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+ This TV scores high on sound quality. - It has no outstanding negative points.

£799 – £817 at 2 retailers out of 416 retailers checked

9.2 out of 10 based on 252 reviews.

Sony KDL-40W4000 with 40" Full HD 1080p LCD screen, 3 HDMI ports and Freeview. See full product description

Image quality	9.3
Sound quality	8.6
Design	9.3
Value for money	9.1
Overall rating	9.2

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Purchaser Multi-purpose viewer

Score 9.0/10

Good points:: loud, 3 HDMI ports good quality LCD
Bad points:: Costly - not 100hz

Ease of use	9.0
Image quality	9.0
Sound quality	9.0
Design	9.0
Value for money	8.0
Overall rating	9.0

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Review date: 30 Jan 2010

Peter, Littlehampton Film and documentary lover

Score 8.0/10

Good points:: Nice looking set with good picture
Bad points:: It seems much more expensive than comparable sets, but that may be the fault of the dealer I went to. Poor instruction book if you want to take advantage of any of the more advanced facilities.

Ease of use	7.0
Image quality	8.0
Sound quality	6.0
Design	8.0
Value for money	4.0
Overall rating	8.0

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Review date: 30 Jan 2010

Tony, Gillingham Sports and games fan

Score 10.0/10

Good points:: Quick start,clear picture, able to be used for the conputer
Bad points:: Finding the start up icon was not easy

Ease of use	9.0
Image quality	10.0
Sound quality	10.0
Design	10.0
Value for money	10.0
Overall rating	10.0

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Review date: 26 Jan 2010

doreen, oldbury.west mids

Score 10.0/10

Good points:: very good picture and sound,easy to install ,remote easy to use
Bad points:: nothing I can think of

Ease of use	10.0
Image quality	9.0
Sound quality	10.0
Design	9.0
Value for money	10.0
Overall rating	10.0

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Confirmed purchase: 20 May 2009

Purchaser

Score 8.0/10

Good points:: Great vibrant colours. Quality build and design. Brand reliability.
Bad points:: As usual with LCD night scenes are not very good. If you have moonlit scenes the image goes blurry, kind of foggy.

Ease of use	8.0
Image quality	8.0
Sound quality	8.0
Design	9.0
Value for money	7.0
Overall rating	8.0

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Review date: 13 Jun 2010

morice, london

Score 10.0/10

Good points:: you cant go wrong with this Tv , I only buy Sony as I ve never had any trouble . oh yes once , my PC screen went dark, and Sony replaced it without any problem . Also most of sony TV have a 5 years warranty
Bad points:: none

Ease of use	10.0
Image quality	10.0
Sound quality	10.0
Design	10.0
Value for money	8.0
Overall rating	10.0

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Review date: 03 Feb 2010

James, London Film and documentary lover

Score 9.0/10

Good points:: Design, clarity of both sound and vision, ease of assembly, ease of tuning and set up, ease of use, compatibility with a nice Sony 5.1 theatre thing that I got for an earlier television, overall pretty damn good.
Bad points:: Some of the controls aren't immediately obvious.

Erm... that's it really. Everything else about the set's pretty good. Had one brief fault early on, the remote stopped working properly - lasted three or four days, but I unplugged the set for a couple of hours and it started working again once I plugged it back in. Otherwise nothing wrong at all.

Ease of use	8.0
Image quality	9.0
Sound quality	9.0
Design	10.0
Value for money	10.0
Overall rating	9.0

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Confirmed purchase: 01 Dec 2010

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Product Features

Screen size (Inches)	40
Screen size is measured diagonally from corner to corner.
Type of screen	LCD
Most small flatscreen TVs have LCD screens. Some larger TVs have plasma screens. Some very new TVs have LED screens. Traditional TVs are called Standard or CRT.
3D	No

