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day 1 no clouding

Have had the 52W5500 for 4 weeks now, and positively no clouding!

Still tweaking the settings but deffo no clouding.

So all looking good!

Day two...........OH Dear !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...........clouding

Clouding as in faint purple blotching on dark background such as a person with black hair a purple haze would be there..I also noticed that on both free to air HD and pay tv the picture appeared to have a 'washed out ' look. a kind of faint pale yellow colour.


So i took it back and had it exchanged not for a Z series but a W series as my W4000 set that is 10 months old has not put a foot wrong.


So its a 46W5500 now.

day one.............no clouding, no ' pale yellow '...........picture is as clear and enjoyable as the w4000 ive been watching..Price for 46w5500 is AUD$1844 with 3 year warranty and a PS3 (tv made in Malaysia)

Day three w5500 still no problems what so ever...live V8 car racing was a joy to watch.

assuming most retailers now accept that sony tvs are a little hit and miss regarding clouding , also assuming that most will agree to a refund if a set has clouding , they do represent top value for me , a perfect 40w5500 for £699 is hard to beat pound for pound imo..

Day four......still no problems with w5500

i also looked at the 40w4000 in the other room and its picture is still stunning after 10 months of use.

Day 6 and still no problems with w5500

Have to admit though i prefer the w4000 picture. to me it seams sony got the picture ' just right ' with the 4000

yes its those colours on the W4000 so much richer than the ones on the W5500. thats the first thing I've really noticed between the 2 models

day 12..........all is still good in fact slightly better as if a ' settleing in ' period has occurred.

Ive just bought a 46W5500

On turning it on there was absolutely no clouding what so ever

After about 8 hours there is a very slight blotch top right, but only just perceptable when its completely black

 

As for the colours, I have to disagree

Perhaps out of the box without proper calibration the older W series looks better. But the 5500 calibrates almost perfectly, its colours are close to perfection.

Re colour rendition, absolutely excellent on our 52W5500

Took a while with the set up and humiliating derision from the OH whilst enacting tweaks, absolutely brilliant colour, and splendid in HD

8 weeks since delivery, still a weekly check on clouding, lights out, input signal off, tv on, still nothing but some very  very minor discrepencies across the whole screen, I commented before that I think that this is reasonable given the CCFL tech used