by Sony

Customer Review :

A joy to behold!, November 14, 2008

Redman1953 "Music and Movies Lover" (Saint Louis, MO) - See all my reviews
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I am simply thrilled with this TV! I did a lot of research over a period of many months before making this purchase and it really paid off. I got a great price from Amazon and the product itself is wonderful! Great picture, terrific color, easy to set up and use, great features, very attractive sleek design. It allows you to either go with the standard settings or make all kinds of adjustments to the sound and picture from the easy-to-use menu options. You can customize your settings (and save them) for the various HDMI and other inputs. I ordered it late on a Sunday evening and it was already out for delivery to my home on Wednesday morning. Pilot Air Freight called ahead to make arrangements for whatever delivery time was convenient for me. You choose your own time right down to the half hour, in fact, my deliver person was actually early! They gave me free white gloves delivery with a very friendly, prompt, and careful delivery person. They bring it into the house, unpack it and put it on your TV stand, all in just a few minutes--and in perfect condition! Non-HD over the air broadcasts look fairly decent on it. Ordinary DVDs look excellent--even from an ordinary DVD player. It has a USB port so you can look at your digital photos on the big 52" screen, and believe me it makes them look fantastic--and huge! It's at its best when you watch Blu-Ray movies on it. They just look incredibly beautiful and the sound is gorgeous, even with just the onboard speakers. I can't wait to hear how it sounds with my new receiver and surround speakers! And it can play Master Audio disks. You can't go wrong with this TV. The price is right and it's worth every penny and then some. I love it! Thanks again to Amazon for a great product at a great price with super fast high quality free delivery!

Super TV and Buying Experience, January 18, 2009

John C. (Oneonta, AL USA) - See all my reviews

I ordered the combo package (52XBR6 TV and S550 Blu-ray player) on 12-27-09. The S550 came in a couple of days, the TV was almost immediately listed as being at Pilot which is the third party delivery service used my Amazon for my area near Birmingham, Alabama. Amazon also uses CEVA in other areas of the country.[...]
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The TV picture is fantastic in both SD and HD. I immediately played the only Blu-ray DVD I had, "Kung Fu Panda" in 1080p and was thoroughly impressed. Then I used my Dish network to play all my SD stations, they all looked great. I planned to upgrade my Dish network to their HD package but the SD picture was so nice I was worried I wouldn't see much of a difference. Well, I upgraded and the HD channels on Dish (which are all 1080i) look super. I don't want to review Dish HD here but I found many (about half) of the Dish HD channels that are marked HD are "a work in progress" -- they come in letterboxed and don't look like HD, the other half look just like the output of my Blu-ray player, very sharp! The golf channel is so good it changes the viewing experience, I can see the slopes in the green and read the putts!

I am so pleased with the "out-of-the-box" picture that to date I have not made a single adjustment to the picture. I usually use the TV speakers which are very good but when I watch a Blu-ray movie I switch the audio to my stereo. The "variable" audio output on the back of the TV allows me to control the volume using the TV remote. It also has a "fixed"audio out option but I haven't used it.

The TV is very nice looking, I don't notice a glare from the black bezel as some others have noted. Nor have I seen the "mura" or uneven backlighting some others report. The blacks are so deep that if there is an all black border, the black bezel merges with a black background and I can't tell where the TV picture stops and the bezel begins.

As you face the TV all of the input connections on the back of the TV are on the left which, for my installation, was surprisingly inconvenient since the far left on a 52 inch TV meant the "center" connections on my old TV had to be rerouted quite a bit to get to the connections of this very wide TV. It would seem more logical for Sony to group all the connections at the center of the TV.

I connected my Nintendo Wii up to one of the standard video ports on the TV, it worked fine with no adjustments needed. The Wii sensor bar fits and blends nicely on the top bezel which is flat.

Overall, my Amazon buying experience (price and delivery) was superb and the Sony 52XBR6 TV is fantastic and combined with the Sony S550 Bl-ray player produces a very high quality and detailed picture.

Very happy with this TV, March 6, 2009

Blair Carmichael "the_beeb" (St. Joseph, Missouri) - See all my reviews
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Exceeded all of my expectations except its compatibility with a SONY Blu-ray player. I had some trouble getting it to recognize it's own Blu-ray through the HDMI like they say it will, so programming one remote for both is not as easy as they say.

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