1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,340 this is a knife and this is the Sony 2 00:00:03,560 --> 00:00:10,139 x95k the knife slices it dices but the 3 00:00:08,340 --> 00:00:14,400 TV can display your favorite content with over 400 dimming zones and a bunch 4 00:00:12,599 --> 00:00:18,000 of mini LEDs yeah 5 00:00:16,379 --> 00:00:21,539 we're gonna unbox it and see if it's cool check out the buttons the remote 6 00:00:19,619 --> 00:00:25,019 which is new and improved and maybe the OS 7 00:00:23,039 --> 00:00:27,960 and most importantly does the chassis look good because it's got that Sony 8 00:00:26,460 --> 00:00:34,520 premium did I do this wrong knock knock 9 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:34,520 hello 10 00:00:36,559 --> 00:00:43,739 oh nice you certainly can't see the TV with all this crap on it so let's get it 11 00:00:41,579 --> 00:00:47,579 off all right she's out of the box and as 12 00:00:45,180 --> 00:00:52,320 you can see it has a checkered pattern kind of backing and it's all plastic you 13 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:55,140 might think uh premium selling this would have some metal but it doesn't but 14 00:00:54,239 --> 00:01:00,480 at least it makes it a little bit lighter parts of it are perforated so some heat can come out I think I might 15 00:00:58,980 --> 00:01:04,619 be looking at some active fans behind this not sure though but what we're here 16 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:09,260 to do is put the feet on in the box there were two feet they're very slim 17 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:14,220 and Slick they've got this kind of bronze kind of look to them brush Metal 18 00:01:12,420 --> 00:01:18,360 finish I think that this is kind of a versatile color I think it's going to 19 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:22,799 look good in a all-white kind of Nordic looking room I think it'll match 20 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:25,619 different wood tones um it seems pretty versatile it looks 21 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:29,580 good with black and that's what this is so let's get these legs on there's a 22 00:01:28,320 --> 00:01:33,240 number one here should I do this without instructions guys now there's actually 23 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:38,700 three different configurations that you can put the legs in which is pretty cool 24 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:41,579 you can go narrow or you can go wide and 25 00:01:38,700 --> 00:01:44,759 when you go wide you can also go low or you can go high and that's to 26 00:01:43,140 --> 00:01:49,500 accommodate a sound bar much to my chagrin guys just buy bookshelf speakers 27 00:01:46,979 --> 00:01:53,399 please please I don't need the extra height for a sound box I'm not a 28 00:01:50,700 --> 00:01:58,320 soundbar person I an aesthetically I think the wider looks it just looks 29 00:01:55,140 --> 00:02:00,540 cooler but the ideal is obviously wall 30 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:03,960 mounted with a cable channel that goes behind the wall so it just has that 31 00:02:01,799 --> 00:02:07,500 cordless like floating look that's the best and if you're above a fireplace 32 00:02:05,399 --> 00:02:12,599 which so many people are just get a pull down Mount and then people will forgive 33 00:02:09,780 --> 00:02:17,160 you for having a fireplace TV look how sucked up the feet are to the screen 34 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:21,780 whoa depending on how 35 00:02:18,900 --> 00:02:25,920 deep set your TV is on the console you might even just use that taller setting 36 00:02:23,700 --> 00:02:29,520 without a sound bar just so it doesn't look weird because otherwise if you're 37 00:02:27,239 --> 00:02:35,819 using this like sucked up version you might want to uh 38 00:02:31,920 --> 00:02:37,560 you might need the TV to be closer to 39 00:02:35,819 --> 00:02:41,400 the front edge but we'll take a look at what that looks 40 00:02:39,300 --> 00:02:44,340 like once we get stood up you know I actually think this is my first time 41 00:02:42,420 --> 00:02:46,940 screwing something with the LTT screwdriver 42 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:54,239 we got it wow I'm pretty surprised with even what I would describe as a fairly 43 00:02:51,239 --> 00:03:00,120 wide console like this this barely fits 44 00:02:54,239 --> 00:03:01,379 on I was just shy of 55. oh that's uh 45 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:07,379 that's pretty far you're gonna have to have one of those really long wide Ikea ones I don't know why they do this I 46 00:03:05,700 --> 00:03:10,620 