String, is the clouding visible when u watch your TV at night on a "dim/dark" room? I understand u can do some calibration to reduce it when that usually involves turning the brightness down... will be interested to see how the Z series fares in this field. The clouding was the main reason why I sold my W400 away as I was driving me nuts.

Yeah, i did set my W400 to home when I had the unit. If I were to watch the TV during the day, then that unit would have scored a perfect 10.. but since I'm only at home during the night, I can definitely see the clouding even at low backlight settings. Maybe its just my luck that I get one with clouding levels that were unacceptable to me.

Oh well, glad u like your new Z series. :-)
Have fun!

40" W400.
Sold it and got myself a Panasonic 42" PY800. Pretty satisfied so far.
Not to say its perfect but at least I don't get distracted by the clouding issue anymore.

Lol, I have no idea on the power consumption... don't think it matters much since I'm not the type that turns it on the whole day.. max about 2hrs a day.

Hmm.. I gather most of your standard def materials that u want improved with the 200Mhz are those TV series that u purchase on iTunes?

This post has been edited by welwitchia: Jan 30 2009, 06:07 PM

The Black levels for the Series 9 should easily best out the Sony Z because of the LED backlight feature.