What if I had an unlimited budget…? - Sony A95K

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Our Sony Bravia A95K showed up and it looks STUNNING, but how much are you willing to spend chasing minor improvements over similarly beautiful displays? Is THIS the TV that ends up in my family room?
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:27 The Competition
3:00 A95K
5:00 Test Results
6:40 Best Settings
7:36 Features
8:50 The Remote
11:08 Panel Latency
12:24 Conclusion
14:20 Outro

[@LinusTechTips]

We were wrong about Dolby Vision and the PS5. All of the "Perfect for PS5" branding is about auto-applying HDR settings but not Dolby Vision specifically, and the articles popping up a few months ago about Sony secretly enabling it weren't quite right. Thanks Jon Porty.

[@kittybrowneye3163]

I love gaping holes usually not in drywall though it usually works better when it's a butt😂

[@natanielfarzan]

Thanks for the clarification! It did seem like more walled garden madness but it's nice to hear Sony knows better than that!

[@edwinndungu2259]

Do a review of the TCL C825

[@leviathan19]

does the xbox series x work with DV?

[@zodiacfml]

wasted unlimited budget. in fairness, sony's products usually more reliable than the two korean brands.

[@natanielfarzan]

Turned my phone to landscape and my eyes were immediately seared! Thanks HDR! (Seriously though, I'm glad HDR is back.) Hopefully KZbin will continue working on improving core features like this one!

[@Hotrob_J]

I think it's cool, but my (TCL) phone kept wigging out and the brightness kept brightening and dimming (even on static shots of like a webpage)

[@rubyf1993]

It looks completely washed out on my HDR OLED TV

[@HappySlappyFace]

My phone even changed color profiles and damn, I really enjoyed the video colors

[@Allexz]

wow, i have loved my computer monitor since i bought it. but just tested it on my Samsung S10 side by side with amoled and it looks SO MUCH BETTER O_o

[@killertruth186]

Wished there's more content for HDR.

[@fatherWolt]

IMAGINE if TV remotes had instead of dedicated "netflix" or whatever buttons you instead had like 4 customizable shortcuts. They could either launch apps on the TV, or perform a multistep action such as changing input and adjusting the sound/screen settings when you want to switch over from watching a movie to playing a game. I can't think of a single time I've used the button outside of looking at the remote and wondering to myself "why don't I use these".

[@techislife2843]

For andriod tv there is app called button mapper it does the same

[@MrJest2]

You mean like the PDA-based programmable remotes from the '90s? 😋

[@yoted]

Apparently Netflix pays for placement on remotes so I don’t know if those buttons are going away any time soon :/

[@zacharydacus6720]

It isn't quite the same but one for all remotes will let you set macros so it's like a shortcut

[@K3nny.]

i have 1

[@eddisonnoronha5216]

I have a great experience with Sony❤️ . I used to have a 3d TV from them.. it was struck by lightning. They couldn't fix it so they compensated me around 1200 dollars and i bought the A9 from them.. great after sales support here in India!!

[@YouTubeOwl]

Props to the HDR camera and youtube for going a good job of handling this HDR content. I didn't think filming an HDR tv in HDR would actually translate well over KZbin but it did.

[@meemlaal7235]

I my case with my phone it was constantly increasing and decreasing the brightness which was very annoying. I hope that this will be improved.

[@CrissHW]

@@meemlaal7235 in my 12 mini just works perfect

[@THEpicND]

Linus looks too orange for me, I don’t like it

[@LaDeXi]

I didn't see any difference.

[@ashleigh.]

For me on an SDR display, the colors just looked washed out, but only when looking at things I know should be supersaturated, like the BestBuy logo, I wonder if something changed and it's supposed to be better, for them to give it another shot?

[@TechteamGB]

Glad you like the response time tool! The aim is to bring more information to everyone, so it's great to see it included here!

[@RomanSjf]

Finally they uploaded HDR quality again on YT and all I can say is please dont stop. This is amazing

[@syntaxvrc]

A lot of people are mentioning the HDR, and I'm happy to see it's back, but KZbin *definitely* needs to polish the experience a bit more... on my Windows desktop with a non-HDR monitor, the colors are all way off - the LTTstore cut-in photos almost look green!

