This is a marvelous TV with a fantastic picture and some of the deepest blacks and best contrast of any LCD television on the market. It has an abundance of features and I have gotten addicted to the ability to browse the web on it. I thought the remote would be too much with all the buttons and the qwerty keyboard, but I was wrong. It is well laid out with the top section set up to control your most often adjusted features and the bottom set up for internet browsing. I found two flaws that may or may not bother people. The controls for adjusting the screen aspect ratio are a few layers deep in the menu system. That can be a pain if you are changing around from standard definition to high definition a lot. More significantly, the off-axis viewing is awful. If you are sitting anywhere near the sweet spot, say an angle of 45 degrees off center, the picture is excellent. If you go further out than that the picture becomes milky, which I cannot tolerate. My family doesn't seem... Read more

just purchased the tv this past weekend. based on the two previous reviews, we were a bit hesitant to purchase. however, we tend to be early adopters and i've been looking for a reason to sign up for google tv.

the tv really is about 2 components: 1) tv and 2) software. i will call them out separately.

the tv is what you expect from sony. solid, designed beautifully, solid metal stand. picture quality is excellent. expected number of inputs. you can't really complain about the tv. we had a samsung tv that had a cheap tuner and wouldn't pick up all the unscrambled digital channels but this tv did. we own other sony's and knew they had a solid tuner built in. we would never buy a samsung again due to the cheap tuner. it's a moot point if you have a cable box, but not everyone wants an additional box.

the software. first off, the sony typical UI software is ok. even with our 52 inch and bravia xbr, the UI isn't anything to brag about. though the UI is... Read more

I purchased this for my main TV in the living room to replace a 4 year old Visio LCD TV. I liked having the TV with easy access to the web and free movies. The remote with the full Qwerty Key pad is nice and gives you control to browse the web and enter text. To use the Google TV you must have a Gmail account this is part of the startup setup. It's easiest if you already have an account or set this up from a regular PC first. You'll also need an account with online movie sites to rent online movies. You can view trailers for many movies but as for free movies, other than YouTube there arn't any. Using the remote takes some practice. It takes two hands for many commands. The Google TV menus give you many shortcuts to find TV Channels and related online content, My Channels, Bookmark channels of sites, Movie serices. There is a search button to get quick access to web and channel search. This was one of the better features. There is a Guide to access the Cannel list which requires a... Read more