Sony BRAVIA KDL-40NX803 (KDL40NX803U) 40inch Full HD LED Television with Freeview-HD

To run through some of the basic specification for you, first of all they are part of Sony’s Network series, so you have got wireless Internet built into the TV.  However, you have got Ethernet ports on the back so if you want to connect it to hardwire it you can do so as well.  And in a few moments we will spin the TV round and have a look at some of the sockets on the rear.

So, they are part of Sony’s Network range; you have got wireless internet built into the TV.  They are full HD, so they will cope with 720pm, 1080i and 1080p resolution.  They have an extremely high contrast level as well.  They are edge LED - so they are slim panels.  With them being edge LED, you get a very good contrast level.  The contrast ratio is in excess of 2 million : 1 contrast.  So you are getting a very good black level, so great depth of field, a good natural colour palette, and good detail in the darker areas of the screen as well. 

They are also 200Hz scanning.  Now, if you take a traditional TV it scans at 50Hz, meaning there are fifty pictures per second making up your image.  These are 200Hz scanning.  So if you are looking at support, like we have got tennis on here at the moment, it is going to cope with extreme fast movement really well.  You are going to get no delay sort of blur or drag in that image.

They have also got Freeview HD tuners built into them, so you just connect this TV up to your standard TV aerial system and you will get BBC, ITV and Channel 4 HD just through your standard TV aerial system, without the need of cable or a satellite system.  That is as long as they are broadcasting this service in your area at the moment.  They are bringing out this service throughout the UK between now and 2012. 

So what we will do, we will spin the set round first of all; we will have a look at some of the sockets on the rear of the TV before we get into the Menu system on the set itself.

So, it is slightly awkward to show you the rear sockets on the back of this panel because they are all recessed - which is a great plus point, though, if you want to wall-mount the TV, because you have no sort of sockets surface-mounted on the back.  What we have got here is the Ethernet port just at the top here, which is recessed here.  We have got an HDMI and an HDMI just underneath there as well - so two HDMI sockets on the back of the set.  One scart socket.  Down from there you have got Optical Out, so if you want to feed the sound digitally out of the TV through an external amplifier you can take the sound out of the TV through the Optical socket.

And then you have got your coaxial aerial connection here - as I said, it has got Freeview HD built into it so your aerial socket just goes into the back of the TV there. 

Just changing the angle of view on the back of the TV to show you the mains socket. It is a figure-of-eight mains socket which is also recessed just here as well.  And finally, your wall bracket connections on the back of the TV; these points just here.  And that spacing is 300ml by 300ml. 

Okay, so here we have the side-on view of the sockets.  We have got Component down here, which is the red/green/blue connection with the red and white Audio Input just underneath.  We have got the headphone socket just above those.  You have got your CAM slot on there as well, if you want any pay per view channels through the TV.

As we move up from there, you have got another two HDMI sockets, so you have got four in total - two on the back and two on the side.  We have then got a PC Input just here as well, with the Audio Input for the PC just here as well.  And finally, just above that there we have also got a USB.  So, plenty of sockets there.

Now we will spin the TV round and have a look at some of the features on the TV set itself.  So, let’s have a look at some of the menus on the TV.  With the Sony remote control, you have a blue button that says Home - this is your Menu button.  If we press this, it will put us onto the Sony crossbar menu system, which will come on the screen now.  And we have got Up, Down, Right and Left on the keypad here. 

Now, as I said, this TV has wireless Internet connectivity built into the set itself.  So you can get catch-up TV through here, through things like BCC iPlayer.  You just scan over to the left and we will see the menu change over - and there we go, the first one up there is BBC iPlayer, but you have got Five on Demand, you have got Love Film - various different Internet sites to jump onto.  You have also got YouTube there as well.

If you just click onto any of these - we just press OK in the centre of the remote control - it will now access the YouTube site.  It is just coming on now, just loading up.  When you are on YouTube you can go through sort of favourite video clips that are on there already; you can do general searches.  So if you want to do a search, we just jog down to Search, press OK.  We want to do a New Search - so press OK again.  And then we can go through the full alphabet, and you can basically just jump down into there and start to put in whatever it is that you want to search for.   You just go through that alphabet and just punch in the letters, and it will search for the video clip or whatever it is that you are looking to find on there.

If we just come out of there for a moment, just pressing Return on the remote control to come out of that particular menu.  And we will just have a look at what else is available on there for you.  So, we have got YouTube on there as well; there is also Blip TV, Best Shows of the Web, Daily Motion as well - yet again other video clips, TV channels that you can get onto there also.  So, as I said, you have got a lot of Internet facilities through the TV itself.  There is absolutely loads of stuff on there for you to go through. 

So if we come out of there for a moment and we will go into some of the settings on the TV, this TV, as I said, is 200Hz scanning; it has got a very good contrast level.  If you want to adjust anything on the picture side of it, if we go into the Display Menu and then Picture - just press OK.  You have then got full adjustments for things like the backlight, contrast, brightness, and colour.  And you just highlight the one you want to adjust, press OK on the remote control.   The contrast there is on maximum - that is too high, so we will just drop the contrast down on there a little bit.  But you can tweak the picture up to however you want it.

You have also got, if I just come out of there for a second, back into the Picture Settings, and if we go into the Screen Menu, yet again you have got different options for altering the format of the screen to wide, and zoom; you can zoom in on the image as well to make it larger onscreen.  So there are lots of different adjustments you can make to the image itself.

If we come out of that now, what we will do, we will drop down to the Sound Menu.  We will just have a look at some of the audio settings on there for you as well.  So there we go into the Sound Menu - and yet again, when you are in the Audio Menu, you will have the usual adjustments on there for things like base and treble.  But you have also got a surround sound facility built into this TV.  At the moment Surround Sound is Off.  If we just press OK on there, we can actually go into that and we can get into Surround Sound Mode which will force the sound out and around you as well.  So you have got a very good sound system built into this TV.

On this set, on the side of the TV you have things like a USB, so you could plug a memory stick into here, you could have your photographs, things like Bravia Images, on the TV; you could use it as like a photo frame.  The actual screen itself runs right up to the edge of the picture, there is no sort of external frame on here.  It does come on a swivel base as well.  If we just press OK, that will access the photographs that are stored on this TV already.  But you can send photographs to this set either through things like the USB - as I said, it is wireless technology built in, or you can hardwire it through the Ethernet port on the back - so you could send those images through any store device that may have linked to your PC system.

But an excellent TV for picture, sound quality - Internet built into it as well.  There are a lot more video clips on our website, not only with this TV but a range of sets from various manufacturers.  So if you want to see other video clips, jump onto our website which is www.soundandvision.co.uk.  Or go into one of our stores either in Bolton or Leeds - you will always find me generally at the Bolton store.  Please give me a call on 01204 861 861 if you would like any more details.

Thank you.