Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4800 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Sony
• Model: KDL37V5500U
• Released on: 2009-03-16

Features

• SONY 37" LCD TELEVISION WITH FREEVIEW
• GLOSS BLACK FINISH
• 4 X HDMI CONNECTIONS AND 2 X SCART CONNECTIONS
• DYNMAIC CONTRAST RATIO 50000:1
• PIXEL RESOLUTION 1920 X 1080

Manufacturer's Description

A BRAVIA LCD TV is no ordinary television. Design is sleeker, pictures are brighter, details clearer. All BRAVIA televisions are HD Ready as a minimum, with up to 4 HDMI connections, and come with an integrated digital tuner so there is no need for a set-top box to view Freeview TV and radio channels. Most of the BRAVIA LCD TVs feature BRAVIA Sync technology, it takes just one button to turn on your entire Sony home entertainment system, while XrossMediaBar helps you navigate your TV easily with its best-in-class menu screen. After all advanced technology should simply mean technology that does more for you.

Packed with the latest Sony technology, the BRAVIA V5500 lets you experience HD entertainment in all its glory. BRAVIA ENGINE 3 digital processing delivers excellent image quality, with vivid colours and sharper edges. It's DLNA-enabled, allowing it to become the hub of a home network of other compatible devices, so you can enjoy all your music, video and pictures on a whole new level. Meanwhile, a built-in USB Media Player enables you to connect other devices to your TV screen. Plus you can use the AppliCast™ feature to check on-screen RSS feeds of news and other information while you're watching your favourite programmes.

HD1080 gives you the ultimate standard of high definition

HD1080 for cinema quality in your home

High Definition lets you enjoy home entertainment with stunning picture quality and sound. The BRAVIA V5500 goes way beyond the specification of an HD ready TV: its screen resolution of 1920 x 1080 can accept Full HD1080p/24p input signals with no downscaling. In a nutshell, the more pixels you have, the better the resolution, the finer the detail - and the more amazing the experience.

BRAVIA ENGINE 3 for the ultimate HD experience

An LCD television creates pictures by switching millions of pixels on and off. In the V5500 this process is controlled by the BRAVIA ENGINE 3, the latest version of Sony's advanced digital processing technology.

The unique technology of BRAVIA ENGINE 3 optimises the quality of every single scene

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.

Connect your home with DLNA

Create an entertainment network in your home with DLNA

The BRAVIA V5500 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.

As well as BRAVIA TVs, Sony offers a range of DLNA Certified™ devices such as VAIO notebooks, the Sony Ericsson mobile phone, the PLAYSTATION®3 and the GigaJuke hard-disc drive music system.

Connect USB devices direct to your TV with USB Media Player

More ways to enjoy photos, videos and music with the USB Media Player

The BRAVIA V5500 also comes with a built-in USB Media Player that means you can connect devices directly to your TV. Content from your USB device is transferred directly to your BRAVIA TV, so you can listen to songs, see a slideshow of your favourite pictures or your latest home video clips.

AppliCast™ brings live internet feeds to your screen while you watch TV

AppliCast™ lets you see internet information on your BRAVIA TV while you're watching television. You don't have to switch on your PC - just call up widgets onto the TV screen. Three widgets, including a clock and calendar, are already installed on the on-screen XrossMediaBar and you can add RSS feeds of news, weather and more by connecting your TV to the internet via the Ethernet port at the back. Just select the information you want with your BRAVIA remote and it's right there whenever you need it.

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Customer Reviews

My first Sony tv
I'll make this short and sweet ,this TV for me is as good as it gets. The SD freeview is the best I have ever seen and the HD picture quality is totally stunning. Also there is plenty of adjustment to get the picture to your own personal preference.

Great buy, simple setup!!
Was really pleased with this product, from delivery to setting it up. The TV arrived within two days and in perfect condition. Setting up freeview took about 20mins, and was simple enough to do without the user manual. Picture is fantastic and sound crystal clear. When using my Sony Blu-ray player the picture is out of this world!!!
It is best to keep the TV on standby after setting up your freeview as I found out when i switched the TV of at the mains, and had to set the freeview up again. Apart from that great buy! worth every penny! I am a very happy customer!!

pretty good tv with great freeview
Had this TV for a few weeks now.
Want to say at the start that I'm pretty pleased with it but there were a couple of dissapointments.

I've connected the TV using the eithernet connector to my home network, I have movies stored on a file server not next to the TV.

You cannot stream movies from the remote server to the TV using the TV as the control device (apparently you can if the remote server is a PS3 but I cannot confirm that). You can stream MP3's though and view pictures from the remote server.

The TV whilst it does have VGA input for a PC, does not have PC sound input, so the PC I had connected to the TV could play movies, but I had to connect the external speakers to the PC, rather than have them on the TV - not ideal.

I got around this particular problem but using a different PC that had HDMI output, which does both video and sound. Using this set up I can watch movies stored on my PC (or the network) on the TV.

Having the TV connected to the network is a bit of a gimmic, and on reflection probably not worth having. The widgets you can have on the screen as rather like the gadgets you get with Windows Vista - e.g. weather reports. They don't overlay the picture but the TV program reduces in size to allow them their own space. This is not a feature I've found much use for.

On the plus side the Freeview reception is far better than my last LCD Freeview TV (a Wharfdale). We now get loads of freeview channels - so many that I'm considering cancelling my cable subscription.

Picture quality is better on the Freeview than on Cable as well. Sound quality is OK, but we tend to use external speakers.

Not tried the HD facilities yet as we do not currently have a blue ray player.

Overall though I am well pleased with this TV.