Official Sony KDL 32BX420 40BX420 46BX420 - Page 3

Originally Posted by odourboy

With the settings i reported in my earlier post, I don't notice any flashlighting.

Originally Posted by jonicarter

I don't understand how no one else has problems with this set when watching dark scenes. The minute I watch a dark scene in a movie, or a movie set in fairly dark environments, like Underworld or Pirates of the Carribean, I get miserable noise and grain introduced into the image that hasn't been there on my last two LCD sets, which were a Samsung and a Sony. I've calibrated this set using the advanced calibration portion of the Disney WOW disc, so it's not a settings issue, and my sharpness is turned down completely.

Originally Posted by mattoxx

Any experience here with bx420 connected to PC? Is possible to get clear pixel mapping via HDMI? I am gonna use it as big PC monitor, so pixel mapping is necessity.

Originally Posted by bclbob 

I picked up a KDL-32BX420 at Microcenter yesterday, I was trying to find a cheap 32" TV for my home office, and Microcenter had one for $292 open box so I ran over and picked this up rather than a no-name brand that I was thinking about. It might have been a display model, but still I can't complain about the price.


I calibrated using ColorHCFR and a spyder 3 sensor; here is what I came up with. It does look good but the G5 Hue has me thinking I see green. But I don't...


Picture settings: Custom

Backlight: 5

Picture: 85

Brightness: 51

Color: 56

Hue: G5

Color Temp: Warm 2

Sharpness 2


Advanced Settings:

Gamma: -1


White Balance:

R Gain: -23

G-Gain: -19

B-Gain: -1

R-Bias: +6

G-Bias: +5

B-Bias: -11


set all the feature thingies off.


If anyone tries these, let me know what you think .. I think they look good but the numbers sure are odd in places


edit: I have to set the tint towards green to have cyan be "close" but then it compromises other colors. G3 seems to be a slightly better for most colors but compromises cyan more.

Originally Posted by Mnicholus 

Showing the PiP while the PC is connected to HDMI took some obscure config changes on the PC end. The manual is correct, but unclear on what to do. Here's what I did to get it to work. I have posted this as a review on Amazon.com also.
If the TV thinks your HDMI PC is a video source, PIP won't work. So, how do you confirm that it's seeing it as a PC? Name the input PC? Nope. "Scene select" as "Graphics?" Nope (but you should do this). You need to set the PC to send the signal using "PC timing" instead of "Video timing." I'm reasonably technical, but hadn't heard of that. On the video card on my laptop (Intel Graphics 3000) I was unable to see ANYTHING on video timing in the Windows resolution config screens.
Here's how I did it. While my PC was connected to the SONY TV, from the Windows resolution screen, I selected "Advanced Settings"
Then, I went to the hardward specific control panel (this was a tab in Advanced settings). For me, this was labeled "Intel Graphics and Media Conrtrol Panel"
From there, I selected "Advanced application mode" which gave me all sorts of settings.
The important one is "Custom Resolutions" (which is a bit scary, as you get a Warning about causing instability, additional heat and other damage, etc) Yikes!
After overcoming my fears, I created a new custom resoution (which was the SAME as the auto-detected resolution) of 1920X1080, 32 bit, 60P HZ, but the DIFFERENCE was in the dropdown field which read "timing standard."
***IMPORTANT*** This is the thing that you need to change. On page 44 of the manual it says that the needed standard to show a PC in HDMI mode is "CEA-861" and this was the last item in my dropdown list. (not the default selection which was "GTF")
Once I saved this custom resolution with the timing of "CEA-861", everything LOOKED the same, but NOW the TV saw the HDMI PC input as a PC and when I pressed the "Options" button on the remote, the PIP option appeared!
Obviously, this is a video card thing, and not a TV problem, but the "PC timing" thing is so obscure to most people that hopefully, this helps someone.

Originally Posted by Feahnor 

I have this tv (32BX420) and i can't find the white balance settings. I bought it in France and it has the 3.21.045.0102 firmware. What am i doing wrong?