Sony - 49" Class - LED - X720E Series - 2160p - Smart - 4K UHD TV with HDR

We purchased this television and just love it. The colors are bright and the picture is clear. Also like the YouTube and Netflix buttons right on the remote. Works great!

Buying a TV for watching TV is not as straight forward as 3 years ago. Many TVs are streaming monitors with ATSC tuners, the remotes don’t have numbers that facilitate direct channel switching, also many of the TVs lack an output for headphones, or Bluetooth output for modern wireless headphones. With the help of a patient sales associate at Best Buy, I opted for this SONY that takes me to TV when I turn on the machine, and I can surf the TV channels with the numeric key pad on the remote. I plan to wall mount the TV and, therefore, I prefer all connections on the sides. This TV has most USB and HDMI connections on one side, but both optical and analog audio output are on the lower back. I need to cable these outputs before mount the TV. The TV speakers were muted when I plug a cable to the audio output, even when I don’t use a headphone. Fortunately, a SONY web listener advised me to reset the “Speaker Link”. Although I bought this TV mainly for watching TV, I can watch my video collections by plugging a USB memory stick in to any USB port. I can also easily watch YouTube contents, this TV even allows me to surf YouTube using an external keyboard, avoiding the cumbersome on-screen keyboard. It can even displays closed captions. Asides the convenience, this SONY displays excellent picture, which does not fade away even if I watch sideway. This could easily be my ideal TV, if it offered BlueTooth and could skip the analog channels. Other TVs would take me to Channel 7.1 when I push only7 on the keypad, but this one takes me to the blank screen of “Channel 7.0”. A SONY web listener offered no help on this situation.

Our old HDTV stopped working so we headed to Best Buy to see what they had. The Salesperson told us Sony was the best seller right now and you could easily tell that the picture was much sharper than the others (for that size) that were turned on. We got home with it and I was able to easily get it set up to work with our DVR and DVD player. I did have to contact Sony about a couple questions (since we have a DVR, we couldn't change the channels with the tv remote but would still need to use our DVR remote. Also, I had trouble getting the apps to show up. They worked with me to get those to display and helped me understand how to switch between our sound bar and tv speakers. Since the sound comes through the front of the tv rather than the sides like our old tv, we might not even need the sound bar to hear the analog channels that are still part of our tv lineup (PBS, for example). When went to to the apps the first time, (I only have Amazon prime, Netflix, & You tube) you will get a code that you have to go onto a computer, log into your account, then put in the code so it will authorize the tv to use the account. I never could get Netflix to work but Sony & I decided it's because my router is too far away from the tv. They had me use the personal hotspot on my phone to get Amazon & Youtube to work but that's my internet providers problem and not a problem with the tv.

This is our Master Bedroom TV and is the perfect size and has a beautiful display. Sony is the only TV's we own and will ever own.

Love this tv. It works great and is easy to use. Color is good. Fits well in our house right where we wanted to put it. This tv would be good for anyone. Thanks Best Buy

I've been very pleased with the image quality of the television. It's definitely a step up from my only couple year old Samsung 1080P television. Details in the lower black levels are particularly improved in HDR content and a huge plus over non-HDR TVs. I believe as far as image quality goes, it punches around the top of its brethren at this price point. However, the Android based UI isn't very expansive and app choices are limited. It's not a deal breaker to me though since I paired with a new HDR BluRay player and other devices that offer any streaming services I'd require. It does have Netflix built in (with a button on the remote) so our most common streaming service is easily pulled up. The only large disappointment with the TV was the speakers. We had been getting by with our previous TV without any additional sound system (it's not our main "theater" TV), but these speakers are very disappointing. Within the day, I had stolen a set of speakers and amplifier from elsewhere in the house to pair with the TV. Luckily, it does offer both digital audio out (optical) as well as analog out so almost any external sound system can be paired with it.

The color is awesome. I love this tv. The picture is better than my roommates larger tv.

Very good looking TV, Easy to use, 1 thing I don't like was No Android