guess it just has to do with the the nature of the board like if the board is 47 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:15,599 a square like this you're getting more IO um per Edge but convenience wise would 48 00:03:13,920 --> 00:03:19,560 be better if it was just all on the side because the side AO is just so much 49 00:03:17,519 --> 00:03:24,180 easier to access especially if you wall mount this thing I used to have a a wall 50 00:03:22,379 --> 00:03:28,319 mounted TV that was not on any kind of ARM that you could pull out and I was 51 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:33,420 always just like trying to bend it Off the Wall getting like my Chromecast 52 00:03:30,959 --> 00:03:37,980 between my fingers and like literally 25 minutes to try to plug this crap in 53 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:40,739 and there's no way you're going to be able to do it from the bottom the side 54 00:03:39,300 --> 00:03:45,239 was a blessing but if it could all be side that'd be better 55 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:50,700 on off built-in mic switch that's interesting got HDMI one here and then 56 00:03:48,659 --> 00:03:58,019 the remainder of the hmiser down here number three and four are the HDMI 2.1 57 00:03:54,120 --> 00:04:00,480 that can do 4K 120 hertz then you've got 58 00:03:58,019 --> 00:04:04,980 a lan it probably only supports 100 to up 100 down which is lame but that's the 59 00:04:03,060 --> 00:04:09,480 standard in the industry you've got an optical digital audio out that's good 60 00:04:06,959 --> 00:04:12,959 for like toss link I actually did have to use that before because I had an 61 00:04:10,799 --> 00:04:16,320 older AVR if you have like vintage speakers and stuff that can come in 62 00:04:14,159 --> 00:04:19,799 handy uh then they've got a connector for the remote if you want to have like 63 00:04:17,459 --> 00:04:24,240 a remote extension for your IR blaster then there's a USB 64 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:29,520 and back up to this side another USB a video in 65 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:32,220 s center speaker in so this is unique to 66 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:37,800 this TV it's basically what it allows you to do is to have a surround speaker 67 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:39,479 configuration let's say it's 5.1 or even 68 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:42,840 3.0 the point is you can have a left and 69 00:04:40,919 --> 00:04:48,240 right speaker and then wire this into your AVR as a sender speaker using your 70 00:04:46,020 --> 00:04:51,780 TV as a center speaker what I recommend it probably not 71 00:04:49,979 --> 00:04:55,560 the reasons why is you're probably not gonna have a good sound match with your 72 00:04:53,460 --> 00:04:59,820 left and right speaker so if a sound pans across the screen like let's say 73 00:04:57,300 --> 00:05:04,979 it's a car driving by and he goes well you might have a Timber mismatch so it 74 00:05:03,300 --> 00:05:08,880 does doesn't sound consistent as it switches from one speaker to the next uh 75 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:12,660 the second reason why I wouldn't do that is because the center channel speaker is 76 00:05:11,100 --> 00:05:16,020 in some ways the most most important speaker but it's also kind of the least 77 00:05:14,699 --> 00:05:19,500 important speaker because there's such a thing as a phantom center speaker which 78 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:22,860 is just an illusion that your brain makes when you have a left speaker and a 79 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:26,580 right speaker your brain just like kind of creates a center speaker if you hear 80 00:05:25,199 --> 00:05:30,780 sound coming out of left and right equally you'll think it comes from the 81 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:34,919 center so I probably just wouldn't screw around adding 82 00:05:31,979 --> 00:05:40,860 what are probably bad soundings TV speakers to your mix just me also 83 00:05:38,220 --> 00:05:45,960 another stupid thing about this port I believe it only supports 84 00:05:42,780 --> 00:05:48,419 Sony speakers I believe you can own 85 00:05:45,960 --> 00:05:52,440 that's why it's s Center so um yeah three reasons dot not use that 86 00:05:50,100 --> 00:05:57,180 Port another thing that's in the box is all of these panels which you can use to 87 00:05:55,259 --> 00:06:00,720 cover up all this I O you can see that this Cable Management channel is here 88 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:05,460 and then you can route the cables out the bottom which is very