Sony KDL 40W4100

Sony’s KDL-40W4100 looks great on the wall. With its simple black casing and a silver accent across the bottom, the focus is on the picture. The KDL 40W4100 is a scaled-down version of Sony’s XBR series of TVs. With its 120Hz refresh rate, the picture looks smooth but doesn’t have the same quality that the XBR has. However, with the lower price tag, it could be one of the best values in TVs on the market today with plenty of style and performance.

Standout Features

•  120Hz refresh rate
•  1920x1080 resolution makes Blu-ray look better
•  4 HDMI ports
•  30,000:1 color ratio

 Features

The Sony KDL-40W4100 is a scaled-down version of Sony’s XBR series of TVs with some of the features of a high-end LCD TV, but it still has some problems with a fluctuating backlight and color decoding. However, the features the Sony 4100 does have, compared with its price, make it a good value. Aaron Griffith has been selling TVs for five years. He said the Sony KDL-40W4100 would be his personal choice in a TV.

“It has some of the better features like the 120Hz refresh rate that give it a good picture. It has a different design too,” Griffith said, “but its lower price is really a good value.”

One of the best features of this set is the 120Hz refresh rate. This allows the TV to smooth out motion blur and jitter. When the camera is panning slowly across the screen, the details are clearer and crisper and have more depth.

Also, the Sony 4100 features a 1920x1080 resolution. This allows you to display any of the popular formats available today, including the 1080p format. That means when you are watching any HD or Blu-ray technology on your Sony KDL-40W4100, the images on a whole, look crisper and cleaner. It makes it possible for Blu-ray to look like it’s supposed to.

The Sony KDL-40W4100 has a dynamic contrast ratio of 30,000:1 allowing the TV to produce some of the deepest blacks available on any TV. With the high-end 1080p format, Blu-ray DVDs work the way they are supposed to.

Helping to reduce the jumble of wires and other cables between your TV and your hookups, the Sony KDL-40W4100 comes with 4 HDMI ports. The future of DVD players and other hookups for your TV involves fewer wires and cables. HDMI, or High-Definition Multimedia Interface, ports are becoming a standard in LCD TVs. A good standard is to generally go with one more HDMI port than you think you will need. The Sony KDL-40W4100 comes with 4 HDMI connections standard.

Summary of Reviews from Across the Internet

Experts are impressed with the overall value of the Sony KDL-40W4100. It has the look and some of the features, including the 120Hz refresh rate, of the higher-end TVs without the price tag. They were also impressed with the overall look of the TV. The classy black casing with a transparent accent right below the screen makes it look classy. Reviewers also like the smaller remote with the buttons set up in such a way that it is easier to navigate simply by touch.

Although the Sony 4100 does have the 120Hz refresh rate, some expert reviews say that it can’t quite get the picture quality chops needed to make the picture quality really work.

Summary

The Sony KDL-40W4100 has some of the newest features that are available on today’s market. With the 120Hz and the 1080p resolution, this TV has many of the features of higher-end models like Sony’s XBR but without the high price tag.

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