Product Description

With a compact body and barely visible speakers located at the bottom of the set, Sony's KDF-50E2000 is everything that you look for in a big screen TV.Packaged in a compact, two-color exterior with subtle located speakers, the Grand WEGA 3LCD rear projection TVs feature high-detail picture quality and deliver natural color reproduction and exceptional brightness levels thanks to 3LCD technology. Featuring enhanced connectivity via dual HDMI input and PC input through HDMI, Sony's Grand WEGA LCD projection televisions provide quality playback of nearly every connected device.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #32172 in Consumer Electronics
• Color: Silver
• Brand: Sony
• Model: KDF-50E2000
• Dimensions: 32.60" h x 16.10" w x 46.60" l, 64.20 pounds
• Display size: 50

Features

• HD (1280 x 720) Picture Resolution (LCD Chip)
• 3 LCD Chips (R/G/B); 921,600 Pixels Each
• Cinema Black Pro for excellent contrast ratio
• 2 HDMI (Rear) and 3 Component Inputs (1 Side/2 Rear)
• DRC MF-V1 (Digital Reality Creation MultiFunction V1) technology

From the Manufacturer
Packaged in a compact, two-color exterior with subtly located speakers, the Grand WEGA 3LCD rear projection TVs are now available in a larger range of sizes, including 46", 50" and 55" screens. The televisions feature high-detail picture quality, and deliver natural color reproduction and exceptional brightness levels thanks to 3LCD technology. And deep black levels along with outstanding contrast are hallmarks of the Cinema Black Pro function. Featuring enhanced connectivity via dual HDMI input and PC input through HDMI, Sony’s Grand WEGA LCD projection televisions provide quality playback of nearly every connected device.

3LCD Panels
The 3LCD technology at the heart of Sony’s Grand WEGA™ televisions provide a bright picture, with high detail and natural color. These three key benefits are immediately apparent when viewing a Grand WEGA™ TV. You can expect to see an incredibly detailed picture with eye-popping colors. Sony uses three tiny LCD chips (0.73") with a combined resolution of over 2.76 million pixels. The light from a high output UHP lamp shines into a filtering system that splits the beam into red, green, and blue light streams. Each color goes through its own LCD chip, which passes or blocks the light. The three beams are then instantaneously recombined and sent to the projection lens.

Digital Reality Creation (DRC) Multifunction Technology
Unlike conventional line doublers, the DRC Multifunction feature replaces the signal's NTSC waveform with the HD equivalent, while doubling the number of vertical and horizontal lines. This results in four times the density for quality sources, such as DVD, satellite and digital camcorders. The Video Menu allows you to select interlaced, progressive or CineMotion® output. WEGA Engine System
The WEGA Engine system is the core video processing system that was designed based on Sony’s expertise and long heritage in bringing cutting-edge picture quality to TVs for consumers. Its fully digital signal-processing path includes video processing functions that have been designed and optimized using Sony’s video experience to improve overall picture quality. The WEGA Engine System includes:

• High-speed A/D (analog-to-digital) converters for wide-range gradation capture of analog signals
• 3-D Y/C Comb Filter for minimizing cross color and dot structure artifacts
• Digital MPEG Noise Reduction Circuit, which reduces MPEG artifacts such as "block noise" and "mosquito noise" caused by the compression used to maximize bandwidth in digital broadcasts
• Digital Temporal 3-D Noise Reduction (pixel-by-pixel basis)
• Digital Motion Adaptive I/P (interlace-to-progressive), as well as Edge Adaptive I/P deinterlacing conversion, which improves resolution in video with motion

Cinema Black Pro
Cinema Black Pro is an exclusive Sony function designed to improve contrast expression especially in darker scenes. The Cinema Black Pro function is enabled by using either one or both of two features - Iris Control and Advanced Iris. The Iris Control function sets the maximum size of the iris opening and sets the overall level of brightness. There are several settings that allow the user to adjust the iris opening to best match the room lighting conditions. The Advanced Iris function is a dynamic adjustment that automatically opens and closes the iris according to the gamma level of the picture on the screen. There are several different adjustments. The "High" setting is ideal for movies and music video content. And the "Off" setting works great for sports and news content.

HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface) and PC Connectivity
Designed for maximum versatility, Sony’s Grand WEGA line is equipped with a comprehensive range of input interfaces. The HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) is the first industry-supported, uncompressed, all-digital audio/video interface. HDMI technology supports enhanced or High Definition video, together with digital audio to provide matchless image and sound reproduction. PC connectivity is also accommodated via HDMI so now you can use your Grand WEGA TV with your PC.

Steady Sound
The Steady Sound feature equalizes volume levels so there is consistent output between programs and commercials.

What's in the box
Sony KDF-50E2000 50-inch 3LCD Rear Projection Television, Remote Control (with batteries), Operating Instructions, Quick Setup Guide, Warranty Card, Registration Card

Customer Reviews

Optical block problem
Unfortunately after owning this set for 18 months, it has developed a blue haze in the upper right and upper left corners of the screen. It seems that this issue has appeared in several Sony rear proj. LCD models including this one. It's very expensive to repair and seems to stem from dust infiltration which is inevitable. The cost of repair exceeds half of the origainal purchase price. Lamps are expensive as well. Perhaps a full LCD set would be a better choice (i.e. Sharp or Vizio) with no moving parts.

After 6 months, we're still in love with the picture
This was one of our family's better purchases. The picture is stunning, especially with the right components like an HDMI DVD player hooked up to it (would love to see BlueRay), and an HD cable box, and (my son would say) a Nintendo Wii! We've had so much fun playing games at life size, and watching movies and sports that I really do feel like I've gotten an excellent bargain. The tech specs: it's easy to set up and create custom settings (I recommend using a video like 'Finding Nemo' that has a set-up guide for video and audio on it), it shows a picture quickly enough when turned on, and as long as you don't clean it with something that removes the anti-glare coating it has a pretty decent viewing angle for a rear-projection TV. I use a surround sound system so I'd look to another review if you're curious about its sound quality. One concern I had was that I would regret not going with a plasma or LCD, but I've had zero regrets - great tv! You can't go wrong, especially as they drop in price.

18 months old and it's gonna cost a fortune to fix
we bought this Sony in July of 06 and now (Jan-08) we have ghosting color bands at the top of the screen that have doubled in size in less than a month. the closest Sony tech is 70+ miles away and I have to haul it up there, pay him $225 and pray it's the Optical Block that's the issue which should still be under warranty (we hope). This is the second Sony projection TV that has died in under 5 years. Shame on me for getting this one. Guess Bush's 'stimulus' will be going to a new TV! don't get one, you'll end up paying for it. just google 'Sony optical block' and you'll see what I'm talking about.