Sony XBR-HX950 Owners' Thread (XBR-55HX9​50 and XBR-65HX95​0) - Page 84

Originally Posted by IMRIZZO 

55" Class (54.6" diag) 4K Ultra HD TV
Model number: XBR-55X900A
Model Features: 4K Ultra HD, 4K X-Reality™ PRO Picture Engine with upscaling to 4K, two 65W front-facing speakers, TRILUMINOS display, Dynamic Edge LED backlight, Motionflow™ XR 960, wireless smartphone mirroring technology

TRILUMINOS LED was Sony's lighting used in the XBR8's there were red, 2green, and blue LED lights full array, but now as edgelit source, not sure how effective that will be.

Originally Posted by cmay91472 

I found the PS3 3d glasses on sale at BB for 19.99 to be really good so far, especially for wearing over prescription glasses. Much better than the regular 250 model. Have not tried the titanium 750 model yet though.

As for 3d movies, I've got about 75 so far including almost every domestic animated release. For kids, Kung Fu Panda 2 and Madagascar 3d are really amazing 3d. Other ones I recently watched and liked include both 3d wise and overall movie itself wise are Frankenweenie, Paranorman, and Dedpicable Me.

All the Disney animated are top notch (except Chicken Little) especially the Pixar 3d films.

Will be picking up Hotel Translyvania tomorrow at BB along with another pair of the 3d ps3 glasses now that I got s chance to test them out. Even though the glasses may seem a bit larger and clunkier than others, the lenses are huge so you don't have that problem of bring able to see the edge if the lenses while viewing, don't see the blinking light flash as others reported on the $100 titaniums, and the frames block out ambient light also.

Originally Posted by Stanri010 

My 55HX950 just came in today. Just thought I'd share my experience.

I ordered it from Amazon Warehouse Deals for $2685 for a "like new" condition fulfilled by Amazon.com. On their website, they only listed it as "may be repackaged." The "very good" conditions were the ones that had small damages to the TV, such as "small cosmetic damage to the back or front housing." I saw a one that was posted as like new and pounced on it instantly. It was delivered by CEVA which is amazon's TV delivery of choice. They call you to schedule an appointment and then they deliver the TV. They set aside 4 hour blocks 8-12 and a 12-4 delivery window. I had to leave work for a half an hour to sign for the TV. This is amazon's white glove delivery service so the guy came and got to my apartment a few minutes before I arrived. I lived on the third floor but the guy had already grunted 55" TV up all three flights all by himself. I was pretty amazed.

Once in my apartment, he proceeded to take the TV out of the box. I'd like to mention that the "may come repackaged" was the only reason Amazon knocked off $500 dollars from the retail price. It came in a brown Amazon box that worked exactly the same way as the sony box. The amazon box was also in mint condition. It even had the clips at the bottom and the entire top portion of the box lifted off to reveal the TV packed in thick foam. All the little accessories were still shrink wrapped. The guy took all of the parts out and proceeded to set the stand up and mount the TV onto the stand. We powered up the TV (I was holding my breath for dead pixels) and I was did a fast look over for dead pixels. I didn't find any. Not believing that I got a perfect LCD, I did another search for dead pixels. None. I then connected my laptop up to the TV via HDMI and cycled through a few solid Blacks, Blues, Reds, and Whites. All perfect. No banding, clouding or DSE.

It was after all the tests did the delivery guy ask me to sign for the package. I signed and filled out a quick checklist/customer survey saying that he did all of the tasks he was supposed to do ie. unwrapping, mounting, etc. He even offered to take away the empty box but suggested that I keep the box around for another couple weeks just in case I needed to return the TV. I kept the box.

Seriously, if anyone's on the fence about purchasing a TV from Amazon, don't hesitate just because it is delivered rather than at a physical store. Had the TV been below my standards, the delivery guy would have just packed it all up and shipped it back to Amazon. The only thing you'd be losing out is the 2-3 day delivery time. Not to mention, by buying from Warehouse Deals, I saved a good $500 off retail price on a brand new TV still with all the shrink wrapping still on it. All the difference was, was just the Amazon box and packaging.

