this is a knife and this is the Sony
x95k the knife slices it dices but the
TV can display your favorite content with over 400 dimming zones and a bunch
of mini LEDs yeah
we're gonna unbox it and see if it's cool check out the buttons the remote
which is new and improved and maybe the OS
and most importantly does the chassis look good because it's got that Sony
premium did I do this wrong knock knock
hello
oh nice you certainly can't see the TV with all this crap on it so let's get it
off all right she's out of the box and as
you can see it has a checkered pattern kind of backing and it's all plastic you
might think uh premium selling this would have some metal but it doesn't but
at least it makes it a little bit lighter parts of it are perforated so some heat can come out I think I might
be looking at some active fans behind this not sure though but what we're here
to do is put the feet on in the box there were two feet they're very slim
and Slick they've got this kind of bronze kind of look to them brush Metal
finish I think that this is kind of a versatile color I think it's going to
look good in a all-white kind of Nordic looking room I think it'll match
different wood tones um it seems pretty versatile it looks
good with black and that's what this is so let's get these legs on there's a
number one here should I do this without instructions guys now there's actually
three different configurations that you can put the legs in which is pretty cool
you can go narrow or you can go wide and
when you go wide you can also go low or you can go high and that's to
accommodate a sound bar much to my chagrin guys just buy bookshelf speakers
please please I don't need the extra height for a sound box I'm not a
soundbar person I an aesthetically I think the wider looks it just looks
cooler but the ideal is obviously wall
mounted with a cable channel that goes behind the wall so it just has that
cordless like floating look that's the best and if you're above a fireplace
which so many people are just get a pull down Mount and then people will forgive
you for having a fireplace TV look how sucked up the feet are to the screen
whoa depending on how
deep set your TV is on the console you might even just use that taller setting
without a sound bar just so it doesn't look weird because otherwise if you're
using this like sucked up version you might want to uh
you might need the TV to be closer to
the front edge but we'll take a look at what that looks
like once we get stood up you know I actually think this is my first time
screwing something with the LTT screwdriver
we got it wow I'm pretty surprised with even what I would describe as a fairly
wide console like this this barely fits
on I was just shy of 55. oh that's uh
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
guess it just has to do with the the nature of the board like if the board is
a square like this you're getting more IO um per Edge but convenience wise would
be better if it was just all on the side because the side AO is just so much
easier to access especially if you wall mount this thing I used to have a a wall
mounted TV that was not on any kind of ARM that you could pull out and I was
always just like trying to bend it Off the Wall getting like my Chromecast
between my fingers and like literally 25 minutes to try to plug this crap in
and there's no way you're going to be able to do it from the bottom the side
was a blessing but if it could all be side that'd be better
on off built-in mic switch that's interesting got HDMI one here and then
the remainder of the hmiser down here number three and four are the HDMI 2.1
that can do 4K 120 hertz then you've got
a lan it probably only supports 100 to up 100 down which is lame but that's the
standard in the industry you've got an optical digital audio out that's good
for like toss link I actually did have to use that before because I had an
older AVR if you have like vintage speakers and stuff that can come in
handy uh then they've got a connector for the remote if you want to have like
a remote extension for your IR blaster then there's a USB
and back up to this side another USB a video in
s center speaker in so this is unique to
this TV it's basically what it allows you to do is to have a surround speaker
configuration let's say it's 5.1 or even
3.0 the point is you can have a left and
right speaker and then wire this into your AVR as a sender speaker using your
TV as a center speaker what I recommend it probably not
the reasons why is you're probably not gonna have a good sound match with your
left and right speaker so if a sound pans across the screen like let's say
it's a car driving by and he goes well you might have a Timber mismatch so it
does doesn't sound consistent as it switches from one speaker to the next uh
the second reason why I wouldn't do that is because the center channel speaker is
in some ways the most most important speaker but it's also kind of the least
important speaker because there's such a thing as a phantom center speaker which
is just an illusion that your brain makes when you have a left speaker and a
right speaker your brain just like kind of creates a center speaker if you hear
sound coming out of left and right equally you'll think it comes from the
center so I probably just wouldn't screw around adding
what are probably bad soundings TV speakers to your mix just me also
another stupid thing about this port I believe it only supports
Sony speakers I believe you can own
that's why it's s Center so um yeah three reasons dot not use that
Port another thing that's in the box is all of these panels which you can use to
cover up all this I O you can see that this Cable Management channel is here
and then you can route the cables out the bottom which is very cool
but let's see how these go on and off you can route your power cable at the
bottom of this if I was wall mounting this I might just
not bother putting this panel on because especially if you have an ARM that's
mounted to say these Vasa mounts right here the arms right here you're gonna
want the cable to go up the ARM so you might end up just having these sit
in a shoe box in a closet for six years because you're not going to throw them
out in case you sell the thing at some point right and then there's actually
these curved ones that belong on this side
honestly it doesn't really matter what the back of the TV looks like for most
people
but if you are one of those people who has the back of the TV in the middle
room because you have like a great room or something like that this could look
worse
huh that was so climactic plus two
points for the amount of fun peels they let you have
okay now I'm finally in a position to evaluate the look of the feet and
whether or not I'd use the lower high setting see what I mean I've like how
sucked up that is it's it's only like a centimeter or like a half inch off the
table this is as close as it can be to the front unless you have the feet
hanging off so you're you're going to have that
I think it's fine if you're kind of at eye level with it
but if it was high up on like some kind of mantle or something you might
actually not be able to see the very bottom of the screen and then imagine
