I treated myself to a new TV last weekend, a 40″ Sony KDL-40V4000.
It’s replacing a 32″ Hyundai ImageQuest A321, which is a cracking set, but I didn’t feel that a 720p screen at that size was doing any justice to the potential visual quality of my HD-DVDs, Blu-Rays and having recently upgraded to Sky HD, much of my TV viewing. The Sony is a native 1080p set with 24p support, has a 33,000:1 contrast ratio, and equally as important for me after issues with a HDMI switch I was using on the Hyundai, 3 HDMI inputs, and I’ve found myself completely stunned by the difference between the two TVs. The quality of HD movie playback on the Sony is overwhelming with great sharpness, no motion blurring and excellent display of dark colours, my games have never looked so vivid, and it even has a fairly decent SD picture for an LCD of this size.
My son is also overjoyed with this upgrade, as his 360 is now hooked up to the Hyundai rather than the old, very bulky, 20″ SD CRT he was using previously.