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Sony KDL-55XBR8 review
Sony’s KDL55XBR8 54.6” BRAVIA XBR Series LCD TV with 4 HDMI inputs and
Full HD 1080p resolution.
BRAVIA XBR8 Series Full HD 1080p LCD TV - The Sony BRAVIA XBR8-Series LCD
TVs represent the next step forward in LCD technology. In addition to Full
HD 1080p, this XBR-8 Series TV features TRILUMINOS® RGB Dynamic LED
backlight which produces breathtaking images with enhanced colour purity
that result in deep blacks and bright whites with startling depth and
exceptional shadow detail. You’ll also see the difference with
Motionflow™ 120Hz PRO technology which enhances motion and delivers a
smoother and clearer picture. Your 1080p HD images will look more
breathtaking than ever thanks to the BRAVIA Engine™ 2 PRO fully digital
video processor. This XBR-8 Series TV has DMe x functionality which lets
you expand the capabilities of your HDTV by adding optional Digital Media
Extender modules (sold separately), plus it comes with plenty of
connectivity options to connect your video sources.
BRAVIA XBR8 Series Full HD 1080p LCD TV - The Sony BRAVIA XBR8-Series LCD
TVs represent the next step forward in LCD technology. In addition to Full
HD 1080p, this XBR-8 Series TV features TRILUMINOS® RGB Dynamic LED
backlight which produces breathtaking images with enhanced colour purity
that result in deep blacks and bright whites with startling depth and
exceptional shadow detail. You’ll also see the difference with
Motionflow™ 120Hz PRO technology which enhances motion and delivers a
smoother and clearer picture. Your 1080p HD images will look more
breathtaking than ever thanks to the BRAVIA Engine™ 2 PRO fully digital
video processor. This XBR-8 Series TV has DMe x functionality which lets
you expand the capabilities of your HDTV by adding optional Digital Media
Extender modules (sold separately), plus it comes with plenty of
connectivity options to connect your video sources.
The world’s purest colours come to life - TRILUMINOS - Colour makes
pictures jump off the screen. The XBR8 series uses TRILUMINOS RGB LED
backlight technology aligns individual clusters of red, green, and blue
LEDs to produce a significantly higher purity of primary colourss than
single white LED backlights. This clustered arrangement also allows the
XBR8 to adjust the brightness of the backlight in units of small blocks, so
it can display deep blacks in one portion of the screen and bright whites
in another, producing images with enhanced depth, three-dimensionality and
exceptionally accurate shadow detail. And, because it uses LEDs rather than
the fluorescent tubes found in many LCD TVs, the TRILUMINOS RGB Dynamic LED
backlight also promises exceptionally long life.
Experience a New World of BRAVIA - BRAVIA Engine™ 2 PRO - The most
advanced version of Sony’s respected BRAVIA Engine fully digital video
processor uses a collection of unique Sony algorithms to significantly
reduce noise and produce sharp, vibrant, life-like images. Incorporating
DRC-MF v3 technology, BRAVIA Engine 2 PRO optimizes the colour, contrast,
detail and clarity of every scene for the exceptional performance visible
in every frame.
Enjoy Sports and Action at Full Speed - Motionflow™ 120Hz PRO -
Motionflow 120Hz PRO technology to enhances the smoothness of fast-action
pictures by coupling a high 120Hz frame rate with sequential scanning
technology, which controls the backlight to horizontally divide frames and
reduce visual flickering. Motionflow creates smoother pictures and enhances
the depth and reality of your display. This is just the kind of technology
for enjoying fast-paced action like the Stanley Cup Finals or your
favourite action movies.
The Standard of High Definition - Full HD 1080p - Sony Full HD is like no
other. With 1920 x 1080 resolution, your audio and video experience reaches
its greatest capacity for the most comprehensive experience. Displaying
over 2 million pixels, viewers can experience their entertainment, memories
and lifestyle in true-to-life depth and range. Take full advantage of
Sony’s range of Full HD 1080 products that can deliver 1080p content.
A True Cinematic Experience Every Time - 24p True Cinema - Movies consist
of 24 images per second, and cannot be faithfully reproduced on
conventional televisions, resulting in unnatural, jerky movements. But 24p
True Cinema displays the 24 progressive images as they should be, in the
same sequence as the original film source. Now, you can recreate the visual
clarity of cinema-quality movies in the comfort of your own home.