if you will if it was really far back
you need to have a deep ass table for that but sit on the couch your bell take
a seat it looks good yeah yeah looks fine
interesting oh now I want to see the new remote
comes with batteries they are Sony branded I would say this is not a very
premium feeling remote it is plasticky it does have a brushed
look on the front I don't think that's metal though it has some Flex in this
direction but tactility is pretty good it has four
count them four different streamer specific buttons normally you
cannot remap these which is annoying for people with kids because if you have
kids you know it doesn't matter too much if your kid hits the settings button or
the volume button while you're watching something or while their siblings
watching something as soon as they hit one of these streamer buttons everything
shuts down and the channel changes and then the other kid gets mad and then you
gotta stop what you're doing and you got but they pay the bills with these buttons so
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
you don't have to mess around with like the LG apps they don't ask you to use
them but LG apps suck if you do have to use them I like the option to use the
phone you didn't have to use the phone for setup there's an option
to use the TV but then you've got to use your remote to type stuff which sucks
Bravia yeah I'm reading this Sony reading all
of it I wonder if I even have to agree to all these
I agree to none of them that is a dark pattern okay so they have
voice recognition but you remember that switch on the back of the TV you can
toggle with this Hardware switch on and off if you don't want the microphone stuff at all just switch it off
acoustic Auto calibration optimizes the audio output of your TV speakers by
measuring the listening environment using the microphone on the TV remote
control sit where you normally do while watching TV hold it at chest level point it
toward your TV and then don't move
I guess I moved whatever all right here we are and this looks super familiar to
me because I am an NVIDIA Shield user and that also runs on Android so
here it is now one thing though is that
this TV uses the same SOC as the last year's model so that's why it's actually
running Android 10 and not 11 or 12. kind of a drag
one thing I want to check out is some of the settings in terms of the image modes
for picture modes you've got Vivid standard cinema is going to be the most
color accurate on this display and you'll note that there's no filmmaker
mode like what the heck Sony the other brands have filmmaker mode and it's
great because it's not just a color profile it also turns off other things
that enthusiasts tend to hate like motion interpolation or most motion
smoothing so filmmaker mode is like your best bet once if you see that on a TV
you just know it's probably the most color accurate and it's not going to have that other Malarkey turned on just
makes it easier one of Sony's claims to fame is its socs though and it's
processing like it's it's uh AI picture
modes and sharpening and stuff like that I I and other purists tend to just turn
that processing off anyway so if you're going to do that then that's another
reason not to pay a premium for a Sony for some reason this Pinocchio thing
just creeps me out ambient light sensor could be useful if you're in a room
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
be super bright during the day if it's a sunbathed room and you want the
brightness to be sufficient and then you but you don't have to change the
settings so later that evening you make it dark because it's it's too dang
bright and Searing your eyeballs you can just use this ambient light sensor
feature where it's going to read the room if you will and adjust accordingly
one thing I want to talk about though mainly is the technology behind the
backlight the dimming zones and stuff so let's head over to YouTube and turn on
one of those cool uh dimming Zone test videos to see what it looks like so This
TV has something like 425 435 dimming zones it's it's 36 by 12 I believe
so right now we're watching this little doc go around and I can see there's a
bit of a halo around it that looks like it's about that big this TV is kind of a
hybrid in that it's a VA panel or vertical alignment which are known to
have great blacks not known to have great viewing angles so Sony actually
incorporates another layer in their panel stack that kind of helps the
viewing angles out but even still if you're if you're off axis to any large
degree you're going to see way more blooming and other artifacts
than you will if you're sitting in a more regular position in the front
and keep in mind guys that even if you're using an OLED or some kind of
futuristic micro lead TV where each
pixel is a loom is a self-emissive and can turn right off you will still have
blooming it's called veiling glare and it'll actually just it's an artifact of
your own eyes lenses so you could never completely remove it don't kid yourself
that you're not going to see any Halos if you've got an OLED you still will
um you'll just see less on that Moon I can see like the whole ball is pretty
much like this and try the speakers out here
oh boy that's tinny
to bring together a group of remarkable people
it's like they're talking to me through a tin can
oh boy all right there's obviously zero base but that's par for the course the
TVs because people want thin TVs you just can't get enough speakers in there
uh it doesn't sound great get a sound bar it'll help it be more
curable understandable comprehensible
now be aware guys as far as HDR and this
does support Dolby Vision HDR you will get better backlight performance out of
the larger versions of this TV as they have more dimming zones the 75 inch has
600 dimming zones and the 85 inch has 768 zones so even accounting for that
size it's more zones per square inch so my overall Impressions with this TV and
this picture quality is it's fine it's not it's a nice TV it's going to be
nicer than a lot of people's TVs out there but it just really comes down to a
value this thing typically retails for 2800 you can get it for 2300 but at that
price point you can get one of the entry level
lgwo that's you might even be able to get us a c series for that and if not
you could always go down to a b because there's really not much difference with the bees unless you're watching sports
in a really bright environment maybe there's an argument to make for a
brighter uh full array local dimming LCD
although if you really want to go large and have the 85 inch it's going to be
cheaper to not get an OLED in that case and if you really want a premium set I
would go for a qdo lid from Samsung display if if you are into the LCDs and
you want a mini LED you can get a value one from TCL they're already on their
third generation mini LED and this is Sony's first generation of it so I just
don't see myself going for this TV I'm
either going to go for a a cheaper but still good mini LED or or if I'm going
to pay this premium price I'm going to get an all that all right so thanks for
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