While it was available for a short time I bought this Sony from Amazon. Apparently Amazon uses a special kind of delivery service for tv's and such. He brought it into the living room and offered to check it by unpacking it, setting it up, and turning it on. Yup. But, and I've read this nowhere, he said that Sony says not to power it on if it's less than 50 degrees. Yeah it's June, but this is the mountains. The overnight and then three hour delivery drive had the truck at about 40 degrees. He unpacked it and set it up, I looked it over and called it good. I wasn't about to risk power on at its temperature. Nor should you about any LCD, or likely plasma, tv. I let it sit overnight to warm up first. All is well.

This is a really fantastic LCD TV with one glaring fault. The LCD TV looks great with OTA HDTV using cheap rabbit ear antennas and non-HD TV looks as good as my old CRT. DVDs look great on this and the PS3 game we got with the deal looks amazing.

The Bravia sync feature also saved us from having to buy yet another remote to manage the DVD/Blu-ray controls on the PS3. You can't turn on the PS3 with Bravia sync but you can stop/play/pause/ff/rw and turn off the PS3 which makes it a reasonable (low cost) solution.

The one glaring issue that offsets for us all the greatness of this LCD TV is the red flashing we see when watching HDTV, DVDs, and Netflix streamed from PS3. The red flash happens when the focus is on a person's face in certain backgrounds. We've seen the red flashes on Judge Judy (OTA), Jackie Brown streamed on Netflix, and other shows through other video inputs (DVDs). Two calls to Sony support have not solved the problem and now we have to call a Sony tech but am hoping for a firmware fix since the latest firmware we have on the set does not fix it.

Unless they fix the red flash issue which other folks have talked about, we cannot recommend this to others.

UPDATE: The red flashing/flickering issue has been fixed. There is a firmware available from Sony and while it's available you may have to make a few attempts to ensure you get the right firmware. Many of us with the set have now received the fix and are happily enjoying the set. It's now a five star buy for me.

Standing in front of a wall of TV's, BB showing a advertising disc with maybe 480p content on it this Sony caught my eye! I looked at the Sammy LED but it wasn't what I expected (I know its the first model) The brightness was just over the top, whites actually looked to bright over everything else.

Needless to say I picked up the Sony Bravia 46" V5100! This is a replacement for a 32" in my bedroom, so I hurried home to make the swap!

Out of the box this TV looks amazing even off! I love the black, not a big fan of these new sets with "color" but that's just me!

I pulled this beast out of the box and mounted the wall bracket hardware to the back. Hoisted it up onto the wall and made the connections (Xbox 360/HDMI)

I pressed the power button and WOW! The colors on even the initial screen were just gorgeous! I went thru a few settings but mainly just wanted to see what she could do. I fired up Finding Nemo, and was blown away, the colors are just insane...literally they pop off the screen. I followed this up with a quick game of COD4 which also to no surprise looked amazing!

Everything is razor sharp right out of the box, hopefully tonight I'll get a chance to run a good calibration and setup but I'm really amazed at the quality of this TV!

I cant wait to see a Blu Ray player connected to this set...I can only imagine how beautiful it will be (I was tempted to pull the one out of the living room but it was getting late)

The sound is well...TV sound, and I never buy a new TV based on its speakers. For normal everyday listening they do sound pretty nice, even at higher levels...in fact the simulated surround sound is pretty good on HD broadcasts (over air) I did notice it doesn't handle the surround sound on movies and games as well but that's to be expected!

If your looking for an excellent TV at an excellent price this is the way to go! I'm gonna post any problems here after tonight's setup and more in depth use...somehow I don't think ill have much to type!