Sony BRAVIA BX 300 Series 32-Inch LCD TV, Black
Sony BRAVIA BX 300 Series 32-Inch LCD TV, Black
Manufacturer: Sony
Experience HD picture quality, incredible contrast and sharp, vibrant, life-like picture with the Sony BRAVIA BX300-Series HDTV. This compact HDTV is perfect for smaller size rooms, such as a dorm or kitchen and offers ample HD connections. Connect your BRAVIA Sync compatible devices and enjoy convenient operation and control using one remote.
Lowest New Price: USD 398.00
- Compact 32-inch LCD HDTV with 720p resolution is perfect for smaller size rooms
- BRAVIA Engine 2 video processor for sharp, vibrant images
- BRAVIA Sync compatible for controlling multiple devices with one remote
- Five HD inputs: two HDMI, two component, and one PC (HD-15 pin)
- Send surround sound audio to your receiver with 5.1-channel optical output
Color: Black
Model: KDL-32BX300
Great TV for the price, but does not support PAL
If you are planning to buy this TV and install in Asia, this TV will not work. Most of the Asian countries have PAL system and this TV has no option to change the setting to PAL.
Completely satisfied-- great picture, lightweight, stylish
As a TV for the bedroom, I have been completely satisfied with this TV. Compared to others in its price range the size and weight are less. The style is better. The picture is great with HDMI. I have found the contrast ratio is great as well-- so bright whites!
I've also found that it cleans up bad interference on the analog channels on my cable that are rebroadcast in digital where my other TV's show the interference this one does not.
Setup was easy and use is very easy.
It is feature & input rich, a great picture-- I couldn't be any more satisfied with this TV. Very glad I chose it.
Odd ghosting problem
I tested this TV at an in-store display to determine if it suffers a similar ghosting problem I have with another Sony TV - KDL-26L5000. Sadly it does. I tested with a few pre-recorded scenes known to illustrate the problem on the KDL-26L5000.
The odd ghosting problem is not the typical motion blur noticeable on fast moving objects. This ghosting manifests as a streaking or shadow movement. Most often it seems to affect facial features such as lips and around the eyes which seem to float off people's faces as they move from side to side. The effect is dependent on the scene being viewed - lighting, motion etc - typically occurring in dark scenes or scenes with areas of highly contrasting light and dark areas.
Happily the KDL-32EX400 does not suffer from this problem. If you consider yourself a critical TV viewer, consider spending a little more to avoid this sort of annoying problem. For casual viewing this is probably not an issue.
Great tv
I received this bravia on 5/3 and I believe it to be better than my other bravia 32inch KDL from the turning on interface and the menus the only problem I have with it was it only had two hdmi inputs in the back not on the side as the KDL. I still recommend it though I plug my tower with vga and the quality is very smooth with my ps3 and hdmi blu-rays look awesome.
Bad Composite Video Inputs
I bought three 32-inch LCD TVs in one week, and returned the first two because of identical video input problems. I felt uncomfortable returning the first two TVs, but I'm glad I did, because I ended up with a high-quality, problem-free TV in the end. The experience also gave me some good insight to write this review.
The problem with the Sony BRAVIA BX 300 Series (model KDL-32BX300) was, when I connected a DVD player with composite video cables (red/white/yellow), and played a DVD, there were alternating horizontal stripes of discoloration on the screen. These stripes appeared on some DVDs, but not all. The stripes of discoloration were most visible in scenes with a lot of blue, for example; blue sky scenes, and the stripes alternated yellow and blue about every half inch in the sky. I did a lot of troubleshooting, including plugging the TV and the DVD player directly into the wall outlet, and disconnecting the TV cable (to ensure there was no signal interference from the TV cable or a surge protector). I also connected a second brand of DVD player to the TV with the composite video cables, and also saw the stripes of discoloration. Both of these DVD players worked perfectly in the other two TVs in our house (one a Panasonic plasma, and the other a tube TV). Aside from the video input problems, the picture quality of the KDL-32BX300 with a cable signal was grainy, and the lowest quality of the three new TVs that I bought this week compared. Also, the remote was cheap, and the menu layouts were poor.
When I called Sony customer support, the representative was rude, and told me that since the stripes didn't appear with a cable signal, then the problem was with the DVD players. After I explained to him that the two DVD players worked perfectly in two other TVs, including a one-year-old plasma, so it must be a problem with the video inputs, he said just return the TV to the retailer.
The other TV that I returned for this same problem was a Visio VO320E. I tried two different DVD players in the Visio, one with a composite cable connection, and one with an S-video connection (the Sony didn't have an S-video input), and the stripes of discoloration were visible with both DVD players. The picture quality was better on the Visio VO320E than on the Sony.
The third TV I bought was a Panasonic TC-L32X2. This TV just came on the market in March 2010. What a relief to find that the DVD video inputs didn't induce any stripes of discoloration on the screen. Better yet, the picture quality from both the DVD and cable inputs were far sharper than the other two TVs!
One thing I think I can conclude from this experience is that manufacturers of the Sony and Visio TVs are the same, or the defective video inputs came from the same manufacturer.
