Any hopes I might have had about starting this week gently, with a nice simple TV, were summarily dashed over the weekend as the technical difficulties I’d been having with Sony’s truly groundbreaking KDL-40ZX1 TV were sorted out. For now I no longer had any excuse for not wrestling with all of its fancy features at the earliest opportunity - i.e. today. Sigh.
Actually, to be honest, while reviewing the 40ZX1 has certainly been unusually time-consuming, the process hasn’t been completely without its pleasures. It’s certainly been fun, for instance, to see the look of wonderment on the faces of any friends, family and colleagues who happened to wander in while the TV was working. Not necessarily because of the set’s picture quality, but rather because the TV’s 40in frame sits on a body that’s for the most part just 9.9mm thick.
Yes, I really did say 9.9mm, not 9.9cm. Thanks to edge-based LED lighting technology (more on this later), the 40ZX1 is comfortably the thinnest large-screen TV the UK has ever seen. And the impact of its extreme slenderness really can’t be overstated, wowing as it does everyone from gadget hounds to my dear old 86-year-old gran.
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