Sony KDF-E50A10 50-Inch LCD Rear Projection Television | 
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| Brand: Sony
Category: CE
List Price: $2,499.99
Buy Used: $1,000.00
You Save: $1499.99 (60%)
Used (2) from $1,000.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  39 reviews
Sales Rank: 29892
Media: Electronics
Batteries Included: Yes
Display Size: 50
Battery: 2 AA
Shipping Weight (lbs): 72.8
Dimensions (in): 48.6 x 16.1 x 32.6
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: KDFE50A10
Model: KDFE50A10
UPC: 027242675315
EAN: 0027242675315
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 50-inch rear-projection LCD TV; measures 46.6 x 32.6 x 16.1 inches (WxHxD) | | • | Built-in HD/Digital tuner (ATSC), 181-channel tuner (NTSC); Digital Cable ready | | • | Front A/V input for easily hooking up a DVD player or video game console | | • | Inputs: 3 composite, 3 component, 1 S-Video, 1 RF, 1 HDMI | | • | Two stereo speakers, 12 watts apiece (24 watts total) |
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Product Description
Take your television viewing experience to a new level with the KDF-E50A10 Grand WEGA 3LCD Rear Projection HDTV. Its design features a thin dark black bezel, a compact body and barely visible speakers located at the bottom of the set. The KDF-E50A10 also features crisp HD picture quality, which delivers natural color reproduction and exceptional brightness levels due to 3LCD technology. Additional features include the Sony WEGA Engine system to deliver detailed picture quality from any compatible video source by minimizing the digital-to-analog conversion process and the WEGA GATE Easy Operation Guide, which allows you to easily navigate to TV functions, including favorite channels, TV channel list and external input list or settings.
Amazon.com Product Description
Bring a true cinema experience into your own living room with the 50-inch Sony KDFE50A10 rear-projection LCD TV, which features a new design with a thin dark black bezel, a compact body and invisible speakers located at the bottom of the set. It features built-in analog (NTSC) and HDTV digital (ATSC) tuners. (Digital high-definition programming is available via terrestrial signals (over-the-air) or unscrambled cable signals provided by your cable company.) It's also Digital Cable Ready, so you can enjoy digital cable without an additional box or remote. The KDFE50A10 uses the 3LCD video projection system, which combines three LCD panels to produce an image for a brighter picture in well-lit rooms, intensly vibrant natural colors, and spectacular HD performance. It's driven by Sony's WEGA Engine System, which delivers superb picture quality from any video source by minimizing the signal deterioration caused by digital-to-analog conversion and stabilizing the signal processing. The Digital Reality Creation line doubling feature replaces the signal's NTSC waveform with the HD equivalent, while doubling the number of vertical and horizontal lines. This results in four times the density for quality sources, such as DVD, satellite and digital camcorders. The CineMotion technology feature uses reverse 3-2 pull down technology, providing smoother picture movement when playing back movies or other video sources on film. Other features include the Steady Sound audio equalizer (for consistent output between programs and commercials), parental controls (V-chip), Favorites channel list, front AV Inputs for connecting camcorders or video game consoles,and an HDMI connection for uncompressed, all-digital audio/video interface between the TV and any HDMI-equipped audio/video component. It has a 24-watt stereo audio system (two 12-watt speakers) and TruSurround XT compatibility. It features the following video and audio connections: - Composite AV In (RCA): 3 (1 front)
- S-Video In: 1
- RF In: 1
- Component Video In: 3 (1 front)
- HDMI In: 1
- PC In (D-Sub 15-pin): 1
What's in the Box
KDFE50A10 TV, remote control, two AA batteries, printed instructions
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| Customer Reviews: Read 34 more reviews...
 Great HDTV August 29, 2005
76 out of 78 found this review helpful
I have satellite and a progressive DVD connected my new Sony. DVD's look great. It's like being being at the movie theater. The sound is very good. Satellite standard definition is upconverted by the TV. The standard signal picture is good but not as good as my Sony tube TV. This TV is great for HD signals and DVD and is acceptable for standard definition. If you watch mostly standard definition TV I'd get the 42 inch. If you watch DVD's and HDTV then this is the best set for the money right now. The picture and colors are very bright out of the box but has three picture settings that can be customized. The Wide modes for standard TV work well especially the Wide Zoom. Standard TV is very watchable but don't expect a crystal clear picture. HDTV is as good as the more expesive plasma TVs. The TV is very light and can be easily moved. The menu is very useable and you can adjust each input's settings and they are memorized. Overall this is a great TV. Probably the best projection HDTV for viewing standard TV signals and HD and DVD. I spent weeks looking at all of them.
