Sony KDS-50A3000 Rear Projection TV

With a vigorous exercise program and some stellar technology, Sony has slimmed down its rear projection televisions to allow them to fit more easily into your life - and your living room. The KDS50A3000 brings the picture detail and clarity of SXRD display technology to the masses with a generous screen size of 50 inches.

It offers full HD 1080p picture quality - the highest HD resolution currently available - within a new compact, bottom speaker cabinet design and the BRAVIA Engine EX full digital video processor with its Digital Reality Creation-Multifunction v1.0 technology, which upconverts standard definition 480i video signals to near high definition picture quality.

There are lots of features on the KDS50A3000 that make it not only nice to watch, but also easy to operate. Three HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface) inputs transfer uncompressed digital video and multichannel audio signals to the display through a single cable. HDMI is an enhanced version of DVI (Digital Video Interface), and is backward compatible with DVI using an adapter.

And because you want to be able to connect this HDTV to older components that don’t have HDMI, the KDS50A3000 features two component, one S-Video, and three composite video inputs plus five analog audio inputs and one optical digital audio output. There’s even a D-Sub 15 PC input so you can use your high resolution BRAVIA TV as a computer monitor.As for its performance, Sony’s SXRD (Silicon X-Tal Reflective Display) device contains enough pixels among its three panels to display a full 1080-line picture without interlacing it. With a blistering 2.5 ms response time, SXRD has the speed to create a smooth, film-like image.

It creates highly accurate, natural colors because the three-panel design displays all the colors, all the time. The KDS50A3000 also includes the Sony’s Advanced Iris function for improved brightness and contrast expression, especially in darker scenes.n integrated ATSC/NTSC/QAM digital tuner allows you to view HD broadcasts over the air or on cable. CineMotion Reverse 3:2 Pulldown technology smoothly converts movies on film from 24 fps to television’s standard 30 fps. The 16:9 aspect ratio screen lets you watch widescreen movies and programs as they were meant to be seen. Digital Reality Creation (DRC) Multifunction Technology, replaces the standard definition waveform with the HD equivalent, producing four times the line density for great pictures from non-HD sources .

One of the BRAVIA HDTV series, the KDS50A3000 offers refinements in picture quality with advanced imaging technology. Its exclusive BRAVIA Engine EX full digital video processor maintains a beautiful HD picture by converting all signals to digital and applying an entire system of processes to improve resolution, sharpness, contrast, and expanded picture dimensionality.

MotionFlow doubles the number of frames from 60 fps to 120 fps and does it the right way by using real-time calculation of every single frame of video to create entire new frames of information. The results are spectacular and unlock a new level of smooth and natural motion reproduction.

BRAVIA HDTV performance has now advanced to the point where color range can be defined by limitations in the original video source, rather than the TV. Thanks to the adoption of a newly approved international color standard called xvYCC, the color space has been greatly expanded. Now BRAVIA’s can faithfully reproduce 1.8 times as many colors as existing HDTV signals.

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