Faithful reproduction of vibrant and natural colours - Live Color Creation
- Consisting of Sony’s unique image processing and backlight, Live Color
Creation is a colour enhancement solution that offers a far wider range of
tones. Live Colour Creation not only reproduces vivid colours, but enhances
only the colours that need to be enhanced using a specially developed
algorithm that plots all colours where they belong. The results are more
vibrant colours and natural skin tones – of vital importance, since
people are very sensitive to how skin naturally looks.
Reproduces an Unprecedented Range of Rich Colours - x.v.Color -
Conventional CRT televisions could only display only those colours defined
in the sRGB colour space. But with the recent development of flat panel
televisions that can display colours beyond the sRGB colour space, a new
international standard called “xvYCC” was developed to capture a wider
range of colours that exist in the real world. It is approximately 1.8
times wider than the colour space defined by the sRGB. xvYCC compatible
products, when used in combination with each other, can reproduce colours
found in nature more faithfully than ever before.
BRAVIA XBR8 Series Full HD 1080p LCD TV - With BRAVIA Engine 2™ video
processing, 24p True Cinema capability to get the most out of movies on
Blu-ray Disc and DVD, 4 HDMI inputs and three other HD-capable connections,
what you have is a television capable of displaying awe-inspiring images.
Connecting and control this TV with your home theatre is a breeze with
BRAVIA Sync. Using Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) capability and
DMe x functionality, you can turn this BRAVIA into media powerhouse. Share
photos from your PC and stream videos from the internet; the BRAVIA
XBR8Series takes your television experience to new levels.
Join the Digital Age in Style - Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) -
The Digital Living Network Alliance, an industry standard networking
capability, allows DLNA compliant products to work with one another. Access
photos trapped on your PC and share them with friends and family from the
comfort of your living room or family room via a BRAVIA DLNA-enabled HDTV.
Relive those moments on the big screen, and avoid the less intuitive PC
experience.
Control All Content with Just One Touch - BRAVIA® Sync - Access and
control multiple tasks and system operations with one button ease. BRAVIA
Sync is a new family of control features. Connect an HDMI enabled camcorder
to a BRAVIA HDTV via an HDMI cable. Control both with the HDTV’s remote
control and an on-screen display that shows camcorder transport functions.
Let Your TV Guide You - TV Guide® On-Screen Program Guide - The TV Guide
On-screen IPG delivers up-to-date program listings to users. The guide
requires no subscription fees or phone connection and is available at no
extra cost to the consumer. Sony is the first company to integrate the TV
Guide On-Screen user interface into a custom interface - Sony’s
exclusive Xross Media Bar™ user interface.
Cutting Edge Technology, Today and Tomorrow - DMe x - Sony’s Digital
Media Extender (DMe x ) offers a Digital connection path for optional
modules like the BRAVIA Internet Video Link and other modules you can add
in the future. DMe x integrates into the award-winning XMB™ user
interface making HDTVs a powerful entertainment platform that not only
meets current needs, but expands to meet tomorrow’s needs as well. Click
here to see all of Sony’s Digital Media Extender Modules .
Indulge yourself in photo-like still images on Full HD TV. - PhotoTV HD -
Most users store their digital photos on their PC and view it on a small
computer screen. Despite how highly detailed the digital image is, the
viewing experience was limited by the size and performance of the display.
PhotoTV HD is Sony’s proposition to enjoy digital images on large-screen
Full HD television, bringing the emotion of the photo back to life. PhotoTV
HD allows for a highly-detailed, photo-like expression of subtle textures
and colours. While conventional televisions were optimized for displaying
moving images, BRAVIA features a new picture mode called “Photo” which
was developed specifically to reproduce the natural beauty of photos. For
instance, the delicate texture of the human skin, flowers, sands and waves
can now be expressed on the large screen in beautiful photo-like quality.
Share music, photos, and video to BRAVIA - DIGITAL MEDIA PORT - Digital
Media Port is a unique Sony connection. With optional adaptors, BRAVIA
plays the music stored in your Walkman, iPOD, PC, mobile phone or other
digital device. Enjoy the music in your Walkman just by connecting it to
the Digital Media Port via the optional adapter <TDM-NW1>. The
contents are displayed on BRAVIA’s screen and can be selected with your
TV remote controller. Your personal digital device recharges while
connected via the adapter. Click here to see all of Sony’s Digital
Media Port Accessories.
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