Now, off to find some good settings for this beast.

Originally Posted by Stanri010 

My 55HX950 just came in today. Just thought I'd share my experience.

I ordered it from Amazon Warehouse Deals for $2685 for a "like new" condition fulfilled by Amazon.com. On their website, they only listed it as "may be repackaged." The "very good" conditions were the ones that had small damages to the TV, such as "small cosmetic damage to the back or front housing." I saw a one that was posted as like new and pounced on it instantly. It was delivered by CEVA which is amazon's TV delivery of choice. They call you to schedule an appointment and then they deliver the TV. They set aside 4 hour blocks 8-12 and a 12-4 delivery window. I had to leave work for a half an hour to sign for the TV. This is amazon's white glove delivery service so the guy came and got to my apartment a few minutes before I arrived. I lived on the third floor but the guy had already grunted 55" TV up all three flights all by himself. I was pretty amazed.

Once in my apartment, he proceeded to take the TV out of the box. I'd like to mention that the "may come repackaged" was the only reason Amazon knocked off $500 dollars from the retail price. It came in a brown Amazon box that worked exactly the same way as the sony box. The amazon box was also in mint condition. It even had the clips at the bottom and the entire top portion of the box lifted off to reveal the TV packed in thick foam. All the little accessories were still shrink wrapped. The guy took all of the parts out and proceeded to set the stand up and mount the TV onto the stand. We powered up the TV (I was holding my breath for dead pixels) and I was did a fast look over for dead pixels. I didn't find any. Not believing that I got a perfect LCD, I did another search for dead pixels. None. I then connected my laptop up to the TV via HDMI and cycled through a few solid Blacks, Blues, Reds, and Whites. All perfect. No banding, clouding or DSE.

It was after all the tests did the delivery guy ask me to sign for the package. I signed and filled out a quick checklist/customer survey saying that he did all of the tasks he was supposed to do ie. unwrapping, mounting, etc. He even offered to take away the empty box but suggested that I keep the box around for another couple weeks just in case I needed to return the TV. I kept the box.

Seriously, if anyone's on the fence about purchasing a TV from Amazon, don't hesitate just because it is delivered rather than at a physical store. Had the TV been below my standards, the delivery guy would have just packed it all up and shipped it back to Amazon. The only thing you'd be losing out is the 2-3 day delivery time. Not to mention, by buying from Warehouse Deals, I saved a good $500 off retail price on a brand new TV still with all the shrink wrapping still on it. All the difference was, was just the Amazon box and packaging.

Now, off to find some good settings for this beast.




I took a couple pictures with my iPhone but because of the damn dust behind the lens, its pretty poor quality. Oh well.

Originally Posted by Rocko9999 

Looks like some faint purple banding on the left and right of center with the left being more pronounced.

Originally Posted by Rocko9999 

Looks like some faint purple banding on the left and right of center with the left being more pronounced.

Originally Posted by chi_guy50 

Thanks for sharing your experience. I have been on the fence for quite a while about purchasing from Amazon Warehouse's offerings (they now have 55HX929's for about $1600, although I'm currently thinking of waiting for the new W900). It would be very interesting to know whether your purchase is covered by Sony's 1-year manutacturer's warranty, and I suspect that the answer may vary on a case-by-case basis depending on the set's prior purchase history. If you could call Sony to confirm the warranty status I would love to hear what you find out.

Originally Posted by klinge 

I am running on a Mac Mini (mid 2010) with integrated Nvidia GeForce 320M videocard.

I tried changing away from (16-235) to a dynamic range of 0-255. That gave me really solid blacks but everything else looked bad (white was blinding). Perhaps because I use CRITICALSHOTS agressive settings at the moment to compensate for the lack of black in WMC.

Dynamic 0-255 also ruined the playback using Windows Mediaplayer.

But very strange that WMC has this strange behaviour.