[@jimemmonstein847]

Hahahaha. Is that why, when the little KZbin player that pops out on desktop, it suddenly has a green X and other buttons? I thought it was just something Opera was doing, or something

[@M355J0K3R]

ALL the colors are wonky in every aspect of the video

[@PapaSharmaJi]

Apply proper color profiles man

[@iynayttab]

Things appeared green for me even on a HDR compatible screen!

[@Jerrybudss]

The HDR really made it feel like I was getting an accurate impression of the TV. With super bright S22U it makes such a difference

[@RodrigoHernandez-iz6xj]

I was surprised cuz I didn't know what was going on lol

[@touchystarfish9010]

Id agree(same phone) but the 1st 10 seconds my phone tried to burn out my eyes and then worked fine after.also what color did you get? I ended with the coral .

[@Jerrybudss]

@@touchystarfish9010 I got the green one. They all look great imo

[@doodlecaboodle9298]

fr dude

[@thejsix]

Same lol

[@WALOWALOWALOWALOWALOWALOWALOW]

Wow this video being HDR really made a difference and actually even looked great on my OLED phone! Even the glitter sparkling scene translated well. Obviously not as good as in person but nice to have a much more accurate representation

[@Firecul]

I wondered why the colours were off, yip, turned on HDR and it's better. They really should have mentioned that somewhere

[@SIPEROTH]

This video made me waste an hour by first wondering why i can't lower the brightness on my smartphone screen and then changing between screens to compare. I realized how shit my old LCD TV screen really is and then i started comparing smartphone screens since i have an LCD 1080p smartphone, one with LCD IPS HD+, one with LCD IPS HD+ and HDR, an OLED HD+ with HDR. What i concluded is that although my old LCD TV couldn't come close to my IPS HD+ HDR screen my IPS HD+ smartphone wasn't really that much away when i turn the brightness to full. The OLED HD+ HDR was a further step ahead but not a crazy difference though.

[@conxeptnyc_]

Im wondering what editing app he used to make this HDR content

[@lesharkoiste]

@@SIPEROTH > LCD 1080p smartphone Had no idea they still made this (as pretty much every 1080p phone these days is (AM)OLED)

[@danieldougan269]

@@conxeptnyc_ They use Adobe Premiere Pro unless they are working with Blackmagic RAW from their new Ursa Mini 12K cameras...then they use DaVinci Resolve.

[@HMHacki]

Im so excited about the potential labs channel! The audio test in the s90 and eqs reviews were already very informative.

[@RemizZ]

Glad to see you're trying HDR again. I weirdly had the soap opera effect of motion smoothing on my LG OLED for some reason and it looked weird. Also: No need to HDRify the lttstore banners, they were entirely too bright haha.

[@Firecul]

I wondered why the colours were off, yip, turned on HDR and it's better. They really should have mentioned that somewhere

[@RvSchuh]

My LG OLED popped the HDR logo in the top right corner at the beginning and it is noticable, but I have to agree, the LTT store banners look ridiculous though 😄

[@boogiehasfun]

hdr seems to try to kill my eyes with the white colors

[@craigthomas7445]

I'd think on a TV with this price premium you'd be able to have at least 2 custom settings saved so you can have both sdr and hdr at their best just by changing from "custom 1" to "custom 2"

[@dedoyxp]

or it could fixed by software update seperating settings when hdr or sdr

[@WayStedYou]

I think my panasonic TV from 2008 had the option to save 3 or 4 custom profiles and it was a cheapish 32 inch.

[@MillennialPatriot]

yea my $1800 lgnano has this lol

[@pilau1749]

My 800 Hisense has this. Along with all the HDR formats

[@Uniqetz]

Ooh a HDR video! That’s awesome!

[@tiestofalljays]

Makes a big difference. Looks great. This is a KZbin channel. No one cares about perfectly accurate colors lol. Yay HDR!

[@Uniqetz]

@@tiestofalljays THIS!! HDR is cool, especially on KZbin

[@andjamoo]

I was wondering why everything looked so good haha

[@MyShoe_]

I JUST SAW THAT HDR?!

[@Uniqetz]

@@andjamoo HDR FTW 🙌

[@MrFragManiac]

Vincent Teoh of HDTVTest showed how you can significantly boost net connection speed by turning off Wireless in TV settings and using a LAN to USB adapter on the USB 3 port. You made a good point about gigabit controllers though, at the price it cost it should include one. Vincent also has a vid on how to significantly speed up the Google UI btw.

