Review: Sony KDS-R50XBR1
I have a Sony XBR TV. It’s an older set, SD. But it’s one great TV. The picture quality is amazing.
XBR is the tag that Sony sticks on it’s really great TV sets. One of their most recent is the SXRD-based KDS-R50XBR1 rear-projection HDTV. HD Beat recently got a chance to review one, and Matt Burns doesn’t take long to tell you what he thought of it. “This new rear projection by Sony employs a proprietary version of LCoS called SXRD to produce one of the best looking pictures I have ever seen.” That’s in the first paragraph.
The set has 2 HDMI inputs and 3 FireWire/iLink ones. No mention is made of whether or not the HDMI inputs accept 1080p. But the picture looks good:
The SXRD technology resolves the biggest issue Sony has had in the past with their microdisplays built off of LCD: screen door effect. This TV is smoother then any DLP I have seen and shows no effect of a grid. LCoS shoots light off a panel rather then through it like LCDs. Plus, the SXRD variant of LCoS has a denser pixel count and so the chance of seeing the grid is reduced even more.
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October 25th, 2005 at 5:31 pm
Sony KDS-R50XBR1 Review
I stumbled across this great writeup for one of Sony’s new SXRD rear projection HDTV models. This is a 50″ job that runs about 4 grand.
This model represents the second line offering SXRD, after Sony’s Qualia offerings which requ…
October 27th, 2005 at 9:18 am
[…] HD Beat recently reviewed the 50″ Sony KDS-R50XBR1 SXRD HDTV, and thought very highly of it. Now it’s Sound & Vision’s turn. […]
October 30th, 2005 at 11:33 am
Ok, this set projects @1080p but does not accept 1080p. I’m a little confused. What does that mean to me? If I have a source projecting at 1080p does that mean the tv will not project at 1080p?
October 30th, 2005 at 1:51 pm
Well, this is the problem, isn’t it? What’ll happen is that your 1080p source will get downconverted to 1080i (at the source), gets transferred to this display, then is deinterlaced back to 1080p. Not the optimal solution at all. Which is why I always harp on displays accepting 1080p on their HDMI input.