Home audio & video forum: SONY VS SAMSUNG LCD

100%. Well worth the wait.

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Most people want 2 HDMI inputs - one for their digital cable/HDTV feed and one for their DVD player.

good point about having two hdmi.
the alternate samsung's you suggested have this but no cable card slot.
maybe the new sony's will have all of the above, but i sense manufacturer's are dropping the cable card feature in their new models.

NEW LCD MODEL LN-T5265F. GREAT SET, I can't stand DLPs; tried out the new LED-DLP, but they too are unpredictable!!!

SONY HAS SEVERAL LINES OF BRAVIAS THIS YEAR, V3000s, W3000s & S3000s.

BANG FOR THE BUCK BUY A SONY SXRD KDS-A2020 available in 50",55",& 60"
Comimg soon the new A-3000, same sizes.

IF you're a long time SONY man you'll find the remote more familiar.

Personally, trade it in, and buy an SXRD.



.egdereviR

Hope this helps. I just bought the Sony Bravia 40XBR and am milking the 30 day return policy. I looked at both, I compared both and I might end up having owned both. The size, or lack of it, on the Sony is AWESOME! Great definition and pretty good XBR TruSurround sound for such a small package(cloth speakers). Not great for gaming!!! If you are a gamer, buy the Samsung and hook it up to an external set of home theater speakers. The speakers on the Samsung fire out the bottom thus, the weak, distorted sound. I am a "Sony Guy" but, I have no problem admitting the Samsung is probably just a better TV.

Last week I bought a Sony Bravia kdl-V40xbr1. I installed the unit today. The replaced TV was manufactured in 1996. I went on line, I shopped, intensively for two days, I bought. The unit was $2500 from Tweeter after they matched BestBuy's sale and rebate. The Sony looked GOOD. It looks VERY GOOD at home. A TV every ten years is not a big deal. Best of all, my wife liked the styling as well as the picture. Hard to fail on that basis.

TV's have a shelf life. A new model is always coming. The price of the current model drops as the new one is issued. If you are cutting edge, you know what to do. If you want a new TV, you will shop according to your time frame.

My father-in-law just bought a Samsung 32". He called me over to help him set it up. I discovered it was defective out of the box (it kept self-adjusting the stretch mode), but I spent an entire day with it adjusting it and using it extensively. We just brought it back and traded it in for the XBR 32" for $300 more. WOW! What a difference. The Sony has it all over the Samsung. The Sony picture is stunning. The XBR has the WEGA video processor engine and it makes regular cable look good, but on a good source, the Sony has better contrast, better blacks, better color...and personally, I liked the features of the Sony much better. The Sony non-XBR, which is the Bravia, is comparable to the Samsung. My friend just traded in his 32" XBR in for a 40" Sony Bravia, and what a mistake! (I set his TVs up too.) The XBR WEGA is much better. Now, these TVs are 720p, so of course if you want the latest, wait and get the 1080p this fall. But, after spending hours and days with both the Sony and Samsung, the Sony has a better picture, has some better features and I think it's built better. Just my 2 cents.

I have been following pricing on the Sony. Does anyone know how low the closeout price will go before I have to worry about inventory running out?