FEATURED Sony KDL-60R520A 60-Inch 1080p 120Hz Internet LED HDTV
- Edge LED backlight for a bright picture & thin design
- Lifelike movement with Motionflow XR 240
- Receiver-less TV for DirecTV customers
- Movies, music & apps w/ Sony Entertainment Network
- TV without stand (Width x Height x Depth): 54.3 X 32 X 3.3 Inches, TV with stand (Width x Height x Depth): 54.3 X 33.6 X 13.4 Inches
Enter a world of dazzling picture quality and unlimited entertainment. This elegantly slim LED TV boasts Full HD 1080p for incredible detail and Edge LED backlighting for boosted contrast. Internet connectivity is at your fingertips, so you can watch YouTube clips and access online HD movies, music and more.
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Aaron J. Steinke “Aaron J. Steinke”
May 21, 2014
This HDTV was worth every penny.,
I have just purchased this TV and it was delivered on 11/20/2013 – I will be updating this review in progess as I continue to explore different functions of the TV.
SHIPPING AND DELIVERY – Although this has nothing to do with the TV itself, I will say that I was really disappointed with the delivery. The last time I purchased an HDTV off of Amazon about four our five years ago, the Pilot driver brought the TV in, helped me unpack it and set it up and waited patiently while I inspected it for defects and made sure that it worked. Today, the driver did not even make an attempt to help me unpack or set it up. She said that this was not a “white glove” delivery and that basically she was just here to drop it off. I informed her there was only one option for shipping and it said nothing about white glove – it just told me roughly when it would be delivered. Not sure what that was all about, but I wasn’t happy… especially considering when I purchased a TV from Blurst Buy awhile back, the delivery people were awesome and I didn’t have to lift a finger. The TV ended up not being what I wanted and I returned it for a refund, but the delivery guys were awesome — the guys that picked it up were awesome too. I understand that once Amazon turns it over to Pilot for delivery, it’s somewhat out of their hands, but considering the high volume of tech such as HDTVs that they churn out, Amazon really should consider beefing up their shipping mechanisms for items such as HDTVs.
PICTURE – So far the picture is great although it does need calibration. My old Sony Bravia 40″ LCD was properly calibrated using the Spears and Munsil calibration Blu-Ray and the picture is still pristine. This will take work to get this tweaked right and I will update this section as I go. 11/21/2013 edit: After calibrating the picture with the Spears and Munsil Blu-Ray and with a few of my own personal preferences added, the picture is pristine. But beware the surface of the screen is somewhat more reflective than an LCD if you’re used to that sort of thing. It may take some getting used to or just turn all the dang lights off.
MOTIONFLOW: The MotionFlow feature works great, but out of the box it is already enabled and you will probably want to turn it OFF for regular TV viewing. MotionFlow is really only for live sports. Trying to watch a movie or TV show with it on will look very weird because the screen is refreshing faster than the framerate for the source material that you’re trying to watch. The result is that live action shows will look like a cartoon as they move around. Home > Settings > Picture > Advanced Settings to disable/enable it.
AS A PC MONITOR – I do a lot with an HTPC that I built sometime back for heavy 1080p gaming, Windows Media Center DVR functionality along with Netflix/YouTube/Hulu with my Home Theater PC hooked straight to the TV via an HDMI cable. Out of the box this TV does not play well with a PC input. It recognizes anything with a PC input and automatically sets the picture mode to “graphics” which leaves all of the picture settings inexplicably grayed out. You can’t change anything such as color temp, brightness, cinemotion, etc. I have a GTX 580 NVidia graphics card. The solution for this (thanks internet) is to go into your NVidia Control Panel and go DISPLAY > ADJUST DESKTOP COLOR SETTINGS > Then scroll down to Content Type Reported to the Display and select “Full Screen Videos.” Problem solved. Now the TV thinks of the HTPC as any other video source and you can select whatever picture settings you need to. This is especially important since odds are you will have multiple HDMI inputs (your gaming console of choice, a PC, and probably your cable box) – each with their own proper picture settings. If you’re a nerd like me, odds are your cable box picture settings may be different than your HTPC picture settings for gaming purposes.
SONY SYNC (11/21/2013) – will be the bane of your existence. Disable it. Home > Settings > Setup > BRAVIA Sync Settings… set it all to off. It kept muting my surround sound system for no reason any time I changed inputs. And I have better luck keeping the audio video in sync with this thing disabled.
MENUS (11/22/2013) – The menus are fairly cumbersome. On my older TV, you could just push Menu and go straight into Picture settings. With this you have to push Home on the controller, go all the way down to Settings, then you can get into Picture settings. This may not seem like a big deal, but I like to be able to toggle the MotionFlow feature on and off on the fly when I’m going back and forth between live sports and regular television/movies.
NETWORK CONTENT: Well this is interesting. If you go HOME > MEDIA > VIDEO, the TV will actually bring up a menu where you can choose between a connected USB drive or any PCs that are set up for sharing on your home network. This is particularly interesting if you have…
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|Noel O.
May 21, 2014
How to turn off Soap Opera Effect on this otherwise great model,
My only gripe with it is that the default settings cause major Soap Opera Effect [Soap Opera Affect, SOE].
While this is a well known technical phenomenon, SONY still ships the tv with default settings that make this really annoying. Full disclosure: I don’t know much about TVs, or their underlying technology. Frankly I don’t really care either. I just wanted a big tv to watch action movies on. When I first started watching movies on it, I was really frustrated. Over the course of a few days I drove my wife crazy complaining about this, although she said she preferred the vividness of the picture. It drove me nuts though – movies didn’t look like movies [and I love movies which is the reason I wanted a big screen tv]. Anyways, I searched the net up the ying-yang to find a solution. I chatted with two Sony reps over CHAT but without success [they both actually claimed not to know what the Soap Opera Effect was which is pretty hard to believe]. It got to the point I had decided to return the tv and get a Samsung. Then, purely by accident, my son was watching a movie, and I hit the OPTIONS button on the remote which brought up Picture settings, I set the PICTURE MODE to CUSTOM and voila – no more SOE! I can’t tell you how great that felt!!! Full disclosure, I had also set the MOTION FLOW option to OFF from a previous chat conversation I had had with a Sony technician. Just setting MOTION FLOW off by itself though does not solve the problem.
Here’s the full set of steps I took with this model to turn of SOE:
0) Set MOTION FLOW to OFF
1) Make sure a movie is actually playing *while* you are making this change!!
In my case I played a movie on Netflix app [Specifically Marvel’s “The Avengers”]
2) While the movie is playing hit the OPTIONS button on the remote
3) Select PICTURE Settings and from there select PICTURE MODE on the right
4) Set the value to CUSTOM
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