Get ready for HD Sony Bravia Z Series 46″ KDL-46z4100/B 1080p LCD HDTV from Sony. Its fashionable display brings advanced video technology to your fingertips and enhances your room’s decor with its sleek design and stylish bezel. You can even watch TV while using your computer with the PC-PIP feature. It offers Motionflow 120Hz technology that doubles the number of existing frames by calculating in real time and inserting 60 entirely new frames between the original 60frame.

Specifications

• 46″ screen class (measured diagonally)

• 16:9 native aspect ratio (widescreen)

• Dynamic contrast ratio: 30,000:1; on-screen contrast ratio: 3,000:1

• Motionflow 120Hz technology

• 4 HDMI inputs; 2 component video inputs

• 3 composite video inputs; 1 S-Video input

• Dolby Digital sound processing; Steady Sound automatic volume control

• S-Force front; voice zoom; auto mute; audio out; digital amplifier; optical digital audio output

• Tabletop stand included; wallmount-capable (wallmount sold separately)

• Includes RM-YD024 remote control

Review By Reviews.cnet

Sony’s “Z series” comes in two styling varieties: the gloss-black version (KDL-46Z4100/B), which we reviewed, and one with a “brushed metal” finish (KDL-46Z4100/S). The black set’s handsome styling is a step up in our opinion from that of the KDL-46W4100. The frame around the screen is about half as thick, and there’s less frame used below the screen too, leading to a much more compact-looking panel overall. A narrow window in the bottom section reveals your wallpaper or whatever else is behind the TV, but it’s a lot more discreet than that of the W4100.

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Review By Hometheaterreview

The KDL-46Z4100′s generous connection panel includes four HDMI, two component video, one PC, and one RF input to access the internal NTSC, ATSC, and Clear-QAM tuners. The HDMI inputs accept both 1080p/60 and 1080p/24 signals, and one HDMI input is located on the side panel for easy access. The TV Guide Daily program guide and picture-in-picture functionality are available. A side-panel USB port supports JPEG/MP3 playback, while the back panel features three ports that digital-media fans will appreciate: a DMPort for connecting digital media devices, an Ethernet port for streaming photos from a PC or DLNA-compliant server (and for easy firmware upgrades), and a DMeX port, which allows you to attach one of Sony’s Bravia Link devices: the Internet Video Link, Wireless Link, DVD Link, or Input Link.

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Review By Soundandvisionmag

Sony’s slim remote control has a fully backlit keypad that glows blue when you hit the Light button at its top. Pressing the Input button triggers an onscreen list of sources that you scroll through using the arrow keys. Active inputs can be relabeled with names like BD, Satellite, or Game, while unused ones can be skipped over altogether. The set’s Wide button calls up an onscreen menu listing various display modes. For SD, you get a choice of Full, Normal, Zoom, and Wide Zoom. For HD, the options are Full, H-Stretch, Zoom, and Wide Zoom. Unfortunately, there’s no Normal Option for HD signals, which would let you “squeeze” upconverted 4:3 programs that were stretched out by the broadcaster to fill 16:9 screens.

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Review By Hdtvlounge

Inside the Sony Bravia Z series we find Sony’s new Advanced Contrast Enhancer (ACE) which intelligently and dynamically enhances the contrast by using real time image processing and automatically adjusting backlight levels, leading to deeper blacks and fine details in shadows and other dark areas. Also featured is 24p support which is the best way to watch film content, as this is the frame rate films are recorded in.

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Review By Amazon

Movies and many prime time TV programs are shot at 24 frames per second. This means that TVs operating at any refresh rate that is not an even multiple of 24 will have to do some interpolation to present the content. TVs operating at at 30Hz or 60Hz traditionally solved this via a method called “2:3 pulldown”. The television repeats the first film frame over the first two fields of video, and the second film frame over the next three fields of video (1, 1, 2, 2, 2), and continues to do this with the 3rd and 4th frames, the 5th and 6th framer (1,1,2,2,2 – 3,3,4,4,4 – 5,5,6,6,6), and so on until 24 frames are displayed over 60 refresh cycles. This discrepancy in the number of times frames are displayed can lead to a jerky motion in filmed material which some viewers notice for example, especially with scenes that pan.

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Review By Vanns

DLNA stands for the Digital Living Network Alliance, an Industry Standard Networking Capability supported by leading companies in the consumer electronics industry that allows DLNA-compliant products to work with one another. Think for a moment about all of the photos “locked away” on your home PC that you wish you could access while entertaining your friends and family. Now, thanks to DLNA enabled devices, a DLNA-enabled PC can be accessed from the comfort of your living room or family room via a BRAVIA DLNA-enabled HDTV, where you can enjoy your memories with friends and family, without having to deal with the hassle and non-intuitive “PC experience.”

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