Don't trust out-of-the-box impression November 11, 2005
20 out of 20 found this review helpful
This television was well worth the money. Even though it is an entry level, it was plenty for my viewing space. After purchasing, I used the Avia configuration disk to tune the picture and am nothing but impressed. Out-of-the-box the picture was dissappointing; a little too much red push, too much contrast, too much brightnes, and way too much sharpness - this basically made the picture too washed out with too "hard" of edges. After configuring though, it is phenomenal! The detail is superb for DVD and HD. Even standard cable channels are on the plus side of acceptable. Make sure to use the composite video or HDMI, though. I found the TV through consumer reports, and after researching and reading reviews decided it would be the one for me. Consumer reports ranked it #2 for its class, I trust the Sony name, and most buyers said the problems they were having could be "tuned" out. I'm glad I picked it, and would buy it again. Superb product!
***Excellent HDTV for the Money!*** May 10, 2006
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
I picked the KDF-E50A10 after comparing it to both Toshiba and Samsung DLP's. The Toshiba DLP's have a bad history with premature bulb burnout and long wait times for replacement. I do not want to deal with that! The Samsung DLP's are great too, but I thought the Sony 3LCD technology expanded the viewable area (side to side) and improved on video game playability. I played an XBOX 360 on a friend's 2nd generation Samsung DLP and it was plagued by a slight timing delay. The pricing for the Sony was great too! I researched prices on www.pricegrabber.com and purchased from Abes of Maine out of New York; everything went great with them.
The Sony was easy to set-up and turned on without a hitch. I was a little disappointed that it only had one HDMI input, but this could easily be solved by purchasing a high-quality HDMI switcher available at www.monoprice.com. I will be buying one of these in the near future so I can easily add other HDMI devices. For now, I have my upscaling DVD player (Denon S-301) hooked up to the HDMI and my Hi-Def Motorola cable box hooked up via component video. They both look outstanding on this television! Inherent in LCD displays is the "screen door effect" which is only visible if you sit really close to the TV. I don't know why somebody would buy a big screen TV and sit 3-feet away, but my couch is about 7-feet away and it looks GREAT.
This television requires a bit of tweaking to look its best. It comes preset from the factory at a "vivid" setting, which is to make it look brighter while on display at a store. When you set it up be sure to change the settings to best suite you viewing environment. There are diagnostic DVD's available along with a great device called SpyderTV to help you tweak it to perfection.
I really like this television and am happy with my purchase decision. Try it!
Great TV September 27, 2005
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
The picture on this TV is fantastic and you cannot beat the price. Looks great in both bright and low light. Very clean design, not much casing around the edges of the screen when viewed from the front. Fairly light and easy to move.
Standard definition channels don't look as good as standard tube TV's but I haven't seen a 50"+ HDTV for which that wasn't the case.
Price it out at Best Buy, Circuit City, and similar and collect the best combination of financing and price, they are all willing to match the other (though less likely to match a wholesale or online store's price).
Can you say 'Awesome'??? December 19, 2005
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
As our 'little' 25" regular TV died, we decided to flip the bucks and go all out. After extensive research on the internet and viewing TV's in the store, we settled on this Sony rear-projection. I know what you are thinking. The first thing that comes to mind when you hear rear-projection is those awful giant behemoths from the 80's and 90's, but that isn't so anymore. This TV is a 50", but I can pick it up easily by myself and the picture quality is, like, WOW. It really is like watching TV again for the first time. A few notes though for folks looking to buy a big-screen...1) If you are going to spend the money on one, then also call your cable company and have your cable box swapped out for a hi-def box. There is no reason to buy a hi-def TV if you don't have a hi-def connection. 2) Don't turn away from a rear-projection. There are other types out there that are mucho pricy and the picture isn't that much better, but can cost three times as much. 3) Remember that when you see those TV's in-store, they have perfect pictures because of their digital input, hi-def, wide screen connections. Don't be fooled by this. If the program you are watching was not recorded by a hi-def camera or is not digital (like a VHS tape), then it does not matter how much your TV cost, the picture is going to borderline on crappy. In fact, it will be worse than a regular TV because you are taking a picture and stretching it out to a 50" wide screen. A regular TV screen is more or less square, but when you stretch it out, it looks terrible.
This Sony Grand Wega, however, allows you to adjust for that distortion. The remote control is a bit confusing, but once you read the manual on how to use it, it becomes quite the tool for picture/sound control. As most know who have had big screens in the past, there is one problem. When you move off-center of the picture, the picture begins to fade out. Not so with this TV. Once we got ours hooked up, our hi-def cable box installed and turned on the INHD2 channel...WOW!!!! You could swear that you could reach right into the picture and touch what you are seeing. At around $2000, this TV is worth the money!
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