Sony KDF-E50A10 50-Inch LCD Rear Projection Television | 
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| Brand: Sony
Category: CE
List Price: $2,499.99
Buy Used: $1,500.00
You Save: $999.99 (40%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  37 reviews
Sales Rank: 23379
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
ASIN: B000A2K3Y6
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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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
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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 32 more reviews...
 After 2 1/2 years -- a LEMON of a TV September 3, 2008
This TV only has given me 30 months of loyal service. IN the past couple of weeks multicolored small square boxes have appeared in 4 lines across the center in standard resolutions and a multicolored line in HD resolutions.
Many problems have been reported on the Internet about this model line of TV, with a general nonchalance attitude on the issues from Sony.
I would avoid this TV until Sony offers free repairs -- which will not occur until the matter is heard in a court.
Sony TV May 7, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I own a Sony KDFE50A10, LCD. TV. Its 3 years old and I am getting diagonal lines on the top 1/3 of my screen. I E mailed Sony and their technitions said there are many varibles and maybe it was ran a long time, sorry but maybe its at the end of its life. It did have a good picture untill this. I don't like the support because thay just don't care. DON'T BUY IT !
lots of problems after warrenty expired December 17, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
We have had the t.v. for 20 months when these rectangular shaped, multicolored boxes apearred across the screen. They measured around 3/4 by 1/2 inch and have rapidly changing colors in them. I have been reading alot of posts and it looks like this is a very common problem occuring after 18-20 months of ownership. The cost to fix the problem is 800.00 for parts and 500 give or take for the tech. Until Sony resolves this issue I would avoid the T.V.
 Great TV while it lasted (Get a warranty) June 10, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
After months of research, I bought this this TV in Oct 2005 and we got addicted within 2 days and wondered about how did we survive on our 27 inch:
- Great picture
- Good colors
- Good black
- Great HD experience when hooked with HD feed from cable (using HDMI)
- Sufficient number of other inputs to hook up my DVD player, VCR etc.
Life was beautiful until April 2007. After working flawlessly for 1.5 years, the TV suddenly started displaying multicolored vertical lines all across. I logged a service request with the brick and mortar store's service department right away and started researching and here is what I found:
- Lot of people have problems with these Sony TVs (KDF series, Grand Wega series et al) generally 8 months to 2 years of operation:
(a) Roadmap problem - the screen will have some roadmap image in some particular color
(b) Multi colored vertical lines
(c) others
- General consensus was that this is caused by the "optical engine unit" or "light engine unit" being faulty. This is supposedly an expensive piece of hardware and Sony is replacing this component till Oct 2007 on select models. I'd recommend that you research if you TV falls within this program.
- Folks very often waited months before their TVs were fixed or replaced or were still looking for resolutions (i.e. even when they had warranty).
- Folks got high dollar estimates to fix this issue
- Surprisingly, Sony has not issued a recall.
My recommendations:
1) Buy this TV ONLY IF you are buying warranty
2) If something happens to your TV, be prepared to wait for 2/3 months before it is fixed
3) If something should happen to your TV, be aggressive in following-up. I ended up calling the store manager and then customer service chief at corporate level before THEY agreed to replace my TV (of course it is a floor model and is not new)
4) If you are looking for TVs, go for 720p models which have 1080i up-convert capability. No need to go for 1080p (you'd probably have to pay for a "HD Tier" to get 1080p programming). This way you can get 50inch 720p plasma for upto $2500.
Disclaimer: The delays related to receiving warranty service are rather common to all retailers and you WILL be without TV for at least 4 - 8 weeks. Be prepared.
 This is a great TV May 30, 2007
The first reviewer did a terrific job so I will only speak to what he left out. I agree with everything he said.
I paid $2500 dollars for this TV 18 months ago, and would say you are getting a steal on this TV for $1500.
I play XBOX 360 on this TV and the quality is really good. There is an occasional issue seeing pixels during odd lighting situations in the game (for instance a street light on Splinter Cell, the light to dark transition is not smooth) but this can be partially blamed on the game. The only real gaming issue I have with this TV is that the picture is to big to play really fast paced games. That's about like having to many shrimp on your shrimp Po Boy.
DVD's look fantastic, HD quality is perfect, and the picture with the regular DirecTV signal is the best I have seen with any HD TV this size. I even keep mine on the wide setting and people don't look to squatty.
Plenty of high quality inputs.
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