It’s a blue Monday morning and you slouch across the house picking up your tie and washing down toast with coffee with the brutal thought that the weekend is four days away. Another week of hectic work, of presentations, reports, audits and what not. What in the world can possibly lift your spirits on a day as pathetic as today? You look at your watch and realise you’re way too early to drive across Main Street. Now what? You eye the slim black rectangle on the wall and feel your mood lifting. You sit down for a few minutes and channel trot and feel the morning’s gloom dissipate, replaced by a new get-up-and-go you. The reason, the stylish Sony Bravia KDL-32W5810 32″ LCD TV. Though this may sound a bit of an overstatement, your TV can actually do wonders when you’re all down and low. For, it can bring in front of your eyes a world so beautiful and seamless, a world of near perfection.
So, is the Sony Bravia KDL-32W5810 HD Ready LCD TV worth so much of praise? For one, the TV’s pictures - their lucidity and sharpness and the way action scenes move across the screen with the seamlessness of water does make you want to heap praises on it. The LCD TV has all the special features that one may find in most of Sony’s LCD TVs; like Picture frame mode, BRAVIA ENGINE 3, Advanced Contrast Enhancer and 24p True Cinema, to name a few. But Sony has given this telly an extra addition of an integrated freesat tuner so that you can enjoy the comforts of free HD and SD satellite broadcasts without the set-top box. The TV comes in a Piano Black with Sony’s usual sharp angles and glossiness, so in the looks department, the KDL-32W5810 scores pretty well.
The Sony KDL-32W5810 has a full HD resolution and quotes a dynamic contrast ratio of 80000:1. The quality of audio is where this LCD TV lacks, like so many others from Sony. But connectivity-wise this 32 incher scores very high. After all, it’s one among Sony’s ‘Home entertainment connectivity TVs’. There are 4 HDMIs for you to connect our PLAYSTATION 3, Blu-Ray player or any other HD source and the USB Media Player lets you play with you digital photos and videos on the big screen. There also is Sony’s AppliCast services using which you can access content from the internet as well. But the bottom line is, the KDL-32W5810 fails to justify the high cost (almost £750).
