Official Sony HX929 Owner's thread (46HX929, 55HX929, 65HX929) No Price Talk - Page 448

The only thing I read on many of the CES press releases by Sony was that they are not addressing anything XBR related at that time and the HX929 will be kept in production.

My 65HX929 shipped yesterday, I should receive it next week.

Could anyone tell me where a good set of settings are for the 65 HX929?

Hi, I'm having the same problem, and was wondering what you eventually ended up doing?

I experienced the same anomaly about 2 firmware updates ago did a complete reset turne the set off unplugged turned it on and the problem was resolved. Thank goodness.

What's up peeps. It's been a while since I've posted but Id like to show some 929 love. I've had a 55 929 Jan 2012 build for a lil over three months now and must say this tv's picture is dope. I've had two Samsung's C8000 and D8000 and had nothing but issues since day one with both those sets. The 929 has such a crisp picture and inky blacks it makes you truly appreciate everything you watch. I guess I'm just putting my thoughts to text, but if you are looking for a TV this is the one and if your having issues hang in there it will be worth it......

You should PM Rizz and edtorious for their calibrated settings.

Well, I give up. I gave Sony three tries and I had to wait two months for the last one to come in. The picture quality was great but the banding is so distracting that you can't enjoy it.

got my dates a little messed up but that's when you should expect to see the new models now

new models yes, XBR's no.

When was your last built date?

My replacement is coming tomorrow. I have my fingers crossed that its banding and dse free. I have really noticed how bad the vertical and horizontal banding is on this set while watching all the NHL playoff games. Its so distracting when the camera pans borderline unwatchable.

Please help!

Just got my super low profile mount from monoprice..for the 55"
How am I supposed to hang this with a big ass "remote" box on the back of the tv??

I removed it, you can pull the plastic cover off and sumply unscrew and disconnect the rs-232 port. I then covered the hole with black electrical tape and mounted the TV on the wall using the slim mount.

I took off the cover, pulled out the rs232 board, but how is the rest of the box attached to the back panel?

I'm so happy with my own 55HX929, that after finding an open box 55HX929 at Vanns.com today for an unspeakably great deal, I jumped on it so that my parents can enjoy this superb television. Being an open box unit that was serviced by a technician and fully repaired (according to the Vanns representative, who didn't know what had been wrong with it), I have some expectation that something has to be off about it, but as it is fully covered by the Sony warranty (I believe that's 18 months for the XBR-line), I'm confident that we'll be taken care of one way or another; DSE, banding, or who knows what.

By the way, does anybody else find it curious that Sony hasn't upgraded the Netflix interface/feature-set in their top-of-the-line TV? No 1080p streams, no closed captioning, no 5.1 surround sound. An unfortunate situation IMO, which has led me to procure a ROKU 2 XS to gain those features. Very handy little device which I shouldn't haven't need for.

When I purchased the TV in mid-2011, a Sony NSZ-GT1 Google TV box was included, and despite being fully updated, even that lacks 1080p/5.1 DD+ Netflix to this day. Closed caption is there, however. Altogether, I'm not impressed with Sony's choices in this regard. They want you to buy either a PlayStation 3 or a 2012 Blu-Ray player to obtain features that our TV and the NSZ-GT1 could easily support.

None of this is meant to detract from the HX929 TV, however, which is a gorgeous set, on or off.

I consider the banding on my 65hx929 to be very mild. I rarely see it on any material except hockey in HD which does bring it out. My wife doesn't notice it but, even though it is slight, I do. If you are an avid NHL fan, this may not be the TV for you.

Busted!!!! all this hype about banding has got people so paronoid. most of it is in the source. Sometimes I see it quote. vert and horz banding. No such thing. Sorry to this poster who just doesent know any better and is scared by all the others who doint know. Can it have banding yes can it be side to side no.
But what the hee heee do I know,, just 30 years.
carry on all sony will take care of you either way.

My last one was March 2012 build date

Lol I don't know any better?? You need to come watch this tv and tell me there's no banding. It has nothing to do with what anyone else has posted. The banding on this set is unacceptable. And 30 years means nothing .. The HX929 has only been out for a year buddy so your "30 years " is irrelevant. I'm no professional calibrator but I do consider myself a tv/tech junkie who knows a lot more than the average Joe. And regardless of credentials anyone can see the issues with this set. The older Samsung a750 I have has zero banding whatsoever when comparing the same source at the same time . Also the bands are very apparent on the TVs blue input screen ..not source related . Just because you may have gotten a good set doesn't mean that the issues people are reporting on here don't exist.

Well, my first 55HX929 had a single horizontal band that was very noticable on the "no signal" screen. It also had 3 hard to see vertical bands. They couldn't be seen when watching a film unless it was a bright scene with camera pans. Playing video games made the vertical bands very noticable.

After a week of use a cluster of pixles started to display a deep red color at all times. Sent the TV back and got a new one that was built in March 2012. They must have sent it straight from the manufacturer to my place.

This new 55HX929 has zero banding problems. I can't see any problems with it other than the blooming issues which are minor. Have had the TV for about a week now without issues.

