Product Description

With our unique new technologies nothing delivers a combination ofvisual and audio in-home experience quite as stylishly as a BRAVIA.The BRAVIA ENGINE processor delivers rich deep colour like noother. TruSurround XT technology delivers a virtual sur

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #52704 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Sony
• Model: KDL20S2030U
• Released on: 2006-09-04
• Dimensions: 16.09 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
With unique technologies, nothing delivers a combination of visual and audio in-home experience quite as stylishly as a Bravia. The Bravia Engine processor delivers rich, deep color, like no other. TruSurround XT technology delivers a virtual surround-sound experience from the front, with no additional speakers required. The built-in digital amplification and BBE digital enhancement ensures a pure 'noise-free' clarity to any sound, be it a gently inhaled breath or a deep-space explosion.Designed to look as good as the pictures they produce, the S-series Bravia LCD TVs are impressive even before you switch them on. Ultra slim, they feature VESA compliant mounting so they can be easily and safely hung on a wall, like a painting, or stood on their custom-designed swivel stands. Their slim and space-saving design means you can replace a traditional box set with a Bravia LCD TV without it taking up any extra room.

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Customer Reviews

A Fine Sony LCD TV
A most excellent 20 inch LCD TV. I found the automatic tuning interesting in that during the first tuning the set could not find ITV...and so I re- selected the automatic tuning and on the third attempt everything within the Digital Selections of TV transmissions were found (including ITV). The set allocates the TV channels with suggested numbers (BBC = 1, BBC2 = 2 etc).

The quality of sound and screen picture is marvellous. I chose the `Standard' Picture Mode instead of `Vivid' as that suited my wife and self. Looking at the images on the TV and comparing them with our Toshiba CRT TV is `like having your eyes cleaned'.

The clarity and sound is very good and I think the Sony LCD TV Black surround is as a TV should be...all one can see during an evening viewing with dimmed lights is a crystal clear TV screen. Am not keen on Silver Coloured Surrounds.

I purchased this set TV for a small room. I will buy the Sony 26 inch for our larger room...anyone want a CRT Toshiba???

Bob Beaver of Northallerton says, if you but this Sony KDL 20S2030U you will not be disappointed.

Very Good LCD Tv, if a bit expensive.
I just got this Sony Tv yesterday and it was very easy to set up.I bought it because it had the best picture quality of all the many LCD tvs in the shop.The menus are very easy to use and it has the usual quality you expect from Sony (its not made in Japan but is assembled in Slovakia.

The reason I don't give it 5 stars is that I find in dark scenes or indoors the picture quality is not as good as my old CRT television.There tends to be a softness in faces etc and some shadowing.With outdoor scenes the television works very well.The sound quality is not bad but not top notch - I've heard better.

Overall I would recommend this television, it was a lot better than others I saw and if you can get used to a 20" screen (I don't like big tvs) it is a very good buy with great extras.

Small but perfectly formed
The Sony KDL20S2030 is proof of the philosophy that you get what you pay for - you can buy a 20" LCD TV for half the price of this one. However, both the visual and audio quality of this set puts it at the top of the pile. The picture is vibrant, sharp and very lifelike with an almost startling intensity that is missing in most other sets of this size and larger. Also, the sound quality belies the size of the set in that it is extremely clear and has significant presence to it. Additionally, the range of settings and connections including HDMI is very wide indeed. Initial setup is very easy too being largely automatic.

Only two slight "nit picks" from someone who is hard to please when it comes to gadgets - the remote control is silver as opposed to black (I bought the black version of this TV) and its scale is disproportionately large given the size and likely placement of this set - to me this is lazy on the part of Sony in such an expensive product. I think they "borrowed" a remote from a larger set.

Overall, though, this is a high quality product, that is well finished with matt surfaces to the cabinet and screen (unlike the distracting shiny "piano black" of some rival manufacturers sets), high quality output and logical controls. In summary, unreservedly recommended.