IfI don't buy the 50W700B, my alternate choice will be the 48W600B. Would this be a good buy too?
If I buy the 48W600B, I do not want to buy it because I'm forced to due my budget. I want to buy it because I saw the picture as amazing.
This is to anyone who has the 48W600B. How is the picture and clarity in motion? How are the black levels? Do you have any pictures/videos to show? What about calibration?
I'm a Console Gamer, so if I buy the W700B, I would have to turn off the Motion Interpolation anyway, right?
Yes, I would turn off all picture-processing effects for best input lag (Game preset does this anyway). That said, the 700B (e.g. 800B panel minus 3D) will have better contrast, better blacks and better color than the 600B. I'd go for the 50W700B if I were you. That's the route I took and I'm very happy.
I've had my 50" W700B for about a week now. Here're my impressions and settings (with pictures).
In general I'm very satisfied with the set. Colors are vibrant, blacks are black and uniformity is excellent. I can't stress this last one enough - edge-lit LEDs do not, of course, have a good track record when it comes to screen uniformity. In fact, I've returned several different sets because of banding, clouding and/or flashlighting which I considered unacceptable. I was astounded by how good the W700B is in this respect. Motion resolution is great (football looks surprisingly good for an LED, though of course nowhere near plasma). And the kicker: games. I don't have a lag tester but anecdotally gaming is fantastic on this set. I'd say the published input lag figures of 21-25ms are correct. I'm very sensitive to input lag, so this is saying something coming from me. I've played ~4 hours of Destiny with no issues (except for the atrocious 30fps framerate). Less demanding titles (Fez, Pixeljunk Shooter, inFamous Second Son) held 60fps well without noticeable input lag.
I've had my 50" W700B for about a week now. Here're my impressions and settings (with pictures).
In general I'm very satisfied with the set. Colors are vibrant, blacks are black and uniformity is excellent. I can't stress this last one enough - edge-lit LEDs do not, of course, have a good track record when it comes to screen uniformity. In fact, I've returned several different sets because of banding, clouding and/or flashlighting which I considered unacceptable. I was astounded by how good the W700B is in this respect. Motion resolution is great (.
Set and pictures look good It has the "Sony glow " like my 2013 model Silver bezel /frame/stand looks good in the pictures better than the stupid chicken foot stand on my Samsung Plasma
I got my 55" 800b about a week ago and I noticed that it has some weird issues when you look at it from off-angle viewing. This middle of the screen has this giant oval that looks like it's clouding. Only when the screen is showing a black image though. It's not noticeable unless there's a black image on screen.
Is it worth exchanging for this? Has anyone else noticed severe clouding issues with this set?
If you only see at severe off angle out of specified view angles (which are are narrow ) it is probably normal VA a panel off angle color shifting and artifacting.
48W600B are getting good reports from owners they should be decent AFAIK the video board is not as advanced as 700B but decent . I don't have ether one one though ..
Sony uses the same panels within a series with but a few exceptions, same series sets will almost always perform similarly this would be true in the W600B series.
" Input Lag: 33.9 ms
The input lag is very low, so this is a great gaming TV. It isn't the lowest that we ever recorded, but it is more than low enough to not notice it." -rtings.com -
I've had a 60" W850B for about two weeks now, replacing a 5-year-old 52" Z5100 (also a Sony, now relocated upstairs replacing a 9-year-old 42" Samsung plasma we gave away). Got it up on the wall without issue, tweaked the settings using posts here and elsewhere online as a baseline, and it looks quite good to us.
I don't do 3D so I can't comment on the quality of that, but regular TV, BD, football, and very relaxed/non-serious gaming have elicited no complaints. A couple quirks: I had a minor handshake issue with my receiver, the set claiming it wasn't receiving a signal, but that only happened once. I also found football to be more smooth with the motion controls set to 'off', but I may continue to play with this.
It's funny how things change. This is the biggest TV we've purchased and the most feature-laden (wifi, 3D, etc.) yet was easily the least expensive!
