Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Review: Sony KDL-46EX725 (46-inch LCD-TV)

Much image quality, little current

Despite full screen size of 117 cm, the Sony KDL-46EX725 TV needs only economical 80 watts - the image quality of 3D-Edge-LED-TVs in no way suffering from the current stinginess.
In the TV mode you can also choose here: in the Sony TV receiver for analog cable, as well as DVB-T, - C, and integrated s2. Which shows the TV so we liked both in SD and HD quality very well: there is motion blur in the test not to fault, the image is sharp, detail and colorful.

Movies from DVD, the KDL 46EX725 also shows a good to very good detail, are still very many details in dark scenes. And when material from Blu-ray disc he convinces also with a top picture, the detail is here even more times better than from DVD.

Little image in 3D
The 3D-Bildqualität of the Sony TV is great and is evident absolutely: the measured crosstalk is constant at just over one percent - a pleasant low- and very good value. However a visible flicker was in the test, which occurs particularly in homogeneous areas. The color fidelity of 3D-Bildes is good, the brightness is reduced shutter typical, stands out but adequate.

Something hard, but a total comfortably.

The pretty clunky and hard-looking 3D glasses sit unexpectedly comfortably and safely on the nose. The perspective is somewhat restricted, especially for lateral head tilt, there are hardly any tolerances - in the "to die shoulder des or the sweetheart sit" not it in the 3D-Gucken. As in Sony's TV middle-class are common, also contain no 3D glasses included - you must buy it for around 50 euros each (TDG-BR250).

Powerful sound, picky Media Player

The Sony TV offers extensive setting options - for the sound but also without that you create hand on the sound, the TV reflects a good sound with proper bass. However, the housing for frequencies begins rather quick to echo on. In high frequency areas, the phenomenon occurs much later.

The remote control is the Sony standard with two concentric rings of key and very small pushbuttons, is however quite clearly.

Sony KDL-46EX725: LED TV with great image in 2D and 3D.
The USB interface allows you to record, that the TV must format previously however broadcasts by the DVB channels on external storage media. In addition, the integrated media player plays from also multimedia files from a USB storage. The selection of the media formats supported is however straightforward: it did work in the test, for example, only video-files of the varieties of DivX, XviD, MPEG-2, but no high resolution MKVs.

The same applies to media from your home network (DLNA) connects with the TV set via the LAN port. In addition, the Sony TV offers an open Internet browser that pretty quickly responded, but does not support Flash or Java-videos. Also libraries, YouTube and other video offers in Foprm of apps and widgets can be called in. For all social media fans, even Facebook and Twitter are preinstalled.

Green TV
Back to the already mentioned economical power consumption: emblazoned on the TV a label of the energy efficiency class A, and it creates a very low fuel consumption with 80 watts during normal operation in the test actually. If you switch the light sensor, required the device even just over 50 watt - and that at an always still absolutely sufficient brightness of the display (107 candela per square meter).


Conclusion
The Sony KDL-46EX725 offered a very good image quality in the test. No matter whether in SD or HD via his four tuner, DVD, or Blu-ray disc: the picture is colourful and beautifully sharp. And also the so is good – we found disturbing double contours (ghosting) very little. And nice sparingly with the power of LED TV is about even.

Alternative
The Sharp Quattron LC-46LE925E for approximately 1,450 euros is also a great 3D TV - double contours fall out similarly low as with Sony and flickering there not to criticism here. But not only in the three-dimensional image convinced the sharp, with him, also TV in 2D is consistently fun. This great design, a powerful sound, network functionality and well-placed interfaces occur.

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