[@Ironspyder3000]

Great to see u in HDR on my phone,I immediately knew the video was better and then I looked at the settings of the video and I love it

[@dumpsterdawg]

Linus: "It's getting harder and harder to convince my sponsors to keep buying me new TVs" Sponsors: "Our inventory's can't keep up"

[@DragoDrake]

'Despite the price tag, I am going with the Sony' - didnt you just say you got it for free?

[@_reZ]

@@DragoDrake he's returning the review unit and buying one for himself

[@ohpeep3723]

@@DragoDrake He have to return the tv, its the reviewing unit, so he is going to buy himself a new one. Did you not watch the video? or you are just a Samsung bot.

[@oakmen4604]

@@_reZ which is like any of us deciding between a Twix or Snickers and going for the king size crunch bar for yourself.

[@_reZ]

@@oakmen4604 you know he isn't jeff bezos or Elon musk, he isn't a millionaire and has a budget.

[@Neoxon619]

I’m glad that you all are finally starting to upload HDR videos. I know it’s difficult, but I really do appreciate it. -That aside, I wonder if this Sony TV will be at the new house.- Yup, it’ll be at the new house.

[@nikoheino3927]

its probably only for tv/monitor videos, its not worth it in other videos.

[@thisistimmy]

He said it will if you watched until the end

[@Neoxon619]

@@thisistimmy Oh, sweet. Guess I missed that.

[@why_tho_]

The colors look trash on my phone (doesn't have that brightness problem though)

[@edzelyago2840]

@@why_tho_ What phone are you on? Thanks!

[@FuIIDiveVR]

Damn huge respect to you linus for trying to educate the masses on the more technical calibration jargon. I would never have thought I would see the term dE or even a calman screenshot on your channel.

[@LunaWuna]

Thank you for uploading in HDR! This really shows off everything!

[@gurratell7326]

It showed a washed out image with yellow skintones on my non-HDR laptop, so no thank you for uploading in HDR :\

[@LunaWuna]

@@gurratell7326even in SDR it looks fine for me on a colour accurate monitor so yeah

[@gurratell7326]

@@LunaWuna Don't know where and how KZbins HDR stuff gets tone mapped, but I've never seen Linus so yellow on any monitor before.

[@LunaWuna]

@@gurratell7326 KZbin's HDR can be pretty hit and miss, KZbin should let the creator just upload a separate SDR version instead of auto making one

[@itsmrdante6274]

@@gurratell7326 It looks completely normal on my TV and I just tried on my main display and all is good

[@mrsamB993]

the HDR looks great!! youtube mobile app defaulted to it on my phone 🙌

[@Cheesecannon25]

Even w/o HDR the change in color grading is huge

[@eriklindahl7376]

@@Cheesecannon25 yeah, not sure if it’s for the better though. On the fence there. But the SDR tone-mapping looks better than the HDR-version for sure.

[@lieutent2654]

Saw it was in HDR and went out of my way to watch it on my iPhone 13 Pro. It looks incredible.

[@Hypno_Llama]

You basically do.... But what if you had to work with my budget?

[@MichaelBertolino]

🤨

[@3sc4p1sm]

if you say that in canada you might be a terrorist

[@therevanchist1123]

What’s your budget?

[@martinmicheal4595]

No doubt huh mine would be like 200

[@tiestofalljays]

Grandma’s TV take it or leave it

[@mattcampbell9876]

I just got confirmation my A95K is on its way! Planning on rewatching all my movies again. This never gets old! 😎

[@misku_]

Great review. Many thanks for the HDR 👏 Makes it way better to experience the TV screens in the video.

[@romano5785]

I was wondering why Linus looked so yellow in my PC monitor, after reading the comments and checking the same video on my iPhone 11, seems like its the SDR thing they said in a previous video about KZbin issues with HDR

[@PiTdeLyX]

I watch videos on my secondary (gaming-) monitor connected to my MacBook and faces looked like someone tried to colour-grade compressed mp4... On my MacBook itself it looks great thou.

[@politta]

Yeah, the image was not great at all in SDR.

[@incendiary6243]

Yea, all the options are HDR but my phone is very much not capable of that. Everything looks lile a grey filter is on top of it

[@anon_y_mousse]

Just pretend you're watching the Simpson's. Which is pretty easy when Linus drops something nearly every 5 minutes.

