Sony KDL-42W829B
Improve everything you watch
Experience stunning picture quality—from Blu-ray Discs and regular TV broadcasts to web videos and smartphone clips. Sony unique processing engine analyses, cleans and refines images for beautiful results, with dramatically reduced picture noise for the truest quality of Full HD.
It’s better in Blu-ray
Blockbusters to vintage films—they all look their best in Blu-ray format. The Green Hornet™ – Now available on Blu-ray™
Play for real
Every gaming environment becomes more immersive and more intense with richly rendered scenes in Full HD.
Vivid streaming video
Get the most out of streaming content and videos from popular sources like Netflix and YouTube™, with enhanced clarity and reduced picture noise.
Great memories, amazing photos
Share your pictures on the big screen with family and friends; the enhanced size brings out detail you never knew was there.
Your most immersive 3D entertainment
Watch 3D films on Blu-ray, 3D TV broadcasts, and web videos with finely detailed 3D images, all with a more natural depth of field.
Smoother on-screen movement
Enjoy a silk-smooth on-screen look in fast-moving action sequences with Motionflow XR technology.
Made to listen
ClearAudio+
Make your listening as lifelike as your viewing. ClearAudio+ fine-tunes TV sound for an immersive, emotionally enriching experience that seems to surround you. Hear music, dialogue and surround effects with greater clarity and separation, whatever you’re watching.
S-Force Front Surround
Processing audio signals to create an immersive listening experience. Direct multi-channel processing ensures realistically clear, powerful 360 ̊surround sound.
Clear Phase
Fine-tunes TV speakers’ frequency response for smoother, more balanced reproduction of all frequencies—lows, mids and highs.
Voice Zoom
Dialogue and speech are clearer and easier to understand, even when other background sounds are loud or distracting.
Bigger, better bass
Bass Reflex Speaker
Hear more from a compact speaker box with intense, focused sound. The bass reflex speaker produces clear, rich sounds from crisp highs to extended lows. The isolated box design ensures highly efficient sound reproduction, for clarity and detail.
One-Flick Entertainment
Control your world of content with BRAVIA’s quick and intuitive interface. Flick through TV channels, recommended videos, photos on your network, or even Internet content like YouTube or Video Unlimited2. Find your favourite content instantly with quick TV start-up and speedy app launch.
Watch together from miles apart
Share the moment with the world.
It’s all about the fun of sharing. Enhance your viewing experience by seeing tweets from and talking with friends and family through Skype™. Sony’s unique echo cancelling ensures clear conversations while you’re in front of the screen.
For all football addicts
More than a stadium surround experience.
Get the match-day experience. Live Football Mode automatically adjusts sound settings so they're closer to an authentic stadium experience. The sleek new interface even integrates news and highlights from various sources, including FIFA.
Fine-tuned sound
It sounds real—because it is.
Sony actually measures and analyses sound in a real football stadium. The result? You hear the roar of the crowd as if you are there.
Excitement on demand
Find it fast with Quick Launcher
Your choice of enhanced football content is right here for the choosing: glory days from the FIFA World Cup™ History, current YouTube videos and much more
You are one press away from amazing
Use One-Flick, or conventional remote.
Whichever remote is in your hand, one click into the Live Football Mode gives you easy access to expanded content, such as videos from YouTube or FIFIA™.
Sony Entertainment Network
See what’s out there
It’s all here – explore the Sony Entertainment Network and find films, catch-up TV, music and more. Please note: service availability depends on country.
Experience stunning picture quality—from Blu-ray Discs and regular TV broadcasts to web videos and smartphone clips. Sony unique processing engine analyses, cleans and refines images for beautiful results, with dramatically reduced picture noise for the truest quality of Full HD.
It’s better in Blu-ray
Blockbusters to vintage films—they all look their best in Blu-ray format. The Green Hornet™ – Now available on Blu-ray™
Play for real
Every gaming environment becomes more immersive and more intense with richly rendered scenes in Full HD.
Vivid streaming video
Get the most out of streaming content and videos from popular sources like Netflix and YouTube™, with enhanced clarity and reduced picture noise.
Great memories, amazing photos
Share your pictures on the big screen with family and friends; the enhanced size brings out detail you never knew was there.
Your most immersive 3D entertainment
Watch 3D films on Blu-ray, 3D TV broadcasts, and web videos with finely detailed 3D images, all with a more natural depth of field.
Smoother on-screen movement
Enjoy a silk-smooth on-screen look in fast-moving action sequences with Motionflow XR technology.
Made to listen
ClearAudio+
Make your listening as lifelike as your viewing. ClearAudio+ fine-tunes TV sound for an immersive, emotionally enriching experience that seems to surround you. Hear music, dialogue and surround effects with greater clarity and separation, whatever you’re watching.
S-Force Front Surround
Processing audio signals to create an immersive listening experience. Direct multi-channel processing ensures realistically clear, powerful 360 ̊surround sound.
Clear Phase
Fine-tunes TV speakers’ frequency response for smoother, more balanced reproduction of all frequencies—lows, mids and highs.
Voice Zoom
Dialogue and speech are clearer and easier to understand, even when other background sounds are loud or distracting.
Bigger, better bass
Bass Reflex Speaker
Hear more from a compact speaker box with intense, focused sound. The bass reflex speaker produces clear, rich sounds from crisp highs to extended lows. The isolated box design ensures highly efficient sound reproduction, for clarity and detail.
One-Flick Entertainment
Control your world of content with BRAVIA’s quick and intuitive interface. Flick through TV channels, recommended videos, photos on your network, or even Internet content like YouTube or Video Unlimited2. Find your favourite content instantly with quick TV start-up and speedy app launch.
