Sony's cheapest streaming-video TV reviewed

Sony KDL-W5100

(Credit: Sarah Tew)

This year most major TV makers are using interactive features to distinguish themselves from the others, and unlike differences in black level performance and off-angle viewing, it's easy for shoppers to tell the various interactive add-ons apart. Whether they actually want said add-ons is another question.

Sony's KDL-W5100 series represents the company's most affordable attempt at interactive TV, although it still costs a few hundred more than the entry-level Internet-ready sets from its competitors. Sony does offer a lot of extras, however, including select Yahoo widgets, scads of streaming Web video (much of it pretty niche), Amazon Video on Demand, YouTube, Shoutcast, and, coming soon, Netflix. The latter will propel the W5100 and other interactive Sony series past the current content-on-TV champ, LG's LH50 series, in the add-on arms race. Meanwhile the W5100 delivers better picture quality than most standard LCDs out there, making it a well-rounded package if you have the extra cash and really want streaming video on your TV.

Read the full review of the Sony KDL-W5100 series.

Sony KDL-W5100 series--photos

[play7]

MADE IN CHINA......................... NO THANK YOU

[mogley2005]

Wow that is the most ignorant comment I have ever seen. You do realize that every single TV made has parts made in China, Taiwan or Korea right? Even RCA, which is probably the last American-esk brand out there uses Chinese parts....oh and play7 the computer you wrote your comment on was also MADE IN CHINA

[play7]

Laughs no its not its just fact. Infact Sony pulled its screen production out of China for that same reason.......