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Sony Bravia X4500 TV?
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I did a search on this TV, found no entries for it...
Was just wondering if anyone has it? and how they found it?
The contrast ratio is enormously higher than most TV's I've seen.
Was just wondering if anyone has it? and how they found it?
The contrast ratio is enormously higher than most TV's I've seen.
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But that's interesting to know, thanks. I didn't realise about the lack of standard among manufacturers.
The Z series is really nice so I can only imagine the X being better since it's the flagship model. I've ordered it without seeing it in person
Only slightly afraid of Humax Foxsat HDR compatibility by HDMI ....... there seems to be "an issue" sometimes with some TV's.
It would be nice to think so - but I wouldn't bet on it, certainly other manufacturers don't do so.
But above a certain point you're not going to see any difference anyway.
What I can tell is this...
My current TV, it was really expensive 3-4 years ago even compared to others at the time...A Philips ambilight one, 37PF9830. There was this one and the Sony floating design at the time that looked good. The Sony was 1000 more though. The Philips has a contrast of 5000:1 (on paper).
Nowadays, the vast majority of TV's available are cheap rubbish compared to the Philips! both build quality (wonky shiny plastic frames...just look at the reflections in them), poor picture quality. Cheap and nasty. Yet they allegedly have better specs.
I've just been up the road to check out the X4500....
And wow. OK. It was a good choice!!!!!
I don't know if it's going to have any annoying problems but the picture quality was noticably gorgeous and NATURAL, and the build quality pretty damned nice too.
You're right not to trust everything on paper though...that's why I was asking since I hadn't seen it in real...and even seeing it, won't know until I live with it
My only dislike is 260 watts power consumption.
You cant mention Philips on here :eek: we all hate them
The Sony was in fact one of the sets I looked at when recently changing until I saw the Panasonic V10.
After many contacts, and finally a mail to the CEO, they replaced it with the PF9830 which has been great...but although has the required 1080p (x 1920) pixels, it only accepts a max of 1080i input. Also shuddery horizontal panning.
It's going to be demoted to the bedroom since my (Sony) projector light died
Yes it's very poor customer service, you should not have to write to the CEO to get a result! I have mainly had Sony over the years & for the most part they have been great sets. However (whispering this) about 4 or 5 years ago I bought a 32" CRT Philips Pixel plus which to be fair has never missed a beat but I was scared stiff parting with the best part of £1000 for something with Philips written on it
There's also been a time...11 or 12 years ago I bought 2 Sony VCRs and my mother bought an identical one. They all died. Did funny things like not knowing when they were getting to the end of the reel and running at full turbo speed, thus breaking tapes and making a horrible noise! and throwing cassettes instead of injecting them. Actually that was the last VCR I ever bought. I tried the Philips CDi player
About the after sales help...its pretty much ALWAYS monkeys in callcentres off site (certainly in the case of Philips and also Sony) and even if they wanted to help, their hands are tied!
I have zero patience for being given the run around so usually find out the name of the CEO, then try their name @ their company *dot* their country. Usually works
Yes, it's like banging your head against a wall with these call centres, if your question does not fit the script your done for :rolleyes: I usually find if you can get through to Tier 2 you stand a better chance but it's hard to get past the muppets