Watch together from miles apart
Share the moment with the world.
It’s all about the fun of sharing. Enhance your viewing experience by seeing tweets from and talking with friends and family through Skype™. Sony’s unique echo cancelling ensures clear conversations while you’re in front of the screen.
For all football addicts
More than a stadium surround experience.
Get the match-day experience. Live Football Mode automatically adjusts sound settings so they're closer to an authentic stadium experience. The sleek new interface even integrates news and highlights from various sources, including FIFA.
Fine-tuned sound
It sounds real—because it is.
Sony actually measures and analyses sound in a real football stadium. The result? You hear the roar of the crowd as if you are there.
Excitement on demand
Find it fast with Quick Launcher
Your choice of enhanced football content is right here for the choosing: glory days from the FIFA World Cup™ History, current YouTube videos and much more
You are one press away from amazing
Use One-Flick, or conventional remote.
Whichever remote is in your hand, one click into the Live Football Mode gives you easy access to expanded content, such as videos from YouTube or FIFIA™.
Sony Entertainment Network
See what’s out there
It’s all here – explore the Sony Entertainment Network and find films, catch-up TV, music and more. Please note: service availability depends on country.
Technical details
- Colour of product
- Black
- Mobile High-Definition Link (MHL)
- Y
Networking
- Ethernet LAN
- Y
- Wi-Fi
- Y
- Wi-Fi Direct
- Y
TV tuner
- Tuner type
- Analogue & Digital
- Analog signal format system
- NTSC 3.58, NTSC 4.43, PAL, SECAM
- Digital signal format system
- DVB-C, DVB-S, DVB-S2, DVB-T, DVB-T2
- Auto channel search
- Y
Ports & interfaces
- HDMI ports quantity
- 4
- HDCP
- Y
- PC in (D-Sub)
- N
- USB 2.0 ports quantity
- 2
- Component video (YPbPr/YCbCr) in
- 1
- Composite video in
- 1
- Audio Return Channel (ARC)
- Y
- SCART ports quantity
- 1
- DVI port
- N
- Audio (L,R) in
- 1
- Headphone outputs
- 1
- Digital audio optical out
- 1
- RF ports quantity
- 1
- Ethernet LAN (RJ-45) ports
- 1
- Common interface Plus (CI+)
- Y
- CardBus PCMCIA slots quantity
- 1
Security
- Parental control
- Y
Management features
- Electronic Programme Guide (EPG)
- Y
- Smart modes
- Cinema, Game, Hotel, Personal, Photo, Sports, Standard, Vivid
- On/Off timer
- Y
- Sleep timer
- Y
- On Screen Display (OSD)
- Y
- On Screen Display (OSD) languages
- BUL, CRO, CZE, DAN, DEU, DUT, ENG, ESP, EST, FIN, FRE, GRE, HEB, HUN, ITA, LAV, LIT, NOR, POL, POR, RUM, RUS, SER, SLK, SLV, SWE, TUR, UKR
- Handheld remote control
- Y
- Picture-and-Picture
- Y
Power
- Power consumption (max)
- 99W
- Power consumption (standby)
- 0.5W
- Power consumption (typical)
- 50W
- Annual energy consumption
- 69 kWh
- Energy efficiency class
- A+
Performance
- Ambient light sensor
- Y
- Digital Video Recorder (DVR)
- Y
Display
- Display diagonal
- 106.68 cm (42")
- HD type
- Full HD
- 3D compatibility
- Y
- Display resolution
- 1920 x 1080 pixels
- Aspect ratio
- 16:9
- Screen format adjustments
- 14:9, Zoom
- Contrast ratio (dynamic)
- 1000000:1
- Supported graphics resolutions
- 1920 x 1080 (HD 1080)
- Supported video modes
- 1080i, 1080p, 480i, 480p, 576i, 576p, 720p
- Viewing angle, vertical
- 178°
- Viewing angle, horizontal
- 178°
- 24p support
- Y
- 3D type
- Passive
- Display diagonal (metric)
- 106.7 cm
- Motion interpolation frequency
- 400 Hz
- Motion interpolation technology
- Motionflow XR
- Screen shape
- Flat
- OLED technology
- N
Smart TV
- Smart TV
- Y
- Internet TV
- Y
Audio
- Built-in speaker(s)
- Y
- Number of loudspeakers
- 2
- RMS rated power
- 16W
- Audio system
- NICAM/A2
- Dolby technologies
- Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby Digital Pulse
File formats
- Audio formats supported
- 3GPP, ASF, LPCM, MP3, MP4, WMA
- Image formats supported
- JPG, MPO, RAW
- Video formats supported
- ASF, AVI, MKV, MOV, MP4, MPEG1, MPEG2, WEBM
Teletext
- Teletext function
- Y
- Teletext
- 2000 pages
Certificates
- DLNA certified
- Y
Ergonomics
- VESA mounting
- Y
- Wall mountable
- Y
Packaging content
- Batteries included
- Y
- 3D glasses included
- Y
- 3D glasses quantity
- 2
- Cables included
- AC
- Desktop stand
- Y
- Manual
- Y
Indication
- LED indicators
- Y
Weight & dimensions
- Width
- 95.8 cm
- Depth
- 6.4 cm
- Height
- 56.3 cm
- Weight
- 10.5 kg
- Width (with stand)
- 95.8 cm
- Depth (with stand)
- 17 cm
- Height (with stand)
- 60 cm
- Weight with stand
- 11.7 kg
Other features
- Sound modes
- Movie, Music, Standard
