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Just a few notes about this tv. I bought this open box / clearance at Best Buy a couple months ago for a steal.
It looks near as good as OLED as far as colors are concerned. It is also able to provide very bright light. The local dimming on this is very good in black scenes where there is bright light in the scene. The downside is you will see some blooming in scenes with yellow lights especially if you have it on high.
Cinemotion should be on to use motionflow and that should be set to your preference to remove judder. It works really well, there is some artifacting at times. Since I game at >60fps, I hope some day movies switch to high frame rate as well.
Live color at least on low with peak brightness on high are neat features if you want bright lights to look real. Die hard was really cool with police lights looking life like and the ricochets and flash lights were super bright and incredible to experience.
The upside to the tv of great viewing angles like a OLED is also one of the biggest downsides to the tv due to the rainbow film on it. If you have any sort of lights in front of the tv you will see rainbow reflections. Also interestingly if you lay on your side and look at the tv you will see more blooming. You cannot use any cleaners on the film or you will ruin it.
The acoustic center sync feature is decent. First you will hear a speaker on hiss at all times if you use it. The unfortunate part about it is it only uses the atmos tweeters towards the top back of the tv. It makes the sound very thin and high treble especially if backed against sheetrock . I liked the sound stage it provided with a HTA7000 but hated the treble in the tv so I muffled the speakers to tone it down. I like that you can use the tv menu to control the Sony soundbars.
The Google tv app only mode is nice but I don't use the Google side of it because it's too dim and no way to brighten it outside of an app. The tv seems to work well with the Apple TV 4K on Dolby vision. Some random speaker pops on the hta7000 with it though. Atmos content works well especially with the tv center sync but I'm not impressed by Sonys immersive AE and 360 spatial on non atmos audio and turn it all off.
For gaming it works fine on 120hz and VRR with the PS5 Pro. The auto tone mapping feels gimmicky and I couldn't notice much difference. I did find most games seemed dark so I had to use the advanced contrast enhancer feature to brighten the scene (I also use it on Dolby vision). The menu will show it's in VRR but will not display current fps.
Overall I'd say it's worth this price due to the near oled visuals, but any higher price I'd go for oled to avoid the rainbow reflections and blooming.
bought this for $1298 during black friday. very nice tv! has everything built in that it doesn't need any attachments like roku, firestick, nor chrome cast.
Any idea whats the main difference between this and the X95L, especially for 85 inch. X95L is currently at $1500 for 85 inch.
Which one is a better buy >
Any idea whats the main difference between this and the X95L, especially for 85 inch. X95L is currently at $1500 for 85 inch. Which one is a better buy >
Bought this last week and got delivered a few days ago. Once I saw it drop to this price I pulled the trigger and got it. Great looking bright Tv. I upgraded from a Sony x950G and I can tell the brightness and gaming features.
Any idea whats the main difference between this and the X95L, especially for 85 inch. X95L is currently at $1500 for 85 inch.
Which one is a better buy >
Just a few notes about this tv. I bought this open box / clearance at Best Buy a couple months ago for a steal.
It looks near as good as OLED as far as colors are concerned. It is also able to provide very bright light. The local dimming on this is very good in black scenes where there is bright light in the scene. The downside is you will see some blooming in scenes with yellow lights especially if you have it on high.
Cinemotion should be on to use motionflow and that should be set to your preference to remove judder. It works really well, there is some artifacting at times. Since I game at >60fps, I hope some day movies switch to high frame rate as well.
Live color at least on low with peak brightness on high are neat features if you want bright lights to look real. Die hard was really cool with police lights looking life like and the ricochets and flash lights were super bright and incredible to experience.
The upside to the tv of great viewing angles like a OLED is also one of the biggest downsides to the tv due to the rainbow film on it. If you have any sort of lights in front of the tv you will see rainbow reflections. Also interestingly if you lay on your side and look at the tv you will see more blooming. You cannot use any cleaners on the film or you will ruin it.
The acoustic center sync feature is decent. First you will hear a speaker on hiss at all times if you use it. The unfortunate part about it is it only uses the atmos tweeters towards the top back of the tv. It makes the sound very thin and high treble especially if backed against sheetrock . I liked the sound stage it provided with a HTA7000 but hated the treble in the tv so I muffled the speakers to tone it down. I like that you can use the tv menu to control the Sony soundbars.
The Google tv app only mode is nice but I don't use the Google side of it because it's too dim and no way to brighten it outside of an app. The tv seems to work well with the Apple TV 4K on Dolby vision. Some random speaker pops on the hta7000 with it though. Atmos content works well especially with the tv center sync but I'm not impressed by Sonys immersive AE and 360 spatial on non atmos audio and turn it all off.
For gaming it works fine on 120hz and VRR with the PS5 Pro. The auto tone mapping feels gimmicky and I couldn't notice much difference. I did find most games seemed dark so I had to use the advanced contrast enhancer feature to brighten the scene (I also use it on Dolby vision). The menu will show it's in VRR but will not display current fps.
Overall I'd say it's worth this price due to the near oled visuals, but any higher price I'd go for oled to avoid the rainbow reflections and blooming.
Last edited by Maniac911 April 12, 2025 at 06:19 PM.
