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hello there David Katz Meyer from CNET and next to me is probably one of the widest TVs you'll ever see this is sony's 65 inch XBR 65 X 900 B this is Sony the second most expensive television for 2014 it's still extremely expensive it's a 4k model but really the thing that sets it apart are these gigantic speakers to either side you'll see there's three speakers there's a 3-way system with a tweeter and pair of woofers there's also built in sub in this TV so it takes advantage of the sort of wedge shape seen to the side here to amplify the sound the real improvement of sound quality that I was having those large speakers facing the viewer I'm not a gigantic fan of this look but if you really appreciate audio quality Stevie will sound better than pretty much anything else on the market but the picture is really what I'd like to talk about I'll get to that in a little bit of course the design on this TV being extremely high-end is really great fit and finish the speakers actually blend beautifully into the screen here it's all glossy black there's nice rounded edges the sides are actually chromed but you can't really see that the little feet below or chrome as well and you can either mount them as you see here in the middle or you can spread those feet wide for a little more stability if you have the kind of credenza that can handle this that width of course the 65 inch TV is very wide there's also a 55 and a 79 inch member of the series the X 900 beat comes fully loaded there's a built in camera here on the upper right-hand side that works with Skype and maybe some future apps aside from Skype you get all the standard apps on the smart tv suite on this television the Smart TV is designed to sort of put Sony services and video front and center and if you by Sony's special 4k video player with this television and you connect it you'll get a special screen for 4k videos course sony has more 4k content than anybody right now their players proprietary you can connect to this TV it's about 700 bucks connectivity on the Sony is excellent there's four HDMI as well as three USB and a component video input two of those HDMI or HDMI 2.0 compatible meaning that they can accept a really high frame rate 60 frames per second 4k signal the set also has the new Netflix app that allows 4k streaming another plus on this TV is the second remote you get a standard multi button remote there's also this simpler remote with a little touchpad and just a few buttons that enables you to actually use the browser or the web browser built into the TV a lot easier of course it's not as easy to use as a web browser found on your tablet or phone so general I'd pretty much recommend skipping it Sony's picture adjustments are a little less extensive than most the other TVs out there you do get a couple of cinema modes in addition to control over the local dimming on this television and local dimming really is the reason why it's picture quality is so good this TV is among the best performing LCDs we've ever tested and actually achieves that from using an edge lit not a full array LED backlight so that's pretty remarkable in a darkroom the picture quality gets extremely good the blacks are nice and deep you also get excellent color out of this TV and of course being an LED TV you can get extremely bright so the resulting picture has a lot of pop and contrast of course one of the downsides of a 4k TV right now is that it has to be really big and if it sit really close to really appreciate that detail that said the picture quality here is really not about the 4k resolution it's about that excellent contrast and this TV really does deliver of course is extremely expensive that's a quick look at Sony's XBR X 900 B one of the most expensive and best performing else you need TVs we've tested this year under the cat smile from Cena