Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #56200 in Home Theater
- Color: black
- Brand: Sony
- Model: XBR52HX909
- Dimensions: 34.00" h x
56.00" w x
10.00" l,
80.00 pounds
- Native resolution: 1920 x 1080
- Display size: 52
Features
- Full HD 1080p with 3D Capability
- Wi-Fi® Ready
- PC Streaming Ready - Netflix®, YouTubeTM and More!
Sony BRAVIA XBR52HX909 52" LCD TV Direct LED - ATSC - NTSC - HDTV 1080p - 178° / 178° - 16:9 - 1920 x 1080 - 1080p - Surround, Dolby Digital - 240 Hz
Product Description
Enjoy Full HD 1080p picture quality, premium contrast and energy-savings with the sleek and slim Intelligent Dynamic LED backlit BRAVIA HX909 Series LCD TV. Add optional 3D transmitter and glasses and bring latest Full HD 3D experience into your home. Featuring powerful motion performance technology including Motionflow Pro 240Hz for incredible motion performance so you enjoy crisp, fluid motion during fast-action scenes. Additionally, this LCD TV boasts a gorgeous monolithic design, which will leave you wondering if the view is nicer with the TV on or off.
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
44 of 47 people found the following review helpful.
By Greg Balko
I recently decided I was going to purchase a new TV. I went online and spent a lot of time researching everything. It seemed like the Samsung UNC8000 was a well liked set by most reviewers. It is a edge lit LEd set with the added feature of local backlight control.So I go to BB to look at this set. I'm in a relatively bright area and I see flashlights in the bottom corners. No guessing where the light source is located. I think to myself, "self, how terrible will this look in lower light?" So I go into the Magnolia room and spot the Samsung UNC9000, the flagship. Really beaytiful looking set. Turn it on and it is flashlighting also. I ask the guy to turn on the other TV in the room. We are watching Beowolf and the scene goes black. The Samsung turns dark gray with corner flashlights and the other TV goes pitch black. I can't tell the bezel apart from the screen. "Oh my God!", I said, asking what TV I was looking at. Turns out it was the Sony HX909. I didn't remember reading much about it. More about the PQ. Gorgeous is all I can say. The colors were dead on. The trumpet in Beowulf was gold like a trumpet should be. Turn around and it is dull yellow on the Samsung. The dark blacks of the Sony create so much contrast that all you can say is Wow! I really tried to get the Samsung to match the Sony. I lowered the backlighting, made sure it was in cinema mode and that it had its backlight control on. It still looked terrible compared to the Sony. I then tried to make the Sony look bad. I put it in torch mode and there was no flashlighting and it was still pretty impressive.So I knew I need to research a little more. Turns out what separates this set from the masses is its full array back lighting. Said another way, Most sets use LED lighting along the sides. This allows for cheaper manufacturing costs and thinner profiles with the downside of poor screen uniformity and annoying flashlights and waterfalls of bright light on a dark screen. The backlit sets puts the LEDs in the back behind the display. This adds the benefit of a more uniform appearance and much better black levels. The only downside I have heard of with these is the cost and halos around bright objects on dark backgrounds. Last year several manufacturers made full array sets. Samsung made the UNB8500, which cnet rated as one of the best sets they ever tested. Now all they make are edgelits. It seems that Sony, LG, and Vizio are the only makers left. Rumor has it that Sony is getting out of the game. Having seen the two technologies side by side, The full arrays are worth every penny. Better get one while you can as it looks like the manufacturers are taking a step backwards in PQ and focusing more on thinner, gadgets, and 3D. I guess that they are too expensive to make and thus hard to market and sell.I have not seen the Vizio. The LG 9500 IMO is a really nice set but did not have as nice of blacks as the Sony. For the Sony...Televisioninfo.com rates this TV very highly except for its MSRP of $3,500. Cnet also rated it very good, criticizing it for some blue tones on black and also for its price. My set is calibrated (You can get very good settings for free off of AVS forums) and I see no blue tones on black. If you look around you can find this set for $2,300 online, which in my opinion makes the best LED out there at a good value.
21 of 22 people found the following review helpful.
By jtorion
Hello- I am no expert here & I normally don't write reviews for things. But I've noticed this LCD/LED TV only had 1 review for it, so I'll show it some love. I've had it for a day now and after tweaking the "out of box" settings just a bit, this panel just came to life. It displays some very vibrant colors, crisp whites & very, very deep blacks. The sharp/clean image detail is way beyond my softer more subdued looking XBR2. Although my XBR2 had better off axis viewing, the HX909 is pretty darn good when it comes to this. This may have something to do with the HX909's Glass Monolith panel design, which by the way is very cool looking. The panel comes with a swivel base that can be tilted back 6 degrees. The internet hook-up via ethernet cable works great.I replaced my older 60XBR2 with this 52HX909 and the PQ makes up for the loss of 8" in panel size. IMHO, I feel that the HX909's full array back lit led w/local dimming makes this panel the best option that's available within the 2010 Sony HDTV lineup. I only care about 2D, therefore 3D does nothing for me. Also, I'm not a gamer. Although this TV lacks some of the on board gadgets that the LX900 series has, it certainly makes up for this with it's far superior PQ. Based on the better PQ I would go with a full array back lit w/local dimming panel over any edge lit/some local dimming(NX810) panels any day. Whatever panel you may decide to go with, just enjoy your new TV.Good Day!
22 of 25 people found the following review helpful.
By jesse
I have had my tv for 4 weeks now and I must say I still get impressed by it's picture. Today I watched Train spotting on standard dvd via my Sony bdps550 and I was amazed how good it made the 480I look. It looked almost like a blu ray. The picture was perfect it had that film texture perfect brightness. This led is so good because it uses white led light it does not have a blue tinted light like so many lcd /led panels;call edge led. You see if you have a blue led it will tint your white color and it will offset all the other colors. So when you go out and look at a big tv wall compare the white colors on this set to others. You will notice other sets make the skies way too blue and peoples face look off color and on outside footage you lose the golden glow of the sun. The other great thing about this set is the part that also makes it expensive; it is the back lit led. It allows sections of the panel to have no light which gives you great black levels " it makes a dark movie like Batman" look great and you don't lose detail in the surround parts which may need to be lighter. The hd off the air antenna looks great and leaves you wowed and the remote is so cool too it has a power key on the underside so you can use your index finger to power the set. Now you don't have to make your way to the top of the remote to turn it off. Lastly the 3d part. You may not care about 3d but you will like it when you see it. Remember this led has the best picture you can buy so 3d is just an extra feature. ps if its outside the budget checkout the kdl55hx800/810 it's also good. One more thing always use monster cable and monster power. good luck I hope this helped
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