Official Sony HX850 Owner's Thread (46HX850, 55HX850) - Page 55

Originally Posted by phargrave 

Hi fegam2,

I agree completley with your settings, out of interest what "other" settings do you use i.e brightness, contrast, colour etc.....

Originally Posted by littlekobald 

Hi guys, I have a quick question. I have a 46" HX850. I've had it for about three months. Recently, the power supple (I think that's what it's called) in the TV broke. I now have to send it back for repairs. Problem is, I don't have the original box it came in, so I have to get a box that it will fit in. I was wondering if someone could measure their box and let me know so I can don't have to test a bunch of boxes. I would really really appreciate it!

Originally Posted by littlekobald 

Hi guys, I have a quick question. I have a 46" HX850. I've had it for about three months. Recently, the power supple (I think that's what it's called) in the TV broke. I now have to send it back for repairs. Problem is, I don't have the original box it came in, so I have to get a box that it will fit in. I was wondering if someone could measure their box and let me know so I can don't have to test a bunch of boxes. I would really really appreciate it!

Originally Posted by ReaperZ 

i hope to be a member of this thread shortly .. will be buying the 46HX850 in the next week or two .. how are people finding this display for gaming ? namely PS3 and/or PC gaming .. how is the 3D for gaming particularly?

Thanks all ! .. was looking at HX750 but have been offered a great deal on the HX850

Originally Posted by jpeezay 

Hey Guys,

So after painstakingly reading all posts from page 1 through the last one, here are my 2-cents worth.

My gf and I bought a 46 in December instead of worrying about Christmas gifts and we love it. After some hesitation, I finally got the nerve to run the Disney WOW BD - took me a while to face the possibility of noting new issues. Overall, everything is good with the exception of the following:

- some minor flashlighting in bottom right/left (so barely noticeable that I often wonder if I am just imagining things when my eye pulls to the corners to double check yet again - probably my OCD as my gf claims I'm crazy). I played around the settings quite a bit and tried a few posted on here, but it persists. Gf won't let me open up the case to play with the screws so I guess I'll have to live with it!

- whites - can't seem to get a good contrast setting on the Disney WOW BD for the whites without killing the blacks. I've been playing around for the last 3 months with the settings so I'm fairly familiar with the menus. Does anyone know what settings have the most impact on the whites? Brightness, contrast, backlight, Eco... Anything else I'm missing?

- dead pixels... Found a couple, had a heart attack, my gf blew on the screen and they floated further down the screen... Whew!

- motionflow/cinemotion: for the life of me I can't find a "perfect" setting combination here. Sony manual is pure garbage and just when I feel like it's good, next BD skips when panning in scenes. After adjustment, the next BD blurs durin similar content. Currently on clear plus and auto 1. My question here is to what extent can this be influenced by the source an are there any settings on my BD player that I should really examine? I'm only picky when it comes to BD Content as I cable provider signal quality may vary from channel to channel. Maybe HDMI cable is the issue??? Not sure...

- what in the world does SBM do?

- some artifacting on the hyperbola test on the Disney disk. Played with everything I could think of but couldn't get rid of it. Interestingly though, this test made me finally abandon reality creation for good as the test would go haywire with it on...

Overall, we are really happy and the more tv's we see at our friends' houses that also bought new ones in 2012, the more we are content with making the right decision in the end (I believe the psychology term is "confirmation bias" ;-) ). The biggest problem is that we are watching so much more tv now... EVERYTHING just looks so much better than our old tv...

Originally Posted by jtown017 

The W900a wont come in a 46" like the 850 tho correct?

And how much will the W900a cost from launch

Originally Posted by hingerson 

I just picked up 46" hx850 yesterday I found a store that had 2 left!! this TV is incredible, ill be playing with the settings for weeks if not longer now lol. My question is what 3D glasses are most of you using? The PS3 ones? can someone post a link thanks.

Originally Posted by Guibs 

bottom corners with flashlighting is unfortunately common. It's a matter of getting the one with the least amount of it. Personally, I decided to live with my hx850 #3 out of 5 which was the best of the bunch. I added some bias lighting in the back too as well. I would concur that it seems the flashlithing does improve with time. It seems now that often even on black bars, I cannot notice it anymore. That with the bias lighting is helping a little.

as for the setting for motionflow/cinemotion, for regular TV, I'm going with Motionflow set to standard and cinemotion set to auto1. cinemotion to auto1 growed on me. It's one of the least invasive "soap opera" effect from the few manufacturer I've seen. You do get sometimes the soap opera effect but it's not common and in your face like Samsung.

For Bluray, I have cinemotion set to auto2 (which I think handles 24P) and motionflow again on Standard.

At all time, leave Dynamic Led to Standard. Only time I have it on low is on game mode for video games to reduce the flashlighting (which is a bit more visible in gamemode).

Originally Posted by Justin Sullins 

Doesn't the 850 only exhibit flashlighting/uneven screen uniformity when in the Sony Menu? At least that's what I'd heard. I have the 950 that has some bad screen uniformity when in the menu because of local dimming getting disabled. When watching regular content it's all black and perfectly even. I thought the 850 did the same thing in the menu?

