what's up everyone Sony did us a huge favor flying us out to New York I never
been here before so we're gonna check out some sites but first I gotta go
inside to check out the cool new TVs
they've got we're going to start with the cream of
the crop the a95l this is a huge upgrade
from last year's a95k that you might remember we upgraded Linus's home
personal TV uh it took a lot of soul searching but we finally got there we
settled on Sony because what can I say their processor is just kind of the best
so when you take something like cutie OLED coming from Samsung display and
then you get Sony to absolutely enhance
everything in it from the physical aspects like the stand and the actual
box and everything to the picture itself it's just going to Delight you I can't
explain it any better than that the biggest improvement with this generation
is easily the brightness increase so if
you know a thousand nits wasn't enough for you before they're talking about 200
increase so we're going to see something like 2 000 nits coming out of these
displays which when you've got Inky blacks of OLED and then you've got these
perfect every pixel is a dimming Zone just absolute explode of brightness it
looks incredible and I know that you're looking at this through your monitor and
you're going to say uh whatever but when you're in person and you can see it oh
my God does it ever look absolutely stunning one of the other bigger
improvements aside from the brightness is actually they've changed out the
stand completely before if you remember the n95k video it's a bar that kind of
sits flat across either the front or the back depending on how you want to orient
it but now they've changed it to a more traditional like double leg system that
you're probably a lot more familiar with that's on most TVs and the best part is
you can actually do this in three different orientations there's this way
that we've got here and then you can go higher up so that you can fit a sound
bar underneath and then on the larger TV on the 77 inch you're going to have the
option to do a much narrower leg placement so that you're not kind of
screwed if you you know you don't have a giant console like this you've just got
a little end table that your old 44 inch or your 45 inch fit on just fine but uh
not anymore are you doing the big upgrade now check the weight though yeah check the weights yeah that's a good
point as for Io it's mostly the the same we've got our center speaker in and out
here we've got some usba oh built-in mic
switch digital optical center speaker in HDMI one two three four ports with the
bottom two being labeled as 4K 120 with e-arc on HDMI 3 and then we've also got
a lan and remote and cable antenna if
you really want to use their cable antenna in 2023. the two 4K 120 ports
are HDMI 2.1 spec so you are going to
get variable refresh rate on both of those and then HDMI 3 specifically has
your e-arc so if you've got a sound system that you want to hook into have
everything return on a single Channel you can do that and then if you do need
to hook up even more devices one and two are going to only be 2.0 B which is
still pretty decent but you're probably not going to get vrr that's going to be
enough for just about anyone honestly you've also got pretty nice Cable
Management clip on the bottom here so you should be able to Route everything
through the bottom and out the back of the TV so you're not really going to see it just like the stand actually curves
inward so you really don't even notice it aside from when you're looking
straight on and you see this front leg here one of the other smaller improvements is to the audio this time
around they've got 2.2 actuators to vibrate the entire screen which is
similar to their last TV unfortunately we can't listen to it today there's no
audio testing but based on previous experience I'm sure it's going to be at
least pretty good that's the a95l from Sony it's the one I really came here to
see their Flagship it's an absolute Beast of a display especially when
you've got that quantum dot OLED getting 200 percent brighter and then you've got
better speakers it is a little thinner nine millimeters but you know what it's
also got an improved stand you can do multiple modes it's amazing but it's
still a little pricey and if it's out of your price range we have a couple other TVs to show you but not before a word
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x95 mini LED oh my God we were actually
showing the x83 upstairs and we didn't
get a chance to see the x85 until now the x83 is kind of the successor to last
year and the x85 is going to be the next step up but it's only available in 85
inches that's enormous probably too big
for a lot of people so if you do want to save a bit of money you can stick with
the x93 which should come in a few other sizes it's mini LED which looks
fantastic and it does have some improvements over OLED that some people
prefer you tend to get Brighter Images there's really no risk of imagery 10
attention and honestly it still looks really good even the blacks while
they're not quite as Inky as you're going to get on an OLED panel this thing
still gets really dark now last year's model was really good don't get me wrong
but this year you're going to get up to 30 percent brighter and up to 20 more
dimming zones so you're not going to get nearly as much Bloom even though there
honestly wasn't that much in the last Model to begin with it's just getting
Tighter and Tighter and Tighter with those local dimming zones so that you
know you've got a star up here you're going to get mostly just the star that's
actually peaking instead of like a little bit of blooming or haloing around
it we've got pretty similar i o to the last TV built-in mic switch though it's
a little different instead of our speaker wire and then we've still got two USB a optical video in for center
speaker four HDMI ports with three and
four specifically being 4K 120 three having e-arc on it if you want to do any
audio return Channel stuff and then we've got our Lan Port we've got remote
ports and cable antenna and we've got the same wrap around stand to keep
everything kind of sleek and stylish keep your cables tucked away and while
we're down here we gotta talk about the audio because we're not using down firing speakers like you're going to
find in a lot of other TVs got actuators up here and it should sound super good
they've got a slight improvement over last year's model and I can't wait to check it out
obviously if you're going to want a ton of bass you're still going to want a subwoofer but these speakers sound
really really good now it's an 85 inch TV you're going to get better sound out
of a bigger display most of the time but I was really impressed frankly and while
