Sony KDL-55EX620 Review – 55-inch LED LCD HDTV
Originally Reviewed on January 6th, 2012Sony KDL-55EX620 Review: 55” LED LCD HDTV
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Up for Review: Sony KDL-55EX620 LED LCD TV. This is one of the few sets from Sony this year without the 3D technology. It is a huge 55-inches TV which can really make your living room come alive if you are not in love with the 3D feature. The price obviously goes down with the absence of the 3D feature which can be a point in its favor if you want to buy it. The TV has most of the other highlights offered by Sony this year though. If you are in search of a huge and beautiful set to dominate the living room and can give the 3D feature a miss, then you might want to consider this set. Like all Sony TVs of this year, the bezel is non-existent making the set look larger than its 55-inches. Being an edge-lit LED TV, it is very slim too.
You still have the Internet streaming feature in this set along with the widgets. It gives you a choice of viewing the best movies from Qriocity and Netflix, music from Pandora, TV shows from Hulu Plus and videos from YouTube. You can do social networking and also video chat with your friends using Skype. By connecting a camera and a microphone to the set, you can see and talk to anyone in the world making Skype-to-Skype and Skype-to-phone calls, which are quite affordable. The set is also WiFi ready and you can wirelessly access the Internet to view the movies and videos. You can also get wired connection through the Ethernet port. DLNA streaming gives you the opportunity to stream content from the DLNA compatible devices in your home like the PC.
Sony KDL-55EX620 Features and Specifications Review:
- 55-inch display
- Internet streaming
- DLNA streaming
- Wi-Fi-ready
- Skype ready
- Light Sensor
- Presence Sensor
- Motionflow 120
- X-Reality engine
- 1080p resolution
- 4 HDMI
- 2 USB
Sony has introduced some extra features in the set to take care of the energy consumption issues. The first one is the Light Sensor which takes into account the ambience in the room. If the room is brightly lit, it will tone down the brightness of the TV so that it suits your eyes and also less energy is used. The second one is the Presence Sensor which can find out if there is movement in the room. Depending on this, it can turn down both the sound and the picture. If there is no movement in the room for some time, it will switch off both picture and sound which can be really helpful in keeping the energy usage down. Being an LED TV, it already has the energy consumption low, which is again improved by these two features.
The refresh rate in the set is 120Hz which has been tested to keep the blurring away. Since this is a huge 55-inch TV which you will love to flaunt in the living room, you can expect to put the 4 HDMI and 2 USB ports to good use by connecting Blu-ray player, camcorder, gaming console, sound system and the rest. The 120 Hz refresh rate will give better pictures and you can watch action movies and play the fast paced games with no problem. And since the set is Bravia Sync compatible, you can use a single remote to control all the devices, only if they are Sony products too. This can be a good set to have if you are not crazy about the 3D technology. The price is also not too high and won’t be a strain on your pockets.
HDTVUniverse.com gives Sony KDL-55EX620 4/5 stars!
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Katia's reviewMarch 27, 2012
Just a quick review after I uaedprgd from my old LCD Projection 50 1080i TV to this new Sony LED model 3 weeks ago. Just for the fun of it; before I switched them out I left them side by side just to do some comparisons (I just put a new lamp in my old TV so it was at it brightest in years). When I switched to TV mode on both using my HDTV AT&T UVerse 1080i cable, the comparison was interesting. Overall the Sony LED TV had a sharper and brighter image but there were a few channels where I just didn’t see a difference. This I blame on the cable being 1080i and possible some channels using inferior HD Cameras??? Then I played a DVD on each TV and the Sony defiantly had the brighter sharper image. Lastly I threw in a Blue Ray, and this is where this new Sony LED TV blew away my old TV. My first words were Wow that looks great . I also just downloaded a 1080p movie and got the same Wow result while watching it. I did tell myself that if I didn’t notice a large enough difference I would be returning this TV and waiting another year for newer models (Since I just bought a new lamp for my old TV). Well after 3 weeks my old TV is now sitting in the basement waiting for someone to watch it, and I think it’s going to be a long time. So, overall after 3 weeks I am extremely happy with this Sony TV. Anything I didn’t like? Just 2 minor things: there are 4 HDMI cable connections but only 2 in back the other 2 are on the side. It’s not a big deal but if you have your Cable box, Blue Ray Player and your Video Game Console all hooked up with HDMI cables; one of those cables is going to be sticking out of the side of your TV at all time you can bend the cable back so it’s not sticking out that much. But, as a person who wants all his cables hidden this is a little annoying. The second and very minor; the stand is little blah, not a big deal but I would think they could come up with something better on their 2010 models since the rest of this TV looks so great. Update #1:I saw someone asked about how many Watts this TV used. So I brought home my Watt Meter from work and did some testing. This new LED TV used 75 Watts on average when on. I also hooked up my old LCD Projection TV and it used around 195 when on. Pretty big difference. Update #2: After 2 months of watching things like the Stanley Cup, World Cup Soccer plus a few other movies at different places; I have to say this TV has the best picture of the lot. Especially when compared to older models from a few years ago. But, once again some channels just don’t look as good as others. The World Cup soccer games looked incredible, a friend even asked if this was a new 3D TV he thought the picture was so good. Then watching Shrek on TNT HD looked subpar when compared to the lowly DVD version I own (probably considerably worse then the Blue-ray version). Guess the point is make sure your HD Signal is good if you want the best HD picture on this TV, you can really see the difference between a bad HD channel and a good HD channel.