I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating: Sony has the best local dimming algorithm in the business.The Sony X900H has one of the best picture quality to price ratios you’ll find this year. The Sony X900F supports HDR10 and Dolby Vision. It sounds good too, delivering a surprisingly open and atmospheric soundstage.Another set from Sony's high-end Master Series, the 65in AG9 is a gorgeous OLED TV, perched on a pedestal stand with thin black bezels making the chassis melt away in darkened rooms. To achieve this for every source including the native Netflix app, you need to set (from the Motion tab in the picture setting) the 'Motionflow' to 'True Cinema' and set 'CineMotion' to 'High'. Its picture quality is too good for the price.Moving on to color, I was impressed by the X900H’s out-of-box color accuracy in the Cinema and Custom picture presets, both in SDR and HDR modes. Note that none of these 'Clearness' settings affect the input lag in the 'Game' picture mode.The TV has a 120Hz panel, and its processing can interpolate lower frame rate content to 120fps to match the panel.
The Sony X900F's local dimming does a good job of extending its wide color gamut down to a range of different brightness, so darker colors will look as saturated as brighter colors.Average frequency response. The TV's local dimming can boost highlights to be very bright because the rest of the scene in HDR content is usually fairly dim when compared to SDR content, so the TV has more power budget for the highlights.Great TV for PC use. The X900F feels responsive thanks to low input lag and excellent motion handling. It's an attractive set from the front, with a slim brushed-metal bezel although make sure its wide feet can be accommodated on your TV stand. I was pleased with how stable the stand wound up being, but I’m not sure how I feel about the look of ultra-slim blade-style feet, nor was I impressed with the cable management solution, which is basically just a clip on the back of the feet.This came as no surprise, as Sony’s processing has always been the best in the business. This is different from the flicker behavior in "Clearness = 2" and Max, where zones of different brightness will have similar flicker and motion clarity. Also of no surprise was the cleanliness of the VA panel, which exhibited no dirty screen effect (DSE) or blotchiness.For a few years now, movie buffs, home theater owners, and just about anyone who wanted to get the most beautiful TV picture quality they could for their money have been looking at Sony’s “mid-tier” X900 series models. Motion processing is - typically for Sony - on point. Google Assistant can perform a lot of actions on the TV, as well as interface with the rest of the Google ecosystem; commands like 'open YouTube', 'switch to HDMI 3', 'pause video', 'how's the weather', and 'turn off the TV' all work well, though commands to change picture settings like 'set the brightness to 20' and 'switch to Game mode' don't work.Like most Sony TVs, the only buttons on the TV are three small buttons on the back edge.
Sound quality is also impressive by flatscreen standards. There's no visible banding when playing 10-bit content, such as HDR. Even upscaled 4K content looks brilliant, with the Sony TV matching the best 4K models for sharpness, detail and motion handling.Not far off flagship Sony TV performance for less than flagship money.Sony makes some of the best TVs around. There's some blooming around the center cross and very little backlight bleed around the edges in the native black uniformity picture. TV-Hersteller werben mit HDR für hellere, farbstärkere Bilder. The set offers (or will soon offer, rather) features that none of its other TVs will this year — Variable Refresh Rate (VRR), especially appealing to gamers. The A8 combines two of these actuators with two subwoofers.Sony's first 8K TV is an absolute stunner.Sony TVs tend to use the Android TV operating system.
When in this mode the real scene brightness decreases by about 60 nits compared to with no flicker("Clearness = 0"), but as the brightness of the screen decreases its flicker becomes more severe, similar to how a TV with PWM dimming behaves. Here’s what you will get.You’ll note I didn’t say anything about screws, and that’s because you won’t need them. All your key smart services are catered for, including Netflix and Amazon Video with HDR10, HLG and Dolby Vision HDR all supported.It takes a bit of time getting the Sony to look its best, but once settled, you're treated to a balanced picture, full of detail and crisp three-dimensionality. Picture quality is also great. Throw in ultra-realistic colours and Sony's excellent motion processing, and you've got quite a TV on your hands.©Future Publishing Limited Quay House, The Ambury,BathBA1 1UA. Similar to other Sony TVs we have measured, this TV has little distortion at low volumes. People will notice a drop in picture quality when viewing from the side, so this isn't a good choice for rooms with wide seating arrangements.The Sony X900F is a great TV for a range of usages.
In the box with the TV is Sony’s unnecessarily long remote control, batteries for the remote, some product literature, and two legs — or, feet if you prefer.Contrast, which is the most noticeable element of picture quality, is based on black levels. The Sony KD-55A8 combines a 2020 LG OLED panel with Sony’s 2020 picture and sound smarts, and does so to excellent effect, making it the best Sony TV we've seen this year. Throw in great sound by flatscreen TV standards and you have a clear class-leader and one of Sony's best ever TVs.