Sony KV-28FQ75 Review

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Ian.'s Review of Sony KV-28FQ75 Widescreen TV

21st Nov 2001

Overall Rating

2.5 stars
  • Value for money
    2.5 stars
Good Points

Features are Good


Bad Points

Sound limited, compared with current Philips sets.


General Comments

Nice looking TV, however the first day I noticed that the left hand side of the screen was out of focus, even more so on Text based items, like SKY menu or TeleText. So another one was delivered after an enginner could not retify the focus problem. Second TV exaclty the same with Focus problem.

Sony said "not a characteristic of the set" however all these sets in every shop I look at them in seemed to suffer the same fault.

Actually the guy in our local Sony centre was not pleased when I showed him it, as he had just ordered one for himself.

Sorry Sony not a good picture.

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  • Phil. on 27th Dec 2001

    I have just installed the same TV but I cannot see the out of focus thing anywhere. One thing I would like to know is how you set the TV up to automatically switch to 4:3 mode when that type of signal is transmitted. I have tried everything.
    Also if anyone has access to Jumanji on video or DVD can they put it on and listen to the left hand speaker when the game is calling for attention by playing the jungle drums. I watched this film on BBC1 on Xmas day and the speaker crackled, not a loose buzz but an actuall crackle. I haven't heard it on anything else at all. I look forward to reading any further comments.

    Phil

  • Jaime. on 25th Apr 2002

    I've had 4 of these sets now (due to bad picture geometry), and the last 3 have had this focus problem on left hand side.

  • Steven. on 26th Sep 2002

    I have just bought the same TV and have the same left focus problem.

    Is there a solution - should I bother trying to get a new set or just buy a different TV?

    Steven

  • Ian Hutty. on 27th Sep 2002

    There seems to be a problem with this set and I have now replaced mine with a Panasonic widescreen, which I am happy to say is much better in all departments, and its got 5.1 DTS too :-)

    People who think that they dont have the focus problem, Try watching Snooker when the BBC broadcast it, then split the screen so you have Teletext on one side and snooker on another. Then when the scores for the players appear across the bottom look right along the text and then flip the screen to the other side. You will see a focus problem. Some people I showed it to were not able to see the problem. But many did!

  • Robbo. on 21st Nov 2002

    The blurring of Sky digital text on the L.H. side seems to directly relate to how high the picture contrast and to a lesser extent, the sharpness settings are. Straight out of the box I found there was no blurring when the picture settings were left on the factory defaults but for me the picture was too dull. I still managed to get an excellent picture with minimal Sky text blurring by doing the following: Reset the picture back to the factory settings (button is under the remote control flap), then bring up the Sky digital all channels programme guide on the screen. Gradually increase the contrast to the point where the text on the left hand side just begins to blur. Then adjust the brightness and colour settings and lastly the sharpness settings to suit your personal preference.