1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,460 Reason number one that I don't need a new TV is that I already have a great one. 2 00:00:03,460 --> 00:00:07,780 The Sony A95K has a first generation Quantum Dot OLED panel 3 00:00:07,780 --> 00:00:12,440 that is bright enough to use during broad daylight while still having those inky blacks 4 00:00:12,440 --> 00:00:17,180 that we all love with OLED. Reason number two is that Sony is almost certainly 5 00:00:17,180 --> 00:00:21,500 working on a successor to my new TV. 6 00:00:21,500 --> 00:00:25,800 Meet the A95L, whose main claim to fame 7 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:31,460 is being, according to Sony, up to 200% the brightness of the last generation 8 00:00:31,460 --> 00:00:35,180 while also including Wi-Fi 6. They don't want me to talk about 9 00:00:35,180 --> 00:00:38,180 that it still has only 100 megabit wired networking, 10 00:00:38,180 --> 00:00:42,820 but hey, too bad. You guys are just in time. 11 00:00:42,820 --> 00:00:46,140 Grab the other end and we're gonna lift the box over the top. Ready? 12 00:00:46,140 --> 00:00:49,580 One, two, three, lift! Lift! Lift! 13 00:00:50,820 --> 00:00:54,220 All right. Whoa, look inside! What? 14 00:00:54,220 --> 00:00:57,380 What's inside? Oh, well what? It's foam, darling. 15 00:00:57,380 --> 00:01:01,580 Okay, actually, I need someone to crawl inside. Can you get that? What? 16 00:01:01,580 --> 00:01:05,500 Wow, this is so much easier. Now I can see why they had child labor. 17 00:01:05,500 --> 00:01:08,900 How would the adults fit in the chimneys? Let's have a look at what we got. 18 00:01:08,900 --> 00:01:11,060 We got two feet, one for each side. 19 00:01:12,060 --> 00:01:15,500 We got a couple little pieces of decorative plastic. 20 00:01:15,500 --> 00:01:20,140 We're probably not gonna need any of that. Digital audio connector adapter. 21 00:01:20,140 --> 00:01:23,500 Oh, it goes into a three and a half millimeter jack 22 00:01:23,500 --> 00:01:27,420 and it gives us a spittiff output. Oh. 23 00:01:27,420 --> 00:01:32,460 Don't sound too excited. Hey, do you guys remember when we called Uncle Asher 24 00:01:32,460 --> 00:01:37,460 and I had to put a webcam on the laptop? This appears to be the solution to that. 25 00:01:37,460 --> 00:01:41,300 It's a camera that goes on the top of your TV. 26 00:01:41,300 --> 00:01:44,860 I really am not sure how I feel about having a camera on my TV, 27 00:01:44,860 --> 00:01:48,140 but as a plus, it does have a physical shutter button 28 00:01:48,140 --> 00:01:53,300 even if that doesn't necessarily mean that these dual microphones aren't doing anything. 29 00:01:53,300 --> 00:01:57,020 Oh, we'll give it a shot. This module also handles automatic audio adjustments 30 00:01:57,020 --> 00:02:01,700 and ambient light compensation, but we had a way of doing that before it was called an ambient light sensor. 31 00:02:01,700 --> 00:02:06,100 So maybe it's a lot better. I would certainly hope so. I really don't know how I feel about this. 32 00:02:06,100 --> 00:02:10,900 Whoa, look at this, it's Future Linus and Colin's made an exciting discovery about my old TV. 33 00:02:10,900 --> 00:02:14,500 What is it, Colin? Colin, speak up. 34 00:02:14,500 --> 00:02:21,060 He says the old one does include a camera and just I never knew, which I guess is fine 35 00:02:21,060 --> 00:02:25,300 because if it sucks on the current one, it probably sucked on that one too. 36 00:02:25,300 --> 00:02:28,420 Good to know. Oh, okay, we're doing a remote comparison behind you, Lin. 37 00:02:28,420 --> 00:02:33,540 Very similar to the old one, except they compressed the top buttons 38 00:02:33,540 --> 00:02:36,940 and they added another row of licensing fee generators. 