[@equinox4467]

Yup, I'm watching on a photography-colour calibrated monitor and it has a strong yellow tint to it. To the editors/Colour graders: It looks on my screen like it was recorded with CFL lights and uncorrected. I know it wasn't, but that's what the tint looks like.

[@jacobalexandersmith619]

You look genuinely happy. It's a great business that you and your colleagues have built and are growing. Keep up the good work eh.

[@riecknicholas]

It makes me happy to see he's finally replaced his Velcro wallet

[@DirtyTesla]

Just want to say I appreciate the 4k HDR. I use the C1 as my computer monitor so yeah this was great, thank you!

[@darrylgolan4806]

Loved the conclusion..felt very authentic

[@timothyrahughes]

I wonder if we’ll hear Linus discuss how well HDR was received on this video by the community in the next wan show?

[@oakmen4604]

Hell avoid the topic because he's already invested in the hardware and training.

[@Ezgera]

They will get a lot of data from this to go and pester KZbin with. A lot of issues that need fixing are being apparent in this comment section. If KZbin wants to, this is pretty good information gathering on what to improve.

[@JayVal90]

Something felt very wrong about the coloring on my SDR 4k monitor. Now I know

[@timothyrahughes]

@@oakmen4604 he’s said previously on the wan show that he won’t until HDR support is better on android.

[@timothyrahughes]

@@JayVal90 it should say HDR next to the resolution the video is playing in the quality settings

[@warbear0424]

Whoever does the set design for these videos does an amazing job.

[@mndlessdrwer]

I don't know if their current batch of OLED panels will feature this same setup option, but my absolute favorite feature of the Sony panels I've helped configure in the past is the ability during setup to just configure them as dumb panels. I don't generally use the smart functionality of televisions because I have mine connected to a PC, so I thoroughly appreciate them providing that option. Also, unlike Samsung, they don't try to spam you with ads. Basically the only place that even remotely seems like it contains ads is just the recommended viewing section that uses your viewing history to try to recommend you content they think you'll like. And that's already something built into Android TV anyway, so I don't think it is nearly as offensive as what Samsung has done with their stuff. Maybe Samsung will change their ways, but I distrust them too much already to spend thousands of dollars on a television from them and just hope they won't try to spam me with ads.

[@akyhne]

You can fix the 100 Mbit/s LAN, with an USB to LAN dongle. HDTVTest did this a year ago, on another Sony TV. Although it isn't the "right" solution (Sony should have added it in the first place), it is still a solution that seemed to work flawless.

[@RealLifeTech187]

On a €4000 TV this is a reason not to buy rather than support behavior like this. 🤷‍♂️

[@akyhne]

@@ttww1590 Not everyone can use Wi-Fi. The bandwidth is often crowded, by too many using Wi-Fi on the same channels.

[@akyhne]

@@RealLifeTech187 There are very few servers, from where you can stream video, that goes above the 100 Mbit/s. And the dongle that HDTVTest used, was something like 10 pounds. I'd rather buy a dongle, and enjoy the Android TV system, than having to live with a system, like the on Samsung uses.

[@RealLifeTech187]

@@akyhne 1. Sony's own Bravia Core streaming service can hit over 100 Mbps 2. Streaming Blu-ray content over your own network can hit over 100 Mbps 3. The price of the dongle shows how much cost Sony has cut. If the full dongle including profit margins and other hardware is 10 bucks how much do you think the gigabit logic chip costs? I think it's ridiculous that they skimp on a sub 1 euro part on a *flagship* 4000€ TV 4. If they cut corners like this what else must be wrong about the TV? 😉

[@ktfjulien]

@@RealLifeTech187 Perfectly said.

[@mikes2381]

This is the first YT video I think I've ever seen where the 1440p HDR settings are auto-selected on my Android phone. I think it mostly just cranks the brightness to get the contrast but either way it looks great. Eye-searingly great. Think maybe it was about as simple for Google to flip a toggle after a certain someone (several people) made a fuss about it? If yes, thanks all involved. If no, thanks anyway to all involved. Including Google for finally implementing it on more supporting devices.

[@cap1130]

My iPad mini 6 selected 720p HDR automatically. I changed it to high settings which brought it to 2160p HDR.

