In terms of hardware, this has got to be one of the best, most premium,
state-of-the-art TVs you can buy. [music] It's the Sony Bravia 82.
Unfortunately, Sony kind of just snatched defeat from the jaws of victory
at the last second with the way they've set this up, and we'll talk about that
later with some charts and crap. The good news is you can still get to like
near perfection if you know what you're doing. But before all that, let's unbox
it and see if it's different than the one that I have at home from a year or
two ago. Based on this, no, this is a
back panel. It's going to clip on the back and and cover some of the cables
and crap. And I'm just saying it looks similar to the one I have because it has
this uh checker pattern. What else we got? Uh more of the same but smaller
strippy version. Feet. I'm a wall mounty
guy, but these are cool cuz they can go at different heights. I'll show you that later. They're metal. Quick start guide.
The remotes in here. Whoa. This has got to be recycled plastic or something
because it's got that speckle pattern that you see, you know, with your
recycled shoes. I'd rather it was like titanium or something really premium
feeling. But I guess if they're going to cheap out, they can make me feel good
about it. This thing actually has some really cool features that I'll tell you
about later that I never heard of before, even though they're not new to
this model.
Wow. Turned out I didn't even need to make my own sound effects.
Yeah. '90s kid.
Looks kind of small. Hey, 65 in these days. Some guys have 120in TVs at their
place. I can't compete with that.
Showing you how the legs go on. Super simple how the two configurations work.
So, in the low configuration, you're going to be in the top two. And you can see how there will be very low clearance
between your TV console and the TV itself. Just this much. And in the high
configuration, you're [music] going to have that much space. So, you could
potentially fit a soundbar under there. For IO, we got a couple USB ports that
you can plug random stuff into. We got actually the power button here. So, like
the actual on TV buttons. There's a single button and it's back here, not on
the bottom or the edge like you normally find. inconvenient, but I guess it's
there. Then, interestingly, there is a hardware toggle switch for the
microphone. The microphone that you would use for, you know, talking to an
assistant or potentially for calibrating
the speakers that are on board here. We'll talk about that later. You can
turn on or off, which is actually nice. Digital audio out and then four HDMI
ports. two of which are 2.1 with the 4K120 and uh one of them has EER. Then
you've got your LAN port and some, you know, remote ones so that if you want to
put in an IR sensor, which I actually have in my setup, uh you can do that.
And then finally, you got your little uh your boomer knob at the bottom.
All right, finally we can get this thing turned on and uh see what's on TV. Oh,
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>> They're asking you, is it on a table or is it on the wall? And the TV speaker
sound will be optimized based on the position of the TV. So, what I am
assuming is that they're assuming if you put it on a wall, your TV is going to be
closer to the wall, really hugged up next to it. So, that's going to be a
different kind of sound profile than if it were on a stand, presumably farther.
However, you actually might want to choose wall mount if it's on a stand
really close to the wall. And you might want to choose tabletop stand if you've
wall mounted it, but your wall mount sticks out far from the wall like mine
does. [music] At least our current situation is clear. That's that that's on the table. A note about the TV's
onboard speakers for a second. This is the type of TV where [music] the
speakers is actually the whole screen glass vibrating like this with two
actuators. In addition to that, it has two 10 watt subwoofers. Uh, and one
thing that's cool is you can actually do like a room correction calibration
[music] during the onboard setup right here, which is going to use the microphone in the TV and maybe even the
microphone in the remote so it knows where my main listening position is.
Let's see. Hold your TV remote at chest level and point it towards the TV.
She done. What is this? You consent to
Samba TV collecting and processing viewership information from this TV. Why
would I choose? Why would I accept that? What do [music] I get? You know, from
the kindness of my heart, you know, here's my data. Go make money. No, man.