39 00:02:36,940 --> 00:02:40,080 I mean, buttons. Making a return is a handy dandy feature 40 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:43,940 that I wish I was aware of before. Do you guys know how much time I spend looking 41 00:02:43,940 --> 00:02:48,140 for this remote? No. It has a speaker on it. 42 00:02:48,140 --> 00:02:51,180 All you have to do is click a thing on the TV and it makes a noise. 43 00:02:51,180 --> 00:02:55,700 Here we go. There's only one button. A sound will play for two minutes. 44 00:02:56,740 --> 00:03:00,580 I mean, eventually. Oh, there we go. 45 00:03:01,580 --> 00:03:04,000 That would have saved me so much time. 46 00:03:05,220 --> 00:03:09,060 Thankfully, the new one has it too and now I know about it. Before we go any further, 47 00:03:09,060 --> 00:03:14,620 I feel like we should talk about my top picks for you here. John Stewart, no problem, big fan. 48 00:03:14,620 --> 00:03:19,020 A lot of this other stuff. Let's talk about Sony's Google TV implementation. 49 00:03:19,020 --> 00:03:24,620 There's a lot of really good things about it, like the ability to quickly and easily install 50 00:03:24,620 --> 00:03:28,180 any apps you want, like the usuals, your Netflix, your YouTube, your Plex, 51 00:03:28,180 --> 00:03:32,180 but also pretty much anything, because it's flipping Android, which is awesome. 52 00:03:32,180 --> 00:03:36,780 But there are certain things that you cannot get rid of. 53 00:03:36,780 --> 00:03:42,860 And that, as far as I can tell, contains some recommendations that, 54 00:03:42,860 --> 00:03:46,140 let's just put it this way, could lead to awkward conversations 55 00:03:46,140 --> 00:03:49,580 with the kids or misses. See, it's Tubi. It's this Tubi thing. 56 00:03:49,580 --> 00:03:53,420 I can't get rid of it. And you can say, dislike, 57 00:03:53,420 --> 00:03:57,340 but you can't say, don't show me anything from Tubi anymore. 58 00:03:57,340 --> 00:04:01,980 In general, the interface is pretty responsive, but it is something I would like to see improved. 59 00:04:01,980 --> 00:04:05,580 And I will not be getting that for this particular Christmas 60 00:04:05,580 --> 00:04:09,580 because as far as I can tell, this has pretty much the same onboard processor. 61 00:04:09,580 --> 00:04:14,260 All right, there we go. And now she comes. 62 00:04:14,260 --> 00:04:19,940 Okay. The new model is substantially lighter than the old one. 63 00:04:19,940 --> 00:04:22,620 Not that that makes an enormous difference. Please don't roll on the TV. 64 00:04:23,620 --> 00:04:27,260 I don't see a very big difference except the thing which is in the back 65 00:04:27,260 --> 00:04:30,860 and the big gap cable. Yeah, I'm noticing a little downgrade already 66 00:04:30,860 --> 00:04:36,480 that I'm not super happy about. Instead of using a standard C13 power cable for the AC in, 67 00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:40,100 it's got whatever this is. Really? Why? 68 00:04:40,100 --> 00:04:43,660 It doesn't even take up less space. One nice thing though is the simplified IO. 69 00:04:43,660 --> 00:04:47,620 Instead of having it spread out on the side and the bottom, it's now all on the edge, 70 00:04:47,620 --> 00:04:52,140 which I personally find quite a bit easier to access. Wow, it's measurably thinner, hey? 71 00:04:52,140 --> 00:04:55,740 And that's in spite of the fact that they had a heat dissipating layer on this, 72 00:04:55,740 --> 00:04:59,300 which is a big part of how they're achieving that increased brightness. 73 00:04:59,300 --> 00:05:03,100 You can't get them in kid sizes. This was a one-off, but hey, when hoodies. 