- What's up everyone?
Sony did us a huge favor flying us out to New York.
I've never been here before
so we're gonna check out some sites.
But first, I gotta go inside
to check out the cool new TVs they've got.
(upbeat music)
We're gonna start with the cream of the crop, the A95L.
This is a huge upgrade from last year's A95K
that you might remember.
We upgraded Linus' home personal TV.
It took a lot of soul searching, but we finally got there.
We settled on Sony because, what can I say?
Their processor is just kind of the best.
So when you take something
like QD-OLED coming from Samsung display,
and then you get Sony to absolutely enhance everything in it
from the physical aspects like the stand
and the actual box and everything to the picture itself.
It's just going to delight you.
I can't explain it any better than that.
The biggest improvement
with this generation is easily the brightness increase.
So if you know 1,000 nits wasn't enough for you before,
they're talking about 200% increase.
So we're gonna see something
like 2,000 nits coming outta these displays.
Which when you've got inky blacks of OLED
and then you've got these perfect,
every pixel is a dimming zone,
just absolute explosions of brightness,
it looks incredible.
And I know that you're looking at this through your monitor
and you're gonna say, "Ah, whatever."
But when you're in person and you can see it, oh my God,
does it ever look absolutely stunning?
One of the other bigger improvements
aside from the brightness is actually they've changed
out the stand completely.
Before, if you remember the A95K video,
it's a bar that kind of sits flat
across either the front or the back
depending on how you wanna orient it.
But now they've changed it
to a more traditional like double-leg system
that you're probably a lot more familiar with
that's on most TVs.
And the best part is you can actually do this
in three different orientations.
There's this way that we've got here.
And then you can go higher up
so that you can fit a soundbar underneath.
And then on the larger TV, on the 77-inch,
you're gonna have the option
to do a much narrower leg placement
so that you're not kind of screwed if you, you know,
you don't have a giant console like this,
you've just got a little end table that your old 44-inch
or your 45-inch fit on just fine.
But not anymore. You're doing the big upgrade now.
- [David] Check the weight though.
- Yeah, check the weight. Yeah, that's a good point.
As for IO, it's mostly the same.
We've got our center speaker in and out here,
we've got some USB-A, built-in mic switch,
digital optical, center speaker in.
HDMI 1, 2, 3, 4 ports
with the bottom two being labeled as 4k 120
with eARC on HDMI 3.
And then we've also got a LAN and remote and cable antenna.
if you really want to use your cable antenna in 2023.
The two 4k 120 ports are HDMI 2.1 spec.
So you are gonna get variable refresh rate on both of those.
And then HDMI 3 specifically has your eARC
so if you've got a sound system that you want to hook into,
have everything return on a single channel, you can do that.
And then if you do need to hook up even more devices,
1 and 2 are gonna only be 2.0 B.
Which is still pretty decent,
but you're probably not gonna get VRR.
That's going to be enough for just about anyone honestly.
You've also got pretty nice cable management clip
on the bottom here,
so you should be able to route everything through the bottom
and out the back of the TV
so you're not really gonna see it.
Just like the stand actually curves inward
so you really don't even notice it
aside from when you're looking straight on
and you see this front leg here.
One of the other smaller improvements
is to the audio this time around.
They've got 2.2 actuators to vibrate the entire screen
which is similar to their last TV.
Unfortunately, we can't listen to it today.
There's no audio testing.
But based on previous experience,
I'm sure it's going to be at least pretty good.
That's the A95L from Sony.
It's the one I really came here to see their flagship.
It's an absolute beast of a display,
especially when you've got that quantum dot OLED
getting 200% brighter
and then you've got better speakers.
It is a little thinner, nine millimeters.
But you know what? It's also got an improved stand.
You could do multiple modes.
It's amazing, but it's still a little pricey.
And if it's outta your price range,
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- The X95 Mini LED.
Oh my God, we were actually shown the X83 upstairs
and we didn't get a chance to see the X85 until now.