Save and exit. There is an app you can download where you can change the TV
settings and you can [music] use it as your remote in case you lose this in the
couch cracks, which happens [music] on my couch all the time. But not looking
at it right now because I don't want to connect my Google account to it because then I'll be talking to my Google Home
at my actual house and it'll think I'm talking about a TV that I don't actually
own anymore. And there's a feature to find your remote and make it beep, which
is critical. [laughter] I'm not speaking from experience, I promise. How about
some content? Look at this thing. It's a 4K. This is the 65 in HDR Dolby Vision
uh QD OLED. And it looks fantastic. It
is so sparkly, so bright, so vivid and
black and I I just I can't even talk straight cuz I'm watching it. It's so
good to watch. Talking about brightness, there are brighter TVs on the market,
but we tested the brightness here, and it's plenty bright, up to 2600 nits in
HDR on the vivid mode, which I personally wouldn't use, but it's still
around 2,000 nits on more professional modes. In SDR, it drops dramatically
down to, you know, around 800 nits. So,
if you're watching, you know, TV like Friends in a really bright sunbathed
room might not cut the mustard for you.
Your mileage may vary. Looking at how saturated and bright that is. My first
question is what mode are we in? Now, when it comes to the modes, the first
interesting thing is that weirdly they like there's modes that are
nested in modes. So, for example, we're in the video/ images content type right
now. In addition to that, they have game and they have PC. And so within each of
those content type buckets, there are different modes. In the PC bucket,
there's one mode. In the game bucket, there's two modes. Like each of them has
a standard one. And then there's of course the picture and images bucket,
which has many modes. And we are currently in the standard. Just feel
like they could have been like a normal TV had one bucket, but okay, whatever.
for each of those buckets, they all have a standard one. So, if you make tweaks
to the standard mode, you actually have to make those tweaks in each bucket.
Not to mention, okay, there's also different inputs. And on newer TVs, when
you tweak the settings of whatever mode, they're usually particular to a to that
input. So, if you go to another input, you'd have to change it there, too. Although, on this TV, you can check a
box to apply to all inputs, which actually is really nice to have that
flexibility. So, we're in the video and images bucket. And just one quick note,
look at this little toggle. Adjust only for YouTube app. That is kind of sick
actually. Uh I like that cuz I have found that on my Bravia only on YouTube
I have a desync with the the mouse moving and the sound I hear. If there is
a setting to fix that now and I can apply it just to app that would be helpful. All right, here we are finally.
That's a cute bird picture. We are in
standard mode this whole time. >> Hello there. The first time we uploaded
this video, we got a lot of feedback about our testing methodologies. We
decided to re-upload it with this section to help add some clarity before
James gets into the lab testing results in a second here. When we evaluate a TV,
we use the industry's longestablished color matching function, the CIE 1931
twoderee standard observer. It's dated and not perfect, but it's the reference
that the majority of reviewers and as far as we know, calibrators and TV
manufacturers still use today. A newer
model, the CIE 170-2 2015, was created
with a variety of goals in mind, including to better reflect how our eyes
perceive narrowband light sources like those found in modern OLEDs. But while
it offers some theoretical benefits, it hasn't been widely adopted. And
depending on who you ask, it may come with undesirable trade-offs of its own.
It's been suggested that Sony may be tuning certain recent TVs towards
behaviors that align more closely with CIE 170-2. That isn't necessarily a bad
thing if true. It would simply reflect a particular design philosophy. Some
people prefer that look. However, at the same time, some people find recent Sony
TVs a bit too blue for their liking. For
our video, we tested the Bravia 82 based
on the CIE1 1931 CMF. So, the results
are consistent, repeatable, and comparable across our entire data set.
This wasn't because 170-2 or other models for that matter are invalid. Not
at all. It just means that we and most of the rest of the industry are still
evaluating moving to it. And CIE is still working on improving things. So,
it's possible an even more different standard will be set in the future.
