Sony Bravia KDL-52V5100 LCD HDTV Review - Motion

Motion Summary
• Motion smoothness good with Motionflow turned on • Significant problems with motion artifacting • Significant problems processing content to produce a film-like effect • Tests done using DisplayMate
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Motion Smoothness (7.5)

The Sony Bravia KDL-52V5100's motion performance was unimpressive initially, but improved significantly when we turned on the Motionflow feature, found in the advanced picture menu. With this option set to standard we were able to make out much more detail on complex moving objects like a face. We still did notice some motion blurring with solid patches of color and black/white bars, but significantly less than with the option turned off. We did not notice a significant improvement when turning this option onto high and did see some unpleasant effects such as faces turning cartoonish so we'd keep it on standard. Overall we'd call the KDL-52V5100's performance slightly above average in this area.

Motion Artifacting (6.0)

Artifacting refers to the appearance of items on the screen that should not be there. With the Sony Bravia KDL-52V5100 we saw some significant problems with artifacting, for example there were leading lines on some bright objects, a result of the HDTV trying to extrapolate the motion via processing. We also saw a significant shutter effect several patterns and photos, especially when feeding the HDTV a 1080i signal. Overall we'd call this performance slightly below average.

3:2 Pulldown & 24fps (6.5)

This section refers to the ability of the Sony Bravia KDL-52V5100 to reproduce the film-like effect of some content. Film is produces at 24 frames per second (fps) and the KDL-52V5100 is capable of playing back such content natively. It's also capable of identifying when broadcast content should be played back at 24fps and performing processing to produce this. Unfortunatelly the KDL-52V5100's processing in this area, known as 3:2 pulldown, was less than impressive. We noticed some significant problems with complex patterns and jitteriness when the KDL-52V5100 was doing this processing, resulting in a below average score.