cool 89 00:06:02,940 --> 00:06:09,660 but let's see how these go on and off you can route your power cable at the 90 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:13,919 bottom of this if I was wall mounting this I might just 91 00:06:11,460 --> 00:06:17,340 not bother putting this panel on because especially if you have an ARM that's 92 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:20,940 mounted to say these Vasa mounts right here the arms right here you're gonna 93 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:24,180 want the cable to go up the ARM so you might end up just having these sit 94 00:06:22,500 --> 00:06:26,940 in a shoe box in a closet for six years because you're not going to throw them 95 00:06:25,620 --> 00:06:31,500 out in case you sell the thing at some point right and then there's actually 96 00:06:28,919 --> 00:06:33,740 these curved ones that belong on this side 97 00:06:34,020 --> 00:06:39,380 honestly it doesn't really matter what the back of the TV looks like for most 98 00:06:37,199 --> 00:06:39,380 people 99 00:06:41,419 --> 00:06:45,660 but if you are one of those people who has the back of the TV in the middle 100 00:06:44,759 --> 00:06:50,780 room because you have like a great room or something like that this could look 101 00:06:48,479 --> 00:06:50,780 worse 102 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:56,699 huh that was so climactic plus two 103 00:06:55,020 --> 00:06:59,120 points for the amount of fun peels they let you have 104 00:07:00,900 --> 00:07:07,020 okay now I'm finally in a position to evaluate the look of the feet and 105 00:07:05,580 --> 00:07:12,120 whether or not I'd use the lower high setting see what I mean I've like how 106 00:07:09,180 --> 00:07:17,340 sucked up that is it's it's only like a centimeter or like a half inch off the 107 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:20,340 table this is as close as it can be to the front unless you have the feet 108 00:07:18,660 --> 00:07:23,819 hanging off so you're you're going to have that 109 00:07:22,259 --> 00:07:27,660 I think it's fine if you're kind of at eye level with it 110 00:07:25,319 --> 00:07:30,599 but if it was high up on like some kind of mantle or something you might 111 00:07:29,340 --> 00:07:35,340 actually not be able to see the very bottom of the screen and then imagine 112 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:39,900 if you will if it was really far back 113 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:43,199 you need to have a deep ass table for that but sit on the couch your bell take 114 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:47,240 a seat it looks good yeah yeah looks fine 115 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:56,039 interesting oh now I want to see the new remote 116 00:07:53,220 --> 00:08:00,660 comes with batteries they are Sony branded I would say this is not a very 117 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:04,919 premium feeling remote it is plasticky it does have a brushed 118 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:09,479 look on the front I don't think that's metal though it has some Flex in this 119 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:15,240 direction but tactility is pretty good it has four 120 00:08:12,900 --> 00:08:21,000 count them four different streamer specific buttons normally you 121 00:08:18,599 --> 00:08:24,539 cannot remap these which is annoying for people with kids because if you have 122 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:28,080 kids you know it doesn't matter too much if your kid hits the settings button or 123 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:30,960 the volume button while you're watching something or while their siblings 124 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:34,560 watching something as soon as they hit one of these streamer buttons everything 125 00:08:32,580 --> 00:08:38,099 shuts down and the channel changes and then the other kid gets mad and then you 126 00:08:36,300 --> 00:08:41,700 gotta stop what you're doing and you got but they pay the bills with these buttons so 127 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:45,779 that's the way it is we're going to turn this puppy on but first a message from 128 00:08:43,500 --> 00:08:50,760 our sponsor jackery thanks to jackery for sponsoring today's video jackery's 129 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:52,320 new solar generator 1000 Pro is their 130 00:08:50,760 --> 00:08:56,519 fastest solar and wall charging generator yet it consists of a jack re 131 00:08:54,420 --> 00:09:01,260 Explorer 1000 Pro portable power station and 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141 