The X83 is kind of the successor to last year
and the X85 is going to be the next step up.
But it's only available in 85 inches.
That's enormous, probably too big for a lot of people.
So if you do wanna save a bit of money,
you can stick with the X93,
which should come in a few other sizes.
It's mini LED, which looks fantastic
and it does have some improvements
over OLED that some people prefer.
You tend to get brighter images.
There's really no risk of image retention
and honestly, it's still looks really good.
Even the blacks, while they're not quite as inky
as you're gonna get on an OLED panel,
this thing still gets really dark.
Now last year's model was really good, don't get me wrong.
But this year, you're gonna get up to 30% brighter
and up to 20% more dimming zones.
So you're not gonna get nearly as much bloom
even though there honestly wasn't that much
in the last model to begin with.
It's just getting tighter and tighter and tighter
with those local dimming zones.
So that, you know, you've got a star up here,
you're gonna get mostly just the star
that's actually peeking instead of like a little bit
of blooming or haloing around it.
We've got pretty similar IO to the last TV.
Built-in mic switch though,
it's a little different instead of our speaker wire.
And then we've still got two USB-A,
optical, video in for center speaker.
Four HDMI ports with 3 and 4 specifically being 4k 120,
3 having eARC on it
if you wanna do any audio return channel stuff.
And then we've got our LAN port,
we've got remote ports and cable antenna.
And we've got the same wraparound stand
to keep everything kind of sleek and stylish,
keep your cables tucked away.
And while we're down here,
we gotta talk about the audio
because we're not using down-firing speakers
like you're gonna find in a lot of other TVs.
Got actuators up here and it should sound super good.
They've got a slight improvement over last year's model
and I can't wait to check it out.
Obviously, if you're gonna want a ton of bass,
you're still gonna want a subwoofer.
But these speakers sound really, really good.
Now it's an 85-inch TV.
You're gonna get better sound out of a bigger display
most of the time,
but I was really impressed frankly.
And while you don't need a soundbar
or an external sound system
when you're spending this much money on a TV,
you do kind of want that.
It's just gonna elevate
what's already a really, really good experience.
Mini LED has really come a long way
and it's only gonna keep going.
But it's still kind of pricey,
especially when you've got a panel this size.
So if you want something a little cheaper
and maybe a little smaller, you can get the X90L.
It's their LED TV, full array, local dimming.
Now I have been a bit against LED for the most part,
just because we're getting so much more
when it comes to newer display technologies
like OLED and mini LED.
However, I know that those are still very expensive
and the reality is when you're adding up
to 60% more dimming zones,
LED can still look really good.
Frankly, I was super impressed
when they showed us the demos upstairs.
They had their old model, they had a competitor's model,
and then they had this guy and it just crushed it.
Now don't get me wrong, you're still gonna get some bloom,
you're gonna get haloing and stuff.
But it's really just a phenomenal experience
and it's something that a lot of people
don't even realize they want or need
until they start watching HDR content
that actively uses all of these dimming zones
to give you those like big flashes
of peak brightness and whatnot.
And then to really utilize all those dimming zones
and give you that good HDR experience,
they're boasting up to 30% more peak brightness,
which is just phenomenal.
Like LED was already getting bright enough,
but to really kind of keep up with mini LED
and now even OLED is starting to get bright,
they've really bumped it up and juiced it
and it looks just phenomenal.
The last really huge improvement that I wanna talk about
is XR Clear Image being implemented in this display.
Now a lot of you probably aren't even gonna care that much,
but the reality is it's actually really, really impressive.
They're taking old 1080p or 2k content
and then upscaling or uprising to 4k
and they're doing a really good job of it honestly.
There's way less film grain,
everything just looks a bit sharper.
They showed us last year's model, this year's model,
and a competitor upstairs,
and this was just boom, easily the winner
when it comes to watching watching older content
on a newer display.
It's also able to detect if you've got an external device
like a Blu-ray player already upscaling the image.
