Sony Grand WEGA KDF-42WE655 42" LCD Projection TV

User Rating Product Experience
1 Day

Strengths: beautiful picture, great sound, easy to set up

Weaknesses: none so far

Summary: I bought this set via a friend who work at Sony. My initial concerns about receiving HD broadcast were unfounded. After the initial set up (which took the whole 50 minutes that Sony said it would), I was able to receive digital/HD broadcast. All I did was hook the cable line into the TV. I live in the SF/East Bay area, where Comcast is the cable provider. All I have is the extended basic cable service. But last night I was able to get Fox, ABC, NBC, CBS in HD, as well as a few other channels like KQED, Discovery and a bunch of digital music channel. The HD pictures were beautiful, crisp, clear, normal looking colors. The standard pictures were as expected. The speakers in the is set is great. I don't like to hook up all kind of components to my TV, and this allows me only hook up my DVD player and still get everything I need. The TV is simple to use! One remote for the TV and that's it. I'm happy that I bought this TV. I had to sell my 43" Sony projection TV that I bought 3 years ago for cheap to do it, but it was worth it. I will try to update this review if I experience any problems in the future.

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update--my one complaint so far is the closed-caption. 1. it's very big 2. unlike my old sony projection tv, which would show close-caption for both feed when using the twin-view, this set shows only the close-caption on the feed that is active. So if you're watch two program at the same time, you can't tell what's being said on the program you don't have the sound to.

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After almost 2 months of owning this TV, I cannot find anything major new to fault. The only semi annoying thing is the long start up time (about 20 seconds). But the HD pictures are amazing every time I see it.

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I was told the problem with this tv is you dont have a program guide if you use the cable card. Does anyone know if this is true?

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