I bought Sony Bravia KDL-32EX302 -television couple of months ago.

It has one very disturbing property called auto dimming. In dark scenes (happens often on black & white -movies) it makes the brighter parts of the screen darker.

The manual says:
"• Adv. Contrast Enhancer: Automatically adjusts “Backlight” and “Contrast” to the most suitable settings judging from the brightness of the screen. This setting is especially effective for dark images scenes, and will increase the contrast distinction of the darker picture scenes."

Sounds good but the television does totally opposite.

I have turned ACE off, no help.

I have done many Google searches (keywords sony bravia auto dimming) and found out that for some models Sony has released a fix (firmware update) to correct this problem, but not for all models. I have also found out, that for some models the auto dimming can be disabled with a suitable combination of settings.

I also upgraded the firmware to M8.728, no help.

Has anyone found a way to disable auto dimming on this model?