Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5627 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Sony
• Model: KDL40Z4500U
• Released on: 2008-09-22
• Dimensions: 48.50 pounds
• Display size: 50

Manufacturer's Description

BRAVIA WZ500 Series LCD TV
Available in 40”, 46” & 52” Screen Sizes

The BRAVIA Z4500 Series Full HD 1080p LCD TVs come packed with technology and features to enhance your viewing experience. Enhanced picture processing from BRAVIA Engine 2, together with Motionflow +200Hz and a Dynamic Contrast Ratio of 80,000:1 combine to deliver stunning pictures whatever you are watching, while XrossMediaBar, BRAVIA Sync, USB Viewer and DLNA ensure the easy integration of BRAVIA into your overall home entertainment system

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HD1080p (1920x1080)

HD 1080p offers you very high resolution to generate its picture. The ‘p’ stands for ‘progressive scan’, which scans all the lines at once to add stability & smoothness to fast-moving images. This makes 1080p TVs excellent for sport broadcast & games.

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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 began switching UK broadcasting to digital, so if your TV doesn't have an integrated digital tuner feature you won't be able to view any channel without buying the additional hardware.

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BRAVIA Engine 2

You can’t have too much of a good thing, so we designed BRAVIA ENGINE 2. By using our most innovative technologies like intelligent noise reduction and Advanced Contrast Enhancer, BRAVIA ENGINE 2 builds on the power of the acclaimed BRAVIA ENGINE and adds four new image processing stages. What's more, BRAVIA ENGINE 2 incorporates full digital signal processing, which means that it can enhance many different signals.

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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. The Z4500 Series delivers a Dynamic Contrast Ratio of 80,000:1.

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24P True Cinema

Movies are usually filmed at 24 frames per second (fps), and with 24p True Cinema, Movies are output in 24-fps as they should be, in the same sequence as the original film source for the same film-like motion that you could only enjoy in theatres before.

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Motionflow +200Hz

Movies are usually filmed at 24 frames per second (fps), and with 24p True Cinema, Movies are output in 24-fps as they should be, in the same sequence as the original film source for the same film-like motion that you could only enjoy in theatres before.

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Live Colour Creation

Live Colour Creation is a backlight system which produces a wider colour gamut, seen particularly with the red and green areas of the spectrum. So your TV picture will have more lifelike and natural colours with no smudging or dulling of the image.

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X.V. Colour

X.V colour offers a colour palette of 100% of the colour spectrum giving more depth, detail and natural images and is closer to the colour spectrum seen by the human eye.

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HDMI Sockets

The Z4500 Series has 3 X HDMI Sockets – 2 at the rear of the set & one at the side.

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 Handycam® and your gaming console. Having the socket located in the side of the TV means that you no longer have to get into awkward positions or move the unit in order to gain access to the connection point, great if you’re viewing your photos on your TV via your digital camera.

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BRAVIA Sync

BRAVIA Sync enables the control of your TV and peripheral devices with a single BRAVIA remote through menus displayed on your BRAVIA LCD TV.

It is supported by selected Sony Home Theatre Systems, Blu-ray Disc players, Audio/Video Receivers and Handycam®. Please check the specification of your other Sony products to ensure that it includes BRAVIA Sync.

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XrossMediaBar (XMB)

XMB (XrossMediaBar) is Sony’s original graphic user interface that allows for simple operation of various media and content, as seen on the PLAYSTATION®3. Users can navigate through the different types of media by zapping across icons that are aligned horizontally. After selecting the medium, a list of its content appears as thumbnails vertically.

The main benefit of the XMB is that it alleviates the need to look at the remote control while searching and selecting content. With an increasing number of media and content, simple navigation has become a challenge, especially with a remote control. The XMB gives access to a wide array of content with only a few buttons.

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USB Viewer

Enjoy digital photos on the big screen. With the USB Photo Viewer, the user can view photos instantaneously by connecting a digital still camera via USB and selecting “Photo” from the XMB menu. Thumbnails of the photos stored in the digital still camera will appear on the screen, from which the user can choose to view full screen or as a slideshow.

You can also select your favourite photo as a standby screen just pressing favourite button during thumbnails display, full-screen view and slideshow. Share your fun memories with family and friends on BRAVIA.

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DLNA Certified

DLNA Wireless Technology can transform your BRAVIA into a wireless hub allowing you to view photos and listen to music from another device such as your laptop or camera. Only compatible with DLNA devices.

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Photo TV HD

Photo TV HD picture processing technology designed to faithfully reproduce the natural beauty of your still images when viewed on your HD Ready 1080p BRAVIA LCD TV. Whereas all other TVs have technology designed to optimise video images, the BRAVIA Z4500 has BRAVIA Engine 2 for viewing videos and Photo TV HD for viewing still images.

In order to enjoy PhotoTV HD, the PhotoTV HD-compatible TV and device need to be connected either with component or HDMI. Connection through component requires the user to manually select the Photo picture mode. When connected via HDMI, the television will automatically switch to Photo mode.

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Picture Frame Mode

Picture Frame Mode offers you the opportunity to decorate your room with BRAVIA, like a painting or photo in a frame with superior colour reproduction from BRAVIA. By selecting the image to be displayed and the duration time on your menu screen your TV will show either a still image or slide show in it’s full glory at reduced power consumption, rather than simply having a black screen sitting in the corner or on the wall in your room.

