Sony - 55" Class X950H Series LED 4K UHD Smart Android TV

Install tech was great. TV looking really good. Can now enjoy more movies on the bigger unit.

We originally were looking at another brand TV, After we went to Best Buy and compared the quality of the picture and color of this Sony TV we just had to change our mind and go with the Sony Truer blacks and whiter whites, and and a sharper picture. We also decided to go with a 55 inch instead of a 47 in. So glad we did. We have it in our bedroom where we watch a lot of tv. We were thinking about adding a sound bar but actually the speakers are pretty good on this TV so I don’t think we will need them. The smart features are great and easy to use. We are happy we chose this one

I am comparing this to my 10-year old 52" Sony XBR that was covered with serious clouding and not surprisingly there is a big difference in picture quality and of course it is also 3" bigger. Out-of-the-box, the whites are whiter and the blacks are much blacker. The color range is far greater and as a result, one see's far more colors never seen before. Scenes look totally different and far more colorful than on my old XBR. The contrast is also much better. The wide-angle viewing is very good as well and is supposedly improved over last years "G". Set-up was easy. The picture is, IMO, so good that I do not see the need for an OLED which, BTW, uses about 60% more power if you compare the power consumption of the Sony 55" OLED in their specifications. The bezel is super thin and looks nice. The sound is only "acceptable". You are never going to achieve good sound from tiny speakers on the back sides and bottom. Long gone are the days when the flat panels came with the large vertical speaker panels on both sides of the picture screen. The only two negatives so far are as follows. There is a very small but annoying amber LED that sometimes appears and stays on at the bottom of the TV on the LH side of the center mounted area that receives the remote signals etc. There is no manual and the online information is lacking and does not explain that annoying amber LED that turns on all of a sudden and stays on until the next day when you turn on the TV again. The other is the fact that the new remote was described at the CES and in other initial reviews as being back lighted. It is not and yet when you watch a review from HDTVTest of this same Sony TV from England, the remote is back lighted. So, I am sure the USA market for Sony is one of its' largest if not the largest and yet we get less. This, I do not understand. Same TV, same model, same box, but the contents are different. I should also add that my 10-year old 52" Sony XBR has a beautiful remote and it is back lighted! Why is something this simple and basic not included in their top-of-the-line LED LCD TV when they were providing this 10 years ago. Even our cable box remote is back lighted and has been for over 10 years.

My trusty KS8000 55" decided to fail a few weeks ago. Luckily I had a Squaretrade policy on it and they paid me back the price of the TV. So that sent me looking for a replacement. I REALLY wanted an OLED and was tempted to buy the LG CX series but I just didn't want to have to babysit my and my family's viewing habits to prevent burn in. So I began looking at LED's I was gun shy about buying another Samsung and this time I also wanted Dolby Vision. So I initially looked at LG but their non OLED TVs were IPS screens, which I didn't want. So I looked at Sony. Unfortunately with Covid 19, it wasn't really feasible to see sets in person. But after reading the reviews, the X950H stood out, so I pulled the trigger on the 55". I am very glad I did. The picture on this is fantastic. Much deeper blacks than my KS8000 and the color and HDR really looked great and pop and are accurate, even with reduced settings. It is also full array dimming, with many zones, unlike my edge lit KS8000. It has excellent motion handling and great clarity, even on the non 4k pictures. What is also nice is it supports Dolby Vision, something my Samsung didn't do. It has a lot of different picture settings that allow you to personalize how you like it. It has supports both Dolby Vision Light and Dark profiles. Android TV is quite good(although I had to use an optical connection, see below for details). It probably has more apps than other TV brands(although no Apple TV+). About the only complaint I have is that there is some type of bug in the current Android TV version that makes it so once I get ARC working, if I turn everything off, when I turn it all back on, while my receiver(Denon) sees the connection and switches to the ARC audio, I get no sound at all. I have to either switch to another HDMI port, turn off the TV, then back on and switch back to the ARC port or just unplug the TV for s sec. This issue seems to be affecting many Sony Android TV models, across the entire brand, so I'm guessing the bug is in Android TV itself. I use an Nvidia Shield 2019 anyway, so this isn't as big a deal as it may be to some others. All in all, this is a fantastic TV with a great picture and good built in apps(minus the ARC issue). Definitely worth the purchase.

