Comment on Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 days agoTheir early “4k/120s” weren’t even actually 4k/120. Enabling 120hz refresh rates on early Bravias would cut horizontal resolution in half, and then crudely attempt to upscale it.
plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I mean the true 120hz, not the upscaled crap.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 days ago
No I know what you mean. I’m not talking about the “Trumotion” 120hz motion smoothing technology.
The first generation of Sony Bravia TVs that advertised native 4k/120hz, specifically to coincide with the release of the PS5, couldn’t actually do native 4k/120hz.
plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Then you’re misremembering a lot of stuff
www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/sony/x900h
This tv came out around the same time as the ps5. A few features came in a later update, but it is 4k/120 out of the box. You couldn’t get a better tv at the time.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’m not misremembering anything. I have the x900h exact TV in my living room right now. It cannot do native 4k/120hz, to this day. It can do Native 4k OR it can do 120hz but not both. If you enable 120hz, the horizontal resolution is cut in half to only 1080 pixels. This couldn’t be fixed with a drive update because it’s a consequence of Sony cheating out on the processor. It is physically not capable of it.
VRR was added in a firmware update, but again due to Sony’s poor choice in hardware components if you enable VRR it disables local dimming entirely. Being an LED panel, without local dimming the picture is significantly degraded. It’s a truly terrible TV for anything but casual Netflix watching.