KDL-40VL130
BRAVIA® VL Series LCD Television
Key Features
10-bit 16:9 Full HD 1080p Resolution Panel (1920x1080)
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BRAVIA Engine™ EX Video Processor
Live Color Creation System featuring WCG-CCFL backlight
Advanced Contrast Enhancer (ACE)
Dynamic Contrast Ratio 13,000:1 with ACE (On-screen Contrast Ratio 1,800:1 )
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Xross Media Bar® (XMB) Advanced HD User Interface
DMe Feature Expansion Capability
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ATSC Digital Tuner with unscrambled digital cable (QAM) capability
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Key Technologies
Full HD 1080
There are a lot of ways to define high-definition but BRAVIA® Full HD means you’re getting the best
resolution that high-definition has to offer consumers. With Sony BRAVIA XBR HDTVs, Full HD 1080 means 1920 x 1080
pixels and 1080p video inputs. Your lifestyle demands the best in high-definition and with BRAVIA Full HD 1080
products you get it.
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1920 x 1080 Native Panel Resolution
When it comes to high-definition TV the pinnacle of performance is achieved
by using 1920 x 1080 display panels. Full HD 1920 x 1080 panel resolution with over 2 million pixels (more than twice
that of 720p HDTV) is exactly what you need to reproduce the 1080p content that can be delivered by our cutting
edge 1080p Blu-ray disc™ player.
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10-bit Processing and 10-bit Display
While it's great to state that a TV is capable of creating billions of colors it's a
whole lot better when you have a display that can actually display them. That's the logic behind Sony's 10-bit
processor and 10-bit display. Sony follows 10-bit processing with a 10-bit panel, allowing 64 times the levels of color
expression than an 8-bit panel. What that translates to is smoother transitions from color to color and subtle color
changes faithfully reproduced.
BRAVIA Engine™ EX Full Digital Video Processor
BRAVIA Engine™ EX full digital video processing system is
based on Sony's BRAVIA Engine video processing system. It has all of the same functions of BRAVIA Engine plus the
added ability to upconvert 480i standard definition signals (such as 480i DVDs and TV broadcasts) via Digital Reality
Creation Multi Function v1.0 (DRC-MF v1.0) technology, which renders a picture with four times the density of the
original one resulting in a picture with more detail and definition.
Live Color Creation™ System featuring WCG-CCFL
Many colors in the real world such as deep reds, greens
and clear blues cannot be expressed with conventional display technologies. Working in combination with the special
WCG-CCFL backlight in LCD HDTVs or the optical engine in our MDPJ HDTVs, Live Color Creation technology achieves
wide color reproduction using advanced chroma signal processing algorithms. The primary benefits are clear blues,
natural greens and an overall vibrant color for all scenes.
Advanced Contrast Enhancer (ACE) Function
Sony’s Advanced Contrast Enhancer (ACE) builds on our
excellent on-contrast ratio performance of 1,800:1 . A Dynamic Contrast Ratio of up to 13,000:1 is achieved by using
real-time image processing to adjust the contrast along with optimizing backlight levels. But rather than focus on the
"numbers", Sony focuses on actual picture performance avoiding exaggerated blacks where detail can be lost. ACE
translates to blacker blacks in darker scenes, as well as better shadow detail in other scenes for a difference that you
can see.
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x.v.Color™ technology
BRAVIA® HDTV's performance has now advanced to the point that the color range can be
defined by limitations in the original video source, rather than the TV. Thanks to the adoption of a newly approved
international color standard called xvYCC (an option in the HDMI v1.3 spec and which Sony participated in creating),
the color space has been greatly expanded. 1.8 times as many natural colors as existing HDTV signals will now be
faithfully reproduced. x.v.Color enabled products can now offer more accurate color reproduction and natural colors
beyond broadcast HDTV.
24p True Cinema (24p Input Capability)
Many movies are filmed at 24 frames per second (fps) and prime time
TV programs are recorded at 24p. Seizing on an opportunity, some studios are taking a purist approach and encoding
high definition video content such as Blu-ray Disc™ in 24p. Sony wisely takes advantage of this by including 24p output
capability on our Blu-ray Disc™ players as well as including 24p input capability select 2007 BRAVIA TVs. The benefit?
Images are smooth and natural looking. Once you experience 24p video it will be hard to view video without it.
64x 10-BIT
