Oh IC the advantage to LED now. They have alot more light sources so they can be turned off and on with more accuracy than a floro? Thats pretty cool. I with LED's were a little more efficient already. I doubt it has the CREE LED probably some LUX 3's
Tinman, count_dough-ku, I am looking hard at the Sony SXRD KDS-60A2020. Count, it appears you have had this for a while, still happy with it? How are the viewing angles and the picture in SD? Tinman, you have mentioned one can't go wrong with SXRD... any other good review sites for this? I have checked out avsforum's thread on it and Cnet. Seems like the price is really coming down with the 3000's just about here. Anything more you can share on it?
You can get that 60 SXR sony at Home theater store for 2,700. I almost bought it last week but instead I bought the New Mitsubishi Diamond 65833 model bu I still have to wait 3 more weeks before it will be available for delivery from the Mitsubishi warehouse's. The thing I do NOT like about that TV(sony SXR) is the stupid speakers on the sides that are not removable. The 70" they are removable. go figure. Now if you do not have one of those wrap around entertainment centers then it would not cause a problem.
I have no complaints with the 60A2020. I'll be honest. I don't really watch anything on there in SD, but my roommate and his friend do and they have yet to complain. As for viewing angles, I watched a little bit of Hot Fuzz on HD-DVD last week from a pretty sharp angle and still saw the picture clearly. And incidentally, Hot Fuzz looked incredible. Definitely worthy of all the praise it's been getting. One thing to make sure is that you switch from Vivid mode to Standard after you first get the TV. Oh, and the cost of the TV is a bargain lately. Hell, if I'd waited an extra couple months, I would've saved an additional 300-400 bucks.
LED's traditionally last longer and conserve more energy than other light sources. Once they work out the kinks and cheapen up, this might be the best in value and quality.
The 2020 models don't have the speakers on the sides. Those are only on the 2000 models. As for the price of the 60A2020, I just checked Circuit Sh-tty's website and it's 2300 on there. Plus if you're a AAA member, you can use the 10% off coupon which brings the cost down to 2070 plus tax.
Yeah, I like the 2020's design with the speakers on the bottom versus the ears on the side of the 2000. Plus I like the black frame versus the silver. The price drop is something that has caught my eye with that TV. Thanks for the review. I have yet to check it out in the showroom which of course is something I am looking forward to doing. I am still not sure about whether to get a 55" or 60" as it relates to the size of my family room. I have an ancient toshiba (1994?) theaterview that is about 48" or so. So whatever I get it will be a big step up which is what I am looking for both in clarity and in size. I know I could live with a 55", no question. But I don't know if I would be kicking myself if I didn't get the 60". If anyone else has any opinions on the Sony SXRD's I would love to hear them!
I am sorry the Sony TV I was referring to was the: KDS-R60XBR2. This is the best they make. Discription: 60" Class Grand WEGA™ XBR™ series SXRD™ Rear Projection The 2020 version I could get for 1900 from the Home theater store. Of course I got them talked down. Now if you are trying to compare the 2 sony's the 60XBR2 is a far superior TV. The picture was life like on blueray. I had them hook up the same blue ray to both and there was allot of difference.
Now you may also want to look at the New Diamond series by Mitsubishi: http://www.mitsubishi-tv.com/j/i/18326/TelevisionDetails/WD65833.html?cid=5469 I just bought this TV for 2699 at Home theater store and according to the specs it supposed the most powerful light system of any TV and I just love the slick black finish
Anyone else out there have thoughts on the SONY SXRD versus comparable Rear Projection TVs? I am looking around 55".
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/b...l?_r=2&ref=technology&oref=slogin&oref=slogin Selling Television Sets by Turning Up the Glamour Article Tools Sponsored By By ERIC PFANNER Published: August 14, 2007 WHILE audiences might have to wait until autumn to see “My Blueberry Nights,” the first English-language feature from the Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai, they can catch a shorter film from Mr. Wong while shopping for fashionable clothing or jewelry in Paris. The five-minute film is actually an advertisement for a new television from Philips Electronics, a high-end flat-screen model called Aurea. The film, a spy story shot in Shanghai, will be shown in the Paris boutiques of the fashion label Lanvin and the jeweler Lorenz Bäumer — on Aurea televisions, of course. The decision to produce a short film with an art-house director like Mr. Wong shows how brands are trying to break away from their reliance on 30-second television spots, which some marketers fear have lost their effectiveness. Now, even televisions are being marketed without recourse to television. Meanwhile, the move by Philips to involve luxury goods purveyors like Lanvin and Bäumer reflects a desire by consumer electronics companies to differentiate their products in an intensely competitive marketplace by trying to give them some of the glamour of the fashion business. “The idea is to be more exclusive, to be very different from your traditional kind of advertising,” said Sandrine Huijgen, marketing director for consumer electronics at Philips. “We don’t see Dior advertising a lot on television.” Philips said it might run a few television spots in markets where it cannot be avoided. But most of the $68 million that Philips expects to spend in Europe through the end of the year will be used in other media, said Rudy Provoost, chief executive of the consumer electronics division. In early August, for instance, the Aurea campaign got under way with a seven-page insert in Vogue in Britain. The print ads, shot by a fashion photographer, Vincent Peters, show a model cozying up to a brightly lighted Aurea screen that mirrors her image. Instead of technobabble about HDTV, L.C.D. or plasma screens, the ads include only the Philips and Aurea names and the tag line: “Simplicity is a light that seduces the soul.” “There is a lot of female coding in this advertising,” said Laura Jones, global client managing director at the advertising agency DDB, a unit of Omnicom Group, which worked on the Aurea campaign along with the media planning agency Carat. “Before, televisions have always been sold based on pixels or that sort of thing.” Philips is not alone in moving away from a masculine approach to selling consumer devices, embracing the presumably more female world of fashion. LG, the South Korean electronics company, is selling a mobile phone under the Prada brand name. The Samsung ads for high-end televisions play up the sleek design of the products, sometimes by way of models in slinky black dresses. Sony, meanwhile, has raised the bar for high-concept advertising in the television market with an international campaign for its Bravia flat-panel sets. The first ad in the series, which has not been shown in the United States, featured tens of thousands of colorful rubber balls bouncing through the streets of San Francisco. A second ad showed buckets of paint splattering against a housing project in Glasgow. A new ad in the campaign was shot in early August in New York using brightly colored rabbits made out of modeling clay. The Bravia campaign has attracted a great deal of attention on the Internet, even in the United States, where a separate television campaign has been used. While the Aurea campaign focuses on the sets’ use of light, Sony plays up the Bravia’s rendition of color. Philips trails Sony and Samsung in the market for flat-panel L.C.D. televisions like the Bravia and the Aurea. Samsung had 16.8 percent of the market in the first quarter of 2007, compared with 12.6 percent for Sony and 12.2 percent for Philips, according to iSuppli, a market research firm. With its unusual ad campaign for the Aurea, can Philips close the gap? In the film by Mr. Wong, a female agent sent to kill a character named Light is instead seduced by him. Now, Philips must hope that not too many customers get similarly sidetracked — spending their money on Lanvin fashions or Bäumer jewelry instead.
