WEBVTT 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. 00:00:03.460 --> 00:00:07.780 The Sony A95K has a first generation Quantum Dot OLED panel 00:00:07.780 --> 00:00:12.440 that is bright enough to use during broad daylight while still having those inky blacks 00:00:12.440 --> 00:00:17.180 that we all love with OLED. Reason number two is that Sony is almost certainly 00:00:17.180 --> 00:00:21.500 working on a successor to my new TV. 00:00:21.500 --> 00:00:25.800 Meet the A95L, whose main claim to fame 00:00:25.800 --> 00:00:31.460 is being, according to Sony, up to 200% the brightness of the last generation 00:00:31.460 --> 00:00:35.180 while also including Wi-Fi 6. They don't want me to talk about 00:00:35.180 --> 00:00:38.180 that it still has only 100 megabit wired networking, 00:00:38.180 --> 00:00:42.820 but hey, too bad. You guys are just in time. 00:00:42.820 --> 00:00:46.140 Grab the other end and we're gonna lift the box over the top. Ready? 00:00:46.140 --> 00:00:49.580 One, two, three, lift! Lift! Lift! 00:00:50.820 --> 00:00:54.220 All right. Whoa, look inside! What? 00:00:54.220 --> 00:00:57.380 What's inside? Oh, well what? It's foam, darling. 00:00:57.380 --> 00:01:01.580 Okay, actually, I need someone to crawl inside. Can you get that? What? 00:01:01.580 --> 00:01:05.500 Wow, this is so much easier. Now I can see why they had child labor. 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. 00:01:08.900 --> 00:01:11.060 We got two feet, one for each side. 00:01:12.060 --> 00:01:15.500 We got a couple little pieces of decorative plastic. 00:01:15.500 --> 00:01:20.140 We're probably not gonna need any of that. Digital audio connector adapter. 00:01:20.140 --> 00:01:23.500 Oh, it goes into a three and a half millimeter jack 00:01:23.500 --> 00:01:27.420 and it gives us a spittiff output. Oh. 00:01:27.420 --> 00:01:32.460 Don't sound too excited. Hey, do you guys remember when we called Uncle Asher 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. 00:01:37.460 --> 00:01:41.300 It's a camera that goes on the top of your TV. 00:01:41.300 --> 00:01:44.860 I really am not sure how I feel about having a camera on my TV, 00:01:44.860 --> 00:01:48.140 but as a plus, it does have a physical shutter button 00:01:48.140 --> 00:01:53.300 even if that doesn't necessarily mean that these dual microphones aren't doing anything. 00:01:53.300 --> 00:01:57.020 Oh, we'll give it a shot. This module also handles automatic audio adjustments 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. 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. 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. 00:02:10.900 --> 00:02:14.500 What is it, Colin? Colin, speak up. 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 00:02:21.060 --> 00:02:25.300 because if it sucks on the current one, it probably sucked on that one too. 00:02:25.300 --> 00:02:28.420 Good to know. Oh, okay, we're doing a remote comparison behind you, Lin. 00:02:28.420 --> 00:02:33.540 Very similar to the old one, except they compressed the top buttons 00:02:33.540 --> 00:02:36.940 and they added another row of licensing fee generators. 00:02:36.940 --> 00:02:40.080 I mean, buttons. Making a return is a handy dandy feature 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 00:02:43.940 --> 00:02:48.140 for this remote? No. It has a speaker on it. 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. 00:02:51.180 --> 00:02:55.700 Here we go. There's only one button. A sound will play for two minutes. 00:02:56.740 --> 00:03:00.580 I mean, eventually. Oh, there we go. 00:03:01.580 --> 00:03:04.000 That would have saved me so much time. 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, 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. 00:03:14.620 --> 00:03:19.020 A lot of this other stuff. Let's talk about Sony's Google TV implementation. 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 00:03:24.620 --> 00:03:28.180 any apps you want, like the usuals, your Netflix, your YouTube, your Plex, 00:03:28.180 --> 00:03:32.180 but also pretty much anything, because it's flipping Android, which is awesome. 00:03:32.180 --> 00:03:36.780 But there are certain things that you cannot get rid of. 00:03:36.780 --> 00:03:42.860 And that, as far as I can tell, contains some recommendations that, 00:03:42.860 --> 00:03:46.140 let's just put it this way, could lead to awkward conversations 00:03:46.140 --> 00:03:49.580 with the kids or misses. See, it's Tubi. It's this Tubi thing. 00:03:49.580 --> 00:03:53.420 I can't get rid of it. And you can say, dislike, 00:03:53.420 --> 00:03:57.340 but you can't say, don't show me anything from Tubi anymore. 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. 00:04:01.980 --> 00:04:05.580 And I will not be getting that for this particular Christmas 00:04:05.580 --> 00:04:09.580 because as far as I can tell, this has pretty much the same onboard processor. 00:04:09.580 --> 00:04:14.260 All right, there we go. And now she comes. 