Sony Bravia S-Series KDL-40S2400 40-Inch Digital LCD HDTV

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Product Details

• Item Weight: 70 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 71 pounds
• Shipping: This item can only be shipped to the 48 contiguous states. We regret it cannot be shipped to APO/FPO, Hawaii, Alaska, or Puerto Rico.
• ASIN: B000I80748
• Item model number: KDL-40S2400
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #52,125 in Electronics (See Bestsellers in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: December 3, 2006

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Achieve your home entertainment dream with the stunning KDL-40S2400 digital LCD television. Enjoy new features such as the dynamic backlighting system called ACE (Advanced Contrast Enhancement), which automatically adjusts the intensity of the backlight for improved contrast. In addition, a built-in light sensor intelligently fine-tunes the screen brightness to match the ambient light in your room, ensuring a comfortable viewing experience. The KDL-40S2400 features enhanced connectivity via HDMI™ input and PC input through HDMI™ to provide quality playback from nearly every connected device.

Feature List
Advanced Contrast Enhancer (ACE) Function: The Advanced Contrast Enhancer (ACE) builds on Sony's excellent on-contrast ratio performance. A Dynamic Contrast Ratio of up to 5000:11 is achieved by using real-time image processing to adjust the contrast along with optimizing backlight levels. But rather than focus on the "numbers", Sony focuses on actual picture performance avoiding exaggerated blacks where detail can be lost. ACE translates to blacker blacks in darker scenes, as well as better shadow detail in other scenes for a difference that you can see.

BRAVIA Engine™ Full Digital Video Processor: The BRAVIA™ S2400 LCD televisions use the BRAVIA Engine™ full digital video processor for crisp and clear images. Several special picture enhancement technologies are integrated into the processor to create better gradations and details, enhance contrast, dynamically improve color, and reduce image flicker.

HDMI™ and PC Connectivity: Designed for maximum versatility, the BRAVIA S-Series Digital LCD TV line is equipped with a comprehensive range of input interfaces. The HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) is the first industry-supported, uncompressed, all-digital audio/video interface. HDMI technology supports enhanced or High Definition video, together with multi-channel digital audio to provide matchless image and sound reproduction. The PC input (HD-15-pin) offers easy connection to your PC, allowing you to use your high resolution BRAVIA S-Series Digital TV as a computer monitor2.

Light Sensor Intelligently adjusts the screen brightness to match the ambient light in a room, ensuring a comfortable viewing experience. In a dim room for example the screen automatically reduces brightness making it much more comfortable for viewing.

SRS® TruSurround® XT: Building on the success of TruSurround technology, TruSurround XT audio adds three new audio enhancement technologies to produce an amazingly immersive sound experience. Dialog Clarity brings movie dialog into "focus" during the playback of any surround-encoded material to make speech much clearer and crisper. TruBass creates incredible deep rich bass allowing a person to perceive significantly deeper, richer low bass tones that are far beyond the physical low frequency capabilities of the speaker itself. And WOW widens the soundstage by processing standard two-channel stereo material as well as multi-channel encoded material for a dramatic improvement in the playback of any stereo audio over a two-speaker system.

Freeze Function: Freeze Function is a useful function that allows you to temporarily freeze the picture in a separate screen while the programming continues to display. This comes in handy when you want to copy a recipe, phone number, etc. that flashes too quickly across your screen. Simply touch the "Freeze" button on the remote control and copy the details down at your convenience.

What is in the box: TV, Stand, RM-YD005 Remote Control with batteries, support belt and screws, and operation manual.

Product Description

BRAVIA S2400 LCD televisions use Sony's BRAVIA Engine full digital video processor for crisp and clear images. Several special picture enhancement technologies are integrated into the processor to create better gradations and details, enhance contrast, dynamically improve color, and reduce image flicker.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great TV - just go for it, January 8, 2007

By	V. Pai "Elvis P" (NJ, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

My wife and me did a lot of research before narrowing down on which HDTV to buy. We're both big fans of 24 and we really wanted to watch the next season on HD. I understand that there is a lot of technical jargon and debates revolving around HDTV (1080p vs 720p, Component vs HDMI, Plasma vs LCD etc etc). While all these are important things to consider, for us the #1 priority was the fundamental performance of the TV given the current available broadcast. That meant a primary focus on picture quality, sound and ease of use. All other bundled fancy features would have to be the next

We were looking for a TV in the 40" to 42" range and after many hours of research on the net, followed by visits to Best Buy,Circuit City and other stores in the neighborhood, we narrowed down to 3 models - the Sony Bravia S2400, the Sharp Aquos LC42D62 and the Samsung 4051/4092 series.

