadcasts over the air, so you would need an external device. But anyway, looks good. But my 32" Samsung is doing just fine for now and by the time I'm thinking about upgrading there'll be alot more around to choose from.
Unsure about Euro's not being cheap though...
No mention on the press release about whether the HDMI's are version 1.3 or not - anyone know?
1080P? I have been holding off on the X-Series as the new V series have better specs apart from the 1080P and I was expecting them to refresh the X.
Are these replacing the X, just the D3000, or are they below/above the X?
Thats not my point of view, I just quoted: http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxii-sony-uk-boss-calls-us-citizens-ch/
I have just plonked down my cash for a Sony Bravia 46 inch KLV-46X200A model take it home plug it in and I have a dead pixel that shines like a Lazer beam.
Sony Rep says hey theres millions of leds you can have up to 3 dead pixels. I say brand new LCD TV I like all my pixels to be alive and I want a replacement. Sony still not budging.
Has any one else had a dead pixel on a brand new Sony LCD TV?
I thought Sony was a quality product?
I feel ripped off
You can't blame Sony. It is the whole damned industry. I had the same thing with a brand new LG. All the industry has got together and claim it is "A natural part of the manufacturing process". Basically every company has decided they can ship defective products, and that way they get away with doing it.
I ranted on the phone to Dixon's (British readers will now what a s***t company they are, but I got a £100 discount code from the net so they were the cheapest, and to be fair they delivered it really quickly).
Technically I had 28 days to send it back and only pay a re-stocking fee, but because I really liked the TV, and feared I may get one with even more stuck pixels next time I didn't do that. Most of the time I don't notice the 2 blue pixels in the middle of the screen within a circle of diameter 5 cm, which used to be enough to send it back.
I just bought a new Sony 46" LCD Bravia. I'm wondering is I should buy the extended warranty. Anybody aware of any problems with these tv's?