What About The Sony Bravia KDL32V5500? August 4, 2010

Taking the measure of the Sony Bravia KDL32V5500 TV is a fairly straightforward and pleasant task. For starters, it’s a thirty-two inch (32″) LDC (liquid crystal display) television that presents its picture on a fine flat panel screen. It’s also fairly friendly to its users and designed to be intuitive when it comes to those users operating the unit on their own. It being a Sony, it presents full features and a reasonable price, too.

This particular model of Sony can be either wall-mounted – through use of a bracket – or set up on its supplied stand. The UK’s Energy Savings Trust, a government-founded non-profit dedicated to fighting climate change, has given it a “recommended buy” due to the energy efficiency qualities its manufacturer has built into it.

Like every Sony in the Bravia lineup, the KDL32V5500 features excellent HD capabilities. Additionally, its color tones, contrast and sharpness of picture are first-rate. The company has also built in its home networking function, which allows this model to play movies from a DLNA-equipped personal computer on its own screen, even if that computer is located elsewhere in another room.

The HD clarity with this Sony Bravia model is excellent, at 1920×1080 pixel resolution. Sony’s proprietary Bravia Engine 3 technology is on hand to create superior contrast, picture depth and clarity, sharp colors and real-life tones all throughout the picture it puts up on the screen. Happily, it also can act as a digital picture frame, using what Sony calls its Picture Frame Mode.

This handy feature allows a user to always have something entertaining going on onscreen, even if no television programs or movies are being shown. There are also 4 HDMI inputs on the unit, with 2 in the rear and 2 on the side of the television. The Sony Bravia KDL32V5500 TV is exceedingly easy – because of the presence of all those HDMI inputs – to hook up to any number of HD sources like a BluRay player or a Playstation 3.

Though the TV itself is a large 32″, it looks very sleek and very stylish. This is due in no small part to its fine flat panel and the piano black finish that runs all throughout its casing and enclosure. It also swivels about easily – with just a slight push – on that stand mentioned earlier. This allows it to be positioned for optimal viewer enjoyment. Lastly, its supplied universal remote is exceedingly easy to set up and use.

With everything this Sony Bravia KDL32V5500 TV offers at the price it sits at – which is very reasonable, considering all of its included features and capabilities – it’d be very hard to find any fault with it. It rides on that nice swivel and it’s very easy to manage. Along with that fine picture, there doesn’t really seem to be any downside.

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