We discovered that the Sony stands out in terms of picture quality esp. color reproduction and is also quite good at the sound from it's in built speakers. The Sharp was almost as good but had to be dropped because of the price (to be fair to it, it is a 1080P model). At this point, personally I don't feel an investment in 1080P is worth it since there are very limited sources that provide video at this resolution. Between Sony and Samsung models that we were considering, we felt the Sony wins hands down for picture quality. I have read that both these manufacturers have their LCD screens sourced from the same factory, but there is definitely something about Sony that makes the images look very realistic with minimum distortion even at fairly close distances. Samsung is good too, but then a Sony is like.no.other :-)

Pros:
1) Excellent Picture with good contrast for an LCD. The blackness level is pretty good even compared to some Plasma's we looked at
2) Superior Sound (even at full volume with Surround turned on, the speakers performed very well)
3) Picture quality is quiet good even on SD as compared to other TVs we were looking at(although it may take a while to get used to the stretched images)
4) The Zoom/Full/Wide Zoom function is particularly good and also the TV has the Auto Zoom function which means it automatically detects and fills the screen for the SD 4:3 broadcast
5) A lot of picture/sound customization is possible and can be configured for each individual input (excellent feature)
6) And last but not the least, did I say that the TV looks very good?

Cons :
1) Only 1 HDMI input (not actually a limitation because you can always buy a HDMI switcher)
2) The remote looks very ordinary for the TV
3) No PIP (again IMHO not really a necessary feature)

Although I did not buy this TV directly through Amazon, I wanted to write a review to recommend this product to potential Amazon buyers. So anyone in a dilemma about buying this TV, I say go ahead and BUY IT

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great TV! HD programming & movies look amazing, December 25, 2006

By	G. Macek (Itasca, IL USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

After a few months of research and going back and forth on when to purchase a HDTV, I decided on this model. The main reason being the price. $1500 direct from Amazon was too good to pass up.

Shipping was quite fast, especially considering the holiday season. The delivery company called two days before they arrived to setup a window of time. They arrived at the beginning of that window!

Setup was quite painless. I hooked it up to our analog cable and had channels programmed within a few minutes. Things look good there. The wide zoom on SDTV look OK, but it's still noticeable that it's stretched. DVD quality is great! I'm using a Toshiba DVD player that has HDMI out with upconvert functionality. I personally can't see much difference between 480p/720p/1080i.

However, over this weekend I plugged in a standard fare VHF/UHF powered antenna and did a search for digital channels. It found all the local channels here in Chicago except for CBS. This seems to be a typical issue in the area, though. I'm very happy with the HD picture quality with OTA programming. I watched today's Bears/Lions game on Fox and couldn't turn away. For Chicagoans, you will also need to check out WTTW-DT (PBS). They run HD programming all the time. Beautiful.

Like any digital signal, you may see blocky artifacts, but not often and you have to look for them. Most channels here are transmitting OTA in 720p or 1080i.

UPDATE 1/1/2007: After doing even more research online, I found out that Comcast here in Chicago broadcasts a number of channels digitally alongside analog. A search for digital channels landed me with almost 70 choices! Now, some were from "expanded" basic and did not have sound or were PPV frequencies that were not actually viewable, but it did find all my local channels in digital/HD format. The only downside is channel numbers are not in order. (108.2 = WGN/CW HD, 108.1 is ABC HD) But for me, it's worth it. I can get around the oddball channel numbers by labeling the ones I want and adding them to the "favorite digital channels" function of the TV. I only have to pay $11/month for analog in the rest of the house and HD for the living room. It's the QAM tuner that allows this TV to receive these channels.

Overall, this is a great purchase. Only one HDMI input may be a limitation later, but I'm not worried about it. It has enough inputs to keep me going. If Amazon keeps selling this TV at this price, they will have a hard time keeping them in stock.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars awesome TV, March 8, 2007

By	Robert Gowans (Salt Lake City, UT United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Great picture. I finally got aronud to purchasing an HDMI cable for my DVD player and the picture is astounding.