Enjoying my new 50 w800b, trying to get used to it as my Samsung LN7100 plasma was tough to beat!
My issue is I have been using the settings provided by everyone on this list and while most of them have been great, I kept having an issue with the way the blacks looked, so I played around with the white balance and I used the following.
Does anyone have the SONY KDL40W600B? What are the best settings? Can anyone post the best possible settings, including RBG Gain and Bias (For best picture and blacks)? I would also like to see pictures.
Gain and bias will vary between various TVs. If you check reviews of the same TV from different sources they probably will not share the same gain and bias settings. For example on the W850B the Cnet, Rtings, and my own measurements all have different gain and bias settings, and it's also possible the TV can change with use. If your intent is to achieve an accurate image, there are some common settings that can be shared, but using a gain and bias setting from another TV might actually make your display less accurate. Settings from places like Cnet and Rtings generally intend to provide a more accurate image than the initial settings, but accuracy is not necessarily everyone's definition for "best".
Im looking at getting a 700b which is basically a Best Buy only 3D less model of the 800b. One of the things I will be connecting is a windows laptop via HDMI. I read someone elses post about it not filling the screen when connected this way. Is that the case with anyone elses? And if so is there a setting change to make it fill the screen? Also does this TV pass Dolby Digital from an HDMI source back out the optical? I read that most newer Sony sets do. Last question, does this support connecting a hard drive to the usb port and playing video files from it, along with srt subtitles? Thanks
****** must be set on all inputs you use *************
If using a PC w/HDMI or DVI-D to HDMI definitely set PC to 1080p.= (1920x1080 )on on PC you should only need to do some minor scaling to edge of screen within your PC GPU GUI controls make sure TV is in wide mode full that is normal 16x9 no zoom .
Watching My Sony right now set like that works perfect on all inputs Roku, Dish 1080i TV ,OTA TV and 1080P PC/HDMI
Haven't tested with a laptop so can't speak to that, but I can confirm that it will pass Dolby Digital from a device connected by HDMI. I have my Xbox One hooked in direct and use optical to pass dolby digital back to my receiver.
Had my tv for a week and noticed today that it has 2 dead pixels? I already exchanged it for another one through best buy. Does anybody's w600b tv also have dead pixels? Should I exchange it for another through best buy or is dead pixels a common thing on 40+ inch led TVs?
For the people that owns the 48w600 . Is there any motion blur when watching the tv?. Especially when watching hockey and for movies. Maybe you can give your opinions on other aspects of the tv, negatives, positives etc....
Reason being is , I am thinking of picking up the tv on Thursday.
I have the KDL-40W600B and I'm trying to do a simple test for HDMI resolution that is currently being sent. 1080i or 1080p. When I press the "DISPLAY" button on the remote, nothing happens. I can't find out how to get to the service or diagnostics menu that might display the incoming signal.
I have DTV going to my STR-DN840 to my TV.
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I can get the info I'm interested in by pressing the "INPUT" button and cycle through back to my original input. This is the banner displaying the current input/time/format/aspect. Perhaps the "INPUT" button on the remote that came with my TV is not working....?
I have the KDL-40W600B and I'm trying to do a simple test for HDMI resolution that is currently being sent. 1080i or 1080p. When I press the "DISPLAY" button on the remote, nothing happens. I can't find out how to get to the service or diagnostics menu that might display the incoming signal.
I have DTV going to my STR-DN840 to my TV.
==EDIT==
I can get the info I'm interested in by pressing the "INPUT" button and cycle through back to my original input. This is the banner displaying the current input/time/format/aspect. Perhaps the "INPUT" button on the remote that came with my TV is not working....?
Press Home button > goto settings > set up > info banner you can enable it there options are small large or off
then your display button will work. large option is what I use .
Hello everyone. I just got a 700B and have a slight issue. Sometimes when I switch inputs lets say Im going from 1 to 3 it will get stuck at 2 and say "please wait powering on". Im not sure what this means and why its doing it. I think maybe its trying to automatically power on whatever is connected to input 2. I turned off Bravia sync for now. Hopefully that was the issue.
