Product Description

22" (55cm) HD Ready Picture Frame LCD TV with BRAVIA ENGINE 3

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5175 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Sony
• Model: KDL22E5300U
• Released on: 2009-06-29

Features

• 22" Diagonal Screen Size (inch)
• Analogue & Freeview Tuner
• HyperText
• S-Force Surround
• 24p ( Frames Per Second)

Manufacturer's Description

At 22” the E5300 is compact and perfectly formed, with its Picture Frame Design making it ideal for a wall or table mount in a kitchen, bedroom or study. Its sleek good looks are complemented by a range of cutting-edge technologies from Sony, which put a world of entertainment in easy reach. The E5300 is DNLA-enabled, allowing you to connect it to other compatible devices and enjoy music, video and photos on a whole new level. XrossMediaBar™ then ensures effortless access to those devices through its menu of simple icons. The E5300 also comes with an integrated digital tuner, so there’s no need for an extra set-top box to view Freeview TV and radio channels. To complete the experience, BRAVIA ENGINE 3 digital processing guarantees image quality, with vivid colours and sharper edges, while Dynamic Contrast of up to 80,000:1 gives every image incredible depth and detail.

BRAVIA ENGINE 3 - Every picture is put through a digital perfecting process View larger

BRAVIA ENGINE 3 for the ultimate HD experience
An LCD television creates pictures by switching millions of pixels on and off. In the E5300 this process is controlled by the BRAVIA ENGINE 3, the latest version of Sony’s advanced digital processing technology. Using a collection of unique Sony algorithms it applies a digital perfecting process to reduce noise and produce cleaner images, higher contrast and smoother motion sequences, resulting in enhanced overall performance regardless of source.

Specifically, it analyses each individual scene, controlling the peak brightness level to generate advanced colour and brightness, and optimising the noise level. It also detects and adjusts the overall colour distribution of each frame and smoothes diagonal lines of pixels in fast-moving pictures to prevent jagged edges and bleeding colours. In short, it delivers exceptional performance in every single scene.

Dynamic Contrast – Gives the image incredible depth and detail View larger

A new sense of depth with 80,000:1 Dynamic Contrast
To ensure consistently amazing picture quality, 80,000:1 Dynamic Contrast ensures all shades between the brightest white and the darkest blacks are maintained, giving the image so much depth and detail that you’ll be drawn into the screen. It works by increasing or reducing the backlight according to the brightness of the scene. The E5300’s unique dynamic contrast system features ACE (advanced contrast enhancer), which adjusts the backlight level to maintain every subtle shade of grey, a greater level of contrast and a sharper High Definition picture. You’ll really notice the difference in dark scenes, when it can reproduce true black without sacrificing brightness.

Connect your home with DLNA
The BRAVIA E5300 means you can finally create an easy-to-use home network that lets you share music, video and pictures from around the house on your TV. As part of the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA), Sony has adopted a universal standard for connectivity that enables your electronic devices, regardless of brand, to ‘talk’ to one another.

So now it’s easy to move files between your TV, PC, printer, music player, phone, camera and more, wherever they are in the home. By integrating your TV into a home network, either wirelessly or via a cable, you can use your BRAVIA remote to find photos on the DLNA-enabled laptop in your bedroom and call them up to your living room TV screen. If you want hard copies, just send them to print on the colour printer in your spare room.

XrossMediaBar™ – browse all your media and content with the simple menu of icons View larger

Browsing made easy with the XrossMediaBar™
Navigating your way around all the devices connected to your BRAVIA is made simple by XrossMediaBar™. This original graphic interface from Sony allows quick and easy operation of various media and content. It displays your connections as simple icons on the E5300 screen so you get quick access to your music, TV, videos and pictures. Just use your remote to scroll forward and back between groups like Photos, Digital TV and Input Devices. When you’ve selected an icon, a vertical bar appears to give choices within that group, like TV channels, Blu-ray Disc™ player or DVD Recorder. With one more click you’ll be watching TV or enjoying a movie.

Customer Reviews

Moving Image Legend
This is my 3rd LCD TV for the bedroom, due to discontentment. I am very discerning about picture quality and I am usually at cross purposes with my wife who is only interested in content. However, even she is overwhelmed by the picture on this TV. Although the price appears to be high-ish for a TV of this size we are glad we splashed out.
What surprises me most of all is the effort involved to get a good demo of it in the various shops we visited to try and buy it. They all had bluray players going, in one capacity or another - but this telly only had freeview going through it. I pushed one salesman to connect up a bluray player - and within minutes the TV was at the centre of attention in a very busy store.
Picture quality can be subjective at best and abstract at worst. But to give an example of the strength of this set - I watched "Tears of the sun" on C5 freeview last night on this TV and had forgotten (since CRT TV days) how many colours and skin tones the human skin carries.
I/we will be spending more time in front of this TV than the living room one.

Perfection
The images are razor sharp, the colours are vibrant. It displays standard TV and DVD brilliantly and Hi Def in breathtaking clarity and gorgeous colour. Emma and the Abu Dahbi Grand Prix were stunning, the sharpness of the pictures almost lacerated my eyeballs. The sound is what you would expect it to be through TV speakers, though it is almost infinitely variable if you take a bit of time to set it up. If that's too much trouble put the sound through a media player. Four HMDI sockets come in handy, the rest of the stuff I do not use. I watch the set in a box room that's no more than 2 metres wide so I cannot comment on viewing from an angle. But if there is a better television set than this one God owns its patent. It makes my wife's Panasonic look wan and weedy.

Expensive for what you get
- If you want streaming of music/video from your PC, then the Sony is very disappointing. The DLNA services are hopeless, unless you have Windows 7.

- Internet "widgets" are useless, no build-in web-browser!

- There's a huge number of set-up options, but no on-screen help for any of them.

- Sound from speakers is thin and weedy

- Colour isn't good unless you are facing the screen

+ Lots of connection options