00:09:38,279 --> 00:09:42,740 of it I wonder if I even have to agree to all these 142 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:51,360 I agree to none of them that is a dark pattern okay so they have 143 00:09:48,779 --> 00:09:54,360 voice recognition but you remember that switch on the back of the TV you can 144 00:09:52,740 --> 00:10:00,120 toggle with this Hardware switch on and off if you don't want the microphone stuff at all just switch it off 145 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:02,880 acoustic Auto calibration optimizes the audio output of your TV speakers by 146 00:10:01,680 --> 00:10:05,580 measuring the listening environment using the microphone on the TV remote 147 00:10:04,680 --> 00:10:11,399 control sit where you normally do while watching TV hold it at chest level point it 148 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:14,959 toward your TV and then don't move 149 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:25,620 I guess I moved whatever all right here we are and this looks super familiar to 150 00:10:22,920 --> 00:10:31,680 me because I am an NVIDIA Shield user and that also runs on Android so 151 00:10:27,959 --> 00:10:34,380 here it is now one thing though is that 152 00:10:31,680 --> 00:10:37,980 this TV uses the same SOC as the last year's model so that's why it's actually 153 00:10:35,700 --> 00:10:41,880 running Android 10 and not 11 or 12. kind of a drag 154 00:10:39,899 --> 00:10:47,579 one thing I want to check out is some of the settings in terms of the image modes 155 00:10:45,540 --> 00:10:51,480 for picture modes you've got Vivid standard cinema is going to be the most 156 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:55,800 color accurate on this display and you'll note that there's no filmmaker 157 00:10:53,820 --> 00:10:58,920 mode like what the heck Sony the other brands have filmmaker mode and it's 158 00:10:57,600 --> 00:11:02,940 great because it's not just a color profile it also turns off other things 159 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:06,899 that enthusiasts tend to hate like motion interpolation or most motion 160 00:11:04,680 --> 00:11:09,480 smoothing so filmmaker mode is like your best bet once if you see that on a TV 161 00:11:08,459 --> 00:11:15,120 you just know it's probably the most color accurate and it's not going to have that other Malarkey turned on just 162 00:11:12,839 --> 00:11:20,519 makes it easier one of Sony's claims to fame is its socs though and it's 163 00:11:17,339 --> 00:11:22,680 processing like it's it's uh AI picture 164 00:11:20,519 --> 00:11:27,360 modes and sharpening and stuff like that I I and other purists tend to just turn 165 00:11:25,380 --> 00:11:30,959 that processing off anyway so if you're going to do that then that's another 166 00:11:28,620 --> 00:11:34,980 reason not to pay a premium for a Sony for some reason this Pinocchio thing 167 00:11:32,579 --> 00:11:38,459 just creeps me out ambient light sensor could be useful if you're in a room 168 00:11:36,839 --> 00:11:43,140 where you know you're watching your TV day and night you don't want to screw with the settings in terms of having it 169 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:47,279 be super bright during the day if it's a sunbathed room and you want the 170 00:11:45,180 --> 00:11:50,399 brightness to be sufficient and then you but you don't have to change the 171 00:11:48,420 --> 00:11:54,779 settings so later that evening you make it dark because it's it's too dang 172 00:11:52,500 --> 00:11:57,779 bright and Searing your eyeballs you can just use this ambient light sensor 173 00:11:56,160 --> 00:12:01,980 feature where it's going to read the room if you will and adjust accordingly 174 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:06,120 one thing I want to talk about though mainly is the technology behind the 175 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:10,019 backlight the dimming zones and stuff so let's head over to YouTube and turn on 176 00:12:07,680 --> 00:12:15,240 one of those cool uh dimming Zone test videos to see what it looks like so This 177 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:20,880 TV has something like 425 435 dimming zones it's it's 36 by 12 I believe 178 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:24,959 so right now we're watching this little doc go around and I can see there's a 179 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:29,579 bit of a halo around it that looks like it's about that big this TV is kind of a 180 00:12:27,660 --> 00:12:33,000 hybrid in that it's a VA panel or vertical alignment which are known to 181 00:12:31,260 --> 00:12:36,540 have great blacks not known to have great viewing