Originally Posted by ZELSONY55HX850 

Dear all.

I have a major problem with my new SONY 55 HX850. I just bought it yesterday 17 Feb 2013 and i watch it just approximately 3~4 hour when it suddenly turn off and (standby) indicator blinks twice each interval (red colour). It is like it enters into safe mode I assumed. After that I call the sales person regarding this and his answer is just turn off the plug and unplugged, wait for an hour and try to press the source button again. So I did what he advised not only one hour but until this morning but it fail to start again. When I press the source button I only heard a click sound at the back near the source cable and the television (standby) indicator just blinks twice again in red. I also have plug it direct to the AC power (mains) at home without using extension plug but still fail and blinks twice. (This was stated in the manual troubleshooting).

Please anyone help me what is the problem???!!!!!!

Anyway the sales person stated there will be a technician coming to solve this today. I hope so.

Originally Posted by bullpuss 

Try to get an exchange if possible................bwoy the quality control from these tv manufactures have gone downhill indeed. No matter how much money you spend its like playing the lotto to get a decent set, hope you can get it fixed. I bought one 2 weeks ago and i have a little clouding and some flash lighting from the right side of the panel......but i am scared to even try and get an exchange, because i might get something even worse.

Originally Posted by ZELSONY55HX850 

Dear all.

I have a major problem with my new SONY 55 HX850. I just bought it yesterday 17 Feb 2013 and i watch it just approximately 3~4 hour when it suddenly turn off and (standby) indicator blinks twice each interval (red colour). It is like it enters into safe mode I assumed. After that I call the sales person regarding this and his answer is just turn off the plug and unplugged, wait for an hour and try to press the source button again. So I did what he advised not only one hour but until this morning but it fail to start again. When I press the source button I only heard a click sound at the back near the source cable and the television (standby) indicator just blinks twice again in red. I also have plug it direct to the AC power (mains) at home without using extension plug but still fail and blinks twice. (This was stated in the manual troubleshooting).

Please anyone help me what is the problem???!!!!!!

Anyway the sales person stated there will be a technician coming to solve this today. I hope so.

Originally Posted by Gunzzz 

Funny, I see absolutely nothing in the corners that's been talked about here over and over again....it's perfect. I'll rate my set a 9.5/10 because I will see some clouding/banding/"whatever uneven screen term" only on a hockey games and even then if you're not actually looking for it and enjoying the game like you're supposed to then it's a non issue. I really think a lot of people here ought to start enjoying life and it's rewards rather than living in obscurity looking for problems that don't matter.

Originally Posted by ZELSONY55HX850 

Dear all.

I have a major problem with my new SONY 55 HX850. I just bought it yesterday 17 Feb 2013 and i watch it just approximately 3~4 hour when it suddenly turn off and (standby) indicator blinks twice each interval (red colour). It is like it enters into safe mode I assumed. After that I call the sales person regarding this and his answer is just turn off the plug and unplugged, wait for an hour and try to press the source button again. So I did what he advised not only one hour but until this morning but it fail to start again. When I press the source button I only heard a click sound at the back near the source cable and the television (standby) indicator just blinks twice again in red. I also have plug it direct to the AC power (mains) at home without using extension plug but still fail and blinks twice. (This was stated in the manual troubleshooting).

Please anyone help me what is the problem???!!!!!!

Anyway the sales person stated there will be a technician coming to solve this today. I hope so.

Originally Posted by phargrave 

I thought my 55 was not too bad in respect of flashlighting, but I watched Sinister tonight on Blu ray in low lighting conditions and the flashlighting was very bad indeed. I have had this tv for 3 months now and this is the worst I have seen it perform, I have all "gimmicks" turned off and LED Dynamic control at Standard with backlight setting at 4 (on clear) anyone else had this problem with very dark films or know of a good compromise:(

Originally Posted by Guibs 

Would it be possible for you to let us know your manufacturing date and manufacture location?

.

Originally Posted by phargrave 

I thought my 55 was not too bad in respect of flashlighting, but I watched Sinister tonight on Blu ray in low lighting conditions and the flashlighting was very bad indeed. I have had this tv for 3 months now and this is the worst I have seen it perform, I have all "gimmicks" turned off and LED Dynamic control at Standard with backlight setting at 4 (on clear) anyone else had this problem with very dark films or know of a good compromise:(

Originally Posted by Guibs 

I'd say you have similar setting than me, the difference is that I have my backlit set to 3 with motionflow set to standard.

On bluray movies though, in dark, I have my backlit set on only 1 (cinema scene). Bluray have more details so I find the backlit to 1 good enough since the source is great. For regular TV though (scene General), I prefer a backlit of 3 since some TV show are pretty dark and I'm missing too much on shadow details. a Backlit of 3 seems a good compromise.

So I'd say, for movies in the dark, try reducing the backlit. It should help lower the flashlighting, hopefully to a point where you don't notice it anymore.

Dynamic LED set to standard is a must though.