[@edzelyago2840]

There's been no difference on YT's end, it was just... A lot more effort and time on our part.

[@mikes2381]

@@edzelyago2840 Well, thank you So much LMG! It looks great! I think the scenes in How To Train Your Dragon looked better on my phone through those TVs and then through your cameras, than they do on my TV. LMAO.

[@ExplodingWaffle101]

@@edzelyago2840 so, is it possible to have SDR and HDR settings on a video now? great!

[@EdijsPerkums]

@@edzelyago2840 looks really good on s22 ultra and m1 macbook pro with the mini led screen. The colors look so much more deep in the tv set.

[@orwor3923]

Well that hurt my eyes... it is a cool feature and for the shots where white was not the prominent color it looks awesome, but man the webpage shots and some others where white walls are present just hurts. My S9 just thought well let us CRANK the brightness to the maximum to really bring out the whites. Or something like that. Other than that neat

[@diceonamay]

You should get your eyes checked

[@MainakRoyleomainakroy]

This is my first time watching HDR on my phone, and man I was not ready for this. It truly is something different.

[@kraqdown]

The quality of this video is actually phenomenal. I tend to watch on my MAC or 4K Lenovo, iPad if I am moving around. It looks amazing on all of them; iPhone 13 and Samsung S22 squad is not missing out either. Damn Linus.

[@rob4eva]

I've now returned 2 S95B's they were both bent/warped straight from the box!

[@csk485]

The HDR was super cool on this one, the colours looked more vibrant.

[@TomSarh]

The HDR on this video is freaking amazing keep doing it if possible please !!

[@nathan518]

I was very (pleasantly!) surprised when I started watching this video and noticed it was in HDR. Some of the shots looked incredible and more lifelike than other HDR videos I've seen on KZbin (e.g. on the couch in front of the TVs). Others, not as much (like when Linus is solo talking to the camera). Overall, I enjoy the realism this adds to the video.

[@brrr8995]

YES HDR THANK YOU!! We love this :) Went out of my way to put this video on my HDR 4K nano cell tv for the best experience.

[@gildragon]

perhaps I missed it, but it might be worth mentioning that if you want larger than 65" then the LG G2 is the only TV in this line up with a 77" and an 83" respectively.

[@danielestrada8144]

I like how sharp the tvs getting now a days. Nice video guys

[@RealLifeTech187]

HDR glory 😍😍😍 finally 🥳🥳 Keep it up!

[@sadmancho]

I can not wait for my A95K to arrive. I already got the HT A9 ready so this pairing is going to be sick.

[@sadmancho]

@@jjb4531 lol I'm guessing you have never owned any high end display or audio setup.

[@sadmancho]

@@jjb4531 you get what you pay for.

[@wayneiceman]

Amazing job with the HDR grading guys. Watching it on my lowly LG G1 calibrated but it will do. Don't stop the HDR content anytime soon!

[@jayhovah5621]

G1 lowly... It's like 90% of the way to the best tvs still on the market 😅

[@CameraJams]

Funny -- the HDR grading is totally washed out on my MacBook Pro. Looks bad.

[@SmallPaul.]

How is your G1 a pick one up this next month am hereing good things

[@Ezgera]

@@CameraJams A lot of Apple devices with these issues in the comments. Would be interesting to know if it is a common issue with them or just due to them being common among the audience.

[@CameraJams]

@@Ezgera yes I'd be curious too. Generally my MacBook Pro has very accurate colors in HDR so I think it has more to do with the grade. Or perhaps even just the way KZbin is displaying it. But this video looks bad to me. Skin tones are way off.

[@skrillz5037]

Love the HDR and the constant feeling that the Mission Impossible theme is about to start playing

[@windowsjai]

Thanks for the HDR! Loved it!

[@TheZemog666]

HDR content since very long time i am glad our AD, Sponsor and other means of money goes into channel upgrades

[@aaronschlottman4055]

Thank you for the HDR content!

[@SebiKoerner]

Thank you for posting this in HDR!! It looks stunning on my miniLED MacBook Pro!!!

[@ronitsatapathy]

HDR IS HERE YAY!!! No wonder why colours looked soo good . And I was like is this my phone or the Tv they captured

[@MysteryMii]

Linus almost 3 weeks ago: KZbin’s improper HDR-to-SDR conversion for HDR videos is why we don’t upload our videos in HDR. Linus now: *uploads a video on KZbin in HDR*

[@benjaminsmith3625]

On the latest WAN Show they mentioned that KZbin pulled their finger out and did ... something. Still hate that the Android app doesn't have a "turn off HDR" button.

