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this is a knife and this is the Sony

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x95k the knife slices it dices but the

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TV can display your favorite content with over 400 dimming zones and a bunch

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of mini LEDs yeah

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we're gonna unbox it and see if it's cool check out the buttons the remote

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which is new and improved and maybe the OS

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and most importantly does the chassis look good because it's got that Sony

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premium did I do this wrong knock knock

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hello

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oh nice you certainly can't see the TV with all this crap on it so let's get it

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off all right she's out of the box and as

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you can see it has a checkered pattern kind of backing and it's all plastic you

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might think uh premium selling this would have some metal but it doesn't but

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at least it makes it a little bit lighter parts of it are perforated so some heat can come out I think I might

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be looking at some active fans behind this not sure though but what we're here

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to do is put the feet on in the box there were two feet they're very slim

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and Slick they've got this kind of bronze kind of look to them brush Metal

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finish I think that this is kind of a versatile color I think it's going to

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look good in a all-white kind of Nordic looking room I think it'll match

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different wood tones um it seems pretty versatile it looks

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good with black and that's what this is so let's get these legs on there's a

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number one here should I do this without instructions guys now there's actually

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three different configurations that you can put the legs in which is pretty cool

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you can go narrow or you can go wide and

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when you go wide you can also go low or you can go high and that's to

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accommodate a sound bar much to my chagrin guys just buy bookshelf speakers

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please please I don't need the extra height for a sound box I'm not a

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soundbar person I an aesthetically I think the wider looks it just looks

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cooler but the ideal is obviously wall

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mounted with a cable channel that goes behind the wall so it just has that

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cordless like floating look that's the best and if you're above a fireplace

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which so many people are just get a pull down Mount and then people will forgive

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you for having a fireplace TV look how sucked up the feet are to the screen

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whoa depending on how

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deep set your TV is on the console you might even just use that taller setting

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without a sound bar just so it doesn't look weird because otherwise if you're

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using this like sucked up version you might want to uh

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you might need the TV to be closer to

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the front edge but we'll take a look at what that looks

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like once we get stood up you know I actually think this is my first time

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screwing something with the LTT screwdriver

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we got it wow I'm pretty surprised with even what I would describe as a fairly

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wide console like this this barely fits

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on I was just shy of 55. oh that's uh

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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

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guess it just has to do with the the nature of the board like if the board is

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a square like this you're getting more IO um per Edge but convenience wise would

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be better if it was just all on the side because the side AO is just so much

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easier to access especially if you wall mount this thing I used to have a a wall

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mounted TV that was not on any kind of ARM that you could pull out and I was

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always just like trying to bend it Off the Wall getting like my Chromecast

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between my fingers and like literally 25 minutes to try to plug this crap in

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and there's no way you're going to be able to do it from the bottom the side

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was a blessing but if it could all be side that'd be better

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on off built-in mic switch that's interesting got HDMI one here and then

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the remainder of the hmiser down here number three and four are the HDMI 2.1

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that can do 4K 120 hertz then you've got

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a lan it probably only supports 100 to up 100 down which is lame but that's the

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standard in the industry you've got an optical digital audio out that's good

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for like toss link I actually did have to use that before because I had an

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older AVR if you have like vintage speakers and stuff that can come in

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handy uh then they've got a connector for the remote if you want to have like

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a remote extension for your IR blaster then there's a USB

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and back up to this side another USB a video in

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s center speaker in so this is unique to

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this TV it's basically what it allows you to do is to have a surround speaker

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configuration let's say it's 5.1 or even

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3.0 the point is you can have a left and

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right speaker and then wire this into your AVR as a sender speaker using your

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TV as a center speaker what I recommend it probably not

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the reasons why is you're probably not gonna have a good sound match with your

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left and right speaker so if a sound pans across the screen like let's say

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it's a car driving by and he goes well you might have a Timber mismatch so it

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does doesn't sound consistent as it switches from one speaker to the next uh

