Bought this as a replacement for an old 14" CRT Sony portable for use in the spare bedroom/workroom. I have used Sony TV's exclusively for the past 30 years, as I believe they offer excellent performance and reliability. This is my first LCD TV however, and I find that the viewing angle is critical, just as I had expected. Nevertheless I am still disappointed, and feel that LCD has a long, long way to go to match the picture quality of traditional CRT screens. Having said that, by taking the time to carefully set it up and ensuring that you watch it straight on, the picture is good.
Surprisingly, I felt that the sound quality was much better than I had expected, despite being a keen audiophile and therefore a little more demanding in the area of sound quality. However if you want high fidelity, then you can always hook it up to a decent home surround sound system.
Tuning in all the channels is a very simple affair as it is all automatic, but I was relieved to see that there is a manual tuning facility available, for those of us who like to tinker (as I do) ... in fact for me it was a necessity as I needed to tune in a foreign satellite decoder which the auto-tune was unable to detect.
As a regular Amazon customer, I have come to expect a very competitively priced product and excellent delivery, and yet again I was not disappointed with Amazons service.
Overall, a well-built TV (as you would expect from Sony) and a pretty good picture/sound quality but with the reservations mentioned above. I suspect that future LCD TV's will have a greatly improved picture-viewing angle, or maybe technology will move away from LCD, LED or plasma into totally new areas, giving us even better results on screens that are yet to be invented! I await with bated breath ...
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