74 00:05:03,940 --> 00:05:07,580 49.99. Something we can get a good look at back here 75 00:05:07,580 --> 00:05:10,580 is the built-in speakers. They've got a total of four speakers 76 00:05:10,580 --> 00:05:16,180 and Sony is using their screen vibration tech that allows you to turn your TV into a center channel. 77 00:05:16,180 --> 00:05:19,660 What's cool about that is that while they do support 78 00:05:19,660 --> 00:05:23,740 their proprietary input with S center speaker in 79 00:05:23,740 --> 00:05:30,420 from their brand receivers, they also support just a simple plus minus speaker wire input, 80 00:05:30,420 --> 00:05:34,340 which is uncharacteristically Sony. Really refreshing to see. 81 00:05:35,220 --> 00:05:39,540 Mr. Grigory, were you kneeling on the back of the TV? No. 82 00:05:39,540 --> 00:05:42,380 Were you sitting here? Oh, okay. 83 00:05:43,460 --> 00:05:46,900 Was he? That other? 84 00:05:46,900 --> 00:05:52,660 I wouldn't describe the quality of that center channel as amazing, but for built-in TV speakers, 85 00:05:52,660 --> 00:05:56,860 they're pretty darn good, even though I did ultimately end up putting in a dedicated center channel. 86 00:05:56,860 --> 00:06:00,700 All right, we're ready to fire this thing up. Oh, I need another helper. 87 00:06:00,700 --> 00:06:07,500 Who's gonna crawl back there and plug it in? This TV has support for up to 4K, 120 Hertz, HDR10, 88 00:06:07,500 --> 00:06:14,060 Dolby Vision, pretty flippin' awesome, but we've only got two ports that are 4K, 120 Hertz, 89 00:06:14,060 --> 00:06:18,060 port four and port three, which is the ERC port. 90 00:06:20,700 --> 00:06:24,620 A little bit more here. Okay. 91 00:06:24,620 --> 00:06:28,140 Apparently I didn't do a good enough job, so I said, fine, you can do it. 92 00:06:30,620 --> 00:06:34,540 Oh, that's awesome. This is legitimately kind of awesome. 93 00:06:34,540 --> 00:06:40,020 Sony, can we take it one step further and have me be able to, like your receiver, 94 00:06:40,020 --> 00:06:45,180 which has a settings lock on it, set it up the way that I like it, not default, 95 00:06:45,180 --> 00:06:49,460 and then lock it. If you got kids, you'll get it. 96 00:06:49,460 --> 00:06:52,780 Google Assistant, I get personal results. 97 00:06:52,780 --> 00:06:56,900 You know, maybe that's the problem, because I turned all this stuff off, 98 00:06:56,900 --> 00:07:00,900 so that's why I'm getting like, butts hanging out of everywhere on my thumbnails. 99 00:07:00,900 --> 00:07:05,500 If anyone from Sony or Google is watching this, I'd love to know what this is. 100 00:07:05,500 --> 00:07:09,700 I just signed into my account. What are you doing? If this is account specific, 101 00:07:09,700 --> 00:07:13,780 what data are you unpacking and doing anything with? 102 00:07:13,780 --> 00:07:18,460 You're not downloading any apps. I know that. And if it's not specific to my account, 103 00:07:18,460 --> 00:07:22,140 why weren't you doing it in the background? Well, I was typing in my username and passwords. 104 00:07:22,140 --> 00:07:25,780 Like, why? All right. See, this is how I know that they weren't installing 105 00:07:25,780 --> 00:07:29,300 any apps, because my apps aren't here. That took like four minutes. 106 00:07:30,460 --> 00:07:33,740 See, Tubi. It won't stop talking about Tubi. 107 00:07:33,740 --> 00:07:36,740 All right, I want to see that scene where Gandalf comes back. 108 00:07:36,740 --> 00:07:40,540 Oh God, that's smoothing. I forgot, I factory reset it 109 00:07:40,540 --> 00:07:43,660 so it doesn't have Brandon from Labs' tweaks yet. 110 00:07:43,660 --> 00:07:48,220 Let's fix that. First of all, we are not gonna be in vivid mode. 111 00:07:48,220 --> 00:07:52,780 Or actually, maybe we should, because we were only able to hit Sony's advertised 112 00:07:52,780 --> 00:07:57,040 2000 nits peak brightness in a 1% window in vivid mode, 113 00:07:57,040 --> 00:08:01,500 which Brandon from the lab found to be less accurate than the professional mode. 114 00:08:01,500 --> 00:08:08,380 Sony is doing a really good job of retaining detail on this extremely bright backlit scene. 