Sony KDL-46S5100 Nice TV for the price!

I'm not a big TV person, so I can't compare this TV to others. I actually purchased this TV to play my PS3 on it, which is great!!!!! The games at 1080p look absolutely flawless. I can't really make a lot of comments about the functions, but there are a lot of them. Everything looks great and for the price it's great, and it's a SONY!

Three months later, here is a review update:
This is still a good TV, especially when I purchased it 3 months ago. However, over the course of 3 months the HDMI connections started doing some weird things.

My set up is very simple: HDMI 1 is connected to my Digital Cable, HDMI 2 is connected to my SONY PS3 and HDMI 3 is connected to my SONY DVD upscale player. The problems I started having was the HDMI connections weren't reading the signals sent by each component. At first I though it was the digital cable, because I stopped getting a signal. So, I had my cable company come out to my house three times and the last time they exchanged the digital DVR cable box with a new one. However, I noticed that when I turned on my DVD upscale using the "Bravia" features, I could no longer get a signal from my digital cable. So I unplugged the HDMI 1 (digital cable) and connected it to HDMI 3 (DVD upscale), then I received a cable signal. Same thing was happening to my PS3 (HDMI 2). It was like the PS3 and the DVD player kept knock'en out the cable signal.
So after hours of troubleshooting this ongoing problem, I realized, it wasn't my digital cable boxes, PS3 or DVD player, it was the TV itself and since it was over 90 days, since the day I purchased it, I couldn't return it to Wal-mart. So I called SONY and come to find out, SONY apparently knows about this problem. So SONY sent me a software update in the form of a USB drive. I received the USB drive, connected it to the back of the TV and the TV updated the software. The process took about 3 minutes and so far, everything is working fine.

I guess the biggest problem I have with this situation is that, if SONY knows this TV need a software update, why don't they recall the TV or send the software update to each store that is selling the TV, so customers don't have to go through this madness? So I wrote this review to warn customers who's buying this TV and those who brought this TV of what to expect as you connect components to this TV using the HDMI ports over time. I would also recommend buying an extended warranty, just to be safe in the long run. I would also change my rating and give it 4 stars if I could, but I can't.

Sony KDL-46S5100 Great HDTV, Great Price

Bought this for my mother-in-law. Perfect size HDTV (46") for her TV room which is about 12' x 12'. Amazon had the best price, and the delivery men were very careful bringing it into the house and installing the HDTV.

Sony KDL-46S5100 Excellent

Purchased the 46" Sony a month ago and have nothing but good things to say about it: easy to set up, sharpest picture I have ever seen, bright enough to work well in a very bright waterfront room. Definitely a buy at $1,250.

Sony KDL-46S5100 Just as advertised

Very good quality TV. Doesn't have some of the bells and whistles, like pict in pict, but very nice picture. Built in speakers are ok but would look for another way to add sound. Would recommend.

Sony KDL-46S5100 Amazing

I purchased this tv online, got a good price for it. Once I got it home it was a cinch to install. The picture and sound is amazing even without the HDMI cable. I would give more than five stars if I could. AMAZING.

Sony KDL-46S5100 great tv!!!

Set my 46V5100 up in a bedroom environment and have been wonderfully satisfied ever since. The picture is amazing, the sound quality works very well after a little simple adjustment to suite my individual preferences (base and treble) and the remote control is easy to navigate even in the dark. If the price works in what ever budget you have set than this is the TV for you.

Sony KDL-46S5100 Best Price

Got the TV about two weeks ago, and have been somewhat satisfied. It took a while to get the SD channels look "OK" (sharpness down, etc), but I have concerns over the HD quality. HD channels are pretty good except when we have dark scenes. I get a lot of ghosting which I really hate seeing on a brand new TV. We have Comcast HD in Chicago, and we have really good HDMI cables. I applied the patch the day the TV came, and turned down the auto dim, and played around with all the picture settings including brightness, picture, sharpness... Anyone experiencing the same issues? I have yet to try a DVD - I only have a standard DVD player, maybe I should get a Blu-Ray player too...

I had a Sony 42" Plasma (bought in 2004) before this and the dark scenes look much more grainy compared to my old TV on HD channels.

I do not think I will return it but any comments to correct this issue during the return period are welcome.