Aug 05, 2016 05:02 PM
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Picture Quality – It’s Sony so the picture quality is obviously awesome. No doubts about that.
Sound – Surprisingly, sound quality is quite decent. Even though everyone admits that all these flat screen, skinny TVs have much worse sound quality compared to the big, fat TVs we used to have 10 years ago. We don’t really feel the need for a surround sound system.
USB points – The USB reader is very fast. We attached a 1TB drive with lots of movies, loads very fast.(Downside is that the points are located awkwardly towards the centre back of the TV, making it hard to reach if you have a wall mount.
HDMI cable – Connects easily to laptop and works well.
Connects with Android devices with screen cast – It connects with Mr T’s Google Nexus phone and a Google Tab. Connects, but often drops signal within 15-20 minutes.
Has radio, photo sharing features – Haven’t really used.
Things that aren’t great:
sony-bravia-full-hdNo support for Mac/iPhone – Some incompatibility between Miracast technology(which Sony uses) and Airplay(or whatever technologyApple uses). Sucks.
Wifi Direct – Only works with Sony devices(Xperia). Sucks.
Screen mirroring – Like mentioned above, drops signal after 15-20 minutes. Getting signal back sometimes just doesn’t happen!
Awkward user experience – when you’re going from screen mirroring to another setting it’s not very intuitive and user friendly. White noise appears.
Table mount – Doens’t have the most secure feeling; like it may topple over at any moment.
I guess most TV’s suffer similar drawbacks(at least most TVs I’ve used – including Samsung TVs which we have at my father’s place.) Recommendation to TV companies: Instead of innovating with curved and 3D TVs(which are pretty stupid features in my opinion), we need to fix user experience and have features that work and work well!
Overall, I’m pretty happy with the Sony Bravia KLV-40R482B 101 cm(40 inches) Full HD LED TV(bought for around Rs 50k).
