Sunday, December 30, 2007

Lisa never liked the hulking 27" cathode ray tube TV that a friend was kind enough to leave with us, because seen sideways it looked like a bunker, and sideways is the view you see coming in. So that was our excuse to upgrade to a 32" Sony Bravia flat panel LCD TV.

I've been a fan of Sony ever since the Sony TV I had in West LA did a face plant off the table during the 1991 Northridge quake... and survived without a problem. They get the details right. The hardware is well designed (down to, thank you, a headphone jack); the software is brilliant.

We fired up the box of BAND OF BROTHERS (Lisa's Chrismukkah prezzie to me), which I've only seen twice before... and I was blown away by the crispness of the details. I'd always liked the opening credits sequence, made up of old photos of the guys in Easy Company. This time I realized that all the old photos are aged, and scratched, and water-spotted, and folded. I'd seen it on my old TV, I guess, but somehow I hadn't really noticed it. Just wasn't enough detail. The blacks are darker, the pixels are invisible (at least till my eyes get used to 720p)... it's spectacularly pretty.

Of course this means I have to think about getting an HD PVR...

Labels: technology

4:59 PM

3 Comments:

Get it!

Went there a month ago and can't stop staring in awe and wonder...

By  wcdixon, at 7:33 PM  

better plan on two hd PVRs ... you can`t record as much as in standard def and you`ll run outta space really really fast

By  ME, at 2:34 AM  

How much do I love this TV? A lot. Thank you, Alex.

By  Lisa Hunter, at 11:39 PM  

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