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Sony's high-end LCDs get picture upgrades, Dolby Vision HDR

2017-01-05
hey everybody here you're looking at sony's new LCD TVs for 2017 the 65 inch is the x9 30 eseries and the 75 inch here a little bit bigger is the x9 40 e series the sets have very similar specifications the smaller one uses an edge lit local dimming format while the larger one uses full array local dimming usually philaret goes a little better picture quality even our test last year the predecessor to the smaller TV was an excellent performer too new for this year Sony's added Dolby vision which is one of two major HDR formats you can now get even more HDR content onto these televisions the sets also include the Tri luminous color for improved color according to Sony and in terms of picture all these sets include Dolby vision which is one of the two major HDR formats that allows it to play back a lot of the content out there from Netflix and Amazon and the highest picture quality available they'll also work with upcoming 4k blu-ray players that have Dolby vision desks and course work with standard HDR 10 HDR compatibility so sony says it has improved image quality sets over last year increasing the brightness and also making the black level a little bit better we'll check that out we get them into the lab beyond picture quality sets include compatibility with Google home this year which means you can actually talk into that whole home speaker and have the TV do things like turn on and even find things on Netflix these sets are also powered by Sony's Android TV operating system so you get all the apps that are found and even more than most competing TVs like LG and Samsung all told you probably need to connect an external box to watch all those apps on the set just having the TV connect the Internet should be good enough so needed announce pricing on the X 9:30 or X 940 we expect to get that soon in the meantime check out seeing it for updates
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