Take a close look at the 40Z4500 and you will notice a subtle sprinkling of deep blue specs embossed within the glossy black frame. Echoing Samsung's 'Touch of Colour' range, Sony's 'Midnight Sky' is just as subtle and equally as stylish.
The most talked about feature of Sony's KDL-40Z4500 is the ground breaking 200Hz refresh rate. Doubling the fps (frames per second) found on 100Hz enabled screens from 100 to 200 fps, this Sony does not simply repeat the same frames but intelligently calculates the intermediate images (based on before and after frames) using complicated algorithms. Each of those frames should exhibit subtle differences to reflect the almost imperceptible change in any on screen motion.
The much anticipated 200Hz feature on the 40Z4500 seems to work but it is certainly not the technological leap forward we had hoped for. Fast on screen action is fluid and precise but offers very little improvement on 100Hz systems we have reviewed. Where the Sony does improve on high refresh rate implementations is by minimizing the undesirable picture 'artefacts' that are so often generated by such systems.
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