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Video Features
Audio Features
PC/USB/Network Functions
Convenience Features
Remote Control
Mounting Options
Video
Features
NTSC/ATSC/QAM Tuners: The TV is
equipped with an analog NTSC tuner, a digital ATSC/8VSB tuner, and a digital QAM
tuner for receiving unscrambled digital cable channels. It is not CableCARD
compatible. You do not need to connect an external HDTV set-top box in order to
receive High-Definition programming.
Native Resolution: The
KDL-40XBR9 has a full HD native resolution of 1920 x 1080 with over 2 million
pixels (more than twice the pixels of 720p HDTV). The TV's four HDMI inputs can
accept 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p and 1080/24p signals, and the two component video
inputs can accept 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i and 1080p signals. All video signals from standard definition and high
definition are upconverted to 1080p.
4 HDMI Inputs: The
KDL-40XBR9 features four HDMI
inputs (1 Rear/3 Side). The HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface)
terminals provide an uncompressed, all-digital audio/video interface. The HDMI inputs
will accept 1080/24p, 1080p, 1080i, 720p, 480p, and 480i signals. The
rear-panel HDMI input has
left and right RCA audio jacks. With an HDMI-to-DVI cable, you can
connect the TV to a DVI-equipped A/V component. When connecting to a
DVI-equipped component, the RCA audio inputs are used and separate RCA audio
cable must be connected.
24pTrue Cinema (24p Input Capability): Many movies are filmed at 24 frames per second
(fps) and prime time TV programs are video taped 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 input capability via HDMI on this television
producing images that are smooth and natural looking.
Deep Color Compatible: Deep color expands the colors on the
display from millions to billions to provide exceptional vividness and color
accuracy. Deep Color defines colors by using an algorithm that can specify any
color that is found in nature. Deep Color gets rid of on-screen color banding,
for tonal transitions that are smooth and graduations of color that are very
subtle. It enables increased contrast ratio, and can represent many times more
shades of gray between black and white (Requires Deep Color capable video
source).
x.v.Color Technology: x.v.Color technology takes HDTV color
expression to new levels. When connected to x.v.Color capable video sources,
Bravia XBR9-Series HDTVs can display nearly twice as many (1.8x) viewable colors
as the existing RGB color standard, resulting in more natural, life-like images.
2 Component Video Inputs: The two
component video inputs will accept 1080p, 1080i, 720p, 480p, and 480i signals.
The Component Video 1 input also allows you to connect composite video (480i
only).
10-Bit Processor And Panel: Sony combines 10-bit processing
with a 10-bit panel, allowing 64 times the levels of color expression. What that
translates to is smoother transitions from color to color and subtle color
changes faithfully reproduced without a paint-by-numbers look.
Bravia Engine 3 Technology: Bravia Engine 3 is the newest
fully digital video processor from Sony. It uses a collection of enhanced
algorithms to significantly reduce noise, enhance overall image detail, and
optimize contrast so every scene produces sharp, vibrant, life-like images
Motionflow 240Hz Technology:
Motionflow 240Hz technology is Sony's highest level of motion detail and clarity
so you enjoy unprecedented motion detail in sports, movies and games. Motionflow
240Hz technology quadruples the frame rate, resulting in a crisp fluid motion
and a natural, realistic viewing experience. This feature has a High, Standard,
and Off setting.
Live Color Creation with WCG-CCFL Backlight: Live Color
Creation technology works with the Bravia XBR9-Series' WCG-CCFL (Wide Color
Gamut - Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp) backlight to achieve wide color
reproduction for more natural and vibrant colors. The technology combines
advanced chroma signal processing with enhanced filters and purer light to
reproduce 105 percent of the NTSC (National Television System Committee) color
standard. This means deeper reds and greens with overall color that is truer and
more life-like.
Advanced Contrast Enhancer (ACE) With Dynamic Backlight Control:
This powerful combination of features adjusts the brightness of the backlight
both to optimize image quality and reduce power consumption. It works in real
time, controlling bright outdoor images and dark interior shots scene-by-scene
for better video quality and a reduction in power use. Sony's Advanced
Contrast Enhancer (ACE) builds on the TV's excellent on-contrast ratio
performance of 3,800:1. A Dynamic
Contrast Ratio of up to 100,000:1 is achieved by using real-time image processing
to adjust the contrast along with optimizing backlight levels.