115 00:08:08,380 --> 00:08:15,100 Obviously, not as good as a mastering monitor with a third generation panel, but pretty darn good. 116 00:08:15,100 --> 00:08:20,180 Considering how brightly this room is lit right now, I am extremely happy with this picture. 117 00:08:20,180 --> 00:08:24,060 With that said, once I get it dialed in to the settings I would actually use, 118 00:08:24,060 --> 00:08:27,860 I'm gonna be expecting more like 1700 nits peak brightness 119 00:08:27,860 --> 00:08:34,420 or even a little bit less. Also, the HDR color accuracy was okay. 120 00:08:35,580 --> 00:08:38,620 Though that's what we expect from a retail set. 121 00:08:38,620 --> 00:08:43,340 Oh, this is so cool. You can make adjustments app by app. 122 00:08:43,340 --> 00:08:47,180 I actually love that. So not only will it detect certain sources, 123 00:08:47,180 --> 00:08:51,620 like say for example, you plug in a PlayStation 5, it'll go, oh, hey, games, 124 00:08:51,620 --> 00:08:56,060 and switch everything over into game mode, but I don't remember seeing this. 125 00:08:56,060 --> 00:08:59,780 Oh, they've moved some stuff around. Sound settings used to be here 126 00:08:59,780 --> 00:09:05,460 and you could have like a quick access to flip between TV sound and external audio system sound. 127 00:09:05,460 --> 00:09:10,300 I can't say I'm a big fan of how they've re-cajiggered this into two different settings menus. 128 00:09:10,300 --> 00:09:20,460 I don't lie, this thing kind of slaps. 129 00:09:20,460 --> 00:09:23,900 That's, it's starting to get a little distorted. Yes, I'm not at max, 130 00:09:23,900 --> 00:09:27,740 but I wouldn't go above that on this TV anyway, but that is very usable. 131 00:09:27,740 --> 00:09:31,860 Oh, interesting. It not only auto adjusts brightness, 132 00:09:31,860 --> 00:09:37,460 according to ambient light, it also adjusts color temperature, which I actually definitely prefer that. 133 00:09:37,460 --> 00:09:42,340 However, this is what it's doing without the camera. Why don't we go ahead and throw the camera on it? 134 00:09:42,340 --> 00:09:46,260 Come here, buddy. Am I allowed to put this on while it's powered? 135 00:09:46,260 --> 00:09:51,100 Let's hope so. Oh, hello, set up Rabia cam. 136 00:09:51,100 --> 00:09:56,340 No way. Detect your viewing position 137 00:09:56,380 --> 00:10:00,380 to optimize picture and TV. What would it adjust about the picture? 138 00:10:00,380 --> 00:10:04,260 I mean, this thing already has QD OLED viewing angles. 139 00:10:04,260 --> 00:10:08,180 I could watch it from here. Interesting. It changes the volume balance 140 00:10:08,180 --> 00:10:12,740 of the left and right speakers. I can't see that working with an external AVR, 141 00:10:12,740 --> 00:10:16,980 but hey, if you're only using built-in speakers, then I guess that's kind of, 142 00:10:16,980 --> 00:10:20,420 okay, I gotta try the gesture control though. Gesture control. 143 00:10:20,420 --> 00:10:24,620 Ah, tutorial. Hey, there we go, it got it. 144 00:10:27,340 --> 00:10:30,580 Slide your hand. Wait, what? 145 00:10:30,580 --> 00:10:34,140 Oh, oh, oh no. Wait, are you messing with me? 146 00:10:34,140 --> 00:10:35,980 Are you guys? No, okay, you're not. 147 00:10:37,540 --> 00:10:38,780 Oh wow, this. 148 00:10:46,060 --> 00:10:50,500 If this is the killer app that is supposed to make me want to put a camera on my TV, 149 00:10:50,500 --> 00:10:54,580 if only there was some way to do this. Can I just demonstrate I know how to do that 150 00:10:54,580 --> 00:10:59,260 and can we be done? Yeah, I'm never gonna touch that ever again. 