Product Description

Sony BRAVIA D3000-Series LCD TV combines a new level of user-friendly convenience with advanced image technologies. Thanks to these innovations Home Theatre has never been easier to enjoy, and everything from films on Blu-ray Disc to High Definition TV is enhanced. Anyone who wants a Home Theatre setup is likely to appreciate BRAVIA Theatre Sync, which is the D3000-Series' way of making life simpler. By connecting compatible devices via HDMI connections and enabling 'BRAVIA' Theatre Sync, you have one-touch...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13775 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Sony
• Model: KDL32D3000U
• Released on: 2007-03-10
• Dimensions: 33.07 pounds

Features

• HD Ready LCD Television
• Screen Size:32
• Tuner Type:Analogue with Freeview
• Teletext:Smartext with EPG
• Nicam sound system

Manufacturer's Descritpion
Changing the way you experience television
BRAVIA is synonymous with outstanding quality of colour and clarity of detail: a picture so good it enhances the viewing experience, no matter what you like to watch.

The BRAVIA range of LCD, SXRD and Home Cinema Projectors feature unique Sony picture enhancement technologies giving you high contrast, incredible detail, smooth reproduction of fast-moving images and exceptional colour gradation for a true High Definition experience.

High performance LCD panel Advanced Contrast Enhancer
Our unique Advanced Contrast Enhancer (ACE) technology helps boost contrast ratio for incredible depth, richness and picture detail, with blacks that are truly black.
Super-fast response time
Eight millisecond response time means fast-moving images such as sports or action sequences remain pin sharp, without any motion blur. Ultra-wide viewing angle
178° viewing angle means you can experience BRAVIA LCD from almost any angle and there is no reduction in the colour, contrast and brightness of the image.
Ergonomic non-reflective frame
BRAVIA LCD televisions have a non-reflective frame to counteract the reflection that puts a strain on your eyes, especially if you are watching in artificial light.

10-bit panel for supremely smooth colour gradation
The new D 32" - 46" BRAVIA televisions feature state-of-the-art 10-bit Sony LCD panel technology that surpasses the achievements of conventional 8-bit panels to set a new standard for smooth and natural colour gradation. Sony LCD panels already deliver enhanced 8000:1 contrast and a 178° viewing angle. When combined with the Sony-unique Wide Colour Gamut backlight (WCG-CCFL), our new 10-bit panel now reproduces remarkable gradation across a 30% wider colour spectrum.
This gives your picture a beautifully natural quality, with incredibly smooth transitions between dark and light shades of colour.

Motionflow +100Hz technology for our smoothest ever fast-moving sports pictures
To enhance the excitement of watching sports on your BRAVIA, the new D 32" - 46" Series features amazing Sony-unique Motionflow +100Hz technology. Motionflow +100Hz actually creates artificial pictures which it inserts into fast-moving sequences to effectively double the number of pictures, or frames, that make up the sequence.
This enables the D Series BRAVIA to display even the fastest sports scene with total precision and smoothness. Some alternative technologies also insert frames, but the results are inferior to Motionflow +100Hz.

Three HDMI ports for the new High Definition world
HDMI™ connectivity will transform your BRAVIA, placing your television at the heart of the new, superior High Definition home entertainment experience. HDMI enables you to connect any High Definition device to your television with just one high-capacity cable, and with no loss of HD audio or video quality.
Practical side port for portable HD devices
The HDMI port on the side of some BRAVIA models lets you quickly connect and disconnect portable HD devices, without moving the television to access the ports on the back.
Two rear HDMI ports for permanently connected devices
The back of your BRAVIA provides enough ports for connecting next-generation High Definition equipment like a Sony Blu-ray Disc™ player and your hi fi system.

S-Force Front Surround
For a unique surround experience without additional speakers.
The new BRAVIA D 32" - 46" televisions feature a high-end virtual surroundsound technology that goes a step further than Virtual Dolby® Surround andTruSurround XT®.
S-Force Front Surround has broken new ground in the field of sound virtualisation to deliver a genuine surround sound effect using just the two internal speakers in your television.
S-Force Front Surround is available exclusively in BRAVIA televisions and other high-end Sony audio and home video products.

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Customer Reviews

Stunning TV and great PC monitor
This was a gift December 07. I was delighted then and am delighted now. Terrific (Bravia) picture quality on Freeview, with my DVD player and my PVR. Very swift EPG for Freeview, though it does turn the picture off to show the guide.

