But elsewhere there's little to fault the 52EX1. Its black levels are sufficiently deep and the Advanced Contrast Enhancer is efficient enough for you to sit in a very dark room and notice almost no backlight bleed from the screen, unless you shift your sitting position too far away from the centre of the panel. You can also adjust the brightness of the backlight manually if you'd rather not leave it up to the screen.

The Motionflow 100Hz technology does a fine job of eliminating judder, particularly from film content, and provided you keep its Standard setting, doesn't broadcast itself too much by adding artefacts or other oddities to the picture.

Despite the television's speakers being completely invisible from the front, they serve up an impressive amount of sound. Bass is fairly limited, but there's no distortion even when things get to their lowest and loudest, while dialogue shines through clearly.

If you're shelling out this much on a television this big you're probably planning on bolstering its built-in speakers with something a touch more capable, however, and it's definitely well worth it if movies and games are high priorities.

Overall, we found the KDL-52EX1 to be a cracking large screen that's tailored nicely for maximum convenience. Pixel-peeping performance hounds may well prefer to choose one of Sony's other models, however, because the wireless link does cause one or two minor issues.

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