Sony KD-49XE9005 review

How long does it take your brain to process an image? No, it’s faster than that – it’s around 13 milliseconds. In the time it took you to read that sentence, you can process 185 different images. Congratulations.

But since most people watch 4.3 hours of video per day (which equates to over one million images) you don’t want to waste that processing power on sub-standard television.

The Sony KD-49XE9005 is not a sub-standard television.

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We set the black levels and contrast for our testing rooms using a THX disc, turn local dimming and dynamic contrast to ‘low’ so that we get a little more detail in darker scenes without the flickering that’s apparent with the ‘medium’ or ‘high’ options, and disable many of the processing modes, such as ‘Reality Creation’ (a joint upscaling and noise-reduction mode for standard-definition sources), ‘Motionflow’ (motion smoothing), and ‘X-tended Dynamic Range’.

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