We'll let you know. And if and when we make a change here, it will most likely
be in an LTLABS.com article. Our goal is
to give viewers trustworthy data that aligns with the broader testing
ecosystem while still acknowledging that your personal preference is what
ultimately matters. Measurements can help for sure. We do them, but they're
only part of the battle. Visual evaluation is highly important and if
the standards evolve, we will evolve with them. But until then, consistency
helps ensure that when we say a TV measures well or poorly, it means the
same thing across every video. This also means when James alludes to this TV not
being accurate out of the box, he just means compared to the 1931 CMF, the
general industry standard. Other publications have shown it testing
differently against some other standards, however. So, it's a bit of a
mixed bag on the testing front, but what isn't much of a mixed bag is basically
everyone thinks it looks fantastic. And this is why, as we have always said, you
should check out multiple reviews or unboxing pluses in this case before
making a major purchasing decision. Go out there, watch or read a variety of
reviews. Get a variety of perspectives, then make your own informed decision or
even just use those as a baseline, then go to the store and make your final
decision in person based on what you like more. Now, back to James. So, let's
see how much more drab and not sexy it is if we go into cinema, which is more
accurate, uh, and professional, which is the most accurate. Show me that
razledazzle. I mean, yeah, it's still it's still
amazing. It's still great. It wasn't just vivid mode. The reds are especially
just really awesome in the yellows. And that's a cutie OLED thing.
>> Vivid mode. >> You want to see vivid mode? >> Yeah.
>> Oh my god, it's eye searing. The brightness is just flying now. Holy. If
you if you focus on just one color, it kind of just like gets your rods and
cones all up. >> [laughter]
>> Honestly, guys, this applies to everything I'm seeing and especially
this mode. You can't even see what I'm seeing. Yeah, this is nuts. You know
what my first test track would be? The 4K Blu-ray, Lord of the Rings,
Fellowship of the Ring, Bridge of Kazadoom, You Shall Not Pass. The fire
from the Brog IS INSANE. [groaning]
YOU COULD JUST see like all the heat on Ian Mckllen's face. It's like ah cinema.
Absolute cinema. Vivid mode is fun for some people. A lot of people buying this
TV though are probably going to be purists who they want to see the creators intent. The closest thing to
the creator's intent is always is going to be the professional mode. However, that doesn't mean you have to use it.
It's kind of like listening to headphones that are really bassy. If you
like the way it looks, good for you. You're weird, though. Let's talk testing
some more. I said in the intro that this this TV like is so close to being the
best and it it's because hardware-wise you can get really great results and we
were able to get really great color accuracy out of this once we calibrated
it. You can see we had delta ease of less than one once we calibrated it.
Most people aren't calibrating their displays though. They're using the value
values that come out of the box. And the out of the box here is in my opinion a
bit disappointing. It's not bad. It's good even. It's just not great until you
get a color monkey or or you just manually do it yourself, which you can
do, or you hire somebody. It's just disappointing to see that it seems the
white point they chose is just kind of skewed pink a bit and it's just throwing
a lot of stuff off. My theory is maybe they're trying to differentiate these
displays from the W OLEDs where the reds aren't as good and so they're just
trying to jack those up which is very appealing but it lowers the actual
accuracy. What we have is the professional mode which is in my opinion
less than professional but it is the best mode on this TV. So I guess use it.
Did you see that bird's face? Look at this cutie. I should take a moment just
for those of you who have never had an OLED or don't really know what that means. Look at this. Look at this. It's
amazing the inky blacks. So, the difference between uh an LED or miniLEDD
again OLED really comes down to with an LED, the the light is always shining
from the backlight and it just gets blocked. The liquid crystals, they twist
to block the light. And so, that's why when you enter a dark room, you can
still see it kind of glowing. You just know the TV's on even though it's displaying full black. It's because
there's light shining from the black light. But on an OLED, they turn the
emitters right off. This it's [music] literally just not on. And so it's as
black as the glasses. That's why they look so awesome, especially in like
night scenes where there's just only the moon illuminated and it's shining
bright. Everything else can be so so black. I love OLEDs. You everyone should
get one if they can. Let's evaluate the speakers real quick. I would never
suggest that you use the onboard speakers, especially with a high-end TV
like this. But let's give them a listen.