[@PatalJunior]

And it shows, on my OLED phone looks great, on my desktop the colors just feel off from the usual.

[@THEpicND]

@@benjaminsmith3625 does the Ios version have one do you know? I hate how orange hdr is making linus

[@Lunatic5306]

@@THEpicND are you using iPad/iPhone? He definitely looks saturated. But on my LG tv he looks great

[@THEpicND]

@@Lunatic5306 yes Iphone 13 pro max

[@BenLuney]

Love that HDR is an option but it would be great if we had an option to disable it. My iMac doesn't natively support it so most of the content seemed to have an orange tint and the LTT images were over-saturated. On a slightly different note, the background music choice was getting a bit irritating throughout 😄

[@VMYeahVN]

This is an issue in how KZbin handles HDR tone mapping down to SDR for SDR displays. Hopefully it's since been fixed or will be fixed soon.

[@edmn]

HDR, finally! This looks fantastic!

[@ahmettay2382]

THANKS for uploading on HDR. BIG FKIN THANKS

[@TheTakenChance]

I would have loved to see the C1 in the tests just to see how far the C2 has come or how good the C1 still is

[@montazownianr1]

small difference in quality, big in price

[@drabberfrog]

This is amazing! HDR video and I can change the brightness on my phone!

[@JaY_PLaY_YT]

I had to order the Retro GPU t-shirt. The (team red) CPU pillow is also looking good. Keep up the great designs/concepts!

[@TechNICKal07]

Wow the HDR looks amazing, watching on my 14" MacBook Pro. Hope all videos are like this going forward.

[@Gayfrogs]

4k is definitely steep for a TV but I'll keep my eye on this when they do a next gen and maybe a sale too 😂

[@themartianman2614]

Yeah that the sony tax for ya.

[@VoyageWithSamaika]

Hey Linus, I watch every one of your videos. Absolutely love them always 🥰🥰

[@kairumk]

This video looks AWESOME!

[@X3.X3]

sheeesh finally somebody with 4k videos....quality is great on the new samsung G8 neo ♥

[@ggandalff]

Loved the HDR, but let's hope KZbin adds a way to disable it if we want (for us night watchers)

[@helloguy8934]

Nighttime is optimal for hdr.

[@spencerfreebairn9346]

This HDR upload looked fantastic on my iPhone 13 Pro. I didn’t know at first that it was HDR because I hadn’t checked the setting, but I could *tell* it looked much better than usual. I thought maybe it was HDR but doubted because of your recent video and discussion on the WAN show about why you’re not uploading to KZbin in HDR. All this to say, it elevates the video quality a great deal on devices/apps that properly support it!

[@TekuJames]

This video looked gorgeous on my Note 9. Excited to see more eyecandy as time goes on

[@Alex-cw3rz]

Looking forward to the Sony, the ending to the trilogy and seen as I just bought a Bravia I hope it wins and makes me feel a bit better about the extra you pay over other brands, they are expensive but they just look so much better and that means they last longer looking good enough compared to new models

[@timberthewolf733]

I have an old Sony Bravia TV from 2010, still kicking and looks very nice. Probably use it until it dies, worth every penny.

[@vedaryan334]

Question, do these things suck software wise like samsung one's do , with ads and stuff?

[@vedaryan334]

@@timberthewolf733 I have one from 2007-8 and it looks better in some ways(and ofc a bit worse overall) than the Samsung smarttv we bought around a similar price in 2016. Their color engine is just too good and they're very very reliable in my experience

[@Rainoffire]

@@vedaryan334 Sony TVs Prior to Android TV 9 was a pretty bad UI experience. I believe this was 2017 and earlier, those TVs were powered by a weak mediatek with little ram, so they would bog down quite often. Since Sony TVs with Google TV, the user experience has been quite good honestly. Much more responsive with all the benefits of Android. Personally I would prefer LG's WebOS, as it is snappier and the air mouse is amazing, but recently their ads eat up a lot of the screen. Samsung's TizenOS is still terrible...

[@hinonashi9439]

The HDR look amazing Linus.