Thinking about picking up the W700B to replace my current bedroom set. Was also looking at the Vizio P series 4k set, but leaning towards this as I don't exactly need 4k in the bedroom. It's mostly for watching TV at night and gaming. Especially now with that Vita TV coming out next month allowing a 720p stream of your PS4 on any TV you hook it up to.
Besides, I'm getting a 4k set for the living room.
And thanks to my mother, she discovered a 10% off any one item card to Best Buy that expires next week allowing me to get that Sony set for under $800.
hi i have the 50 w800b and i notice that on the bottom of the bezel theres light leakage. anyone else tv set experiencing it? or do i have a bad set. thanks
I'm worried about playing 720p games on the 40W600B. When I played PS3 games on my Hisense 50", the games looked a little strange. This was in part caused by the Sharpness set to 0, which made the 720p games look fuzzy.
This could not be helped because artifacts appeared on ALL content (even on 1080p Wallpapers) even when the Sharpness was set to 10% (out of 100%).
Would I have to set the Sharpness to 0% on the 40W600B too?
Does this also depend on the HDMI cable I'm using?
Sony's usually like sharpness a little over half way it should be a much better TV all around than the Nonsense . HDMI cables either work or not on short runs ~ 6 -10 ft a working functional $4.00 HDMI cable will look just as good as a $250.00 HDMI cable if the cable is bad it will be bad on every source and readily apparent .
Just had a 55" W829 delivered today, has anyone noticed significant brightness shifts during dark scenes? Currently using the Vivid picture mode. I never had this with the W805, only if I set the adv contrast enhancer to high.
New! Sony - 40" Class (39-1/2" Diag.) - LED - 1080p - 60Hz - HDTV at Best buy Only $329.00
Has last years XR120 motion flow no IP connections (smart TV) but a $50.00 Roku can take care of that it may have the same panel as the W600B could be a real bargain if you don't mind a 60Hz panel . Wall Mart and others have similar models at similar prices might be some customer reviews there it's $140.00 cheaper than 60Hz W600B and if you Have a PS3 your smart TV thing is covered already .
It looks like these models may be loosely based on the 2013 R models .I have a 2013 40R450A in the bedroom The picture is as good as anything at or below a 2014 Sony W800B ofc 40R450A may have different panel than these new sets it actually has a better panel than the 2014 W600B's and virtually matches the W800B contrast and black levels .
At $140 cheaper ofc it's a little less what did you expect ? No wifi either if you have a PS3 your wifi is covered a 3-4 port HDMI switch is $10.00 both are 60Hz sets and likely have comparable pictures and possibly the same panels .
Even with a $10.00 HDMI switch and $5.00 for an extra cable you still have $125.00 left over and if you have a PS3 your wifi is covered for what is likely a comparable set picture wise . Not a bad budget buy if it plays good either this is underpriced or not a good set or the W600B is over priced depending how one looks at it although customer reviews of the Wall Mart 3xx model are favorable.
On a side note, how much internet connection does the W600B consume? In my house, we have one router, and only up to 4 devices can connect to the router wirelessly. If a wireless connection on a device is too strong, it can cause the connection for other devices to be slow.
I think you may need a new router or more likely more bandwidth from your ISP .
WiFi can theoretically handle much more than 4 devices. I have 7 devices on WiFi here no problems although I've never run all 7 at once usually 4 max at one time .
other than that if you have the bandwidth just get another router and create 1 or two more access points into that and use both routers it's easy just put an Ethernet cord between the two routers and set up a second access point in the additional router .
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I would think 4 or 5 video streams would be about the most you would want on a single home WiFi access point if you have the ISP bandwidth at the same time though .
W600B or any IPTV would probably max out at probably something like 6000 mbps on Netflix super HD w/audio burst data included maybe a bit more with Vudu or Amazon prime full HD maybe as much as 9-12mbps .
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