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hi I'm David Katz Marisa Netcom I'm sitting here next to Sony's 84-inch XBR 84 X 900 this is Sony's first 4k TV and one of the first on the market we'll get the biggest thing out of the way first is a twenty-five thousand dollar television further that twenty five thousand dollars Sony includes not only the TV but also the first 4k content that you're likely ever to see it actually ships with a little server that includes a bunch of videos that you can call up on an included tablet so all that package is kind of unique in terms of the 4k TVs out there the only other one is from LG it's 84 inches as well but it doesn't include that server package another extra that Sony's talking about is the 4k conversion from 2k content you're going to be able to pipe all of that content onto this TV and blow it up to 84 inches and according to Sony you do get really good video processing now we did get a demo this television Sony set it up next to LG's 84 inch TV as well as an 80 inch sharp that's not 4k we did notice that the video processing on the Sony is pretty darn good it did allow that 1080p content to look really detailed and for what it's worth more than the Sharps 1080p content of course we were sitting relatively close to this large screen if you sit a little bit further back you're not going to notice that much of a difference in detail sony also showed us a demo of 2k content versus 4k content on two identical sony 84-inch tvs and we really were very hard-pressed to see any difference between the two you have to kind of walk right up to the screen to see the difference the point being the Sony's video processing again does a pretty good job of taking that 1080p content bumping it up to 4k we were also shown a demo of black level this TV does have local dimming which means that it's able to dim the backlight in different areas of the screen and get a really nice deep dark color black which does increase the contrast and pop we've seen in past Sony TVs that looked extremely good it looks very good on this one as well so that's another aspect of the TVs performance that we weren't pressed by one other demo included screen uniformity Sony tell us that each of these TVs is tuned at the factory to remove defects and uniformity so you see a nice uniform pictures which is especially important when you're panning over material or you see a white field or a black field for example such a large TV Sony does include a lot of ways to mess around with the form factor you can take those speakers off if you like the stand here as shown also be removed you can wall mount this TV there's also a way to post them out the television if you want to do that or put it on a stand if you'd like to do that so any stand does include a little wire hook on the back here to try and make your wires less visible as we mentioned at the top this TV does include 4k content that means you can connect this included server which has a series of videos that are included on their sony also updates they're actually rolling out one of the first updates to this server so they'll come to your house and install a bunch of new movies on there later in the year the company says it will introduce a 4k video distribution system we're still waiting details on that again that's going to be one of the first of its kind that's a quick look at Sony's xbr 84 X 900 one of the first 4k TVs on the market for twenty five thousand dollars I'm David Katz my recei net