Sony KDL-40V5100 Review, Nice HDTV for its size. After playing around with the settings, watch TV, play and make some use of some standard DVD and blue ray through it here is what I observed.
* For obvious reasons, the PS3 does a better job showing the standard DVD. Upscaling DVD through a PS3 makes it look great much better (and worse), which may give rise to all the double dipping issue.
* By the way, I met a few standard DVD movies through just to get an idea of how it would look and if I would consider getting the blue ray and here is what I saw:
Star Trek II and III Collector's Edition - @ 120Hz that does not age well at all. Between these 2 and Undiscovered Country, were my faves and the only ones I would consider getting the blue ray, but the upscaling makes it look very grainy and "false".
Sky Captain, 300 and Minority Report - because of how they were shot, (the graininess and sepia tones which were used), the graphics are a mixed bag. I prefer to see them in standard definition. 60Hz to 120Hz to
Saving Private Ryan - does it really well upscaled to 120Hz. I would be curious to see how this appears on Blu Ray.
Predator II - another film that did not fare well in upscaling @ 120Hz
Star Wars ESB and Rotja - Looked surprisingly good for upscaling @ 120Hz. Many smaller details I never saw really stood out. I will test the newer ones later.
Lord of the Rings - @ 120Hz, I can wait for the extended edition of the blue ray coming out.
The Godfather - @ 120Hz looks great too.
The Incredibles - seemed incredible @ 120Hz
* Popped in a few HD-DVD (yes, I have mine still attached to my 360) and received luxury 120Hz. No surprise.
* Gaming-wise resolution is a bit 'better. Dragon Age on 360 looks sharper and fruit and vegetables now. MW2 ago, but also motionblur could be better.
Assassin's Creed on PS3 really stands out and made me go into consideration some of my cross-platform titles, leaving the 360 for the PS3.
* TV wise - one thing I learned is that I cannot turn my FIOS box all the way up to 1080i. TV and the box is not registered. Go as 720p and then the TV upscales to 1080p presumably the pic (not sure if this is true at 100%). With all the settings, the image quality is as good as the channel and the show was filmed. Depending on whether you can consider this as irritating is run at 120hz with all the settings, you risk some of the most important features Turing off, while watching normal TV. Some of the Hi Def stations had some problems. Read more reviews.
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