Review Sony Bravia Kdl 40r471a Smart O No
Our Verdict
It's the best 40-inch TV of the year then far but it'south a bit pricey for us to actually recommend it
For
- NFC smartphone mirroring
- Nuanced colour
- Clean and vibrant 3D
- Movement clarity
Against
- Express smart Idiot box apps
- Single Television receiver tuners
- Tight viewing angle
TechRadar Verdict
It'southward the best 40-inch TV of the yr so far but it's a chip pricey for us to really recommend information technology
Pros
- +
NFC smartphone mirroring
- +
Nuanced colour
- +
Clean and vibrant 3D
- +
Motility clarity
Cons
- -
Limited smart Telly apps
- -
Single Television set tuners
- -
Tight viewing angle
Do y'all want the virtually polished smartphone-Telly linking system yet? Or would you rather become a glimpse of first-gen voice and gesture command in your living room? You can't accept both, it seems, and Sony is firmly in the offset camp by ushering in the first TVs with NFC engineering science while eschewing the balance.
While the likes of the Samsung UE46F7000 and Panasonic TX-L42DT65B showcase their first - oftentimes stuttering - efforts at hands-free smart control to an audience that'southward probable as wary as it is enthusiastic, the Sony KDL-40W905A's arroyo is more about making information technology easier to use a all-time-ever tv.
The headline deed on this forty-inch TV is a simple plenty concept; bear upon your NFC-set up smartphone to the Sony KDL-40W905A'southward slim NFC-equipped TV remote control to pair the phone to the Television receiver.
The bodily data (music, web browsing, photos and video) doesn't travel via NFC, but via Miracast/Wi-Fi Direct, only information technology's NFC that makes this the easiest, quickest way nevertheless to make that initial link. It makes DLNA networking look positively stone-age.
Whether or not that appeals to y'all will depend on how reliant yous are on your smartphone for music, video and browsing, and furthermore, how desperate you are to join up your pocket-sized device to a big screen TV. Simply there's more than to Sony'south smallest flagship Bravia Tv set than NFC.
3D - hither in its active shutter flavour - is now considered standard, though a more important characteristic on the Sony KDL-40W905A is Sony's 10-Reality Pro engine, image circuitry that combines an LED-backlit panel with local dimming tech and Triluminos tech, which is primarily concerned with achieving plasma-like color.
That said, it's the Sony KDL-40W905A's unusual design that will immediately catch the middle. Meaninglessly chosen 'Sense of Quartz', it's a rather brave still somehow Sony-like result whereby a thin blue line cuts into the bezel'southward edge.
That bezel is reasonably slim, with 10mm along the top and 14mm forth the other 3 sides, though we're not convinced nearly the desperately protruding Sony logo below the screen. Worse yet, that protrusion has gimmicky LED lights that change color according to what the TV is doing, which tin be distracting and certainly doesn't serve any kind of purpose.
More positive distractions come from the Sony Amusement Network - or SEN, for short - suite of apps, with unusually powerful speakers installed for good measure, too. Compared to near 40-inch TVs, Sony's KDL-40W905A is quite a bundle.
As well bachelor
The Sony KDL-40W905A is priced at £1,399 (around Usa$2,150/AU$ii,320). Sony'south W9 Series is elsewhere fabricated upwardly of the 46-inch Sony KDL-46W905A (£1,799) and 55-inch Sony KDL-55W905A (£2,399), both of which add together a couple of pairs of extra 3D glasses to the package to bring the total to four in the box.
If it's NFC y'all're later on just you can't stomach those prices, consider Sony'south step-down W8 Series. This consists of the 42-inch Sony KDL-42W805A (£849), 47-inch Sony KDL-47W805A (£1,099) and 55-inch Sony KDL-55W805A (£1,499), none of which include the aforementioned Dynamic Edge LED panel found on our review sample.
There is no W7 Series, and Sony'southward W6 Series consists of just 32-inch and 42-inch sets, all of which serves to make the Sony KDL-40W905A one of Sony's smallest TVs for 2013. And a fine one information technology is, too.
Features
There'south plenty to talk about on this flagship TV, only let's start with the basic ins and outs, which embrace iii different panels on the Sony KDL-40W905A'southward rear. A key indent houses wired LAN (though Wi-Fi also features), optical digital audio out, a ready of component video inputs, phonos and a Scart.
Below that is another recessed panel with three down-facing HDMI inputs and feeds for both Freeview Hard disk and Freesat HD. That will impress some, but with the latest flagship TVs from Samsung and Panasonic at present featuring dual tuners for both Freeview Hd and Freesat HD, information technology's a bit disappointing at this price.
A side-panel, also recessed, offers two USB slots (three is standard on high-end TVs from rival brands) and a standby switch, with simply plenty navigation controls for the on-screen card system in instance you lot lose the remote control.
That doesn't seem probable, since the Sony KDL-40W905A includes 2 remotes. The standard remote (RM-ED052) is the regular Sony effort that's remained unchanged for a few years, while the secondary remote (RM-ED003) is all-new; slim and lightweight, it's fun to apply, though it's sadly not a bear upon-sensitive effort, every bit with Samsung's and Panasonic's flagship TVs. It does brand us wonder what, aside from NFC, is the signal of it?
Using the Sony Xperia Z smartphone, which is equipped with NFC, we could demo the ane-touch Screen Mirroring feature that'southward actually powered by the Wi-Fi Straight peer-to-peer link (it has a far college data transfer charge per unit). Bluetooth is also onboard.
As if the control options for the Sony KDL-40W905A weren't plenty (barring the absent voice and gesture pick, of course, though that's non exactly a negative), there's also a free app available from Sony called TV Sideview. It's a pleasant plenty app designed to make browsing the TV schedules easier while watching TV, simply the lack of a second Tv set tuner in the Sony KDL-40W905A precludes any previewing.
The TV itself likewise has two of its ain scheduling services - the regular EPG that'south updated by broadcasters, and a new spider web-powered variant that uses Sony'southward own Gracenote system.
Smart Telly apps come up via SEN, which is rather reliant on Sony'south own Music Unlimited and Video Unlimited services. As well every bit the likes of BBC iPlayer, Lovefilm, Netflix, Daily Move, Demand 5, BBC News, Heaven News and BBC Sport, SEN offers a number of widgets including Skype, a web browser, TV Tweet, Guide and Search (Sony'south web and Gracenote-powered EPG), Text Search, Media Thespian, Habitation Theater Command, a clock and a Photo Frame mode.
However, during our test we saw frequent letters stating that 'some sources are unavailable because server is busy', despite our 50MB broadband abode network operating normally with everything else.
Not that it'southward a major selling betoken any longer, merely the Sony KDL-40W905A does have an agile shutter 3D style, along with two pairs of Sony's TDG-BT400A agile 3D spectacles.
More important in terms of motion picture tech is Triluminos, an always-on technology that puts tiny red and green filters onto each LED in an effort to produce more finely graded, lifelike colours.
Meanwhile, X-Reality Pro is all about increasing clarity and item, with a system called Reality Creation responsible for upscaling SD images and cleaning them upwardly.
Yet, with the era of frame charge per unit increases now upon us, it's the Motionflow XR 800Hz motion frame interpolation organization that we'll exist keeping an particularly close heart on.
Source: https://www.techradar.com/reviews/audio-visual/televisions/plasma-and-lcd-tvs/sony-kdl-40w905a-1167945/review
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