32D3000 Reviews

Take a look through a selection of 32D3000 reviews before you buy. We've found some choice words from happy owners of the Sony KDL 32D3000 LCD TV:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely superb!, 18 Aug 2007
By M. Haslam
I am very very very picky about AV equipment (3 very's) so it was after much research and deliberation that I finally settled on this TV. I have to say I am *totally* delighted with it - its a real belter.

The colours are rich and vibrant - perhaps too rich and vibrant unless you turn off the expanded colour gamut that is enabled by default. The picture has bags of detail and the black levels are really excellent, right up there with good plasmas. I would say it gives my Panasonic plasma a damned good run for its money in this respect, which for an LCD TV is quite amazing.

The electronic wizzardry does and incredible job at upscaling and enhancing SD pictures and fast moving sports channels pose no problems at all with no motion judder, smearing or other nasties. I found the 3:2 and 2:2 pulldown detection to be faultless with both NTSC or PAL DVD's exhibiting a very film-like appearance, especially with the Theater mode enabled. Although I suppose no-one will need to test this, the 3D comb filter is just off-the-scale good. If you feed the TV a composite video signal (I can't see many people would) the processing is so good, its almost indistinguishable for RGB with no visible dot-crawl. Amazing.

Of course the set really comes into its own with HD with images that have an incredible WOW factor.

I really can't praise this TV enough. My only two gripes (and they are very minor) is that some of the more advance picture settings are quite deep in the menu hierarchy, making initial set up and picture fine tuning slightly cumbersome. (Of course it doesn't matter after you have set it up, because you don't need to use those adjustments again). The other thing is that *perhaps* the light sensor is a bit over-zealous, dimming the picture maybe just a bit more than I prefer if you switch off all the lights. That very much a personal thing though, I think. And you can always switch the light sensor off if you want to.

I give this TV a wholehearted 5 stars.

Incidentally, Amazon's service and price was very good. Not the lowest price around, but next day delivery (delivered Saturday morning) for peanuts extra, so overall a very good deal.

5.0 out of 5 stars Don't hesitate, just buy it, 31 Oct 2007
By Lucky Del
I felt compelled to write a brief review of this TV as all the previous reviews gave me the additional confidence in buying this TV.

I read review after review both online and in magazines over which LCD TV would be best to buy between the £500 / £800 mark. Initially I had decided that the Panasonic 32LXD70 or 32LXD700 would have been my choice but the offer of a free 3 year guarantee on the Amazon website swayed my decision toward the Sony for £659.99, now going for £10 cheaper! Most of my other equipment is Sony anyway and I've never had any problems with the brand before and it too was also getting excellent reviews just the Panasonics.

I've connected my Sky+ (Thomson) box via the RGB Scart connector on the rear of the TV, mucked around with the numerous on screen settings and the picture quality is excellent. I have a very good signal going into m my Sky box, so that is bound to help a lot! Absolutely no motion problems at all and that's with the motion enhancer turned off. (This was one of my concerns when reviewing LCD TV's!)

I've also connected a Playstation 3 via one of the 3 HDMI connectors to try out Hi-definition gaming. The smiles on my children's faces said it all when I loaded the first demo game of Ratchet and Clank which I had displaying at 720p. Astounding picture quality, absolutely crystal clear. Colours are fabulous. No comparison to my old 28" CRT TV. (And I thought the picture quality on that TV through the RGB connector was great?) The HDMI cable was only a cheap £10 cable, so I don't know if much dearer cables would really be worth buying.

I just wish I had a Sky HD box now to compliment this fantastic piece of equipment. Connectivity is brilliant and I would thoroughly recommend this TV to anyone who is considering it, even though I've only had it now for less than one day. Don't look around any further, just buy it!, I'm well pleased.

5.0 out of 5 stars Everything went to plan By Sigmonde
I'd been toying with buying this model for a few weeks based on various reviews. The Panasonic 700 model and the Sony seem neck and neck in the press so I picked the sony to match everthing else in the house. I placed my current 28" trinitron old set and 32D together and at first there was no real difference. Switching off the light sensor and a few tweaks and the new set had richer tones.

Setting it up the set was simplicity itself and I a very pleased with the result. Even my partner noticed the difference.

So It's definately better than my old set and I'm over the moon with the price and performance, and I've not even put an HD picture through it yet!

The amazon price is way better than the large stores, even if you order on-line and collect locally.

There you have it, testimonials from 3 very happy Sony BRAVIA KDL 32D3000 LCD TV owners. Remember, these are real people who own this television. For more reviews and in information on the KDL 32D3000, simply use this link to go to Amazon UK now where you'll find a huge quantity of information on the 32D3000 TV; from prices to manufacturers descriptions, technical specifications and more. Whilst you're ther you can evne compare prices on a range of LCD TV's. Alternatively, go back to our front page for price comparision listings on the Sony KDL 32D3000.