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Image Quality9/10
Sound Quality6.5/10
Features8/10
Value for Money8.5/10
Reviewer Rating8.5/10
Overall Rating9/10 Based on 4 ratings
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2- Sony KLV-26HG2 Reviews

  • Full review by
    Sony Fan Rank: Captain
    on 31st Dec 2008


    User Rating : 9
    Respect : 0

    Good Points: Excellent picture quality, cosmetic design, ease of use, power consumption

    Bad Points: Colour banding, slow to switch between inputs

    General comments: The Sony KLV-26HG2 is a 4 year old LCD TV which holds its own against modern TVs for picture quality with standard definition TV. It has it's minor flaws but is still a very satisfying television to own. The picture quality for normal standard definition broadcasts is clear and very natural. There are some minor issues with colour banding and motion smearing but these are rarely noticable in normal viewing. Although this isn't an 'HD Ready' TV I have used mine to view HD content from my media player using the component video connection at 1080i resolution. HD pictures look good but they don't have the same impact as they do on a bigger screen, although part of the reason for that is that SD pictures look so good already that you don't see a big step-change in results between SD and HD. The cosmetic design features a brushed aluminium frame, which looks great and stands head and shoulders above the black plastic bezels found on today's TVs. Standby power consumption is very low at 0.3W. If you left the TV on standby all day you'd probably waste less energy than you would by leaving a lights on whilst you pop out of the room for a couple of minutes. My only real gripe is time it takes to switch between inputs e.g from AV1 to AV3 because you have to cycle through each input in sequence and each change takes up to 4 seconds. This is a pain when you regularly use the component inputs (AV3). Tempting as it is to get a bigger HD Ready TV for a fraction of the cost of my HG2 ( £2300 when if first came out!) I'm going to stick with it until there's a lot enough HD content out there to make a big screen truly necessary.
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  • Review by
    UncleZen Rank: Staff Sergeant
    on 14th Mar 2005


    User Rating : 8
    Respect : 0

    I love this TV. I bought mine in Nov 04. And have had plenty of time to check it out. The picture is very very good. Really crisp and clear. It also sounds quite good for a TV, though if I want hifi sound I switch on my amp. It has 2 SCARTs, 1 Component, 1 SVid/composite. I predominantly use mine via my Sky digi box. The only issue I've noticed (and this is probably true of all flat planel screens, whatever the technology) is that if you have close up shots of (say) a face, and the camera move ...
    UncleZen's full review     | 146 words



Sony KLV-26HG2 Product Details

HD-ready flat-panel LCD TV with 16:9 aspect ratio and 16 ms response time; 31.1 x 18.9 x 9.5 inches (W x H x D) with stand and back coverOffers DVI-HDTV input; enhancements include Sony&; 039;s Digita More...


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