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Roger
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from Date Reviewed: December 10, 2002
Strengths: Picture quality is the best on any decent input.Weaknesses: The audio is not outstanding steady sound not withstanding. (As others have noted consider things like cleaning before you locate this monster)Bottom Line: I have had many TVs over many years and this is by far the best. Pictures are clear, crisp on both cable and VHS. Unbelievable on a progressive scan player. Since I am not a technocrat I had someone "optimize" my settings. When I compare it to my Toshiba 50 inch rear projection TV that I have for my home theater, I am astonished at the difference. The Toshiba is very good - the XBR450 is great. The new Sony stand is also a great match for the set.
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$2000.00
Purchased At: Big Georges
Similar Products Used: Toshiba Panasonic RCA
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Roger
a Casual Listener
from Date Reviewed: December 10, 2002
Strengths: Picture quality is the best on any decent input.Weaknesses: The audio is not outstanding steady sound not withstanding. (As others have noted consider things like cleaning before you locate this monster)Bottom Line: I have had many TVs over many years and this is by far the best. Pictures are clear, crisp on both cable and VHS. Unbelievable on a progressive scan player. Since I am not a technocrat I had someone "optimize" my settings. When I compare it to my Toshiba 50 inch rear projection TV that I have for my home theater, I am astonished at the difference. The Toshiba is very good - the XBR450 is great. The new Sony stand is also a great match for the set.
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$2000.00
Purchased At: Big Georges
Similar Products Used: Toshiba Panasonic RCA
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David_Seattle
a Audio Enthusiast
from Seattle, WADate Reviewed: October 11, 2002
Strengths: Amazing picture and really good sound (IMHO), assuming you have a good input source.Weaknesses: Unforgiving of bad/mediocre input signals, including lossy-compression digital cable.Bottom Line: This is actually for the XBR800 (which replaces the XBR450), but I can't find that on this site.
Overall, this is a great TV, and I got a great deal for it. However, the picture quality for regular analog or digital cable TV is terrible, as other reviewers have said. This TV is merciless with bad input signals. The analog cable isn't too bad; just a little grainy even with sharpness turned all the way down. But the line doubler takes the digital cable channels and turns them into pixellated low-quality JPEG video...you know what I mean. I'm experimenting to try to reduce this, but I can't "soften" the picture the way I could on the Toshiba 36HFX71 I tried.
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$1700.00
Similar Products Used: Toshiba 36HFX71.
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Ron
a Audio Enthusiast
from WindsorDate Reviewed: May 28, 2002
Strengths: LOOKS OF SYSTEMWeaknesses: no "on mute" closed captioning
imperfect image when in letter boxBottom Line: Hey EVERYONE, take a closer look at your XBR's. Right under the blackened letter box is a different shade of pixel showing your image, very annoying if you actually enjoy a good picture
A TERRIBLE SET FOR THE MONEY
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$4000.00
Purchased At: Future Shop
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chrislehr
a Audio Enthusiast
from Boston, MADate Reviewed: April 20, 2002
Strengths: Awesome picture, great remote.Weaknesses: Heavy, wish I could rename the labels for video inputs on the composite inputs (my ps2 uses composite, and i cant name that one GAME)Bottom Line: LOVE THIS TV. The multiple inputs rock, the remote is simple to use, but to be honest I hardly use it (reprogrammed cable remote instead) Menus are simple to figure out. DVD's are simply AWESOME. Broadcast TV and digital cable TV, well a lot of people say its sub par, I personally think its OK. Looks oversaturated if you leave the tv in "Vivid" mode - switching to standard or PRO makes it a lot better looking! I found using the RCA output from my cable box looked WORSE than the coax in terms of video resolution.
Price Paid:
$2500.00
Purchased At: crutchfield
Similar Products Used: nothing ive had before compares.
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