Woohoo. All right. Do not go above 50. I think it goes to 100, but gez that
sounded that sounded really distorted and harsh. I think it sounds okay. A lot
of people will just use it this way. I recommend obviously I'm like a home
theater person, [music] so I recommend at least getting bookshelves, maybe even
a soundbar, but as far as TV speakers go, it could be worse. I think the
screen time limiter scheduler is a cool feature, though. So, basically, you can
make it so you can't use this TV during specified hours unless you like enter a
pin. [music] Um, and that is really cool cuz in my house, there's, you know, no
TV after 7:00 p.m. kind of thing in the leadup to bedtime. So, I'm totally into
that. Now, we got the PlayStation 5 connected to this puppy. And you can see
that the content type automatically switched to game. So, that's going to be
lower latency, which is important because the standard latency we measured
on the uh video mode was
poop, but totally sufficient when you're watching a movie. And the lag is way
better when you're in these modes. So, uh it automatically switched to that.
The question we have now though is if we put a movie into our PlayStation, will
it switch back automatically to a video/ images mode? It did. Here we
go. Just launching the Plex app, not even launching content, has switched us
back to the video images content type. Okay, that's cool. Let's go back to
gaming. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Lord of the Rings, we got to see it. Vivid
Hobbits, let's go.
Woo! Oh, I'm getting a tan.
Oh, this is sacrilege. A,
we wired the Ethernet. Now, this should improve things because we're wiring
through the PlayStation, which has gigabit Ethernet. Whereas, if we were
just wiring the TV, that actually might
be slower than your Wi-Fi because the TV Ethernet ports are generally still 100,
which is just insane and criminally low and not sufficient for like a really
heavy bit rate 4K Blu-ray quality movie.
Come on.
I refuse to turn down the quality. But anyway, back to gaming.
Whoa, that was crazy. Did you see that? The colors just changed. I went in the
menu, it still looked all vivid. And then when I hit play on this game, I saw
the color shift because now it's got to be back in the game mode. Let me just
rattle off a bunch of gaming features. With a PlayStation specifically, there's
auto HDR tone mapping. Uh, with any gaming, it is G-Sync compatible, but not
FreeSync compatible because it has the HDMI form variable refresh rate and not
Vasa adaptive sync. And one of the coolest things is with the PlayStation
and with this TV, you can do remote play. So, I don't have a PlayStation,
but if a friend with the PlayStation came over, did not bring their PlayStation, but brought the
controllers, we could play their games on my TV, which I think is amazing.
YouTube quick search. Gaming multiv- view on YouTube. Oh my god. Okay,
zoomers, get ready for this. This is a YouTube multi- view mode where you could
you could choose to have subway surfers on half your screen while you're gaming.
Or you could choose to do what I've done, which is pull up a walkthrough for the game I'm playing. You can also hit
the menu button on the remote to choose which audio you hear. So you can
actually balance the audio between the two sources. That's cool. Now you don't need to have multiple TVs if you just
want to play video games and watch sports at the same time. In terms of pricing, $3,300 USD for the 65 in and
$2,600 for the 55 in. They're not the
cheapest TVs out there. In fact, they're they're among the most expensive TVs out
there. [laughter] As someone with a version of this TV
that's just 1 to two years old, I'm definitely not going to be upgrading. But if you're coming from something
that's like 5 plus years old, this is going to be game changer for you. I will
say when I upgraded to my QD OLED Bravia
from my W OLED, I believe it was like a 2018 LG, once I put it in the color
accurate mode, I could not tell the difference between the two [music] sets.
And you would expect that I had more drab colors from just the lifetime of
that of that TV. It really is only in the vivid mode that you're like, "Wow."
So, yeah, if you have like a 3-year-old LG OLED, probably wouldn't upgrade it
either. So, thanks for watching ShortCircuit, guys. If you're looking for a TV that has more wife acceptance factor,
uh, namely the Frame TV, watch my unboxing of that. It was very fun. Um,
I'm not going to spoil it,