Construction & Equipment:
The construction done almost without saying. The interior of the package is also almost odorless and represents no comparison is to the example malodorous packaging of Toshiba. After the light stand was placed on the floor, can be about putting the TV comfortably and consolidates on the stand with a screw on the device. But even without this screw remains the TV even with strong contact in its horizontal position and does not fall out of the holder. The slim and reduced phenomenon is unfortunately underlined at the sides by some minor inputs & outputs. So one finds only two HDMI inputs, one at the present time but superfluous SCART input and the usual USB port - a USB HDD recording is not possible, however. So it was really worried only for the bare necessities.
Picture & Sound:
Yes, the picture is generally brilliant with all devices from Sony. Together with the direct LED backlighting and Motionflow XR everything is represented absolutely smooth and highly detailed faithful before. The sound offers as usual diverse settings and gives the ears realistic and approachable sports experiences, as well as other and if that should not be enough for the waiting Ultimately the digital audio output for your own home theater system.
Conclusion:
Together with the visual appearance, a brilliant picture, the balanced sound and the sophisticated menu of KDL-40R470 is a wonderful device to get started. It is designed for watching TV and DVD / Blu-ray and these areas are justified freely defects each claim. In fact, you need to still worry about the lack of 3D technology make because this is probably only really interesting when no glasses are required. Similarly, the renunciation Internet is hardly worth mentioning if one holds no own claim to the media libraries of the public. Because otherwise, in the field of the meaningful use of the Internet still largely vague. Deduction there because of improper packaging.
