Sony KDL20S3020 - 20” Widescreen Bravia HD Ready LCD TV - With Freeview -Silver

March 11, 2008 | By Doug In kitchen appliance |

Sony KDL20S3020 - 20” Widescreen Bravia HD Ready LCD TV - With Freeview -Silver
20 S3000 series Sony BRAVIA LCD TV comes in a variety offashionable colours to enhance any interior whether you want yourTV to blend in or stand out. It’s not style over content as theseHD Ready TVs feature BRAVIA Engine picture enhancement technologyand

Customer Review: I’m so glad I bought this TV
This TV has everything I need and will do for a good few years, seeing as it’s HD ready and has the all important HDMI socket, the 20″ size is just right for my medium sized living room. The picture quality is excellent, blacks are black no nasty pixelation, no ghosting. Watching a bluray film using my my PS3 was simply stunning and even on normal non HD broadcasts this TV shines, above all my previous TV’s. It was really easy to setup, I like the intuitive menu system and the fact it comes with a strap so you can secure the TV to a stand to stop it from toppling over, a nice touch I thought, another top quality product from sony, and top service from amazon.

Customer Review: Great LCD TV
Another fine product from Sony. If you are looking for a small(ish) LCD Tv for a kitchen or bedroom you will not be disappointed with the 20s3000 series.

I did loads of research & had a shortlist of Samsung, LG & Philips 19″ sets & this 20″ Sony. If you are going down the same route, go to a retailer first & listen to the sound quality before you make up your mind. These thin LCD sets dont have anything like the sound quality of traditional CRT TV’s, there just isn’t enough space to get decent speakers in.

The Philips & Sony have some fancy electronics to enhance the sound quality & it does seem to work.

The Samsung is the smallest (and some may say best looking) set but like the LG, sound quality is poor with no decernable bass, even after adjusting the sound quality in the shop. The 19″ Philips is enormous thanks to its wide screen surround. It’s substantially taller and only marginally narrower than the 20″ Sony which seems the best sound and a brilliant quality picture - but you do pay for it at the checkout.

I was also concerned about dead or locked pixels. I needn’t haver worried, the screen is perfect.

If overall size is important, go to each manufacturers website & check the measurements as sometimes the quoted hight includes the built in stand, sometimes it quotes the hight without the stand. You’ll find that the size of the stand does vary considerably between sets.

At time of writing, the best deal was at Amazon, and delivery was brilliant. Placed my order Thursday evening, set delivered 10am Monday - on standard free delivery. Excellent!

Hint, dont automatically go for the black 20s3000. The dark silver 20s3020 won’t show dust like the black sets do, particualarly in a bedroom where case static will act like a dust magnet! And at time of writing this, they were both the same price at Amazon!

WD Elements Portable WDE1MS1200 - Hard drive - 120 GB - external - Hi-Speed USB
Plain and simple portable drives that are easy to use light and easy to carry and require no power adapter–they are powered directly through the USB cable. Specifications Model Specifications Internal / External External Performance Specifications Transfer Rate 480 Mbits/s (Max) Physical Specifications Formatted Capacity 120 GB Interfaces/Controllers USB USB 2.0 Dimensions Width 78.6 mm (3.09 inches) Height 17.8 mm (0.70 inches) Depth 124.4 mm (4.90 inches) Weight 0.155 kg (0.34 lb)
Used Price: ?43.99

Sony RDR-HX910S DVD Recorder with 250GB Hard Drive
Used Price: ?237.95
Customer Review: I bought two
I love these HDD/DVD recorders. With a huge hard disk, I just set the weeks recording on Saturday morning and then can forget it. The interface is not as intuitive as my previous Toshiba (you can’t combine recordings into one file or make copies onto the hard disk from the hard disk) so loses a star.
Customer Review: Whoever invented this wonderful machine is a genious!!
I purchased this machine as an upgrade to my DVD recorder. I wanted a hard drive with a lot of memory so I could record things when I am away from home. I am not dissapointed in any way with this! It’s so easy to use & u can record over 400hrs worth of progs!! The great function is ’synchro record’, which allows you to record with ease. This is great if you have Sky or Cable, because all you need to do is select all your progs in your tv guide to autoview and switch your box to standby-and the machine will do the rest! It records when your digibox activates a signal and there is no need to set your timer ever again! Easy!