Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #200 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Sony
• Model: KDL32P3020U
• Released on: 2007-09-12
• Dimensions: 28.66 pounds

Manufacturer's Description

BRAVIA P3020 Series LCD TV

Available in 26, 32 & 37" Screen Sizes If you mainly watch standard definition content and are looking for an entry level Sony BRAVIA LCD TV but want the benefits of key BRAVIA technology . The P3020 Series will suit you. Introduced with the P Series is BRAVIA Engine, which improves the picture quality from any signal, delivering more natural colours

HD Ready To appreciate just how good a high definition picture is, it helps to know how TV's, DVD's and VHS worked in the past. Until recently, there was only one type of broadcast format - Standard definition - SD. With SD, the level of detail in the picture resolution is limited. SD has a resolution of 720 X 576, which means 576 horizontal lines of 720 pixels each. Pixels are the dots which make up a digital picture. The new HD formats boost resolution far beyond SD, giving your TV a level of clarity and detail that is absolutely breathtaking.

Integrated Digital Tuner / Freeview Having an integrated Digital Freeview Tuner means that your TV has a built in receiver that will give you access to many more channels without the need to have any additional hardware, such as a Freeview box. In 2007, the government will begin switching UK broadcasting to digital, so if your TV doesn't have an integrated digital tuner feature you wont be able to view any channel without buying the additional hardware.

HDMI Sockets The P3020 Series comes with 2 x HDMI Sockets located at the rear of the set. Your HDMI socket provides a connection point on your TV that is able to deliver a high definition picture. Quite simply, the more HDMI sockets that you have on your BRAVIA LCD TV, the more components you are able to link up to for HD picture quality, for instance, a Blu-ray player & your camcorder.

BRAVIA Engine This picture enhancement technology ensures that the image produced on screen represents perfection. It reduces colour distortion by decreasing `cross colour', `dot crawl' and `moire' the sort of distortion that you get on patterns such as a checked shirt. It cleans up the haze that you often see around lettering such as titles or text so that they appear perfectly sharp on screen. It enhances specific areas of low contrast within the image giving an overall crisp picture. It smoothes the motion, preventing jagged edges and bleeding colours on fast moving objects, ideal for sports & action sequences. It matches colours, which ensures the final image is reproduced exactly as the original source intended meaning that you see incredibly natural colours.

BRAVIA Theatre Sync A one touch control over your whole Home theatre set up. Simply press the Theatre button on the TV's remote control, the TV's sound turns off & the picture settings configure automatically to an optimal movie watching mode. BRAVIA Theatre Sync cuts out the complexity so that you can concentrate on enjoying your movie.

Dynamic Contrast Contrast ratio is improved and all shades between the brightest white and the darkest blacks are maintained, so the picture has more depth and detail. This is achieved as the backlight brightness adjusts according to the brightness of the scene. Sony's unique dynamic contrast system features ACE (advanced contrast enhancer) which ensures all of the subtle shades of grey are maintained.

VESA Hole Spacing VESA-Standard or Video Electronics Standards Association is a perfect template for hole spacing (screw holes) in flat screens. So providing your wall bracket is also VESA standard, hanging your TV on the wall, for example, is a simple process without the frustration of drilling the holes incorrectly and in the wrong place.

Box Contents

• Remote
• Batteries
• Instructions
• Support belt
• Screws for support belt
• Quick set up guide
• Warranty card
• ASC power cord
• On-line registration card

Customer Reviews

Good even at double the price
The short review: You would be hard pushed to tell it apart from similar TVs at double the price.
Read on if you really need to know more.

We had been considering the new Sony and Panasonic Full HD models (KDL-40W4000 and TX37LZD800) costing nearly three times as much before coming to our senses and buying this one.
No, this one does not display a picture at 1080p. But we have struggled to spot the difference.
No, it doesn't have the latest cinema processing engine. But DVDs look no worse for it.
We made a point of watching some football (yawn!) just to see how it would cope with fast moving objects. We could not spot any trails from either the fast moving ball and players or from panning.
When watching DVDs, we noticed terribly jerky movement and object trails in panning shots. Duff image processing? Faulty panel? No. Our Pioneer DVD player was trying to upscale the picture to 720p and making a pig's ear of it (or maybe it was the cheap HDMI cable that was unable to cope with the higher bit-rate, but I doubt it). Once we switched the DVD player's upscaling off and let the TV take care of it, we ended up with Miyazaki and Michel Ocelot cartoons looking almost 3D and live-action movies with a cinematic feel. Even SD broadcasts look almost as if they have been transmitted in HD.

So, why only 4 stars? Because, like all new TVs, it came colour-calibrated by infants. The reds, blues and greens were so vivid that they hurt our eyes. Even Eastenders and Coronation Street looked as if they had been filmed in a spotlit Fisher Price set. We managed to subdue the colours somehow after some fiddling with the controls, but it will take a lot more tweaking with DVE before we get a decent colour balance.

We'd heard a lot of bad things about the speakers on these panels. We normally use studio monitors to listen to soundtracks, so I thought we'd be disappointed with the sound from the tv. Didn't need to worry. They are loud enough for the job and precise enough to cope with both concert DVDs and movie soundtracks.

Granted, it is not the best looking set I've seen. But that doesn't matter when you are watching a programme. Besides, a tv that does not catch your eye switched on or off is doing its job, isn't it?

It is very easy to get carried away with the rave reviews on-line and in the magazines. You keep shifting your expectations because of write-ups that mention that edge-definition is better on some £1000 TV set or that one can see better detail in the dark scenes if one waves around a bit more money. I guess these reviewers have to justify their existence somehow and make the most of the barely noticeable differences. Most of us will struggle to spot any problems once we take the set home and turn the colour, contrast and the brightness down to human levels. Anyway, when you're sitting in front of your tv watching Alien, if you're busy admiring the detail level in the ichor trails instead of rooting for Ripley, either you ought to get out more or go back to your work in the editing room.

In short, unless you edit your own HD videos (come to think of it, we do, but we use multi-monitor computer set-ups for that, sit inches from the screens and then let someone else pay for the machinery to project the results professionally), save yourself the money and go for one of these. You are unlikely to regret the choice. And even if you do, you'll be able to sell it off easily, and buy one of this year's Full HD sets for half the price next year anyway, so what have you lost?

cheap
This is a good tv with adequate inputs for the price however i was disappointed when I went to connect it to my home cinema system as it doesn't have a digital audio output, like it says in the spec!

GREAT TV AND SERVICE
Sony KDL-32P3020 - 32'' Widescreen Bravia HD Ready LCD TV - With Freeview
This was the first time I had ordered a large electronic item like this online and have to admit I was a bit apprehensive. I was amazed that it took just 2 days from ordering this TV from Amazon to it being delivered to me in Northern Ireland - fantastic delivery service by Citylink and it was free! As for the TV itself - great picture and sound and it looks great - love the fact it is a dark silver grey and not black. Definitely recommend.