151 00:10:59,260 --> 00:11:03,660 Cool. What else we got with this camera? 152 00:11:03,660 --> 00:11:07,540 Okay, so if I go closer, theoretically, 153 00:11:07,540 --> 00:11:08,820 it should go dimmer. 154 00:11:11,100 --> 00:11:13,700 Okay guys, this is a thing, it's pretty subtle. 155 00:11:14,700 --> 00:11:19,220 Here we go. Finally, the same piece of content on both TVs, 156 00:11:19,220 --> 00:11:23,940 even if this is a TV, I'm not sure if this is a TV, but I'm not sure if this is a TV. 157 00:11:23,940 --> 00:11:29,020 It's a content on both TVs, even if this isn't really an ideal comparison scenario. 158 00:11:32,100 --> 00:11:35,780 If there's a difference, it ain't easy to spot, at least on YouTube. 159 00:11:37,940 --> 00:11:42,100 Okay, are we on it? What are, are you kidding me? 160 00:11:43,140 --> 00:11:44,940 What just happened? 161 00:11:46,700 --> 00:11:50,340 I just want to see them side by side, okay? I'm not asking for that much. 162 00:11:52,220 --> 00:11:55,460 I'm not using this TV anymore, so I guess it doesn't really matter. 163 00:11:57,140 --> 00:12:00,980 See you later, buddy. Forget the side by side. As far as I can tell, 164 00:12:00,980 --> 00:12:07,460 they haven't done anything in particular for the anti-glare treatment, but the brightness is great. 165 00:12:07,460 --> 00:12:12,220 This is something I really like on the TCL downstairs. 166 00:12:12,220 --> 00:12:15,340 SDR content pops like mad, 167 00:12:15,340 --> 00:12:18,780 because it just applies kind of a boost 168 00:12:18,780 --> 00:12:22,780 to the brightest parts of the frame, even though there is no HDR metadata. 169 00:12:22,780 --> 00:12:27,220 Normally, it wouldn't be able to go so bright, but one of my favorite movies ever, 170 00:12:27,220 --> 00:12:30,580 How to Train Your Dragon, is not available in HDR, 171 00:12:30,580 --> 00:12:36,580 and so that boosted brightness SDR mode that the TV downstairs has is an awesome way to enjoy it, 172 00:12:36,580 --> 00:12:39,660 and this TV can't hit 5,000 nit's peak brightness 173 00:12:39,660 --> 00:12:44,580 like that one, but this definitely pops more than I'm used to seeing an SDR, 174 00:12:44,580 --> 00:12:48,660 and I'm really happy to see that. It's not as good as the one downstairs. 175 00:12:48,660 --> 00:12:51,900 That said, the differences between this and last gen, 176 00:12:51,900 --> 00:12:56,900 at least subjectively watching it, are pretty negligible. 177 00:12:57,220 --> 00:13:01,020 So yeah, if you have an older TV and you want a big picture quality upgrade, 178 00:13:01,020 --> 00:13:04,820 you want to go QD OLED, in spite of some of the software struggles 179 00:13:04,820 --> 00:13:09,580 you guys saw today, I've actually been extremely happy with this thing, 180 00:13:09,580 --> 00:13:13,220 and this, other than moving a couple of menu items around 181 00:13:13,220 --> 00:13:16,620 in ways that I'm not sure I agree with, appears to be more of the same. 182 00:13:16,620 --> 00:13:22,700 Truthfully, if I wasn't doing it to make a video, I would say that unless you're a massive cinephile, 183 00:13:22,700 --> 00:13:26,300 the upgrade is not even worth the effort of pulling the mount off the old TV 184 00:13:26,300 --> 00:13:29,740 and putting it on the new one, let alone spending all the extra money on it. 185 00:13:29,740 --> 00:13:31,340 Oh, subscribe to ShortCircuit.