Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “I don’t need this upgrade – Sony A95L”.
Reason number one that I don’t need a new TV is that I already have a great one. The Sony a95 K has a first generation Quantum do OLED panel. That is bright enough to use during broad daylight, while still having those Inky blacks that we all love with OLED reason. Number two is that Sony is almost certainly working on a successor to my new TV meet the a95 L, whose main claim to fame is being according to Sony up to 200 %, the brightness of the last generation, while also including Wi-Fi 6. They don’t want me to talk about that. It still has only 100 megabit wired networking, but uh Hey too bad. You guys are just in time grab the other end and we’re going to lift the box over the top ready one 2: three lift lift LIF. All right who look inside what what’s inside uh? Oh well, what that it’s foam, darling! Okay, actually I need someone to crawl inside. Can you get that? What wow this is so much easier now I can see why they had child labor.
How would the adults fit in the chimneys? Let’S have a look. What we got. We got two feet, one for each side. We got a couple, little pieces of decorative plastic. We probably not going to need any of that digital audio connector adapter. Oh, it goes in, it goes into a 3 and 12 mm Jack and it gives us a spiff output. Oh don’t sound too excited hey.
Do you guys remember remember when we called Uncle Asher and I had to put a webcam on the laptop. This appears to be the solution to that. It’S a camera that goes on the top of your TV.
I really am not sure how I feel about having a camera on my TV, but as a plus it does have a physical shutter button, even if that doesn’t necessarily mean that these dual microphones aren’t doing anything well, we’ll give it a shot. This module also handles automatic audio adjustments and ambient light compensation, but we had a way of doing that before, for it was called an ambient light sensor. So maybe it’s a lot better. I would certainly hope so really don’t know how I feel about this, who look at this. It’S future elius and colins made an exciting discovery about my old TV. What is it Colin Colin speak up. He says the old one does include a camera and just I never knew, which I guess is fine, because if it sucks on the current one, it probably sucked on that one too good to know. Oh okay, we’re doing a remote comparison behind you, Len very similar to the old one, except they compressed the top buttons and they added another row of Licensing fee generators. I mean buttons making a return. Is a handy dandy feature that I wish I was aware of before.
Do you guys know how much time I spend looking for this remote? No, no, it has a speaker on it. All you have to do is click a thing on the TV and it makes a noise here we go, there’s only one button, a sound will play for 2 minutes. I mean eventually. Oh there we go.
That would have saved me so much time. Thankfully, the new one has it too, and now I know about it before we go any further, I feel like we should talk about my top picks for you here. John Stewart, no problem big fan a lot of this other stuff. Let’S talk about Sony’s, Google, TV implementation, there’s a lot of really good things about it, like the ability to quickly and easily install any apps.
You want, like the usuals, your Netflix, your YouTube, your Plex, but also pretty much anything cuz, it’s Flippin Android, which is awesome, but there are certain things that you cannot get rid of and that, as far as I can tell contains some recommendations that um, let’s just Put it this way could lead to awkward conversations with the kids or misses, see it’s tuby, it’s this tuby thing. I can’t get rid of it and you can say dislike, but you can’t say don’t show me anything from tub anymore in general. The interface is pretty responsive, but it is something I would like to see improved and I will not be getting that for this particular Christmas, because, as far as I can tell, this has pretty much the same onboard processor, oh yeah, there we go and down.
She comes okay. The new model is substantially lighter than the old one, not that that makes an enormous difference. Please don’t roll on the TV. I don’t see a very big difference except the thing jig in the back and the big scat table. Yeah, I’m noticing a little downgrade already that I’m not super happy about.
Instead of using a standard C13 power, cable for the AC in it’s got whatever. This is really why it doesn’t even take up less space. One nice thing, though, is the simplified IO. Instead of having it spread out on the side and the bottom, it’s now all on the edge which I personally find quite a bit easier to access.
Wow, it’s measurably, thinner, hey and that’s in spite of the fact that they have a heat dissipating layer on this, which is a big part of how they’re achieving that increased brightness. You can’t get get them in kids sizes. This was a one-off, but uh, Hey W hoodies 999 $ 49.99, something we can get a good look at back. Here is the built-in speakers they’ve got a total of four speakers and Sony is using their screen. Vibration, Tech that allows you to turn your TV into a center channel, what’s cool about that is that while they do support their proprietary input with s center speaker in from their brand receivers, they also support just a simple plus minus speaker wire input, which is uncharacteristically Sony, it’s really refreshing to see just agre to me. Were you kneeling on the back of the TV? No, were you sitting here? Oh okay, was she editor? I wouldn’t describe the quality of that Center Channel as amazing, but for built-in TV speakers they’re, pretty darn good. Even though I did ultimately end up putting in a dedicated Center Channel all right, we ready to fire this thing up. Oh, I need another helper who’s going to crawl back there and plug it. In This, TV has support for up to 4K 120 HZ HDR 10 Dolby Vision, pretty flipp and awesome, but we’ve only got two ports that are 4K, 120 HZ Port, 4 and Port three, which is the EC port a little bit more here.
