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Rick Rizner
The Sony KLV-21SG2 LCD TV is the easiest to set up of the five models we reviewed--mainly because of its sensible default settings. Colors were a bit oversaturated--this was especially visible in the slightly-too-rosy glow of people's faces--but simply turning the color saturation down a few notches produced an optimal image for the Pirates of the Caribbean DVD and a sampling of IMAX movies recorded in the Windows Media High-Definition Video format. Other settings, such as brightness and contrast, were acceptable at their default levels. Most other TVs needed some serious tweaking to produce optimal images.
You can customize screen and sound settings for each input source. When we switched to a standard NTSC TV signal, we lowered the color level a bit more and pushed the hue a few notches into the green range for better accuracy in skin tones.
With a native 4:3 aspect ratio, the Sony is particularly good at displaying standard television, as it doesn't produce the distortion inherent in stretching...