Screen Modes: You can choose
from the following Screen Modes:
- 4:3 Default:
- Wide Zoom: Enlarges
the center portion of the 4:3 picture proportionately, while the left
and right edges of the screen are stretched to fill the screen.
- Normal: Displays the
4:3 picture in its original size with black bars at the left and right
sides to fill the screen.
- Full: Stretches the
entire 4:3 picture horizontally only to fill the screen.
- Zoom: Enlarges the
entire 4:3 picture proportionately to fill the screen (useful for
watching Letterbox movies) .
- 16:9 Wide Mode:
- Wide Zoom: Enlarges
the picture to fill the screen with minimal distortion.
- Normal: Displays a 4:3
picture in its original aspect ratio when the original source is 4:3.
- Full: Displays the
picture at its original size.
- H Stretch: Enlarges the picture horizontally to fill the
screen when the original source is 16:9; it is also useful for HD
channels with 4:3 content.
- Zoom: Enlarges the
picture proportionately, both vertically and horizontally.
- Auto Wide: Automatically
changes screen settings base upon incoming video signal and content.
Screen Settings: The Sony
LCD TV offers the following screen adjustments.
- Screen Position:
You
can adjust both the vertical and horizontal positioning of the picture on
the screen.
- Vertical Size: Adjust
the vertical size of a standard-definition picture.
- Display Area:
- Full Pixel: Displays the picture for 1080, 1080p or 1080/24p sources in its original
size.
- Normal: Displays
the picture in its original size.
- -1/-2: Enlarges
the picture to hide the edges of the picture.
Picture Mode: You can select
one of the following picture modes:
- For Video:
- Vivid: Enhances picture
contrast and sharpness.
- Standard: Displays a
standard picture for typical viewing environments.
- Cinema: Used to view
film-base content; suitable for viewing in a theater-like environment.
- Custom: Allows you to
store your preferred settings for Backlight, Picture, Brightness, Color,
Hue, Color Temperature, Sharpness, Noise and MPEG Noise Reduction.
- For Photo:
- Vivid:
Enhances picture
contrast and sharpness.
- Standard: Displays a
standard picture for typical viewing environments.
- Original:
Images resemble the printed pictures from your photo
album.
- Custom:
Allows you to store your preferred settings for
Backlight, Picture, Brightness, Color, Hue, Color Temperature, and Sharpness.
- For PC:
- Video: Enhances the video shown on the screen.
- Text: Enhances the text shown on the screen.
Advanced Video Settings: In
addition to the Picture mode, the Advanced Video Settings menu also features the
following:
- Black Corrector: Enhances black
areas of the picture for stronger contrast.
- Gamma:
Adjusts
the balance between bright and dark areas of the picture.
- Clear White: Emphasizes
white and light colors.
- Wide Color: Selects the range of color reproduction from Wide or
Standard.
- Live Color: Makes colors
more vivid and reproduces clear skin tones.
- White Balance: Adjust the
color temperature color by color.
CineMotion:
Automatically detects film-based content and applies an inverse 3-2
pull-down process and a motion estimation engine to improve film content and
de-interlacing performance. There are three settings.
- Auto 1: Applies an inverse 3-2 pull-down process along with
motion estimation to obtain the smoothest picture quality and reduces
artifacts of moving images. Select for standard use.
- Auto 2: Applies only the inverse 3-2 pull-down process. Picture
movement will be similar to the original film.
- Off: Turns off CineMotion.
Picture Adjustment Lock: This function prevents the
television's Picture Settings from being changed.
Audio Features
Sound Settings: The Sound Settings menu
allow you to make the following adjustments:
- Sound Mode: You can customize the
bass and treble or use one of the two preset sound modes:
- Dynamic: Enhances both treble and
bass.
- Standard: Suitable for spoken
dialogue.
- Clear Voice: Suitable for spoken dialogue.
- Custom: Allows you to customize sound settings with
adjustable EQ curves (Bass, Treble and Balance).
- S-FORCE Front Surround: S-FORCE front
surrounds provides a virtual surround experience made possible using just
two front speakers. When turned off, the normal stereo or mono reception
resumes.
- Sound Enhancer: Adjusts high frequencies to improve sound clarity
for compressed content such as MP3 files.
