now i have a tv that i think is the best value sony tv that you can buy today and it is the sony
x90j now i've had it about nine months-ish but i have noticed how much the price has changed and
this tv has had a lot of mixed reviews from the go to sony tv to don't buy this sony tv and i
think this tv has mixed reviews because it just does everything okay hang with me i now want to
reframe this tv in your mind a little bit i think that this is the best sony tv you can buy now
because it does everything okay so what does value mean anyway when it comes to tvs it doesn't mean
the best tv and it doesn't mean the cheapest tv so it's some middle point and exactly where that
is is subjective but i'm gonna break down this tv and hopefully explain to you why i think that this
could be the best value sony tv that you can buy if you're after a sony tv then this could be the
most bang for your buck so this is sony's high to mid-range led tv now yes oled is gonna be
off of the table even after a year you're still looking at close to two grand for a 65-inch a80j
this 65-inch x90j you can get for under a grand so what do we have well it's a 4k full array
led tv it supports dolby vision dolby atmos and dts x we have hdmi 2.1 for you gamers and a 120
hertz panel it comes pre-installed with google tv which is one of the cleaner tv operating systems
available that also brings tons of other features as well and we also have sony's xr processor
which brings us a lot of the image enhancements that sony are famous for so on paper what a tv
well let's put it through its paces we're gonna look at brightness reflections motion color gaming
and even just sort of general use too so first of all let's just look at the design it is a bit of
a hefty tv being a full array it's a bit thicker at the back compared to some of the competition
it is a bit fat it sits on these legs that can be positioned as i have it on the edge or
more central if you're looking at putting it on a smaller unit and it does sit at
a height that is just big enough to get a sound bar underneath it now i got this tv
for one main reason and that is it's not an oled now don't get me wrong i love oleds in fact
i really love oleds but sometimes they're just not practical the perfect black and contrast is just
so phenomenally good but the problem is is that they're just not suitable for a bright living
space if you have a tv in a particularly bright room you can see around the room like the tv's
a mirror and if you have the tv opposite window it is actually impossible to watch in contrast
an led tv like this one can get much brighter in those bright spaces and can sort of combat
some of these issues with reflections now tvs like this x90j have a very aggressive anti-reflective
material on them if the tv is directly opposite a window or a light bulb then yeah you're gonna
see that it's not gonna hide that but in terms of reflections of just objects around the room you're
not going to be seeing any of that so this will handle it a lot better than an oled now this tv is
still only approaching 800 nits on a 10 window so it's not actually the brightest led tv you can get
but being just that little bit brighter mixed with this anti-reflective coating it makes a
massive difference now how are the blacks well being a va panel we do get some fairly
decent local dimming now there are only 24 local dimming zones which doesn't sound like a lot
especially with some of the competition being like mini led with hundreds of local dimming
zones now if i'm using a test pattern like you can see here it is fairly noticeable however it
actually doesn't perform that badly in real scenes and in all honesty when watching films i didn't
really notice it now blooming on this tv is fairly noticeable especially in very high contrast scenes
that's a bit of a shame but you can't win them all now because this is a va panel the viewing angles
aren't great now if you're straight on watching tv it does look fantastic but as soon as you start
getting to about close to 45 degrees you do know it's quite a noticeable degrade in the picture
and if you're on more of an angle than that well then this thing is pretty much unwatchable so do
bear in mind if you have a big room where people are going to be sitting all the way around it
you might struggle with this tv for that now the x90j runs google tv which is a pretty
clean operating system now google tv is packed with tons of features uh things like apple
airplay and chromecasting and tons of other things like making watch lists from your phone
and stuff like that so it is very intuitive it also uses things like your watch history to make
proper personal recommendations to you so if you're the type of person who spends a lot of time
flicking through looking for something to watch then that might be of interest to you one of the
things i really like about google tv is that it is a very clean look you're not overcrowded like lg's
web os now navigating around the tv is fairly simple there are some shortcuts on the remotes
the dial isn't the biggest so it's a little bit fiddly when you're trying to type on a keyboard
but you do have the option of using your voice to do things like search for programs and stuff
so it's not the end of the world there navigating around on the tv though did show me that it is a
little bit slow and you do notice a little bit of a delay when trying to move around and it isn't as
crisp and sharp as you might want it to be now out of the box the colors are fantastic so well done
sony now without properly calibrating the display the best way to get a good picture is to stick it
in a mode like cinema mode but even without calibrating this tv does do a fantastic job
of getting those colors accurate now how does it handle gradients well the x90j knocks it out
of the park again there is some customization for how much gradient handling you want if you
turn it up a bit too high then it is gonna sort of reduce some of the sharpness on things like
textures like faces and make everything look a little bit too smooth but if you have that at a
fairly low setting it does a good job and i think the best way of testing it out is just to open up
disney plus and you can see from looking at that background what sort of banding this tv does now
the sound on the x90j is lacking a little bit considering how fat it is you'd expect them to
sort of squeeze some better speakers on there but unfortunately not it does sound just a little bit
tinny and is lacking that sort of bassy punch so if you are looking for something with a little
bit more of a kick then i would potentially hook this up to an external sound system and now if
you are planning on saving a little bit of money with this tv then maybe some of that money can go
to a sound bar that gives you a bit of a pop i don't know i don't know it's up to you now
what about motion motion handling on this tv is actually pretty great playing 24 fps content on
this tv works without a hitch and the tv can smooth judder with very minimal artifacts so
you can see if i freeze frame my camera here there are some artifacts but nothing that's going to be
massively noticeable in a busy scene so if you are the type of person who is going to be using this
smoothing and anti-jello system then i wouldn't worry too much about it because it does handle
itself pretty well so the response time on the tv is only about 3.9 milliseconds so if any fast
moving objects are going around the tv it's going to leave very minimal dark smearing what about
gaming well i was actually very impressed about the gaming capabilities of this tv so recently
sony did update the tv with support for vrr or variable refresh rates now if you have a gaming pc
or the latest generation xbox you'd have been able to use vrr for a little while they have also now
just updated the ps5 which means you'll be able to use that feature using the ps5 with
the sony tv but if you have managed to get hands on the ps5 there is a feature called perfect for
playstation 5. now that brings two features auto hdr tone mapping and auto genre selection which
means that your picture is always going to be the best possible for what the ps5 recommends with its
games so if you are looking for a tv for gaming and you want the best option for your ps5 then
maybe the sony is going to be one for you now the input lag is pretty good it's not as good as oled
tvs but it's only about 10 to 11 milliseconds so that is still very very quick and you're probably
not going to notice any issues with that so all in all is a pretty good gaming experience on the x90j
it's not the greatest tv i've ever had and it's not the best tv that i've got at the moment but
for the price that you can pay for it it is the best value do you not agree me is there a tv that
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