Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #97249 in Home Theater
- Color: Silver
- Brand: Sony
- Model: KDS-60A2000
- Dimensions: 38.90" h x
20.20" w x
55.60" l,
94.90 pounds
- Display size: 60
Features
- Full HD (1920 x 1080)Picture Resolution with SXRD chip
- 3 SXRD chips (R/G/B), Over 2 Million Pixels each.
- Contrast Ratio up to 10000:1
- 1080p Input for Full HD via HDMI rear connections (x2)
- Bottom Speaker. Slim and Stylish Design.
Sony Grand WEGA KDS-60A2000 60-Inch SXRD 1080p Rear Projection HDTV
Product Description
SXRD technology is the latest display technology developed by the legendary television engineers at Sony to meet and exceed the demands of a High Definition image at its full 1080 line resolution. Digitally transmitted High Definition signals can contain over 2 million individual detail points that need to be displayed accurately and rapidly. SXRD displays those 2 million detail points per SXRD panel accurately since the 3 SXRD chips actually contain enough pixels to fully display a 1080 line picture without interlacing it. SXRD has the speed to create a smooth, film like image. The SXRD chips have a blistering 2.5ms response time (total rise and fall time), which exceeds the demands of even the most rapidly moving High Definition images. And SXRD creates highly accurate, natural colors because the 3-chip design displays all the colors, all the time.
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
124 of 126 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent picture in all modes, but...
By M. deFreitas
...you have to calibrate the display (as you should with ANY television), and because of the incredible detail possible with a 1080p picture, the "garbage in, garbage out" tenet of picture quality really holds here.I can't stress those two points enough. If you cannot afford a full calibration by an ISF technician, you should at least purchase Digital Video Essentials or Avia Guide to Home Theater (both available at Amazon) and calibrate the brightness, contrast, color, and grayscale tracking of the display. It is not fair to gauge the picture quality of the display when using factory settings, which are set to "torch" mode (super-bright, super-contrast) to attract ignorant buyers at Best Circuit Buy City. You MUST calibrate the TV for your viewing environment. Note that the A2000 remembers calibration settings PER INPUT and PER RESOLUTION. That means if you have an HD cable box that is in "pass-through" mode - meaning it might send 480i, 720p, or 1080i, depending on the source - for best results you will want to calibrate using the same input as the cable box, and at all resolutions. If you can't do that, you should at least calibrate at one of the resolutions, then copy the settings to other resolutions and tweak for best picture.After doing a basic calibration, evaluate picture quality using high-quality sources (OTA high-definition, progressive-scan DVD, HTPC, etc.) and the best connection you can (HDMI or component). Most standard definition cable content is crap, and blowing crap up to 60" and (comparitively) ultra-high-resolution will result in big, high-resolution crap. In my opinion, after proper calibration and judicious use of the noise-reducing/picture-enhancing features of the A2000, standard-definition content looks pretty good. It'll never look as good as your old 27" CRT, due mostly to being blown up to 4x the size. Compared to other 60"-class HDTVs, the SD quality is excellent. Check your cable signal strength, and compare several SD channels - some have better overall picture than others.OK, rant over. Here are my thoughts on high and low points:High Points- Amazing HD picture quality- Good SD picture quality, keeping in mind GIGO- Quite bright enough to be usable in a well-lit room- Accepts 1080p natively (hello HD-DVD)- Low-reflectivity screen- Blacks are very deep- Plenty of inputs- Plenty of calibration/configuration options (even without going into the service menu)- Immune to "rainbow effect" of DLP sets- Immune to burn-in (CRT, plasma)- Good viewing angles- User-replaceable bulbLow Points- No picture-in-picture or picture-and-picture (has "freeze" feature, which seems of dubious usefulness)- Silver bezel (this is strictly a matter of opinion; I prefer an all-matte-black bezel)- No bulb timer (to gauge lifespan of bulb)To add some context to my opinions: I watch 60% SD content and 40% HD content, plus Xbox 360 gaming and the occasional DVD. I am not a 'videophile', but I do have enough skill to calibrate the display including service-menu adjustments. My viewing environment has a WNW-facing window shaded by trees. During the afternoon/early evening, the room is pretty well lit, but without direct sunlight hitting the TV. At night, I watch TV with some lights on in the room. The A2000 is more than bright enough for all viewing conditions I encounter, and has very low reflectivity (the old Tosh was like a mirror when dark). If you have a light-controlled home theater and bias lighting, I expect you will have even better results than I.For more information on the A2000 (buyers' experiences, calibration, tweaks, etc.) see these AVS Forum threads:[...]
113 of 115 people found the following review helpful.Excellent in all modes
By Kevin Murphy
This is my second HD set, and it's much much better than what I had. Not only does this have an excellent HD 1080p, but the picture from standard def sources is the best I've seen. The internal scaler (which converts SD to 1080p) is among the best made.One thing that happens, though, is that people hook up devices that have their own (inferior) scalers and then complain about the Standard def. This happens often with "hi-def" cable boxes, where the installer sets the cable box to do all the converting before it gets to the TV. Not much the TV can do when the cable box has already mucked things up. The proper thing to do is to set up the cable box to "pass-through" mode (i.e. leave the signal alone!) so the $3000 TV's scaler is used instead of the junk in the $80 cable box.When set up properly, regular TV looks like DVD used to, DVD looks hi-def, and true HD is eye-popping.
61 of 63 people found the following review helpful.
FIVE STARS to AMAZON: ZERO STARS to SONY.
By John Salter
AMAZON is the only way to purchase large screen HD-TV's like this.They don't publicize it as much as they should, but they ship all large screen TV's with WHITE GLOVE service, at no extra charge. When you compare what all the other online retailers charge for this service, AMAZON is the LEAST EXPENSIVE. And to cap it all, they also have a no quibble/no cost return policy.AMAZON delivered my TV with free (White glove) shipping in 4 days.Unfortunately, after a few days trying to set it up for my DVD player I noticed a HORRIBLE HALO around dark objects when set against bright background.My immediate reaction was to RETURN the TV to AMAZON. But SONY included a notice with the TV asking that if there is any problem with the set, if I called their customer service number, they would look after me.So I called SONY and reported the problem. But rather than look after me as they promised they merely gave me numbers of two local TV repair firms to call - not what I call excellent service.I called them, and both said they could come in 10-14 days - so much for responsiveness.A tech came, and immediately recognized the fault. He said he needed to discuss it with SONY. He returned 10 days later with a very large circuit board. Replacing the board was no mean feat. He removed around 40 screws to remove three covers, which he pushed and pulled for two hours before getting the new board installed.But when he switched the TV on, NOTHING would work. The TV was now totally broken. He spent another hour putting the old board back but it was still totally broken. He then admitted it was now unrepairable.We both called SONY and explained the situation, and asked SONY to send a new TV.SONY refused - even after I escalated the issue to Customer Relations. They said it was their policy to NEVER replace TV's, and if I wanted a new unit I would have to sue the repair tech.So then I called AMAZON to explain the situation. They immediately took sympathy, and even though the TV was delivered over 30 days ago, they gave me two options:a) To collect the TV and refund all money paid by me, including shipping, orb) To bring a replacement TV, and take the old one away at no additional cost to me.I chose the latter and the new TV arrived four days later.So the moral is - DO NOT TRUST SONY. If you have a problem - send it back and don't let SONY try to fix it. They don't have clue.Thank you AMAZON, your service is wonderful!SONY, you should be totally ashamed. Your customer service is a disgrace!
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