![]() These cover a gratifyingly wide spectrum, too, helping the set cope equally comfortably with ultra-rich fare like ”Wall-E” and dour, naturalistic fare like, well, ”EastEnders”. LCD technology in general has really made great strides with black levels over the course of 2009, but Sony – along with Samsung – is definitely leading the way.Īs is so often the case where a TV has good black levels, the 32W5500 also revels in extremely bright, richly saturated colours. The night-time backdrop to surprisingly effective gorefest ”30 Days of Night” looks very dark and free of LCD’s grey-mist tendencies, yet there’s also a reasonable amount of background detail to be seen, proving that the screen isn’t having to drop its brightness levels too severely to make such black levels possible. ![]() Which means that the 32W5500 is indeed way better value than the 32E5500, and a mostly very accomplished TV by any standards.Įspecially striking is how deep black levels are. Turning to what I believe are much more important features of the 32W5500, its video processing includes both the latest generation of Sony’s reliable Bravia Engine system, and MotionFlow 100Hz, which doubles the usual PAL refresh rate for extra motion clarity by adding in newly calculated frames of image data.Ī trawl through the 32W5500’s well-presented if not always completely logical onscreen menus uncovers a few more bits and bobs of interest too, including a white level booster Sony’s Live Colour Creation system for enhancing colour saturation and tone separate gamma and black level adjustments and two types of noise reduction, including one aimed at smoothing away the blocking noise that frequently besmirches Freeview broadcasts.Īs predicted in the review of the 32E5500, I really struggled to find any significant differences between the picture performance of the 32W5500 and the 32E5500. The lack of third party content from the likes of YouTube means that although it’s prettily presented and easy to navigate, Applicast ultimately falls damagingly short on content compared with the online systems offered by rivals. Suffice it to say that aside from allowing you to access RSS newsfeeds, Sony currently only offers its own little widgets and applications, such as a world clock, a calculator, Sony news stories, and a handful of digital stills you can use as screen savers. We’ve covered Applicast numerous times before, so I won’t dwell on it for too long here. Four HDMIs gets things off on the right foot, but there’s sterling support too from a USB port able to handle all manner of video, music and photo files, and an Ethernet jack with which you can jack into either files stored on a DLNA PC, or Sony’s online Applicast service. ![]() Though actually I suspect some people will prefer the 32W5500’s relatively laid back approach to the 32E5500’s glossy white with starkly contrasting outer frame look. Essentially, it just follows the same severe lines and fairly slender black bezel blueprint found throughout Sony’s S, V and W5500 ranges. The first thing that has to be said about the 32W5500, out of fairness to the 32E5500, is that it’s nowhere near as striking to look at. So we thought it would probably be a good idea to back this argument up as soon as possible by actually taking a look at the 32W5500. ![]() We recently had a bit of a pop at Sony’s KDL-32E5500 for offering basically the same specification as the brand’s 32W5500 while costing almost twice as much. ![]()
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