Home > Consumer Reviews > Sony Bravia KDL37V5500U 37-inch Widescreen Full HD 1080p LCD TV with Freeview and 3 Year Warranty

I'll make this short and sweet ,this TV for me is as good as it gets. The SD freeview is the best I have ever seen and the HD picture quality is totally stunning. Also there is plenty of adjustment to get the picture to your own personal preference.

Was really pleased with this product, from delivery to setting it up. The TV arrived within two days and in perfect condition. Setting up freeview took about 20mins, and was simple enough to do without the user manual. Picture is fantastic and sound crystal clear. When using my Sony Blu-ray player the picture is out of this world!!!
It is best to keep the TV on standby after setting up your freeview as I found out when i switched the TV of at the mains, and had to set the freeview up again. Apart from that great buy! worth every penny! I am a very happy customer!!

Had this TV for a few weeks now.
Want to say at the start that I'm pretty pleased with it but there were a couple of dissapointments.

I've connected the TV using the eithernet connector to my home network, I have movies stored on a file server not next to the TV.

You cannot stream movies from the remote server to the TV using the TV as the control device (apparently you can if the remote server is a PS3 but I cannot confirm that). You can stream MP3's though and view pictures from the remote server.

The TV whilst it does have VGA input for a PC, does not have PC sound input, so the PC I had connected to the TV could play movies, but I had to connect the external speakers to the PC, rather than have them on the TV - not ideal.

I got around this particular problem but using a different PC that had HDMI output, which does both video and sound. Using this set up I can watch movies stored on my PC (or the network) on the TV.

Having the TV connected to the network is a bit of a gimmic, and on reflection probably not worth having. The widgets you can have on the screen as rather like the gadgets you get with Windows Vista - e.g. weather reports. They don't overlay the picture but the TV program reduces in size to allow them their own space. This is not a feature I've found much use for.

On the plus side the Freeview reception is far better than my last LCD Freeview TV (a Wharfdale). We now get loads of freeview channels - so many that I'm considering cancelling my cable subscription.

Picture quality is better on the Freeview than on Cable as well. Sound quality is OK, but we tend to use external speakers.

Not tried the HD facilities yet as we do not currently have a blue ray player.

Overall though I am well pleased with this TV.

Spent ages looking for a new TV and finally settled on this one after bein messed about by John Lewis always going out of stock!!

In regards to the TV I can't fault it, great sound, perfect picture quality. My Xbox games look fantastic on it! Absolutely fantastic product.

The only problem I had is with Amazon. They offer an express delivery option, which guarentees it's delivery by next day at 1pm if you order before a certain time. So I duly paid my £8.80 to get my TV asap, only to find it wouldn't be here for 3 days!!! After contacting Amazon it turns out if the boxed weight exceeds 20Kg (the tv is 22Kg) it does not qualify for this option. To their credit they did refund my P&P, but it was still annoying as I could of gone to a shop and bought it for the same price and got it sooner!!

DO NOT CHOOSE EXPRESS DELIVERY AT £8.80 AS THIS ITEM IS TOO HEAVY AND NOT ELIGIBLE FOR THIS OPTION!

First of all let me say that the actual tv itself is the usual excellent sony product with great picture and sound, a perfect size for me at 37", and the menu system works well when you get used to it.

Now the sad bit. This machine is marketed as being ultra connectable with the internet and with the DLNA standard supposedly making it interconnectable with a home theatre setup. As far as the internet goes you cannot even connect without connecting by lan from your computer to get the EPG if you have a service such as virgin or sky. When you do connect you find it was hardly worth the bother as all you get are stuff like calender and time, whats the point? I have virgin cable and whilst the initial setup works fine through the AV port you must use the service dedicated remote to control. As far as DLNA you must have all Sony peripherals such as dvd recorder and blue ray. Note - when you are setting up be sure to set the tv to the AV port that you have plugged into your virgin or sky box.

If you have a freeview ariel and connect by coax you can recieve the free view chanels and connect to the internet where you can download the electronic programme guide and some widgets (pretty dissappointing) In reality you wont want to bother with this as all the programmes worth having and more are available through you virgin or sky service

Again the usb port seems only to recognise a few devices and so far for me they are only sony.

To sum up it is a great tv but its major selling points over the cheaper "s" model are simply useless if you subscribe to a cable or dish supplier. I am not sure if the "V" series has any picture enhancements over the "S" series.