Product Description

Unique and sophisticated, Sony's LCD WEGA Television offers a level of entertainment you have yet to encounter anywhere else. Its light all-in-one design will complement any decor as you witness the remarkable high-resolution image for yourself. Sony Digital Reality Creation Circuitry enables amazing picture resolution while Direct Digital Circuitry provides a natural, rich image from any source. You'll see all the action of the movies with minimal image noise from any angle while WOW Audio Effect brings life to low and mid frequencies, and Sony's LCD Panel Driver LSI minimizes blurring of images in motion. Don't forget to view your digital images using Sony Memory Stick Media Playback! The KLV21SG2 - distinctly Sony.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #143354 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Sony
• Model: KLV21SG2
• Dimensions: 2.00 pounds
• Display size: 21

Features

• HD-ready flat-panel LCD TV with 4:3 aspect ratio and 16 ms response time; 24 .8 x 18.1 x 9.5 inches (W x H x D) with stand and back cover
• Enhancements include Sony's Digital Reality Creation, Dynamic Picture, and Direct Digital Circuitry (DDC)
• Memory Stick media port lets you view JPEG images and MPEG-1 video right from your compatible camera or camcorder
• Front-panel composite- and S-video inputs allow easy connections with camcorders, gaming consoles, and other devices
• High 450 cd/m2 brightness permits viewing in any condition, wide viewing angles (170 x 170 degrees, H/V) ensure great images from any position

Amazon.com Product Description
Ready for flat-panel fun? The 21-inch KLV-21SG2 LCD television uses Sony's WEGA engine and a host of sophisticated video technologies to bring stellar, high-definition-ready imagery to a compact, lightweight TV. The screen is configured in a standard, 4:3 aspect ratio to match the dimension of most television broadcasts. It offers 1,024 x 768 native pixel resolution, compatibility with 480i, 480p, 720p, and 1080i HDTV signals, high brightness (450 cd/m2), and a lightning-quick 16 ms response time--perfect for fast-changing programs like action films and sports events.

The set offers a slimline design with an aluminum facade and stylish side speakers, making it ideal for smaller living rooms, studies, and bedrooms--anywhere space is at a premium. SRS WOW audio effect brings life to low and mid frequencies, while BBE high-definition sound improves speech intelligibility and restores the dynamic range of compressed musical passages.

LCD screens offer a number of benefits over CRT monitors and televisions, including general ease of use, freedom from eye strain (no screen flickering or radiation emissions), quiet operation (no high-pitch "flyback" noise, an issue with CRT TVs), accurate image geometry (no curvature distortion or susceptibility to magnetic interference from, say, speakers), long screen life (60,000 lamp hours and no risk of image burn-in), space savings, and light weight/easy positioning.

Sony's Digital Reality Creation Circuitry grants amazing picture resolution while proprietary Direct Digital Circuitry increases a video signal's signal-to-noise ratio before it reaches the DRC circuit, ensuring rich, natural-looking images from any source. A Memory Stick media slot with JPEG/MPEG-1 compatibility simplifies playback of video clips and still pictures from compatible cameras. This means you'll enjoy effortless interaction with other Memory Stick products such as digital still cameras, digital camcorders, and Sony VAIO PCs.

Sony's LCD panel driver ensures smooth, clear video by improving the response time in the middle luminance range, significantly reducing "afterimage" in motion pictures.

The set's 16:9 enhanced mode achieves higher picture quality with "anamorphic" widescreen DVDs by concentrating all the television scanning lines in the viewable picture area, wasting none of the screen's resolution on the black bars that frame a widescreen image. Finally, Channel Fix lets you select a specific TV channel (3, for example) for cable box reception. Then you can control a compatible cable box via the TV remote without inadvertently changing the TV from Channel 3.

Connections include a high-definition-compatible component-video input, 2 each composite- and S-video inputs (1 each on the front panel for ready connection to a camcorder or gaming console), and an RF coaxial input for hookup with an older VCR, cable box, or antenna.

What's in the Box
TV, operating instructions, remote control (RM-Y1106), AA batteries (for remote), AC power cord, registration card, warranty card, 75 ohm coaxial cable, and rear cover.

Customer Reviews

LCD TVs are not ready for Prime Time
Last week I purchased a Sony KLV21SG2 LCD TV, banking on the fact that Sony has always produced an outstanding product, and that the five Sonys I have purchased over the past three decades (all CRT's), while expensive, were well worth the extra cost. This is the first Sony set that I am returning, because while it delivers excellent HD pictures and sound, it strikes out in virtually every other category.

I get my TV reception through Cox cable, which has a few (very few) HD channels, and a fair number of digital channels, but is still mired mostly in the analog world. This makes an LCD TV a bad bet for a Cox customer.

When compared to a high-end Sony CRT costing about the same as the SLV21SG2 -- there really is no comparison. Digital channels are viewable on the LCD TV, but the images are far from crisp. Sports events where there is fast motion create multiple images and blurring effects. Pictures with lines close together (such as empty basketball bleachers or a plaid suit) create noticeable rainbow or vibration effects. Even worse, the Sony LCD TV does not handle dark backgrounds at all well. For example, the series "24," even though it is on a digital channel, is just a big blur during the nighttime scenes, which as fans are aware are at least half the show. Sci-Fi buffs will be sorry to learn that space operas like Battlestar Galactica and Stargate SG-1 have similar problems.

I don't think these quality issues are unique to Sony LCD TVs. They are a general problem area common to all of today's crop of LCD TVs, which, especially when paired with a low-quality digital or HD box, do not deliver an acceptable picture on non-HD channels. I have heard that people have had better luck using LCD TVs with DirecTV, but in my view LCDs are still not ready for prime time.

I have a fifteen year-old Sony Trinitron 32" that is still delivering a picture that is superior to all plasmas and all LCDs, except when viewing HDTV. I'm taking my $1400 Sony LCD back to Circuit City and trading it in for a $300 20" Sony Trinitron CRT. Thank God for Circuit City's 30-day return policy!

Don't believe the hate.
I've seen a lot of bad things said about this TV, and they've mostly been said before HD television was the norm. I've had my WEGA hooked up to Comcast digital HD and it looks fantastic, great picture and sound. In fact, I bought a new HD television and had problems with the picture two days after hooking it up. I've never had an issue like that with this Sony. Sony makes quality products, although this t.v. isn't worth the $1,600 that it cost back when it first came out, it is for sure worth the price you'll get it for today.