Sony Bravia KDL-32EX523 – works better in bright rooms

Sony Bravia KDL-32EX523 is a TV having solid performance and the price quality is quite good for the price that it is offered for. This panel will compete well against the LED TVs having similar features in the market.

The connectivity options on the Sony Bravia KDL-32EX523 are fairly standard. The highlight here is the presence of four HDMI ports. There is Wi-Fi adapter included inside the panel and by doing this, the manufacturer has freed one USB port.

There are some limits to the features on the Sony Bravia KDL-32EX523 as it isn’t a high end TV. Similarly, there are some reductions in the performance too. The real shortcomings here are shadow detail, uniformity, color accuracy, and the off-axis performance. But these weaknesses aren’t unforgivable considering the price point of the panel. For best performance, I would recommend bright lighting around.

In my calibration tests, I found fine tuning on the Sony Bravia KDL-32EX523 iss a bit difficult. The problem here is that the settings are quite coarse and picture of the TV can get thrown out with even a tiny change. During my tests, I could improve default picture but it wasn’t drastic. There are settings here which you can use but you will also get image that is pretty close to the TV by just choosing Cinema 1 under option of Cinema ‘scene’.

At deep blacks, the Sony Bravia KDL-32EX523 was somewhere in the middle. The black here was deeper than other 2 Sony TVs and it was also better than some of the LG TVs out there. Samsung LND630 (which I tested some time ago) was a bit better than the Sony TV here.

For testing I watched a couple of movies and saw that the TV can lose its shadow detail easily. This TV isn’t spectacular in terms of color accuracy but again, you can’t expect the world at this price point. Things remain relatively faithful in the bright scenes but the dark ones suffer. I have tested some Sony TVs before this and they have shown some blue push during tests. However, this wasn’t seen on the 32EX523. There is a dearth of picture controls and hence it is not possible to play with the blue blacks much. The color was more natural when I went on higher spectrum but I did see that the TV kicked out blues in the brighter areas.