For IO, it's again pretty similar
to the last couple of displays.
The only difference is we don't have
either a speaker wire at the top or a mic switch,
but we do get two USB ports and an optical port.
We've got video in for S-center speaker in.
And then four HDMI ports,
the bottom two of which are gonna both gonna be 4k 120,
with 3 being eARC.
And then finally we've got our ethernet, remote ports
as well as cable.
As for physical differences,
this guy is 14 millimeters thinner, which isn't much,
but you know, it all adds up.
And it doesn't have quite the same wraparound stand
as the other ones.
However, it does have at least two positions.
So you can do it high like this
if you wanna have a soundbar out front,
or you can go lower if you want this thing
to be basically flush with your center console.
And you know, I forgot to mention this with the other TVs,
but if you wanna put this thing above your fireplace,
you can mount it to the wall.
They've all got mounts on the back here.
There are a couple of down-firing speakers on this guy.
However, you've also got tweeters at the very top,
which is gonna help really just make a wider sound stage
and everything is gonna sound a bit more clear.
It's not perfect and it's not quite as good
as we saw on the mini LED or on the OLED.
However, last year's model was going for about $1,000.
So there's no confirmation on pricing
or release dates or anything like that,
but, you know, you can expect something in that ballpark.
And what that means is you can then spend more money
on a sound system like a new soundbar
if you just want better dialogue clarity
for your movies or TV shows
or a full surround experience
if you really want to get engaged in the movies
or video games or whatever content you're enjoying.
Now we've mentioned all the 4k 120 ports on these TVs,
and with that comes the new game menu,
which is gonna give you variable refresh rate,
motion blur reduction, black equalizer, crosshair,
crosshair type
which is not something that I use personally,
but it is a feature on monitors that's been a mainstay
for a decade, longer than that,
and it hasn't really shown up on TVs too much.
So for the people that use it,
it's gonna be there, it's gonna be handy.
Another feature that isn't
on this TV specifically right now,
but it will be available in the future, at launch,
is the ability to change the screen size
so that you can shrink this down to 27 inches.
if you want to try to play on something
that's more competitive,
maybe you don't wanna like crank your head
all the way around,
you're sitting really close
and you gotta look up at the map,
you don't have to do that anymore.
So you can change it to whatever size
fits your comfort level depending on the content
that you're enjoying.
One minor feature update is they've got all their eco stuff
into a single dashboard now
and you can change it on the fly.
And look at this tree!
Don't you like making trees get bigger?
Another really cool feature that's coming to this guy
that we've already seen on their monitors like the INZONE M9
is auto genre picture switching.
So say you're on your PS5, you're playing games.
Great, you want all the game stuff turned on, boom.
Now you wanna watch some video content on your PS5,
it's gonna turn all that stuff off, turn on the other stuff
like movie mode and different picture stuff
and it's just gonna work automatically.
That's it for the X90L.
It's a big improvement in a number of ways.
More zones, more brightness, up to 98 inches
so you can get a huge bad boy, one of these guys.
We've got the 75-inch right here
which feels small compared to an 85-inch,
but it's actually quite huge.
Overall, everything is really impressive.
We saw improvements across the entire stack
from their LED full array local dimming stuff to mini LED,
all the way up into QD-OLED.
And I gotta say, that QD-OLED, it's gonna be pricey.
The last one was like four or five grand
so expect something similar.
But frankly, if you can afford it,
especially now with all the improvements
that have come out in the last year,
you're not gonna be disappointed.
I'll tell you that much.
Honestly, all of them,
even that $1,000 LED with the full array and local dimming.
I've been telling people for a little while now
to just avoid LED in general,
but frankly, it wasn't bad, especially at the price point.
You're getting a lot of TV for about $1,000.
Thanks for watching.
That's a Sony event. We're gonna see all these later.
Check out LTT. Check out Short Circuit.
I'm gonna eat some pizza.
Pretty good.