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the second reason why I wouldn't do that is because the center channel speaker is

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in some ways the most most important speaker but it's also kind of the least

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important speaker because there's such a thing as a phantom center speaker which

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is just an illusion that your brain makes when you have a left speaker and a

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right speaker your brain just like kind of creates a center speaker if you hear

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sound coming out of left and right equally you'll think it comes from the

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center so I probably just wouldn't screw around adding

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what are probably bad soundings TV speakers to your mix just me also

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another stupid thing about this port I believe it only supports

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Sony speakers I believe you can own

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that's why it's s Center so um yeah three reasons dot not use that

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Port another thing that's in the box is all of these panels which you can use to

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cover up all this I O you can see that this Cable Management channel is here

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and then you can route the cables out the bottom which is very cool

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but let's see how these go on and off you can route your power cable at the

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bottom of this if I was wall mounting this I might just

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not bother putting this panel on because especially if you have an ARM that's

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mounted to say these Vasa mounts right here the arms right here you're gonna

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want the cable to go up the ARM so you might end up just having these sit

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in a shoe box in a closet for six years because you're not going to throw them

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out in case you sell the thing at some point right and then there's actually

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these curved ones that belong on this side

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honestly it doesn't really matter what the back of the TV looks like for most

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people

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but if you are one of those people who has the back of the TV in the middle

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room because you have like a great room or something like that this could look

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worse

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huh that was so climactic plus two

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points for the amount of fun peels they let you have

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okay now I'm finally in a position to evaluate the look of the feet and

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whether or not I'd use the lower high setting see what I mean I've like how

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sucked up that is it's it's only like a centimeter or like a half inch off the

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table this is as close as it can be to the front unless you have the feet

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hanging off so you're you're going to have that

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I think it's fine if you're kind of at eye level with it

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but if it was high up on like some kind of mantle or something you might

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actually not be able to see the very bottom of the screen and then imagine

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if you will if it was really far back

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you need to have a deep ass table for that but sit on the couch your bell take

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a seat it looks good yeah yeah looks fine

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interesting oh now I want to see the new remote

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comes with batteries they are Sony branded I would say this is not a very

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premium feeling remote it is plasticky it does have a brushed

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look on the front I don't think that's metal though it has some Flex in this

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direction but tactility is pretty good it has four

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count them four different streamer specific buttons normally you

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cannot remap these which is annoying for people with kids because if you have

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kids you know it doesn't matter too much if your kid hits the settings button or

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the volume button while you're watching something or while their siblings

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watching something as soon as they hit one of these streamer buttons everything

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shuts down and the channel changes and then the other kid gets mad and then you

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gotta stop what you're doing and you got but they pay the bills with these buttons so

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that's the way it is we're going to turn this puppy on but first a message from

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Google home app that's a nice thing about this TV's OS being just Android

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you don't have to mess around with like the LG apps they don't ask you to use

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them but LG apps suck if you do have to use them I like the option to use the

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phone you didn't have to use the phone for setup there's an option

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to use the TV but then you've got to use your remote to type stuff which sucks

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Bravia yeah I'm reading this Sony reading all

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of it I wonder if I even have to agree to all these

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I agree to none of them that is a dark pattern okay so they have

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voice recognition but you remember that switch on the back of the TV you can

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toggle with this Hardware switch on and off if you don't want the microphone stuff at all just switch it off

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acoustic Auto calibration optimizes the audio output of your TV speakers by

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measuring the listening environment using the microphone on the TV remote

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control sit where you normally do while watching TV hold it at chest level point it

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toward your TV and then don't move

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I guess I moved whatever all right here we are and this looks super familiar to

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me because I am an NVIDIA Shield user and that also runs on Android so

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here it is now one thing though is that

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this TV uses the same SOC as the last year's model so that's why it's actually

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running Android 10 and not 11 or 12. kind of a drag

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one thing I want to check out is some of the settings in terms of the image modes