[@vandna5388]

I am so glad that my mobile phone provides brightness control during hdr I loved this hdr experience

[@jaelpioch6256]

First time experiencing HDR from youtube content, really nice

[@MillisecondFalcon]

Really looking forward to when these become available in 40-43 inch sizes and are more affordable so I can use one as my main PC monitor! 🙂

[@OpLapDancePikachu69]

Buy a qd oled monitor. There's already a few on the market

[@benirabinowitz8579]

@@OpLapDancePikachu69 only the Alienware right now, MSI hasn't released theirs yet

[@MillisecondFalcon]

@@OpLapDancePikachu69 I think the only QD-OLED monitor available now is Alienware's 34 inch 3440x1440, which is great but a bit small for my needs as I'm using a 38 inch ultrawide at the minute though it is only 60Hz. If I'm gonna spend big bucks on a new monitor, I'd prefer to wait until full 4K is available at 40 inch.

[@cromefire_]

Why they can't have all of them is also always my question. I mean I can understand that low end TVs don't implement DV, it won't give them much anyway, but HDR10+ is only 10.000$ a year (or free if you don't need their Logo and certification) there's absolutely no reason, why basically anything that has HDR10 wouldn't have HDR10+, you don't even need extra hardware, you only need a bit of firmware (if you sell 1.000.000/year devices and then the 10.000$/year isn't basically any money, compared to DVs 1$/device). And no HDR10+ isn't technically very different from DV except the 12bit, that's not available in any TV yet.

[@anothersiguy]

My $300 Hisense TV supports DV, not sure why Samsung is being so cheap especially for their flagships

[@cromefire_]

@@anothersiguy I mean technically their TVs don't need DV since they don't have 12bit panels, but sadly not every Movie is HDR10+ for whatever reason

[@graemejohnson9025]

I have a mate with a $10k look at me TV.. He can't understand why I still have my 32" series 5 Samsung TV? My reply is, it's only a TV... want to see the real world, bloody go outside.. I do have a Razor Pro 17".. 360hz, rtx 3080 8gig, 32gig ram, laptop though.. 👻

[@alecshoemaker5908]

@@cromefire_ when you say $10.000 do you mean $10 or 10,000

[@cromefire_]

@@alecshoemaker5908 It's 10K, I'm used to the German way of writing numbers (e.g. 10.000,00€). It's per year for the whole company though, not per device.

[@park9912]

The video quality looks so good on my samsung s20 ultra its easily the best youtube clip ive seen on it noice job

[@thomas8692]

Loving the HDR on this. ☺️

[@brando3342]

**T.V. responds 0.000000002 seconds faster than other T.V.** Linus: "WOW!! I SIMPLY CANNOT BELEIVE WHAT I AM LOOKING AT RIGHT NOW!!*

[@helloguy8934]

More like 9 miliseconds faster

[@jrmehle]

9:57 $4000 TV - Yet Sony can't bear the cost of including networking technology from 1999.

[@dicknoseturdwaffle5305]

People should be screaming about this, and it bothers me that it was barely mentioned.

[@mateuszptaszynski5377]

Actually Sony has possibility of using usb 3.0 to gigabit Ethernet dongle, meanwhile Samsung and LG don't support it

[@garystinten9339]

Wait for the next series.. I'm guessing next gen or the gen after

[@Chris-lr3uh]

it's not like I'm ever going to be able to afford anything y'all review but I still enjoy watching your videos.

[@SIPEROTH]

Yes you will because the top tech shown some years ago is now on an average TV. This tech in this Tv's is new and over expensive but a few years down the line an average model will have the same image quality with a fraction of the price.

[@vickerykennison1335]

Thank you. Now I know what to get in a couple of years;

[@bcuziwasbored]

Think this is the best HDR experience I've had to date. Opened this up on my phone and it looks amazing. Just wish it looked this good on my desktop. Maybe it's time to upgrade my monitor...

[@tarikhamou6222]

I'm confident QD-OLED & WOLED TVs are slowly replacing monitors, they keep getting better and better, it's insane, I already made the jump !

[@alvarobeiro]

I didn't know what was wrong with the colours in this video, Linus face seemed unnatural and a few other things were too yellow or too grey. I'm watching it on a 4K SDR display by Samsung and I guess KZbin's HDR to SDR conversion is not really good.