Originally Posted by Stanri010 

Just out of curiosity, has there been any documented cases of light LOSS along the edges or corners? Even asking the question seems pretty absurd as in almost all other cases and TV's its light bleeding in the corners...

Originally Posted by Nieto 

I think it was an Nvidia update that caused this issue. I was experiencing the same problem with WMC, but was able to correct the problem by changing the digital color format from RGB to YCbCr444.

Originally Posted by klinge 

Am I the only one seing problems with "end credits" which are scrolling horizontal? (right to left)

The only way I can remove the juddered text scroll is by setting the Motionflow on Smooth, all other settings creates judder.

When I look at the different settings people have posted I see Off, Standard, Clear and Clear Plus. No one is using Smooth.

Normally I would like to turn all this extra processing off to avoid Soap Opera effect and fictive frames being added but I cannot get a good scrolling text without it.

Does anyone know what the different modes does?

A wild guess could be:

Clear: Black Frame insertion
Clear Plus: Black Frame insertion + Scanning backlights
Standard: Frame interpolation + Black Frame insertion + Scanning backlights
Smooth: 2 x Frame interpolation + Black Frame insertion + Scanning backlights

Originally Posted by klinge 

Am I the only one seing problems with "end credits" which are scrolling horizontal? (right to left)

The only way I can remove the juddered text scroll is by setting the Motionflow on Smooth, all other settings creates judder.

When I look at the different settings people have posted I see Off, Standard, Clear and Clear Plus. No one is using Smooth.

Normally I would like to turn all this extra processing off to avoid Soap Opera effect and fictive frames being added but I cannot get a good scrolling text without it.

Does anyone know what the different modes does?

A wild guess could be:

Clear: Black Frame insertion
Clear Plus: Black Frame insertion + Scanning backlights
Standard: Frame interpolation + Black Frame insertion + Scanning backlights
Smooth: 2 x Frame interpolation + Black Frame insertion + Scanning backlights

Originally Posted by CRITICALSHOT 

I am so mad I can't find the link I had for the explanations of the motion settings ! You should not concern yourself with the "juddered text scroll". When you use smooth and auto 1 you will introduce nasty artifacts; which I would stay away from. If you are watching blu-ray there is a strong possibility it will be played in 24 frames for second. I would suggest cutting that setting off and watching it in 30fps. If you want to use the smooth setting with very minimal artifacts you would need to use the auto 2 setting.

If you go to the best cinema with the best equipment, you would still see judder. If I was you I would sit back and enjoy the display and stop looking for issues but I will be always willing to help if I can. Do you have a dedicated blu-ray player?

Originally Posted by Stanri010 

Hey for whatever reason, whenever I connect my TV via HDMI to my computer, the TV goes into "graphics" mode and that option is grayed out. I can't make it go back into standard mode. Has anyone experienced this and know how to make the TV go back into a regular non picture viewing mode? When its in graphics, motion and other options are disabled.

Originally Posted by gorthocar 

No problem here with my HTPC->receiver->950, though I think it went into Graphics mode by default when I first connected to it. Go to Settings -> Preferences -> Scene Select and you should be able to select "General" or something else other than "Graphics".

Originally Posted by stmbl 

Hey all. After reading a bunch I think I'm still leaning towards the HX850. Too bad I can't find it anywhere... Does anyone know how they compare when it comes to screen reflections/glare? The 950 was a little too reflective for my taste but maybe I could get used to it? Then again it seems to be the next distinguisher after we get that pesky issue of PQ out of the way.

Originally Posted by cmay91472 

I love my 65HX950! Sorry, had to post something since its been 1.5 days since the last post in this thread.

Originally Posted by cdjocp 

DO YOU NOTICE ANY OF THE ISSUES WITH YOUR 65 THAT HAVE BEEN STATED

Originally Posted by Danediz 

How much better is this set compared to the 850?

Originally Posted by steve1971 

I would say not much better except that the HX950 is full array LED where the HX850 aint. Other then that they are almost the same.

Originally Posted by Danediz 

U guys think the price will drop some?