Sony’s newest thinnest LCD looks awesome. SXRD technology provides smooth, film-like picture quality unavailable in previous fixed pixel displays and is Pushing new boundaries in LCD TV size. Another secret to its size it that the TV tuner and some other signal processing technology have been removed from the TV case and put into a stand-alone unit.

The thickness of a TV is fast emerging as a new battleground in the market and manufacturers are concentrating on slimming down the backlight, which sits behind the actual LCD panel and generates the light that shines through the screen. Sony also focused on the backlight but instead of making it thinner moved it from behind the panel into the edge of the set around the LCD panel. LED (light emitting diode) arrays provide the light from the side, which is shone in and reflected out through the LCD panel.

It can also hook up with devices such as a Blu-ray Disc player or games console. And because the unit won’t necessarily be sitting close to the TV Sony employs radio technology in the remote control, so it isn’t limited to short-range, line-of-sight like current infrared remote controls.