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Experience the Wonders of Full HD 1080 Pictures with the BRAVIA X-Series

The BRAVIA X-Series is designed to deliver a definitive viewing experience - full HD resolution pictures and true-to-life colour. Precision colour reproduction and the very highest screen resolution combine to create a picture that seems almost alive. Stand-out features include a Full HD (1920 x 1080) LCD panel, Live Colour Creation, which uses a wide spectrum backlight (WCG-CCFL) and the newly developed BRAVIA ENGINE EX, Sony’s unique intelligent picture enhancement technology. Capable of receiving 1080p signals, the BRAVIA X-Series twin HDMI inputs will ensure compatibility with the expanding HD environment in Europe as well as with high resolution, Full HD (1920 x 1080) signals in the future.

Unlike most other TVs, the BRAVIA X-Series isn’t just HD-Ready; it’s Full HD-capable. Instead of scaled images which have been digitally reduced to fit lower-resolution panels, Full HD reproduces HD1080 picture exactly as it was transmitted. This is the key to a picture of the highest possible quality.

This power is utilised to the full even when playing normal standard definition (SD) TV. The BRAVIA ENGINE EX actually increases the resolution by a factor of up to four, doubling the number of vertical lines and horizontal pixels. The result is an unprecedented degree of detail and clarity which raises SDTV to a completely new level. That’s why Sony calls the process “Digital Reality Creation”.

The X-Series doesn’t just deliver more detail; it gives you more colours too. Using decades of Trinitron know-how, Sony redesigned the panel backlight using improved light-emitting phosphors to boost the range of red and green in the spectrum. Precision-matched RGB filters in the screen make sure the increased colour range has the maximum impact on picture quality. The effect is, literally, to bring it to life, infusing the image with the complexity and depth of the real world.

Live Colour Creation also relies in part on the remarkable power of the BRAVIA ENGINE EX to enhance the signal before it actually appears on the screen. The intensive real-time frame-by-frame digital processing carried out by the BRAVIA ENGINE EX visibly enhances colour and contrast and cleans up noise in the signal which could result in imperfections in the picture.

The screen itself is equally special. Each one is produced by the very latest 7th generation manufacturing process and features S-PVA (Super Vertical Pattern Alignment) molecular control for a wider viewing angle and colour that doesn’t fade as you move to the side. S-PVA also delivers a huge contrast ratio of 1300:1 - from dead black to pure white and everything in between. The result is detail, clarity and depth to do justice to the finest cinematography.

“The X-Series embodies exactly what the new wave of Sony TVs are all about,” says Andreas Ditter, Director, TV Operations Europe. “Technology-driven, certainly, but completely focused on only one thing: the best possible experience for the viewer. That’s all that really matters here.”

The X-Series sounds as good as it looks. Powerful integrated speakers and Dolby Pro Logic® II Virtual Surround digital signal processing fill the room with a convincing simulation of multi-channel audio. What you hear is further enhanced by BBE Digital® technology, which brings extra definition and clarity both to dialogue and the ambient soundtrack. All this is underpinned by all-digital amplification which keeps signal noise - and therefore hiss - to an absolute minimum.

All models in the range can receive free-to-air digital broadcasts via an integrated Digital TV (DVB) tuner1. External HDTV and other AV sources can be input through a wide choice of connections. Unlike many TVs, the X-Series has not one but two HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) inputs, providing an input route for a 1080p signal, not to mention essential future-proofing and convenience. In addition, there are three Scart and two Component interfaces, giving the X-Series unparalleled flexibility. Hooking up to a PC is a simple matter too, thanks to an HD15 PC graphics input. To round things off, every function is accessible using the ergonomically refined remote commander, which features enlarged frequent-use keys and relatively low key count for maximum ease of use.

BRAVIA X-Series features:
46-inch
BRAVIA ENGINE EX
S-PVA LCD
Full HD screen
Live Colour Creation
Integrated Digital TV tuner
2 x HDMI input
HD15 PC graphics input
Dolby Pro Logic II® Virtual Surround
BBE Digital®

Wide Colour Gamut
The colour gamut of a device is the portion of the visible spectrum that it can detect or reproduce. The X-Series is capable of exceptionally lifelike and natural colour thanks to its extended colour gamut, particularly in the red and green areas of the spectrum. Overall, Sony calls the process Live Colour Creation. This is achieved by a combination of digital processing in the BRAVIA ENGINE EX, a specially modified backlight, and RGB filters in the screen exactly matched to the spectrum produced by the light. The backlight itself is referred to as the WCG-CCFL, for Wide Colour Gamut Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp.

True wide angle viewing with Super PVA
Super Patterned Vertical Alignment (S-PVA) LCD panel technology is the key to the remarkably wide viewing angle of BRAVIA X-Series TVs. S-PVA provides a wider than usual viewable range of 178o, but even more importantly, it also maintains colour saturation and contrast when the screen is viewed obliquely.

A basic LCD panel (the smallest component of the display) contains a matrix of liquid crystal molecules. Rotating these molecules as a group under the influence of a local electric field allows backlight illumination to pass through or not. The cell is either open (lit) or closed (dark).

This on-off technique is applied to groups of three cells or ‘sub-pixels’, each capped by a red, blue and green filter in order to produce a single pixel which apparently changes colour depending on the relative intensities of the R, G and B sub-pixels. By varying the voltage passing through each sub-pixel to control its brightness, the range of apparent pixel colours is greatly increased. However, since light transmission is via a single chain of molecules within each sub-pixel, aligned perpendicular to the screen surface, it is highly directional. Move away from right in front of the screen, and the colour weakens and fades out.

With Patterned Vertical Alignment, the matrix of liquid crystal molecules within each sub-pixel is itself divided into discrete areas. By refining the control over the liquid crystal matrix still further, S-PVA LCD panels can split each sub-pixel into two segments. The overall viewing angle can be increased considerably by varying the orientation of each segment. Better still, instead of relying on half-open states to create a wider range of half-tone colours or greys, segments can offset each other. In this way, a grey can be created by a patterning of black and white within the sub-pixel, rather than having the whole thing set to half-open.

Black (dark) and white (lit) segments are relatively unaffected when viewed obliquely, whereas grey (half-lit) is prone to colour shift. A combination of black and white segments creates a grey minimally affected by colour shift as the viewpoint changes, increasing the stability of the image over a much wider viewing angle. This is ideal for HDTV applications, and a vital element of a superior display.

7th Generation LCDs
The BRAVIA X-Series showcases the very latest 7th generation LCD panels. The largest single ‘mother glass’ previously manufactured measured 1.5m x 1.8m, but 7th generation mother glass measures 1.87m x 2.2m, technically large enough to produce two 82-inch or eight 40-inch screens.

Inside the BRAVIA ENGINE EX
BRAVIA ENGINE EX is the high picture performance engine, which pursues reality to realise crisp and higher contrast images suitable for High Definition display by the creation of resolution for SD signals by Sony’s proprietary algorithm and reduction process for noise factor which is enhanced through the picture optimizing process.