You can display your favourite photos from in USB memory or preinstalled images on BRAVIA.

1. Push “Home” on the remote control
2. Select “XMB”
3. Choose “Picture Frame” Mode

The picture you selected as Picture Frame appears on the screen.

You can select either one of the 6 default pictures or your own pictures using the USB port..

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‘Sony’, ‘like.no.other’, ‘BRAVIA’ , ‘Live Color Creation’, ‘Motionflow’, ‘Full HD 1080’, ‘Bravia Engine’, ‘24p True Cinema’, ‘x.v.colour’, ‘Handycam’ and ‘Xross Bar Media’ and their logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sony Corporation. ‘PlayStation’ and ‘PLAYSTATION®3’ are registered trademarks of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. Blu-ray Disc and the Blu-ray Disc logos are trademarks of the Blu-ray Disc Association. ‘Freeview’ and its logo is a registered trademark of DTV Services Ltd. ‘HDMI’ and its logo is a registered trademark of HDMI Licensing L.L.C. ‘DLNA’ and its logo is a registered trademark of Digital Living Network Alliance. All other trademarks acknowledged.

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Customer Reviews

Awesome Set
Got this set in Oct, Same as other review screen went blank after 2 days got my set replaced within 24 hours. Contacted Sony said it wasnt a fault i was just unlucky.

Now the TV is outstanding. The picture is clear with great definition and depth of colour is awesome. The black is really black. The 200hz is down to your preference. I seen this and the 40w4500 in the Sony shop showing the same HD program and thought the z series had more detail.

Like everything we buy its down to your preference and budget. If you get this TV i promise you wont be dissappointed its awesome(if it works).

Got Freesat and the picture detail in BBc HD & ITVHD is sublime(football was fantastic to watch in HD). The sound is great through TV however got mine set up home cinema system, fantastic sound.

Hope this helps happy viewing.

HD heaven but Standard Definition can annoy
This replaced my excellent 100hz CRT Philips which connected a SD Sky box, PS3, Wii and a Sony DVD/HD recorder.

When it comes to watching High Definition images the TV really excels. Watching Blade Runner Blu-Ray through the HDMI lead was truly amazing picking up details I'd never seen before and colours so rich, it was like a different film. Playing PS3 games such as Call of Duty 4 and the demo of Resident Evil 5 looked amazing as well with a deeper level of detail.

I tried a normal DVD connecting via the HDMI lead and the picture quality again impressed. I think it upscales to 720 and the colours look fantastic.

A couple of disappointments though with one of them almost rectified. The Wii image was a little blocky but this was through the Scart lead and Wii's don't do HD really. Although you can buy an HD component lead, reviews say it doesn't make that much difference.

The picture quality of Sky was really poor though compared to our old Philips. The colours and detail were way off and was left thinking whether Sky HD had to be bought to compensate. We must have tried every picture setting on the TV to improve it but after some web search I find out that we should have set up the Sky for RGB output instead of PAL. I wouldn't say it matches the Philips but its a vast improvement. After a couple of weeks we've still been tweaking the picture colours and other options just to get the picture quality we're happy with.

The sound quality is surprisingly good with some great depth and clarity. There's some clever sound options like Voice Zoom which boosts the dialogue sound.

The main, remaining niggle is changing the picture size whenever the broadcast changes or swapping channels. The old Philips did this automatically. Until I get Sky HD I'm going to have to put up with the occasional resizing.

Another small gripe is that the internal Freeview Guide requires you to leave on stand-by so the channels are updated overnight. We have a Sony HD recorder with Freeview so don't bother but you'd think it could update whilst watching it instead of wasting energy on stand-by.

The Picture-and-Picture (PAP) feature is really cool so you can see two sources in two screens with the ability to switch between for sound. So whilst I could be playing a game, my wife could watch her Crime and Investigation channel!

The little details such as the glowing Sony badge on the telly and the remote are worth mentioning. In the dark you can light up the remote control in its mesmerizing blue colour.

I'm now trying to figure out how to use the DLNA function. Instead of buying the hardware of a media centre you can, in theory, connect the HD telly to your internet router then connect your laptop to view photos, films and hear music. I've since downloaded a shareware of Mezzmo which can connect to PS3s as well and have managed to view photos from my laptop whilst using the TV remote to navigate through them.

Overall, this is an investment for HD viewing and has ticked all the boxes I needed it to do. As soon as Sky delivers the HD+ box I think some of the minor issues will go away.

Quality Product
I have had this TV for 8 days now. It arrived slightly late and only item when two products had been ordered. City Link had sent the other product elswhere.

The TV was easy to set up in the physical sense. It could be done by one able person but safer for two to do the job. The software was quick and easy to use. The interface is clean, clear and easy to understand. The initial settings in relation to colour etc are for me acceptable. The picture definition is the best I have ever seen. The instruction manuel is first class. The remote can also control BD, DVD and Amp.

Minus point. There are only three HDMI connections. 1 on the lefthand side and two at the rear. I have already filled the rear two. With HD TV Terrestrial on the way another on the rear would have been useful.