00:04:14.260 --> 00:04:19.940 Okay. The new model is substantially lighter than the old one. 00:04:19.940 --> 00:04:22.620 Not that that makes an enormous difference. Please don't roll on the TV. 00:04:23.620 --> 00:04:27.260 I don't see a very big difference except the thing which is in the back 00:04:27.260 --> 00:04:30.860 and the big gap cable. Yeah, I'm noticing a little downgrade already 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, 00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:40.100 it's got whatever this is. Really? Why? 00:04:40.100 --> 00:04:43.660 It doesn't even take up less space. One nice thing though is the simplified IO. 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, 00:04:47.620 --> 00:04:52.140 which I personally find quite a bit easier to access. Wow, it's measurably thinner, hey? 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, 00:04:55.740 --> 00:04:59.300 which is a big part of how they're achieving that increased brightness. 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. 00:05:03.940 --> 00:05:07.580 49.99. Something we can get a good look at back here 00:05:07.580 --> 00:05:10.580 is the built-in speakers. They've got a total of four speakers 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. 00:05:16.180 --> 00:05:19.660 What's cool about that is that while they do support 00:05:19.660 --> 00:05:23.740 their proprietary input with S center speaker in 00:05:23.740 --> 00:05:30.420 from their brand receivers, they also support just a simple plus minus speaker wire input, 00:05:30.420 --> 00:05:34.340 which is uncharacteristically Sony. Really refreshing to see. 00:05:35.220 --> 00:05:39.540 Mr. Grigory, were you kneeling on the back of the TV? No. 00:05:39.540 --> 00:05:42.380 Were you sitting here? Oh, okay. 00:05:43.460 --> 00:05:46.900 Was he? That other? 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, 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. 00:05:56.860 --> 00:06:00.700 All right, we're ready to fire this thing up. Oh, I need another helper. 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, 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, 00:06:14.060 --> 00:06:18.060 port four and port three, which is the ERC port. 00:06:20.700 --> 00:06:24.620 A little bit more here. Okay. 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. 00:06:30.620 --> 00:06:34.540 Oh, that's awesome. This is legitimately kind of awesome. 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, 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, 00:06:45.180 --> 00:06:49.460 and then lock it. If you got kids, you'll get it. 00:06:49.460 --> 00:06:52.780 Google Assistant, I get personal results. 00:06:52.780 --> 00:06:56.900 You know, maybe that's the problem, because I turned all this stuff off, 00:06:56.900 --> 00:07:00.900 so that's why I'm getting like, butts hanging out of everywhere on my thumbnails. 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. 00:07:05.500 --> 00:07:09.700 I just signed into my account. What are you doing? If this is account specific, 00:07:09.700 --> 00:07:13.780 what data are you unpacking and doing anything with? 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, 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. 00:07:22.140 --> 00:07:25.780 Like, why? All right. See, this is how I know that they weren't installing 00:07:25.780 --> 00:07:29.300 any apps, because my apps aren't here. That took like four minutes. 00:07:30.460 --> 00:07:33.740 See, Tubi. It won't stop talking about Tubi. 00:07:33.740 --> 00:07:36.740 All right, I want to see that scene where Gandalf comes back. 00:07:36.740 --> 00:07:40.540 Oh God, that's smoothing. I forgot, I factory reset it 00:07:40.540 --> 00:07:43.660 so it doesn't have Brandon from Labs' tweaks yet. 00:07:43.660 --> 00:07:48.220 Let's fix that. First of all, we are not gonna be in vivid mode. 00:07:48.220 --> 00:07:52.780 Or actually, maybe we should, because we were only able to hit Sony's advertised 00:07:52.780 --> 00:07:57.040 2000 nits peak brightness in a 1% window in vivid mode, 00:07:57.040 --> 00:08:01.500 which Brandon from the lab found to be less accurate than the professional mode. 00:08:01.500 --> 00:08:08.380 Sony is doing a really good job of retaining detail on this extremely bright backlit scene. 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. 00:08:15.100 --> 00:08:20.180 Considering how brightly this room is lit right now, I am extremely happy with this picture. 00:08:20.180 --> 00:08:24.060 With that said, once I get it dialed in to the settings I would actually use, 00:08:24.060 --> 00:08:27.860 I'm gonna be expecting more like 1700 nits peak brightness 00:08:27.860 --> 00:08:34.420 or even a little bit less. Also, the HDR color accuracy was okay. 00:08:35.580 --> 00:08:38.620 Though that's what we expect from a retail set. 00:08:38.620 --> 00:08:43.340 Oh, this is so cool. You can make adjustments app by app. 00:08:43.340 --> 00:08:47.180 I actually love that. So not only will it detect certain sources, 00:08:47.180 --> 00:08:51.620 like say for example, you plug in a PlayStation 5, it'll go, oh, hey, games, 00:08:51.620 --> 00:08:56.060 and switch everything over into game mode, but I don't remember seeing this. 00:08:56.060 --> 00:08:59.780 Oh, they've moved some stuff around. Sound settings used to be here 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. 