you don't need a sound bar or an external sound system when you're
spending this much money on a TV you do kind of want that it's just going to
elevate what's already a really really good experience mini LED has really come
a long way and it's only going to keep going but it's still kind of pricey
especially when you've got a panel this size so if you want something a little
cheaper and maybe a little smaller you can get the x90l is there LED TV full
array local dimming now I have been a bit against LED for the most part just
because we're getting so much more when it comes to newer display Technologies
like OLED and mini LED however I know
that those are still very expensive and the reality is when you're adding up to
60 percent more dimming zones LED can still look really good frankly I was
super super impressed when they showed us the demos upstairs they had their old
model they had a competitors model and then they had this guy and it just
crushed it now don't get me wrong you're still gonna get some Bloom you're gonna
get haloing and stuff but it's really a
just a phenomenal experience and it's something that a lot of people don't
even realize they want or need until they start watching HDR content that
actively uses all of these dimming zones to give you those like big flashes of
peak brightness and whatnot and then to really utilize all those dimming zones
and H and give you that good HDR experience they're boasting up to 30
percent more Peak brightness which is just phenomenal like LED was already
getting bright enough but to really kind of keep up with mini LED and now even
OLED is starting to get bright they've really bumped it up and Juiced it and it
looks just phenomenal the last really huge Improvement that I want to talk
about is XR clear image being implemented in this display now a lot of
you probably aren't even going to care that much but the reality is it's actually really really impressive
they're taking old 1080P or 2K content and then upscaling Uprising to 4K and
they're doing a really good job of it honestly there's way less film grain
everything just looks a bit sharper they showed us last year's model this year's
model and a competitor upstairs and this was just boom easily the winner when it
comes to watching older content on a newer display it's also able to detect
if you've got an external device like a Blu-ray player already upscaling the
image for Io it's again pretty similar to the last couple of displays the only
difference is we don't have either a speaker wire at the top or a mic switch
but we do get two USB ports and an optical Port we've got video in for S
center speaker in and then four HDMI ports the bottom two of which are both
going to be 4K 120 with three being ERC
and then finally we've got our Ethernet remote ports as well as cable as for
physical differences this guy is 14 millimeters thinner which isn't much but
you know it all adds up and it doesn't have quite the same wraparound stand as
the other ones however it does have at least two positions so you can do it
high like this if you want to have a sound bar front or you can go lower if
you want this thing to be basically flush with your center console and you know I forgot to mention this with the
other TVs but if you want to put this thing above your fireplace you can mount
it to the wall they've all got mounts on the back here
there are a couple of down firing speakers on this guy however you've also
got tweeters at the very top which is going to help really just make a wider
Sound Stage and everything is going to sound a bit more clear it's not perfect and it's not quite as good as we saw on
the mini LED or on the OLED however last year's model was going for about a
thousand dollars so there's no confirmation on pricing or release dates
or anything like that but you know you can expect something in that ballpark
and what that means is you can then spend more money on a sound system like
a new sound bar if you just want better dialogue Clarity for your movies your TV
shows or a full surround experience if you really want to get engaged in the
movies or video games or whatever content you're enjoying now we've
mentioned all the 4K 120 Parts on these TVs and with that comes the new game
menu which is going to give you variable refresh rate motion blur reduction black
equalizer Crosshair Crosshair type which is not something that I use personally
but it is a feature on monitors that's been a Mainstay for a decade longer than
that and it hasn't really shown up on TVs too much so for the people that use
it it's going to be there it's going to be handy another feature that isn't on this TV specifically right now but it
will be available in the future at launch is the ability to change the
screen size so that you can shrink this down to 27 inches if you want to try to
play on something that's more competitive maybe you don't want to like crank your head all the way around
you're sitting really close you got to look up at the map you don't have to do that anymore so you can change it to
whatever size fits your comfort level depending on the content that you're
enjoying one minor feature update is they've got all their Eco stuff into a
single dashboard now and you can change it on the Fly and look at this tree don't you like making trees get bigger
another really cool feature that's coming to this guy that we've already seen on their monitors like the ends on
M9 is auto genre picture switching so say you're on your PS5 you're playing
games great you want all the game stuff turned on Boom now you want to watch
some video content on your PS5 it's going to turn all that stuff off turn on
the other stuff like movie mode and different picture stuff and it's just going to work automatically that's it
for the x90l it's a big Improvement in the number of ways more zones more
brightness up to 98 inches so you can get a huge bad boy one of these guys
we've got the 75 inch right here which feels small compared to an 85 inch but
it's actually quite huge overall everything is really impressive we saw
improvements across the entire stack from their LED full array local dimming
stuff to mini LED all the way up into cutie OLED and I gotta say that cutie
Olin it's going to be pricey the last one was like four or five grand so
expect something similar but frankly if you can afford it especially now with
all the improvements that have come out in the last year you're not going to be disappointed I'll tell you that much
honestly all of them even that thousand dollar LED with the full array local
dimming I've been telling people for a little while now to just avoid LED in
general but frankly it wasn't bad especially at the price point you're
getting a lot of TV for about a thousand dollars thanks for watching uh that's a
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