I tried using Cnet's settings and hometheater's settings as well as Imrizzo's settings. I find Imrizzo's settings to be the best. They are pretty close to hometheater's settings. Brightness is the only real differance. Personally, I find that Imrizzo's settings do have black crush which can be seen in certain dark scenes. I feel that hometheater's settings are a bit too bright so I chose to set the brightness inbetween the two.

I feel like the superb blacks really make this TV shine and I can see why Imrizzo's dark settings would sit well with most people. I pushed the brightness up a little to get rid of the black crush but I feel like I am pushing the blacks as dark as they can go without crush. All in all I am very pleased with the image quality. I have about 55 Hours of time in on this TV so I might see things change a little over the next 55 hours but I got a great place to start regarding the settings from Imrizzo. I would highly reccomend starting with Imrizzo's settings and making minor adjustments to picture, brightness and possibly back lighting based on your set and the lighting condition in your room.

I know it's a trivial and perhaps unwarranted use of praise, but I thank God for finally getting a nigh-perfect television this morning.

If you guys don't remember, I had the 55" model, and had the crazy bright edge problem going on. I had it swapped and found the new set had a bright spot in the middle. I switched again and got the same bright edge issue.

I finally sold it and picked up a 46" set which had this weird 2-band dark line right down the middle as well as excessive corner backlight bleed. Amazon promptly switched it out and today I'm happy to announce that my set is relatively free from ANY dark spots, banding, clouding, backlight bleed, or other odd lines or imperfections.

It's the same date as the last 46" - December 2011. I've been running around with a chicken with peanut butter lockjaw trying to get a response from both Sony and you guys to no avail. Finally. Thank the Lord, if for nothing else, for giving me peace of mind to focus on important life things.

Also, having such experience with 5 HX929 sets, I can safely say that my settings are consistently suiting to variations in sets. Here are my settings (used the WoW) disc on each of sets and got surprisingly similar calibrations:

Backlight: 2-5 (depending on ambient light)
Picture: 95
Brightness: 50 (no black crush; local dimming ensures solid black/dark while in dark room viewing)
Color: 53 (each set required this in order for the calibration to work)
Tint: 0
Sharpness: 48-50 (only slight variation)
All settings OFF (for HD viewing)
Gamma: -2
Local Dimming: Standard
White Balance: -4, 0, -6, 0, 0, 0
Everything else: OFF

Auto-Wide: OFF; Full Pixel

Hope this provides an alternative to IMRIZZO's settings (which look great, but offer a less poppy picture).

Scratch that. None of those problems, but the right side of my screen is ALOT warmer than left.

OMG!!!

And there is a bright spot on the bottom that shows up in grays and pinks.

I will see if these issues irk me after extended viewing. Why do these big companies have to cut corners where it matters most?

seems nice, but did you figure White Balance by WoW disc too?

I configured white balance by multiple means. First, there is a digital reference photo in the WoW book that I tried my hardest to match up to.

Secondly, I took pictures with my phone camera of skies, grasses, and outdoor objects until I had obtained indistinguishable comparison shots (the pics on phone represented reality as I saw it).

I transferred those to my Ps3 and messed with them for a crazy bit of time until I managed to get the pics on the screen to match the phone and subsequently, reality.

Furthermore, I found "white" objects and let them be hit by incoming ambient sunlight, at which point I was able to match the on-screen whites with those.

Even further still, I did this with every color temp (Cool thru Warm 2) independently and the results all look nigh identical.

In fact, here are all the WB settings for you to try out yourself:

1) Neutral - 0, 0, -19, 0, 0, 0
2) Warm 1 - -8, 0, -15, 0, 0, 0
3) Warm 2 - -12, 0, -3, 0, 0, 0
4) Cool - Don't remember.

Sorry, I posted the wrong WB settings earlier. I was using old data, before I did anything aside from compare popular settings.

Ive had this issue for a while now.. When watching movies on my 65Hx929 with MotionFlow on, there is a short 2 - 3 second stutter every 10 - 15 seconds. Does anyone else have this issue? Anyone know what I can do to fix it?

It is very distracting, any advice would be greaat. Thanks

I received my 46HX929 yesterday from Amazon. Plugged it in, ran through set-up, and sat down to watch NHL playoffs last night (with no other adjustments). PQ was just terrible, dull, and banding. Tried lots of settings from here and the calibration forum, but the banding is just terrible against the white ice. Everything else I've tried viewing looks good. I only have my Tivo Premier hooked to HDMI1. I thought from reading here that the 46" was free from the banding issues? I'm headed now to check the build date and firmware. Anything else I should try?

Yeah, my sales rep at Sony Style tried to tell me the fact that Netflix was only 2.0 sound was a "feature" because nobody wants to waste bandwidth on 5.1 sound for Netflix. Clearly he was grasping at straws to spin that.

I don't really care, I haven't used any of the "smart" features of the TV since I bought it. I have 4 devices hook up to the TV that will do Netflix already. I think I'd rather they not put the application in the TV to save costs really.

What is your signal source ? In most instances problems are source related and not display failures.

Process of elimination. check your RF cable that's plugged or screwed into your cable box.
1. Try changing your HDMI cable.
2. Try plugging it into another set to see if it have problems.

Hope this helps.
Peace & blessings.