[@Comicsans1007]

Yep, LTT has made a video about this before.

[@user-gx3st2th8q]

Yeah, conversion has a weird green tint to it on my dumb screen

[@Olaipai]

I cannot wait till I get my 65" Sony A95K! Scheduled delivery early august!

[@nrocp0p424]

Had to change my tv settings for this video. Glad to get some hdr content on yt and finally get to use my whole tv and phone screen.

[@mariokotlar303]

Thanks for HDR in this video! Would like to hear more on what it's like to use this as PC monitor. So far considerations seem to be that there might be mild sharpening that can't be disabled, that 4:4:4 chroma is not well supported supported in some configurations, if automatic logo detection dimming (ASBL) is present and to what extent it affects PC use and gaming, and some opinions on how much distracting the subpixel layout is in practice.

[@freddysaade]

Alternate title “What if i wasn’t married and didn’t have 3 kids?”

[@Poverty_Welder]

I'd say because he has those things he's successful if linus didn't have any of that he'd be 99% of the audience

[@azmiraclegirl441]

Amen.

[@WhiskyTanuki]

HDR is so nice on the Alienware QD, best tech purchase 2022 for sure

[@Ken_neThT]

Wow, how did you know? I DO indeed love my eyeballs medium rare! Thanks Linus!

[@JustNoCups]

All this praise about the HDR video makes me feel like I'm missing out, I watched this on my HDR TV and throughout the entire video the colour balance seemed to be missing a ton of the red tones. I've never seen something like this happen and it made Linus look sick.

[@yoted]

Wonder if it was your TV doing (hopefully optional) processing trying to be “helpful” by messing things up, or if it was the KZbin app

[@JustNoCups]

@@yoted Yeah it might've been either, I'll probably try and find a software update for the TV app because from what I'm aware of that was the first HDR video I've ever actually watched through KZbin

[@JayVal90]

That’s weird that you mention red tones being missing, because on my SDR 4k screen there were entirely too much of them.

[@DDMultitracks]

I am probably alone on this. But I actually prefer hdr disabled on KZbin videos. As I watch everything on my phone. Usually at night. And I’m the kind of guy that leaves my phone at 50-75% brightness at all times. And being essentially forced to have brightness turned up at all times isn’t my cup of tea. Maybe KZbin will allow you to disable hdr as a dip switch. That would be a nice option.

[@helloguy8934]

Good. At nighttime and max brightness your hdr is optimal.

[@awesome369]

I guess your rant worked, it shows HDR on my phone now!🙌🏻🙌🏻

[@4rtEnjoyer]

I got a C1 Oled from LG, I am satisfied with the purchase. Thankfully prices went down when these new TVs came out, worth it for a low budget. One day Ill get one of these tvs maybe.

[@sir__vasilis]

I feel like Linus is in my room. Awesome HDR content!

[@vishistsaini3623]

I want a linus in my room

[@shreeney10]

Man's already has an unlimited budget

[@michaelburton5198]

I Watched This Video Several Times Already!!!! Love it Yo!!! Ya Actually Got That Sony, Everybody's Definitely Waiting To Get Their Hands On, Particularly Reviewers, #FACTS!!!!

[@hiibrain]

HDR looks amazing

[@cokeeffe1570]

These are great but for the scrubs out there like myself I'd love to see what the best new low-mid budget tv's are, especially since i'm moving house soon with a 10 year old panasonic tv

[@garystinten9339]

Just like Linus.. moving house and getting a new tv

[@cokeeffe1570]

@@garystinten9339 I’m literally him

[@voodfernichterofficial4745]

I don't comment often but HDR looks horrible on my phone. For some reason KZbin doesn't allow me to disable HDR. I would prefer to have SDR videos for now because on my bandwith I can't really afford to have more data go to color instad of detail

[@edzelyago2840]

What device are you on? Thanks!

[@voodfernichterofficial4745]

Watching it in the Browser does work for now but its quite annoying. Thanks Im on an ROG Phone 5 btw.

[@Metabrotropic]

I really like this walking opening

[@Younex]

This is the first time i watch an HDR video on youtube 🤩

[@GatoPaint]

HDR VIDEO ON LTT HDR VIDEO ON LTT

[@joel_15]

When looking on SDR TV, it looks awful though. I hope youtube gives the option to look at SDR/HDR content