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. 00:09:10.300 --> 00:09:20.460 I don't lie, this thing kind of slaps. 00:09:20.460 --> 00:09:23.900 That's, it's starting to get a little distorted. Yes, I'm not at max, 00:09:23.900 --> 00:09:27.740 but I wouldn't go above that on this TV anyway, but that is very usable. 00:09:27.740 --> 00:09:31.860 Oh, interesting. It not only auto adjusts brightness, 00:09:31.860 --> 00:09:37.460 according to ambient light, it also adjusts color temperature, which I actually definitely prefer that. 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? 00:09:42.340 --> 00:09:46.260 Come here, buddy. Am I allowed to put this on while it's powered? 00:09:46.260 --> 00:09:51.100 Let's hope so. Oh, hello, set up Rabia cam. 00:09:51.100 --> 00:09:56.340 No way. Detect your viewing position 00:09:56.380 --> 00:10:00.380 to optimize picture and TV. What would it adjust about the picture? 00:10:00.380 --> 00:10:04.260 I mean, this thing already has QD OLED viewing angles. 00:10:04.260 --> 00:10:08.180 I could watch it from here. Interesting. It changes the volume balance 00:10:08.180 --> 00:10:12.740 of the left and right speakers. I can't see that working with an external AVR, 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, 00:10:16.980 --> 00:10:20.420 okay, I gotta try the gesture control though. Gesture control. 00:10:20.420 --> 00:10:24.620 Ah, tutorial. Hey, there we go, it got it. 00:10:27.340 --> 00:10:30.580 Slide your hand. Wait, what? 00:10:30.580 --> 00:10:34.140 Oh, oh, oh no. Wait, are you messing with me? 00:10:34.140 --> 00:10:35.980 Are you guys? No, okay, you're not. 00:10:37.540 --> 00:10:38.780 Oh wow, this. 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, 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 00:10:54.580 --> 00:10:59.260 and can we be done? Yeah, I'm never gonna touch that ever again. 00:10:59.260 --> 00:11:03.660 Cool. What else we got with this camera? 00:11:03.660 --> 00:11:07.540 Okay, so if I go closer, theoretically, 00:11:07.540 --> 00:11:08.820 it should go dimmer. 00:11:11.100 --> 00:11:13.700 Okay guys, this is a thing, it's pretty subtle. 00:11:14.700 --> 00:11:19.220 Here we go. Finally, the same piece of content on both TVs, 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. 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. 00:11:32.100 --> 00:11:35.780 If there's a difference, it ain't easy to spot, at least on YouTube. 00:11:37.940 --> 00:11:42.100 Okay, are we on it? What are, are you kidding me? 00:11:43.140 --> 00:11:44.940 What just happened? 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. 00:11:52.220 --> 00:11:55.460 I'm not using this TV anymore, so I guess it doesn't really matter. 00:11:57.140 --> 00:12:00.980 See you later, buddy. Forget the side by side. As far as I can tell, 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. 00:12:07.460 --> 00:12:12.220 This is something I really like on the TCL downstairs. 00:12:12.220 --> 00:12:15.340 SDR content pops like mad, 00:12:15.340 --> 00:12:18.780 because it just applies kind of a boost 00:12:18.780 --> 00:12:22.780 to the brightest parts of the frame, even though there is no HDR metadata. 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, 00:12:27.220 --> 00:12:30.580 How to Train Your Dragon, is not available in HDR, 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, 00:12:36.580 --> 00:12:39.660 and this TV can't hit 5,000 nit's peak brightness 00:12:39.660 --> 00:12:44.580 like that one, but this definitely pops more than I'm used to seeing an SDR, 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. 00:12:48.660 --> 00:12:51.900 That said, the differences between this and last gen, 00:12:51.900 --> 00:12:56.900 at least subjectively watching it, are pretty negligible. 00:12:57.220 --> 00:13:01.020 So yeah, if you have an older TV and you want a big picture quality upgrade, 00:13:01.020 --> 00:13:04.820 you want to go QD OLED, in spite of some of the software struggles 00:13:04.820 --> 00:13:09.580 you guys saw today, I've actually been extremely happy with this thing, 00:13:09.580 --> 00:13:13.220 and this, other than moving a couple of menu items around 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. 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, 00:13:22.700 --> 00:13:26.300 the upgrade is not even worth the effort of pulling the mount off the old TV 00:13:26.300 --> 00:13:29.740 and putting it on the new one, let alone spending all the extra money on it. 00:13:29.740 --> 00:13:31.340 Oh, subscribe to ShortCircuit.