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The editors liked
It's really thin
Crisp picture
Good colours
Pictures are top class due to their excellent contrasts
Warm colours and deep black levels. The set also produces wonderfully full-bodied sound from its massive speakers
4K picture quality is insanely good
The set's design is imperious
And the sound quality is the best we've heard from a TV.
Stunning colours with true blacks
Brilliant 4K upscaling
Fantastic sound
Beautiful wedge design
Genuinely intelligent smart features
Really easy to use
Bold wedge design
Superb image performance
Stereo magnetic fluid speakers
Native 4K images are astonishing
Upscaled 4K images are brilliant too
3D images are the best we've seen
Beautiful
Premium design
4K looks flipping fantastic
The best-sounding TV we've tested
Resolution four times higher than Full HD
Contrast over 5
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Perfect colours
Excellent 3D with virtually no crosstalk
Good motion interpolation
Two remotes
One of which is compact and NFCcompatible
Sound quality unlike anything we've ever heard
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Sharp 4K pictures
Great Blu
Ray upscaling
Clearer passive 3D
Excellent built
In audio
Supremely accurate colours
Very good black levels
Impressive dynamic range
Mostly clean scaling of 720p and above
Tons of VoD services
Top Mobile App
Stunning UHD and upscaled picture quality
Class-leading audio
Fair price for what's on offer
The editors didn't like
Patchy
Bleeding backlight
Needs better contrast
The smart TV system lacks apps for 4oD and ITV Player
And although the speakers sound great
They make the TV very chunky. Its 3D performance is also a letdown as it suffers from some crosstalk
Black levels could be better
And Sony's smart TV interface lacks a little sophistication
Speaker design might not suit all
New onscreen Social View Twitter app is somewhat antisocial
3D isn't perfect - but who wants that anyway
Limited catch-up TV services
Distracting Twitter app
It's huge
It costs £25k
There's a rather small audio sweetspot
We did mention it costs £25k
Right?
Almost no 4K content to watch
No 4K source material yet
So you can't make full use of the Ultra HD resolution
Glossy screen sensitive to glare
Speakers are set into the TV
Nonremovable
Response time below average
Wide footprint
Some motion blur
Average remote
SD upscaling struggles
Some dirty screen effect
Too small for most to appreciate resolution improvement
4K picture quality is insanely good, the set's design is imperious, and the sound quality is the best we've heard from a TV.
Black levels could be better, and Sony's smart TV interface lacks a little sophistication
The 65X9005A is a hugely significant TV. It proves that 4K-resolution pictures don't need 80-inch or more screens to look amazing, that 4K TVs don't have to cost five figures, and that you really can get amazing sound out of an integrated TV audio system...
As a statement piece, the Sony KD-84X9005 is something else. It’s beautiful to behold and able to drop jaws to floors when graced with the right source material – and that includes vanilla 2K content. The football fraternity and Hollywood creatives s...
Published: 2012-10-20, Author: John , review by: itproportal.com
Native 4K images are astonishing, Upscaled 4K images are brilliant too, 3D images are the best we've seen
It costs £25k, There's a rather small audio sweetspot, We did mention it costs £25k, right?
As we mentioned near the start of this review, 4K sources are not certain to go mainstream any time soon, or even at all. But as well as side-stepping this issue by delivering the best 3D and Blu-ray pictures we've seen, if there's one thing the 84X9005 ...
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Published: 2018-04-02, Author: Bình , review by: topnewreview.com
Abstract: This is an eye-catching 4K screen from Sony, but Steve May would rather be dreaming of electric sheepAfter eight mints and vinyl records. These are just two things thinner than a Sony X9005C 4K/Ultra HD TV. It's not much of a list, granted, but then t...
Published: 2014-07-09, Author: Steve , review by: techworld.com
Overall, the KD-65X8005B is a barnstormer of a 4K bigscreen television. We've seen some great Ultra HD performers this year, but none are so comprehensively satisfying as this new X9, and our caveats remain minor. From design to AV performance, the KD-65X...
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Published: 2014-06-05, Author: Stephen , review by: 4k.com
Some seriously awesome and highly advanced speakers, 3840 x 2160 Ultra HD resolution, Beautiful and very subtle color rendering thanks to the Triluminous Display, Comes with Smart TV, Access to the Sony Entertainment Network, Comprehensive connectivity op
Too expensive for what it offers, 4K and Triluminous display fails with regular DVD, Too bulky, thick and heavy, Motion rendering is lacking, Needs improvements on DVD resolution
The KD-65 is one hell of a fine purchase as far as 4K TVs go. However, in terms of overall value per dollar spent, you're probably better off going for something like the Samsung UN65F9000, which offers better motion rendering, slightly better connectivi...
Sony's X9 offers the same Sony Entertainment Network platform as other 2013 Sony TVs with TV apps and access to streaming services. Besides our usual complaints of sluggishness and a suboptimal user experience there is one significant shortcoming. There i...
Superior picture quality, Leading audio quality, Strong connectivity technologies
UHD support remains weak
Rival television companies tout motion-enabled remotes and voice controlled sets, but these half-baked features are more gimmick than value add. Sony's focus on sound and picture quality has less appeal on paper, but it makes a great difference to watchin...
Wide footprint, Some motion blur, Average remote, SD upscaling struggles
It's a strange thing to say that a major highlight on one of the first 55-inch Ultra HD TVs is, in fact, sound quality. But that's exactly what the KD-55X9005A excels at, along with searing amounts of 4K detail and a fine upscaled Blu-ray experience. We l...
