Product Description

Elevate your entertainment experience with the KDP-57WS655 57" High Definition CRT Projection Television. Featuring Digital Reality Creation MultiFunction Technology and HD MICROFOCUS CRT and Lens System, the KDP-51WS655 produces beautiful picture resolution for your viewing enjoyment. The KDP-57WS655 also gives you other features that you've come to expect from Sony, such as MID-X Multi Image Driver Circuitry, TruSurround SRS Audio Processing and CineMotion Reverse 3-2 Pulldown Technology. Listen to MP3 audio and view your photos with the built-in Enhanced Memory Stick Media slot.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #169701 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Sony
• Model: KDP57WS655
• Display size: 57

Features

• 57-inch high-definition-ready rear-projection television with integrated NTSC and ATSC (HDTV) tuners; 52.25 x 54.25 x 27.25 inches (W x H x D)
• CableCARD slot for digital cable readiness; features direct-digital HDMI connection
• CineMotion 3:2 pulldown detection and reversal removes redundant video information to display a film-frame-accurate picture from movie sources
• HD Detailer wideband video amplifier ensures that the fine details contained in a high-resolution source make it all the way to the screen
• Auto 16:9 enhanced mode renders anamorphic DVD content in letterboxed widescreen, using all available display lines for the image

Amazon.com Product Description
Put the "theater" back in "home theater with Sony's 57-inch WS Series KDP-57WS655. The set's enormous screen features a wide, 16:9 aspect ratio that matches the dimension of most movies and HDTV broadcasts, and it comes loaded with dual NTSC tuners, a high-definition ATSC (DTV) tuner, and a High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) for a direct-digital hookup with advanced HD components. The set's authorized CableCARD ability means the set will also receive digital cable television systems services directly from the cable operator without requiring a bulky, external cable box.

The KDP-57WS655 is compatible with just about any video signal out there, from standard-definition 480i and enhanced-definition 480p to high-definition 720p and 1080i--there's no stand-alone set-top box required for HDTV reception. The set uses Sony's HD Microfocus CRT and lens system, featuring smaller phosphor particles, thinner phosphor layers, and other improvements that give the screen a beam spot 28-percent smaller than Sony's standard CRTs. And that means sharper focus, higher contrast, and brighter images.

The set's HD Detailer wideband video amplifier provides high detail from high-res images to give you the best possible image from high-bandwidth sources. Auto 16:9 enhanced mode with auto ID1 detection automatically renders anamorphic DVD content in letterboxed widescreen, using all available display lines for the image and wasting none on the black bars that frame the image when a program's widescreen aspect ratio differs slightly from the set's.

Digital Reality Creation (DRC) circuitry ensures high 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. TwinView 2-tuner PIP (picture-in-picture) lets you view any 2 sources simultaneously--even 2 TV stations. Sony's MID-X (Multi Image Driver) maintains the integrity of a digital signal by minimizing image loss in the scaling process.

Sony's CineMotion 3:2 pulldown detection and reversal is a handy feature for watching progressive-scan movie programs in their native 24-frame format. Digital video mastering introduces a common distortion when adjusting 24 frames-per-second movies to 30 fps video; 3:2 pulldown digitally corrects this distortion, removing the redundant information to display a film-frame-accurate picture.

The set offers an HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface), which permits a direct digital connection with a compatible DTV set-top box. Other connections include 2 component-video inputs, 4 composite-video inputs, 3 S-video inputs (with 1 each composite-/S-video on the front panel for ready connection to a camcorder or gaming console), and 2 RF coaxial inputs for hookup with an older VCR, cable box, or antenna.

An optical digital-audio output lets the set pass a Dolby Digital 5.1-channel surround-sound signal to a compatible audio/video receiver or other surround processor for powerful, enveloping sound through your multichannel speaker system. The set's onboard 2-way speakers are powered by a generous 20 watts per channel (x 2) for dynamic, full-bodied sound even if you're not using external speakers.

HDMI is a lossless, uncompressed, all-digital audio/video interface to link the set with any audio/video source (such as a set-top box, DVD player, or AV receiver). HDMI supports standard-definition (SD), enhanced definition (ED), or high-definition (HD) video, plus multichannel digital audio--all using a single cable. It transmits all ATSC HDTV standards and supports up to 8-channel digital audio, with bandwidth to spare to accommodate future enhancements and requirements.

What's in the Box
TV, remote control, remote batteries (2 AA), a user's manual, and warranty information.

Customer Reviews

great set at a great price
My dad and i receanly bought this set at best buy for 1300 bucks. its a great deal.i love this tv the picture is like real life.but its is very dark.but once you ajust it, it will come to life.

Excellent HDTV - Great price!
We bought this set at the end of 2005 and are enjoying it immensely. It has a fabulous picture (once you set the video up correctly)and is as good as if not better than my 42" plazma 1080i Hitachi. The sound is great and I rarely turn on my Suround Sound receiver unless we're watching DVDs. This is our second Sony rptv, and will hate to see the rear projection sets go. We use the HDMI connector for DTV and HD-DVD input via an Terk HDMI switcher for the best picture and sound with many less cables.

Black Saturation
I have owned this set for a week now and no matter what I do to all the color settings (And there are tons of them) I can't get rid of all the Black Saturation. I'm even on Component cables.

You can get the picture nice and bright especially in HD, but there is always a ton of VERY DARK BLACK that you just can't adjust out. Other than that the set seems to be fine. Sound is great, and it has lots of settings to correct any picture quality problems you might have like noise or grainyness.

Like I said before Black Saturation is a real problem.