Sony KV 28LS 35

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It is a Sony KV28LS35 and we paid £915 for the television, a video recorder and a DVD player all in a purpose built cabinet.

So, finally, I’ll actually tell you something about the television! About time too, don’t you think?

The whole package arrived in numerous huge, very well packed boxes, and the first job was to construct the stand and put all the appliances on the correct shelves. Dave did have to pop back ...
...room. I’m told it’s the Sony Trinitron Tube design that does it, so there you are!

As for the actual appearance of the TV, it is silver in colour and designed with the minimum of lines or fuss about it, which suits us as we are trying to recreate a Victorian feel in the room (the house was built in 1896) and so we wanted the TV to be as plain as possible. We’ll eventually house in some sort of cabinet but for now we didn’t want some ... more

As most of you already know we moved house in July of this year, but what you won’t know is that about six months before that the switch on our old television broke. Dave’s immediate reaction was – lets get a new television – he had by longing to get an up to date TV for ages!

I pointed out that, since we were moving house, it was a bit daft to get a new TV to suit the lounge in the old house, when it might not look right in the new house. The real clincher however was when I reminded him that the new lounge might be larger than the current one and thus he could choose a larger TV! Well, that did it, we fixed the switch on the old TV so that it was permanently ‘on’ and switched the set on and off at the wall.

When we moved into our new house there was some building work to be done on our lounge as it had been partitioned and used as two bedrooms by the previous owners who ran a bed and breakfast establishment, so the purchase of the new television had to wait.

I will say at this point we have a portable in the bedroom – I couldn’t do without my Corrie Street and Eastenders!

Once the building work was complete and even before the decorating began we set off in search of the dream TV!!

After much deliberation and discussion we found the one we wanted in Currys.

It is a Sony KV28LS35 and we paid £915 for the television, a video recorder and a DVD player all in a purpose built cabinet.

So, finally, I’ll actually tell you something about the television! About time too, don’t you think?

The whole package arrived in numerous huge, very well packed boxes, and the first job was to construct the stand and put all the appliances on the correct shelves. Dave did have to pop back to Currys at this point as the cabinet had arrived with two right hand doors and obviously we needed to swap one for a left hand door! Incidentally the only left hand door they had got was on the display model, so if you go in Currys in Llandudno and see a TV cabinet with only one door – we’ve got the other one!

Anyway once the cabinet was complete the TV had to be lifted (no mean feat!), placed on the top and slotted into two retaining bracket things to hold it firm. There is also a strap at the back of the TV, which is then attached to the back of the cabinet to stop the TV accidentally rolling forward off the stand if it were to get knocked.

So now we needed to set the thing up so that we could watch it. No problem – it has an automatic set up facility! I leave this sort of thing to Dave, as he is more technically minded than I am, but even I could have coped with this.

The only thing to ‘fine tune’ was the sound - bass, treble and balance are all adjustable, and picture - contrast, brightness, colour, sharpness and hue are the adjustments for this. So basically you customise the picture and sound to your own requirements.

Whilst we are on the subject of sound, this is where the real clever part of this TV comes into play.

We had discussed the possibility of having a surround sound TV but had decided against it as we didn’t want the speakers round the room, so we went for the next best thing with this TV as it has Virtual Dolby Surround.

I have to admit that I didn’t expect the effect to be anywhere near as good as surround sound would have been but I was wrong! I often sit in the lounge watching TV and think that someone has walked into the room behind me, because I can hear the sound all round the room. It’s quite weird sometimes especially if there’s a scene on TV in crowded pub or something of that ilk – I feel like I’m in the middle of it all, sadly without a drink! Shucks!

The TV itself is a 28” widescreen, Dave wanted a big one and I talked him down to this size, and it’s a flat screen, which makes it comfortable to view from anywhere in the room. I’m told it’s the Sony Trinitron Tube design that does it, so there you are!

As for the actual appearance of the TV, it is silver in colour and designed with the minimum of lines or fuss about it, which suits us as we are trying to recreate a Victorian feel in the room (the house was built in 1896) and so we wanted the TV to be as plain as possible. We’ll eventually house in some sort of cabinet but for now we didn’t want some big fussy looking monster on show!

The remote control is pretty standard although quite long and thin, but easy enough to use, which is what you want after all.

So in conclusion I would thoroughly recommend this TV – the sound and picture quality are superb.

We do have one problem though – our signal comes from across the Menai Straits on Anglesey and the picture quality does deteriorate when the tide is going out!!! I suppose that’s the price we have to pay for living by the sea and it is the conditions and not the TV that are at fault.

UPDATE

I forgot to return to this opinion at the time and let you know that we are now picture perfect!

It was our new digital aerial that was at fault and it has now been sorted and the picture is superb, whichever way the tide is flowing!

 

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