- Sound Booster: Sound Booster provides
a fuller sound with greater depth and width by emphasizing the high and low
frequency sounds. You can select High or Low for the amount of boost you
desire.
- Voice Zoom: Adjusts the clarity of
human voices by emphasizing or softening vocals.
- Steady Sound: Steady Sound equalizes
volume levels so there is consistent output between programs and
commercials.
- Volume Offset: Adjusts the volume
level of the current input (TV or video input) relative to other inputs.
Analog Audio Outputs: These stereo RCA audio jacks allow you to
listen to the TV's audio through your stereo system. In the menu you can set the
output to Fixed (volume controlled by the receiver/amplifier) or Variable
(volume controlled by the TV's remote control) operation.
Digital Audio Output: Optical
digital output that connect to the optical digital input of your digital audio
equipment that is PCM/Dolby Digital compatible. Dolby Digital Audio signal from
the HDMI input will be output as PCM.
PC/USB/Network Functions
Bravia Internet Video:
Bravia Internet Video serves as a gateway delivering select Internet
content and a variety of on-demand entertainment straight to your
Bravia TV through its ethernet
connection from your home's network connection. With Bravia Internet Video you
can enjoy one of the largest collections of premium and free on-demand
entertainment directly on the Sony LCD TV through its ethernet (LAN) port. You
can use your in-home broadband connection and the television's remote control to
access online video, music, and more content from over 20 providers including
NetFlix, Amazon Video On Demand, YouTube, Sports Illustrated, Sony Pictures, Sony Music,
Slacker, and Epicurious.com. You can even personalize your viewing experience by
selecting, positioning, and resizing widgets on the Sony TV's display. Bravia
widgets are small icons that can be accessed with the touch of one button (from
the remote) providing you with the latest in news, stocks, weather, sports, and
much more right on the Bravia XBR-Series HDTV.
Note: Broadband connection with at least 2.5 Mbps is recommended.
DLNA Capability: DLNA stands for the Digital Living Network Alliance,
an Industry Standard Networking Capability supported by leading companies in the
consumer electronics industry that allows DLNA compliant products to work with
one another. This TV is a DLNA Certified digital media photo player that can
display JPEG photo content from your DLNA Certified networked computer. Using
the television's rear-panel Ethernet port, a DLNA-enabled PC can be accessed
from the comfort of your living room or family room via the KDL-40XBR9, where
you can enjoy JPEG digital photos, MP3 music, and MPEG2 video stored on your PC with friends and family, without having
to view them on your computer.
USB Port: The TV offers easy access to JPEG photos, MPEG2
video, and MP3 music files
stored on a Sony digital camera/camcorder connected via USB interface or Sony Micro Vault
USB flash drives through its side-panel High Speed USB type-A port. Photos can be
viewed as a Slideshow with or without music or in an Thumbnail view with up to
60 images at one time. Photos can also be rotated 180-degrees. You can select
playback of a single video file or have all video files played in order,
repeated, or in random. Music files can
be played repeatedly or in a random order. You can also view factory preset
visual effects during MP3 audio playback.
Note: Sony does not guarantee or assure the USB functionality on
this TV in the following cases - Use of non-Sony brand USB equipment, Use of
video or audio clips process on a computer, Use of files obtained from the
Internet or from a printed film processing center.
PC Compatible: The television
can be used as a monitor for your PC through the TV's RGB HD-15 input or HDMI
input. The TV supports the following PC resolutions - VGA, SVGA, XGA, WXGA, SXGA
and HDTV. You can adjust Phase, Pitch, Horizontal and Vertical Position and Wide
Mode of picture.
PC Input (RGB): A side-panel 15-pin HD15
jack allows you to connect your personal computer to the display. There is also
a corresponding stereo mini-jack (3.5mm) for the computer's audio signal.
Bravia Link Compatibility: Bravia Link compatibility expands the Sony
television's capabilities by letting you connect optional Sony Bravia Link
modules, including the Bravia DVD Link, Bravia Wireless Link, and Bravia Input
Link (all sold separately).
Convenience Features
Xross Media Bar (XMB) Interface: Sony's award-winning Xross Media Bar provides a
logical and fast way to access set up menus, user controls, and more. The
on-screen display comes to life by pushing the XMB menu button on the remote.
Navigation through the menus is smooth and fast.