My previous TV was the Sony KDL-55EX720. I’ve been wanting to switch to 4K for awhile. The X950H is a huge upgrade for me. The color and picture quality is amazing. Rewatching some movies I own feels like seeing them for the first time. Gaming is excellent. Even less powerful consoles like the Nintendo Switch look great. Set up was easy. If you have a google account you can access plenty of apps from the store. Remote feels nice and sound is decent. I have had friends comment how much better everything looks. If you are looking for a 4K TV you won’t be disappointed with this!

I just returned the TV LG 55 B9 OLED because the image was too smooth and the black tones, lacked detail. I couldn't, despite trying many ways, make the image sharper and get details in the black tones. I decided to go back to an LED TV and buy the new 55 inch Sony X950H. I don't regret it at all. I am a photographer and have always used the zones to take my pictures. For those who don't know, the zones range from 'zero' (all black with no detail) to 10 (all white with no detail) with the number 5 being the grey with an 18 percent tone. The recently returned LG 55 B9 TV always used zero when the scene was black and that's not exactly how our human eye really sees tones. Even if we see black, there will always be detail, unless we are in a completely dark room and that was the feeling I had when I saw the images of the LG 55 B9. The Sony X950H TV, presents black tones in an excellent way, close to how an OLED TV can present them but I would say closer to how the human eye really sees black tones. I don't like to see a person wearing a black suit with no detail and that's what I saw in the LG but I don't see it in the Sony. Other than that, I only had to make a couple of changes to get the image quality that I like. Out of the box, this Sony TV is excellent and again, with a few changes, you get the picture you want.The image quality is excellent. The base on which the TV rests can be adjusted if you don't have a very large table. If the TV is placed within 1-2 feet ( maximum ) of the back wall, the sound will bounce off the wall and surround the room and you will get a sound that is quite close to surround sound. The sound is as if it were coming from the center of the TV, passing through both sides and reaching the viewer's ear. This is something I have never heard before and as I said before, only with a good sound bar you can get a better sound. Best Buy made the home delivery completely free and two days after buying the TV. Great job! Although the price of this TV is not so low but it is accessible, I think it is a price for what you get, considering that if a person does not have extra to buy a sound bar, anyway he/she will get an excellent sound, excellent image quality and there will be no distortion in the fast images because simply the TV's motion processor, handles this in an excellent way. Watching this TV from any angle, it does not loose image quality. You can sit down anywhere and you will get the same. No color fading, no contrast fading and the same quality of sound as well. I haven't browsed any applications because I just don't use them, so I can't give my opinion on that. But, the settings are easily accessible without reading a manual. To know how this TV handles black tones, I put the movie The Hobbit : the desolation of Smaug ! Before the dwarves enter the Elf forest, some horses with black and white spots appear. It's really beautiful how the TV handles black tones. When they enter the Elf forest, the spiders have black colours and it is absolutely fantastic how you get the contrast between the blacks and the other colours. I can't say enough about the image quality that you get with this TV and that's why I recommend it and give it 5 stars in the review I'm doing. I have only watched it for about 2 hours and I am very satisfied. I will update this review with my personal settings once I write down everything I did. I do not use my TV to play games because I do have a great computer with the Nvidia 2080Ti video card and an excellent monitor but I do not have any doubt that playing a game in this TV, will be simply amazing. Regarding TV broadcast image quality, I simply do not care that much because not all the channels broadcast in high definition and I do not watch movies unless I use my PS4, however, TV broadcast in high definition is great.

This TV has excellent picture quality and it is the brightest TV I have ever owned. I would put this TV 1 notch between the best OLED screens, but I was in the market for a TV that wouldn't have any burn in related issues. I'm also happy with the speakers on this TV. I purchased to hang on the wall in my bedroom, so I was looking for something with a great picture and didn't require the purchase of a sound bar.

You pay more for the Sony name and you get what you pay for. Great black levels. Streaming apps are incredibly fast to use with almost no lag when switching from one service to another. Google Assistant on the remote works great as well. I like the option to set the feet in either wide or a more narrow position based on what your stand/furniture width is.