angles so Sony actually 182 00:12:34,620 --> 00:12:41,820 incorporates another layer in their panel stack that kind of helps the 183 00:12:39,300 --> 00:12:45,899 viewing angles out but even still if you're if you're off axis to any large 184 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:51,000 degree you're going to see way more blooming and other artifacts 185 00:12:48,959 --> 00:12:54,540 than you will if you're sitting in a more regular position in the front 186 00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:59,940 and keep in mind guys that even if you're using an OLED or some kind of 187 00:12:56,760 --> 00:13:02,760 futuristic micro lead TV where each 188 00:12:59,940 --> 00:13:06,480 pixel is a loom is a self-emissive and can turn right off you will still have 189 00:13:04,560 --> 00:13:10,019 blooming it's called veiling glare and it'll actually just it's an artifact of 190 00:13:08,100 --> 00:13:13,079 your own eyes lenses so you could never completely remove it don't kid yourself 191 00:13:11,760 --> 00:13:17,519 that you're not going to see any Halos if you've got an OLED you still will 192 00:13:15,420 --> 00:13:21,660 um you'll just see less on that Moon I can see like the whole ball is pretty 193 00:13:19,620 --> 00:13:26,760 much like this and try the speakers out here 194 00:13:23,579 --> 00:13:28,320 oh boy that's tinny 195 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:31,920 to bring together a group of remarkable people 196 00:13:30,480 --> 00:13:34,399 it's like they're talking to me through a tin can 197 00:13:36,180 --> 00:13:42,720 oh boy all right there's obviously zero base but that's par for the course the 198 00:13:40,320 --> 00:13:46,860 TVs because people want thin TVs you just can't get enough speakers in there 199 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:52,700 uh it doesn't sound great get a sound bar it'll help it be more 200 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:55,740 curable understandable comprehensible 201 00:13:52,700 --> 00:13:58,019 now be aware guys as far as HDR and this 202 00:13:55,740 --> 00:14:01,920 does support Dolby Vision HDR you will get better backlight performance out of 203 00:13:59,760 --> 00:14:06,740 the larger versions of this TV as they have more dimming zones the 75 inch has 204 00:14:04,019 --> 00:14:12,959 600 dimming zones and the 85 inch has 768 zones so even accounting for that 205 00:14:10,019 --> 00:14:16,680 size it's more zones per square inch so my overall Impressions with this TV and 206 00:14:14,579 --> 00:14:19,860 this picture quality is it's fine it's not it's a nice TV it's going to be 207 00:14:18,180 --> 00:14:23,579 nicer than a lot of people's TVs out there but it just really comes down to a 208 00:14:21,839 --> 00:14:28,200 value this thing typically retails for 2800 you can get it for 2300 but at that 209 00:14:26,459 --> 00:14:32,100 price point you can get one of the entry level 210 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:36,660 lgwo that's you might even be able to get us a c series for that and if not 211 00:14:35,100 --> 00:14:42,480 you could always go down to a b because there's really not much difference with the bees unless you're watching sports 212 00:14:39,959 --> 00:14:47,120 in a really bright environment maybe there's an argument to make for a 213 00:14:43,740 --> 00:14:49,380 brighter uh full array local dimming LCD 214 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:54,000 although if you really want to go large and have the 85 inch it's going to be 215 00:14:51,899 --> 00:14:57,720 cheaper to not get an OLED in that case and if you really want a premium set I 216 00:14:56,220 --> 00:15:02,820 would go for a qdo lid from Samsung display if if you are into the LCDs and 217 00:15:00,660 --> 00:15:06,360 you want a mini LED you can get a value one from TCL they're already on their 218 00:15:04,560 --> 00:15:12,779 third generation mini LED and this is Sony's first generation of it so I just 219 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:15,360 don't see myself going for this TV I'm 220 00:15:12,779 --> 00:15:18,839 either going to go for a a cheaper but still good mini LED or or if I'm going 221 00:15:17,519 --> 00:15:22,019 to pay this premium price I'm going to get an all that all right so thanks for 222 00:15:20,699 --> 00:15:27,540 watching guys if you like this video hit like hit subscribe and check out our other content covering displays we've 223 00:15:25,199 --> 00:15:30,839 got a lot of TV reviews and monitor reviews too in fact we covered those qdo 224 00:15:29,339 --> 00:15:36,620 LEDs on this channel and our sister Channel last tech tips check it out 225 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:36,620 oh look the Earth