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for picture modes you've got Vivid standard cinema is going to be the most

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color accurate on this display and you'll note that there's no filmmaker

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mode like what the heck Sony the other brands have filmmaker mode and it's

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great because it's not just a color profile it also turns off other things

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that enthusiasts tend to hate like motion interpolation or most motion

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smoothing so filmmaker mode is like your best bet once if you see that on a TV

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you just know it's probably the most color accurate and it's not going to have that other Malarkey turned on just

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makes it easier one of Sony's claims to fame is its socs though and it's

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processing like it's it's uh AI picture

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modes and sharpening and stuff like that I I and other purists tend to just turn

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that processing off anyway so if you're going to do that then that's another

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reason not to pay a premium for a Sony for some reason this Pinocchio thing

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just creeps me out ambient light sensor could be useful if you're in a room

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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

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be super bright during the day if it's a sunbathed room and you want the

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brightness to be sufficient and then you but you don't have to change the

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settings so later that evening you make it dark because it's it's too dang

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bright and Searing your eyeballs you can just use this ambient light sensor

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feature where it's going to read the room if you will and adjust accordingly

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one thing I want to talk about though mainly is the technology behind the

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backlight the dimming zones and stuff so let's head over to YouTube and turn on

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one of those cool uh dimming Zone test videos to see what it looks like so This

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TV has something like 425 435 dimming zones it's it's 36 by 12 I believe

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so right now we're watching this little doc go around and I can see there's a

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bit of a halo around it that looks like it's about that big this TV is kind of a

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hybrid in that it's a VA panel or vertical alignment which are known to

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have great blacks not known to have great viewing angles so Sony actually

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incorporates another layer in their panel stack that kind of helps the

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viewing angles out but even still if you're if you're off axis to any large

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degree you're going to see way more blooming and other artifacts

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than you will if you're sitting in a more regular position in the front

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and keep in mind guys that even if you're using an OLED or some kind of

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futuristic micro lead TV where each

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pixel is a loom is a self-emissive and can turn right off you will still have

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blooming it's called veiling glare and it'll actually just it's an artifact of

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your own eyes lenses so you could never completely remove it don't kid yourself

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that you're not going to see any Halos if you've got an OLED you still will

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um you'll just see less on that Moon I can see like the whole ball is pretty

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much like this and try the speakers out here

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oh boy that's tinny

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to bring together a group of remarkable people

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it's like they're talking to me through a tin can

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oh boy all right there's obviously zero base but that's par for the course the

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TVs because people want thin TVs you just can't get enough speakers in there

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uh it doesn't sound great get a sound bar it'll help it be more

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curable understandable comprehensible

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now be aware guys as far as HDR and this

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does support Dolby Vision HDR you will get better backlight performance out of

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the larger versions of this TV as they have more dimming zones the 75 inch has

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600 dimming zones and the 85 inch has 768 zones so even accounting for that

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size it's more zones per square inch so my overall Impressions with this TV and

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this picture quality is it's fine it's not it's a nice TV it's going to be

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nicer than a lot of people's TVs out there but it just really comes down to a

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value this thing typically retails for 2800 you can get it for 2300 but at that

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price point you can get one of the entry level

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lgwo that's you might even be able to get us a c series for that and if not

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you could always go down to a b because there's really not much difference with the bees unless you're watching sports

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in a really bright environment maybe there's an argument to make for a

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brighter uh full array local dimming LCD

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although if you really want to go large and have the 85 inch it's going to be

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cheaper to not get an OLED in that case and if you really want a premium set I

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would go for a qdo lid from Samsung display if if you are into the LCDs and

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you want a mini LED you can get a value one from TCL they're already on their

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third generation mini LED and this is Sony's first generation of it so I just

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don't see myself going for this TV I'm

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either going to go for a a cheaper but still good mini LED or or if I'm going

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to pay this premium price I'm going to get an all that all right so thanks for

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