TV Guide: Sony has integrated the TV Guide Interactive
Program Guide into the exclusive Xross Media Bar (XMB) user interface to deliver
regularly updated program listings via your existing Internet connection (with
no subscription fees or phone connection required).
Favorites:
Using
this feature, you can manage your preferred TV
channels, External Inputs, Photo content, Music content, Video content, Internet
content, Widgets, and Background TV themes
for easy access.
Background TV: Background TV displays images of
current video on your TV that are similar to a screen saver. Background TV is
available from the Cable/Antenna, Composite, Component, or HDMI input.
Label Channels:
This feature allows you to assign labels such as station call letter to the
channel numbers. You can use up to seven characters.
Input Label: Each of the television's inputs (except PC) can be labeled with names (DVD,
Cable Box, Satellite, BD, VCR, Receiver, DVR, Game, Camcorder or PC) instead of
video 1, video 2, video 3, etc.
Caption Vision/Info
Banner: This feature allows Closed Caption and/or channel programming
information to be displayed on the TV screen. You can choose from CC1, CC2, CC3,
CC4, Text1, Text2, Text3 and Text4. Digital Channel's Closed Captions can be
customized. You can select Text-type, Character-size, Character-style,
Character-color, Character-opacity, Edge-type, Edge-color, Background-color and
Background-opacity.
Parental Control: You can
select a viewing limitation based on the TV and movie ratings. Three presets are
available (Child, Youth, and Y. Adult) or the limitation can be customized to
specific industry ratings. The control is accessed and protected by a 4-digit
password.
Timers: There is one event
timer and a sleep timer built in. The event timer is set for the day, time, channel, duration
and volume. The sleep timer switches the television off
after a specified amount of time. The sleep timer can be set to 15, 30, 45, 60,
90, or 120 minutes.
ENERGY STAR 3.0 Certified: Sony XBR-series HDTVs exceed ENERGY STAR 3.0 requirements by incorporating advanced power saving features such as Light Sensor technology that adjusts backlight intensity based on ambient room lighting conditions, Dynamic Backlight Control that adjusts backlight intensity
based on the brightness of the image on the screen, and PC Power Management.
- Backlight: This feature reduces the power consumption
by turning off the backlight.
- Light Sensor: In the menu, you can activate the
automatic picture brightness control. A light sensor measures the amount of
ambient light in the room and adjusts the picture brightness level
accordingly. You can select amount of auto-backlight reduction (High,
Medium, or Low).
- Idle TV Standby: This feature automatically powers off the TV
after 1, 2, or 3 hours when no buttons are pressed on the remote control or
the TV.
- PC Power Management: This feature automatically places
the television in Standby mode when there is not signal input for more than
30 seconds.
Remote Control
Illuminated Wireless Remote
Control: The TV comes supplied with an illuminated IR wireless remote
control (RM-YD029). The remote control can be programmed to operate other
equipment and is pre-programmed to operate the following Sony Equipment: DVD
Player, A/V Receiver, and Digital Satellite Box.
BRAVIA Sync: This TV is equipped with
BRAVIA Sync, an HDMI Control function that allows
communication between Sony TVs and other Sony equipment when
they are connected via HDMI. Once the supported equipment is
connected, the following operations are available:
- Turn off the equipment
automatically when you turn off the TV
- When the connected
equipment is turned on by One-Touch-Play, the TV will
automatically turn on and select the respective HDMI
input
- Automatically turn on
equipment listed under the External Inputs on the XMB
when selected
- Camcorder transport control
- When a Sony A/V receiver
with BRAVIA Sync is connected the following
additional operations are possible:
- Turning on the A/V
receiver when the TV is turned on
- Automatically
switching the A/V receiver's
input to the TV
- Adjust the volume
and muting of the A/V receiver with the TV's remote
control
Mounting Options
Tabletop Stand: The display comes supplied with a tabletop
pedestal stand which must be attached using the supplied hardware. The
television weighs 43.9 lbs with the stand attached.
Optional Wall Mount Brackets: The stand can be removed,
allowing you to wall-mount the TV using an optional wall-mount bracket. The TV
has 4 threaded screw holes with a horizontal spacing of 11-3/4" (300mm) and a
vertical spacing of 11-3.4" (300mm). The screw holes all accept M6 (6mm) screws.
The TV weighs 37.9 lbs without the stand.