I'm looking to upgrade my TV before the switch 2 comes out as I currently have a 65" Vizio m series from 2017.
Would this be a notable upgrade and good option? Wasn't sure if I should be looking for something else
I'm looking to upgrade my TV before the switch 2 comes out as I currently have a 65" Vizio m series from 2017.
Would this be a notable upgrade and good option? Wasn't sure if I should be looking for something else
Its the best bang for buck on the market today imo.
Omg. The guys Samsung sent were unreal. In a bad way. Your wife's deadbeat brother in law who can barely tie his shoes let alone carpentry skills.
Samsung sent one guy for my 85". I helped ofc. Walmart or really Angi double booked twice for the sony. The lifting partner that showed up was high as a kite and sat his fat ass on my very expensive BDI tv stand. And then bailed and the actual installer wanted to reschedule. I'm like bro I'm right here we can lift and fix it np. Anyway I felt bad for that guy, double booked and not getting paid for shit I'm sure.
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It looks near as good as OLED as far as colors are concerned. It is also able to provide very bright light. The local dimming on this is very good in black scenes where there is bright light in the scene. The downside is you will see some blooming in scenes with yellow lights especially if you have it on high.
Cinemotion should be on to use motionflow and that should be set to your preference to remove judder. It works really well, there is some artifacting at times. Since I game at >60fps, I hope some day movies switch to high frame rate as well.
Live color at least on low with peak brightness on high are neat features if you want bright lights to look real. Die hard was really cool with police lights looking life like and the ricochets and flash lights were super bright and incredible to experience.
The upside to the tv of great viewing angles like a OLED is also one of the biggest downsides to the tv due to the rainbow film on it. If you have any sort of lights in front of the tv you will see rainbow reflections. Also interestingly if you lay on your side and look at the tv you will see more blooming. You cannot use any cleaners on the film or you will ruin it.
The acoustic center sync feature is decent. First you will hear a speaker on hiss at all times if you use it. The unfortunate part about it is it only uses the atmos tweeters towards the top back of the tv. It makes the sound very thin and high treble especially if backed against sheetrock . I liked the sound stage it provided with a HTA7000 but hated the treble in the tv so I muffled the speakers to tone it down. I like that you can use the tv menu to control the Sony soundbars.
The Google tv app only mode is nice but I don't use the Google side of it because it's too dim and no way to brighten it outside of an app. The tv seems to work well with the Apple TV 4K on Dolby vision. Some random speaker pops on the hta7000 with it though. Atmos content works well especially with the tv center sync but I'm not impressed by Sonys immersive AE and 360 spatial on non atmos audio and turn it all off.
For gaming it works fine on 120hz and VRR with the PS5 Pro. The auto tone mapping feels gimmicky and I couldn't notice much difference. I did find most games seemed dark so I had to use the advanced contrast enhancer feature to brighten the scene (I also use it on Dolby vision). The menu will show it's in VRR but will not display current fps.
Overall I'd say it's worth this price due to the near oled visuals, but any higher price I'd go for oled to avoid the rainbow reflections and blooming.
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It looks near as good as OLED as far as colors are concerned. It is also able to provide very bright light. The local dimming on this is very good in black scenes where there is bright light in the scene. The downside is you will see some blooming in scenes with yellow lights especially if you have it on high.
Cinemotion should be on to use motionflow and that should be set to your preference to remove judder. It works really well, there is some artifacting at times. Since I game at >60fps, I hope some day movies switch to high frame rate as well.
Live color at least on low with peak brightness on high are neat features if you want bright lights to look real. Die hard was really cool with police lights looking life like and the ricochets and flash lights were super bright and incredible to experience.
The upside to the tv of great viewing angles like a OLED is also one of the biggest downsides to the tv due to the rainbow film on it. If you have any sort of lights in front of the tv you will see rainbow reflections. Also interestingly if you lay on your side and look at the tv you will see more blooming. You cannot use any cleaners on the film or you will ruin it.
The acoustic center sync feature is decent. First you will hear a speaker on hiss at all times if you use it. The unfortunate part about it is it only uses the atmos tweeters towards the top back of the tv. It makes the sound very thin and high treble especially if backed against sheetrock . I liked the sound stage it provided with a HTA7000 but hated the treble in the tv so I muffled the speakers to tone it down. I like that you can use the tv menu to control the Sony soundbars.
The Google tv app only mode is nice but I don't use the Google side of it because it's too dim and no way to brighten it outside of an app. The tv seems to work well with the Apple TV 4K on Dolby vision. Some random speaker pops on the hta7000 with it though. Atmos content works well especially with the tv center sync but I'm not impressed by Sonys immersive AE and 360 spatial on non atmos audio and turn it all off.
For gaming it works fine on 120hz and VRR with the PS5 Pro. The auto tone mapping feels gimmicky and I couldn't notice much difference. I did find most games seemed dark so I had to use the advanced contrast enhancer feature to brighten the scene (I also use it on Dolby vision). The menu will show it's in VRR but will not display current fps.
Overall I'd say it's worth this price due to the near oled visuals, but any higher price I'd go for oled to avoid the rainbow reflections and blooming.
85 is the new 75.
Would this be a notable upgrade and good option? Wasn't sure if I should be looking for something else
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