HD TV	Full HD 1080p
‘HD Ready’ is a Europe-wide standard designed to made HD technology less confusing. HD Ready TVs must have • Minimum resolution of 720 horizontal lines (in widescreen format) • Ability to display 720p and 1080i formats • An HDMI or Digital Video Interface (DVI interface) Full HD is a higher standard. Full HD TVs have screen resolutions of 1080p and can output at least 24 frames per second. Full HD is becoming common, but you won’t see Full HD on normal TV channels for a long time, so it remains optional for many people.
Built-in disc player	No Disc Player
Some products come with built-in DVD players or Blu Ray players.
Freeview or Freesat tuner	Freeview
Freeview is free digital terrestrial TV. FreeSat is a free digital satellite TV service, which gives you HD programming from people like the BBC without having to pay for a subscription to a service like Sky. You need a dish to receive Freesat but not Freeview. For more information see the Freeview site or the Freesat site. FreeSat is a free digital satellite TV service. The main benefit is that you can get HD programming from people like the BBC without having to pay for a subscription to a service like Sky. You’ll need a dish to recieve the signals though.
Number of HDMI ports	3
Like a scart interface but capable of carrying HD signals from or to other devices. You’ll need these to link your Playstation 3 or your Blu-ray player to your HD-ready TV.
Number of scart ports	2
Scart sockets are places where you can connect other devices to your TV. If you already have a DVD player, a VCR and a Playstation you might want to make sure your new TV has enough Scart interfaces so you don’t have to keep crawling round the back of the TV.
Connections	HDMI

Smart TV	No
TVs with internet capability allow you access to a range of online services.
Frequency (Hz)	50
A TV’s frequency is how often the picture is updated per second, and is measured in Hertz (Hz). A higher frequency, such as 100 Hz, means that a TV is more likely to show fast-moving images with high detail.
Response time (Milliseconds)	8

Screen aspect ratio	16:09
This is a ratio of the horizontal to the vertical size of the screen. 16:9 is standard widescreen format for TVs, replacing the older 4:3 format.
Contrast Ratio (X:1)	33000
This figure is designed to tell you how much difference there is between dark and light colours on the TV. It is quoted as a ratio, between the brightest white and the darkest black. 500:1 means the brightest white is 500 times more bright than the darkest black. Plasma screens have historically boasted better contrast ratios than LCD screens.
Reflection angle	178
Also known as the viewing angle, it’s a measure of how good the picture looks when you are not face on to the screen. Higher is better.
Horizontal resolution (Pixels)	1920

Vertical resolution (Pixels)	1080

Brightness (Candela per square metre)	500
Brighter TVs, such as LCDs, tend to provide a better experience in lighter rooms, whereas TVs with a lower brightness, such as many plasma TVs, are often better suited to darker rooms.
Electronic Program Guide (EPG)	Yes
TVs with this feature have an on-screen guide to all the programmes that are currently showing or coming up, so you can find your way around all the extra digital channels easily.
Headphone Socket	Yes
Weight (kg)	18.5

Release date	2008/05/06
The date the product was originally made available for purchase.

Also known as: Sony KDL40W4000U, Sony Bravia KDL-40W4000, SONY KDL40W400, SONY KDL40W4000, Bundle: Sony KDL40W4000U, Bravia, KDL-40W4000

TV Buyers Guide

Manufacturer's Description

Sony Bravia KDL-40W4000

Watch TV, movies, photos and games in superb High Definition detail thanks to the 6.2 mega pixel resolution

When you are not watching TV, turn it into a digital picture frame with the fantastic Picture Frame Mode. Fill the black hole in your living room by using your TV to display

your own pictures or the 6 pre-installed images

Experience incredibly clear and defined images with BRAVIA ENGINE 2 picture enhancement technology and Advanced Contrast Enhancer

It’s easy to use your TV screen to view your digital photographs with USB Photo Viewer and with PhotoTV HD you can see them in superb High Definition quality

No more confusing menu screens thanks to our easy-to-navigate *XrossMediaBar to browse all your TV functions

See vibrant and natural colours with Live Colour Creation and x.v.Colour on the 10-Bit LCD panel

Featuring the draw the LINE design concept and Midnight Sky finish, the BRAVIA W4000 looks fantastic and has a versatile swivel function

Control your entire home cinema set-up with just one click on the TV remote thanks to BRAVIA Sync

Three HDMI inputs (two on rear, one on side, all with CEC) make it even easier to connect to High Definition sources such as Blu-ray Disc and PLAYSTATION3

If watching films is your thing then this is the TV for you – view movies exactly how the director intended with 24p True Cinema

Experience the effect of digital surround sound from only two front speakers with Virtual Dolby Surround and BBE ViVA sound technology

Watch digital TV with the integrated standard definition digital terrestrial tuner (MPEG-2, also receives analogue)

Watch cable TV with the integrated digital cable tuner (subject to country and with supported operators only)

Wall mountable with the optional bracket SU-WL500

Power consumption data: 0.19W in standby, 176W in operation

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