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I just signed into my account: what are you doing if this is account specific? What data are you unpacking and doing anything with you’re, not downloading any apps? I know that and if it’s not specific to my account, why weren’t you doing it in the background, while I was typing in my username and passwords like why all right see, this is how I know that they weren’t installing any apps, because my apps aren’t here That took like four minutes see tuby. It won’t stop talking about tuby all right. I want to see that scene where Gandalf comes back. Oh God, that’s smoothing.
I forgot I factory reset it, so it doesn’t have Brandon from labs’s tweaks. Yet let’s fix that. First of all, we are not going to be in Vivid mode or actually maybe we should, because we were only able to hit Sony’s advertised 2,000 nits Peak brightness in a 1 % window in Vivid mode which Brandon from the lab found to be less accurate than The professional mode Sony is doing a really good job of retaining detail in this extremely bright backlit scene, obviously not as good as a mastering monitor with a third generation panel, but pretty darn good, considering how brightly this room is lit right now. I am extremely happy with this picture.
With that said, once I get it dialed into the settings, I would actually use I’m going to be expecting more like 1,700 nits Peak brightness or even a little bit less. Also, the HDR color accuracy was okay, though that’s what we expect from a retail set. Oh, this is so cool. You can make adjustments app by app.
I actually love that. So not only will it detect certain sources like say, for example, you plug in a PlayStation 5 it’ll, go, oh hey games and switch everything over into game mode, but I don’t remember seeing this: oh they’ve moved some stuff around sound settings used to be here and You could have like a quick access to flip between TV, sound and external audio system. Sound. I can’t say I’m a big fan of how they’ve rejiggered this into two different settings menus not going to lie this thing kind of slaps.
That’S it’s starting to get a little distorted! Yes, I’m not at Max, but I wouldn’t go above that on this TV anyway, but that is very usable, oh interesting! It not only Auto adjusts brightness according to ambient light. It also adjusts color temperature, which I actually definitely prefer – that. However, this is what it’s doing without the camera. Why don’t we go ahead and throw the camera on it come here. Buddy am I allowed to put this on while it’s powered, let’s hope so? Oh hello, set up Ria cam, no way, detect your viewing position to optimize picture and T what would it adjust about the picture I mean this thing already has CU OLED viewing angles. I could watch it from here interesting.
It changes the volume balance of the left and right speakers. I can’t see that working with an external AVR but hey if you’re only using the built-in speakers, then I guess that’s kind of neat. Okay. I got to try the gesture control, though gesture control, ah tutorial.
Okayy there we go got it slide your hand, wait! What? Oh? Oh, oh, no wait. Are you messing with me? Are you guys? No okay, you’re, not oh wow this. If this is the killer, app that is supposed to make me want to put a camera on. My TV, if only there was some way to do this, can I just demonstrate I know how to do that, and can we be done exit the short yeah, I’m never going to touch that ever again: cool uh.
What what else we got with this camera? Okay, so if I go closer theoretically, it should go dimmer. Okay, guys. This is a thing. It’S pretty subtle here we go finally, the same piece of content on both TVs, even if this isn’t really an ideal comparison scenario.
If there’s a difference, it ain’t easy to spot at least on YouTube. Okay, are we on it? What are you kidding me? What just what just happened? I just want to see them side by side. Okay, I’m not asking for that much! I’M, not us. Using this TV anymore, so I guess it doesn’t really matter see you later. Buddy forget the side by side, as far as I can tell, they haven’t done anything in particular for the antiglare treatment, but the brightness is great. This is something I really like on. The TCL downstairs SDR content pops like mad because it just applies kind of a um boost to the brightest parts of the frame. Even though there is no HDR metadata. Normally, it wouldn’t be able to go so bright, but one of my favorite movies ever How to Train Your Dragon is not available in HDR and so that boosted, brightness SDR mode that the TV downstairs has is an awesome way to enjoy it. And this TV can’t hit 5,000 nits Peak brightness like that one, but this definitely pops more than I’m used to seeing an SDR and I’m really happy to see that it’s not as good as the one downstairs.
That said, the differences between this and last gen at least subjectively, watching it are pretty negligible. So yeah. If you have an older TV and you want a big picture quality upgrade, you want to go QD OLED. In spite of some of the software struggles you guys saw today, I’ve actually been extremely happy with this thing and this other than moving a couple of menu items around in ways that I’m not sure I agree with appears to be more of the same truthfully.
If I wasn’t doing it to make a video, I would say that unless you’re a massive copile, the upgrade is not even worth the effort of pulling the mount off the old TV and putting it on the new one, let alone spending all the extra money on It oh subscribe to Short Circuit .