Works flawlessly with my PC at 1360x768 or 1024x768. I wouldn't want a higher resolution for the computer as the graphics card wouldn't cope, given that I want it to display Far Cry & Rome TW as well as the net etc. Even shows the TV channel as a small screen in the corner, whilst also handling the full PC image - a really nice picture in picture option...

Occasionally it seems to reduce the signal into my Humax PVR or vice versa (perhaps a tiny amount of interference?) but rarely a big problem and only then I think because the digital TV signal is so weak in Bath. Sound is fine too, though I don't play it very loud.

The two best reasons to buy are the amazing picture quality and the ease of using it with a PC. Typical Sony build quality is a plus too.

The "S" model is much cheaper for the less choosy and probably a great buy, but I think I'll be glad to have the extra features of the "D" in the long run - I'll be keeping this for many years.

Solid performance from this Bravia
I bought the 32D3000 over a month ago, after spending quite a lot of time doing some research on the internet and in the shops, since this would be my first LCD TV. There are some excellent reviews of this TV out there, they will probably convince you too. Quite honestly this is a very good LCD TV, packed with technology and features and it delivers a solid performance all around.

The inches are quite good for a medium-size living room (I'm sitting ~3m away from it) and according to Sony, the viewing distance can be as close as 1.8m for HD ready material. Sony have recently released their 32" Full HD models (e.g the W4000) but I think this is more of a marketing move in order to keep up with the competition; you would have to sit closer than 1.5m in order to tell any of the 2x increase in resolution that Full HD (1080p) offers over HD ready (720p).

The strong points of 32D3000 I think are colours and management of greys. This TV has very natural, vivid, true-to-life colours due to its 10-bit panel, WCG-CCFL backlight and Live Colour Creation. None of Samsungs, Panasonics or Toshibas I checked at a similar price range offered anything close to the Sony performance, with the exception maybe of the Philips Cineos 9000 series, which is however much more expensive. Contrast is also very good, with black levels being really black (Sony gives a dynamic contrast of 8000:1, with 1600:1 being the actual on-screen ratio) and this is noticeable over competitor LCDs too. The Bravia engine in this 3rd generation of Sony LCDs seems much improved and handles picture beautifully. This LCD is also Sony's first TV that incorporates 100Hz (MotionFlow) technology in order to handle motion more smoothly. I think Sony's 100Hz attempt is not as good Panasonic's (e.g. LXD70 seems to handle fast-moving scenes better), but it still more efficient than motion handling in Samsungs or the Toshiba Regzas. It certainly does the job with fast-scrolling text on screen and, in some cases, with ball movement on the pitch. The Bravia Engine seems to struggle when larger parts of the picture are moving fast though, and sometimes creates flicker or jerky movement. In this case it's better to deactivate the "motion enhancer" mode i.e. 100Hz (mind that in other 100Hz TVs you don't have that option). Overall, I believe that TFT-LCDs are still lagging behind the good-old CRTs when it comes to handling fast movement and there's still room for improvement.

Sonically, the 32D3000 is also very good and features Sony's S-Force Front Surround (instead of Virtual Dolby Surround/BBE VIVA which appear on cheaper models like the S, T, P/U 3000 series). Mind that S-Force Front Surround has been dropped from the new E/W4000 series, obviously for cost reduction reasons. Speakers are 2x10W and deliver very clear and dynamic sound (don't expect the base performance you would get from the "old" CRT speakers though; times have changed and companies are trying to sell some of their dedicated surround systems).

Other 32D3000 features worth mentioning are 3xHDMI (with CEC), very easy to navigate on-screen menus (the XMB menus introduced in the 2008 models and also featured in PS3 and PSP are not more practical really), ability to accept 1080p signal (which downscales to 1080i or 720p though), 24p True Cinema mode, and an impressively low power consumption of 0.3W at standby (the 40" model actually got a "Green LCD-TV" EISA award last year; consumption has been further bettered to 0.19W in the 2008 models, bravo to Sony for showing some environmental sensitivity too).

Finally, design is not as imaginative or impressive as in some other manufacturers' proposals (i.e. Samsung), however the D series has quite classic, austere lines that I prefer to the more cheep-looking design of the new 2008 models (e.g. W4000 series).

Overall, a great 32" LCD-TV, highly-recommended (especially at the £700-750 price range).

FIVE STARS
Great picture quality and easy to set up and use! looks great, and when teamed with my Harmon Kardon HS2oo is amazing, worth every penny spent.