Sony's thinest LCD TV

Here it is, the thinnest LCD in the world yet.
It uses a wireless media receiver bundled in the package, to transmit upto 1080p signals and is surrounded with grandeur and lots of high handedness from the powers that be who supplied us with the piece, but who can blame them, as there is some serious work gone in to making such a slick LED LCD TV. Now, it's our duty to see whether the hype is worth it, thus presenting what we do best: the real review. And I say this while Shayne is tapping away on the N97s much touted home screen,
so expect a hardcore unbiased review of that too now.


Design
Straightaway I need to give credit where it's due.
The bezel is really very thin, and at the top it is less than 10 mm.
The middle portions have another thin chassis to house the minimal PCB of the LCD panel. It looks just sexy when mounted on the wall, though mounting is a process which needs to be done carefully and maybe should be left to pro installation guys. (When you purchase a TV, the retailers always have installation people no need to worry). The bezel is also my favorite kind, NOT GLOSSy. It has a faux brush texture, but very smooth surface, pure black all over. The bezel is singularly layered with this finish, and it looks slick, minimal and very stylish. The LCD screen itself has a matte finish.

There is a single HDMI at the back, along with the power inlet. These 2 are considerably hidden, and face outwards from a small slot. The front panel's bottom right lights up in luminous white and blue LEDs of the volume and channel up/down icons, though they themselves are not touch sensitive buttons, just logos to name the corresponding push buttons located on their underside.


Features and specs
The panel is teeming with supported features, but first the basics: it is 40 inch size with a native resolution of 1920 x 1080. It has the Bravia Engine 2 video processing chip, thus we will have fun with the menu once we start performance. Here is the 100 Hz Motionflow feature to smoothen video, and most importantly this HDTV is an LED lit model. It is edge lit via LEDS, thus touting greater brightness and lesser power consumption (and more price). So Samsung and Sony are at it again, with their cool new LED LCD TV models. The brightness,
contrast ratings are not given anywhere.


price dont know but may be more than 1.5 lac Rs

Samsung's LED TV

Samsung India had announced the introduction of three LED TV Series - 6, 7 and 8 in the Indian market. While the Series 6 and 7 are being launched today in 40" and 46" screen sizes, Series 8 will be available in 55" screen size and will be launched in May'09. These new TVs use LEDs as their primary light source, rather than traditional Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamps (CCFL). Benefits of using LEDs include ultra-high contrast ratios, slim depths that allow for more artful designs,
plus increased energy savings.




Each of the three Samsung LED HDTV Series for 2009 boast Mega contrast ratios, complements of Samsung's LED TV Engine. Compared to a traditional CCFL, LEDs do produce darker blacks that appear endlessly deep to the eye. They also have a feature called Ultra Clear Panel, which further claims the preservation of every detail even in brightly-lit, imperfect viewing conditions. Samsung's entire LED HDTV line-up incorporates a number of features to reduce motion blur and image judder.

At just over an inch thick (1.16 inch or 29.9 mm thickness), the sets remain trim without cutting back on connectivity options and include a built in tuner. Also, Samsung created an ultra-slim wall-mount solution - reducing the gap between the TV and the wall to around 0.6 inches, down from the two inches.

With the USB 2.0 movie feature, it will be possible to view videos and photos from a camcorder, play music from a media player or access multimedia files from a portable drive possible. The DLNA Wireless feature in the Series 7 and 8 lets the user seamlessly watch content from the PC without any wires or cables. The Samsung LED TVs comes with a built in Content Library Flash which includes pre loaded content.

While the Series 6 Samsung LED Full High Definition TVs are priced in the range between Rs. 1,25,000(40") to Rs. 1,50,000(46"), Series 7 LED TVs are priced in the range between Rs.1,40,000 To Rs.1,80,000. Series 8 LED TV will be available in 55" screen size next month priced at Rs.350,000/-.