Sony - 65" Class X950H Series LED 4K UHD Smart Android TV

Purchased this TV after a lot of online research and was not disappointed. This is without question the best picture I've ever seen on a television. I previously watched a 60" 2014 mid-range Vizio LED, max resolution 1080p. We sit about 15 feet from the screen and I had been slow to upgrade to 4k because I didn't think the additional resolution would be visible at our viewing distance. Boy, was I wrong. It may be true that the difference between standard HD and 4k is mild depending on your viewing distance, but the benefits of more accurate color and UHD/Dolby Vision are startling. My receiver won't pass through 4k, so I send 5.1 DD sound to it via the TV's optical output. Fortunately my 4k Blu-ray player offers two HDMI outputs, so I send one to the TV and the other to my receiver in order to hear the uncompressed Dolby and DTS soundtracks on Blu-ray discs. (no lip synch issues, thankfully). We're watching everything at home these days, since going to the theater is out of the question, and although you can't replace the experience of going to a high-quality cinema, pairing this screen with good amplification and speakers gets awfully close. I'm not a TV gamer, so I can't comment on input lag, but I understand this isn't a good choice if that's important to you. For anyone looking for a sublime movie and television watching experience, don't hesitate to purchase this set.

Purchased 65X950H , this TV replaced a 55 inch Samsung purchased at Bestbuy 11 years ago ! What a difference 11 years makes , out of the Box the picture was near perfect! Upscales 1080p very nicely ! Wife is Happy !

Best tv I’ve ever owned since my first. I’ve wanted this tv a long time

I have always bought Vizio TV, and went in to Best Buy’s to get a Vizio. They did not have the one I wanted so a browsed around and this Sony X95OH was on display, and I was hooked. The picture was better than the LG OLED that was playing next to it. Brought it home, set it up and did not even have to adjust it at all. Only complaint I have are the legs which are wide and prevents the TV being placed closer to the wall. Not a deal breaker and I noticed all the TV’s I looked at had the same design of legs. Bottom line beautiful picture, easy programming, love it.

This TV is absolutely beautiful! The color and clarity are remarkable and the 65” looks beautiful above my fireplace. Sony did an amazing job on this and the price at Beat Buy was perfect!

This TV was very easy to set up. The menu walks you through everything and it automatically detects the components you attach into the HDMI ports. The picture quality is outstanding, and after looking at a number of options including Samsung QLED models this model offers much richer darks. I highly recommend this model for the good mix of ease of setup, picture performance, and price point.

This set has the potential to be one of the top sets of the year so far based on picture quality. I came to this set from a LG C9 and there have been much improvements I've noticed coming to the X950H. First, the sharpness of the picture is much better. On the LG, while it generally looked good, textures and edges especially when gaming tended to look a bit smoother than they should. On the X950H, these are pinpoint sharp and I can see all the detail such as the granules on the road in Gran Turismo or the texture of fabric in RE3 remake. Contrast wise, while no LCD tv can stand up to OLEDs black level the X950H isn't caught out at all. There's a bit more shadow detail on offer than with the C9 (which trying to fix without WB controls and just raising black level is not feasible without raising the black level to where it is a bit gray). It also tends to seem a bit more natural as well. The C9 tends to seem a bit more "poppy" with everything super saturated and bright. The Sony looks to reserve the brightness for highlight areas while keeping things such as a night sky dark. This is likely due to the different time mapping implementations but I find the Sony approach to look more natural and pleasing. Going on to the color processing and motion, Sony is top notch at this as well. The Sony's smooth gradation feature is more effective than LG's at smoothing out color banding even at its lowest setting. Motion is also very good on the set with less choppiness or stuttering than the LG C9 even with motionflow turned off or to its lowest setting with X-motion clarity taking that up a notch to a really clean and clear picture. The x wide angle is very good at providing great off axis performance as well, without the huge contrast performance hit of earlier implementations. I also feel that the x wide angle is making the appearance of blooming less perceivable as it is equalizing the black level across the screen. Android TV is much improved over previous implementations (UI is slick and clean and hasn't crashed yet so far). I also love the variety of apps in the play store and the Chromecast built in so I can just cast videos from websites. Android TV to meet is a much better OS than WebOS. It's not all good news though in regards to the sound when connected to a soundbar. When watching through internal tv apps, there seems to be a bit of a delay when starting up a video before the sound comes in so if you pause and resume you may miss the first few seconds. There also appears to be some random 1 sec audio drop outs at times, which I'm not sure if is caused by eARC syncing or not but I'm optimistic it will be fixed in future updates. Overall, so far it seems like a terrific set and while I can't say it will be the best set in 2020, I can say it should definitely be on your list of TV's to look out for.

I've spent 2.5 hours on support with Sony about the sound dropping out (cutting out) when watching movies purchased through the Google Play Movies and TV App (movie example: I Still Believe), and they say this is the first they have heard of it. But it's all over the internet if you search for it. I wish I had known. It was also an issue with the 2019 X950G and wasn't fixed on that model, and apparently hasn't been fixed on the 2020 X950H model either. It's not doing it while using Netflix or Amazon, so therefore Sony told me it's not their TV issue, and that I should go talk to Google, as it's their app that appears to be causing the issue. I told them it's not the consumers issue to resolve, it's between Sony and Google, and I'm not getting into a back and forth between Sony and Google, as my return period runs out and I'm stuck with a $1,800 TV with sound issues. I really love the TV, the picture is amazing (65" with X-Wide Angle viewing), super fast Android platform, but I can't see keeping this TV with this issue as it was $$... I upgraded from a 2015 Samsung UN65JU6500 and that tv NEVER had any issues with sound cutting out, and we watched 1,000's of movies that were purchased from the Google Play Movies and TV App. Unfortunately the IU was getting slow on that TV, so I chose to "upgrade". We have always been a Sony family, the Samsung was an exception, but I can't believe Sony hasn't fixed this issue yet (since the 2019 model). I'm not so sure Sony is the same quality company they were in the past. I understand this isn't their flagship TV, but it is their top of the line LCD/LED 4K model, with all the best they offer for this model line before they switch to the OLED line. It's unfortunate. Maybe I just got a dud, along with 1000's of others who purchased the 2019 model (G). I can't wait around to see if they are going to send out an update to fix this issue, as their track record (judging by the 2019 model still having this issue) tells me they are not going to fix the issue. Buyer beware!!!! You've been warned, there is an issue with the sound cutting out when watching movies purchased through the Google Play Movies and TV App. Some individuals are also reporting the issue while using eARC and using other services (Apps), but I haven't checked those sources, so I can't verify that. But I know what my TV is doing - it's sound is cutting out for a split second randomly, sometimes it goes 2 minutes, sometimes it's 30 seconds - but it's happening.