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Shelly

8:40 AM on 25 August, 2009

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What a pity; another decent sounding Sony ruined by backlight bleed.

My 3 year old 40W2000 has the same issue and it certainly is off putting, I would have thought that Sony could have sorted out their factory/QC by now, but apparently not.

Think I'll upgrade to the Panny 50V10 plasma instead; and on that note any chance of a review of the 50" TR?

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Gary11

9:36 AM on 25 August, 2009

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The only thing the review lacked was with regard to input lag.

The new W5500 range have more input lag than the previous 4000+ range, can you comment if the Z5500's input lag is worse the the Z4500 ?

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colin

10:15 AM on 25 August, 2009

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what a shame still got backlight bleed their tvs were always the ones other manaufacturers aspired too thought they used samsung panels and their tvs dont have this problem although i did hear Sony were looking at using LG panels maybe they are looking at using the LG led panels in future new models which I hear are in THX approved LG sets

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Techno22

12:28 PM on 25 August, 2009

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If motion flow has to be turned off because of a cricket ball then, in my opinion, the set is not up to standard, and should not be on the market.

After paying that kind of money for a TV set I would be sick at the idea of having to turn things on and off depending on the picture content.

What about the good old days when you set your contrast and brightness when you installed the TV and just sat back and enjoyed the content thereafter.

Just how much has technology really moved on?

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davidcrofter

9:22 PM on 25 August, 2009

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Oh dear ... yet another instance showing up the flaws of LCD - seems no matter how much money you throw at these panels with fancy (and expensive) processing tricks (which you will no doubt start toning down/turning off) LCD still cannot come up with a TV Experience to match Plasma.

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MaxPower

3:52 AM on 26 August, 2009

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I wonder whether Sony would consider moving their entire line to HCFL (other than LED based ones) as that TV didn't suffer from inconsistent backlight issues...

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KRISHNAMURTHYSUBBIAN

8:09 PM on 10 February, 2010

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We bought the above model recently and found it to give a decent performance. We are not noticing any problems except lack of DivX support and bluetooth. Motionflow does work reasonably well in sports programs and racing.

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There's a big part of me that wants to love the 46Z5500. For as well as looking resplendent in Sony's most appealing design for ages, the set's 200Hz processing is excellent, and its HD pictures in particular are for the vast majority of the time really quite superb. But no matter how tempted I might be, in the end I just can't give a TrustedReviews Recommended badge to a TV costing the best part of £1650 that suffers with marked backlight inconsistencies - however rarely they might affect day-to-day viewing.

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Reviewed by John Archer

25 August 2009

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£1,649.00

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