If there's a better 4K picture performer out there than the Sony KD-65X9005B, I haven't seen it.
To
assess the screen in full-fat 4K, I hooked up a media server packed
with movie, music and sports sequences. The set duly dazzled with detail
and image refinement. House of Cards Season 2, in Netflix 4K, exhibits
lavish texture and depth. The set will really have you hankering after
more 4K content.
Thankfully,
upscaling of Full HD sources is similarly outstanding. The latest
X-Reality Pro image processing circuitry does a remarkable job
extrapolating detail from 1080 sources. HD TV broadcasts magically gain
solidity and nuance, while Blu-ray's look nothing short of brilliant in
faux 4K. This Triluminos-branded system is compatible with the extended
x.y.colour information included in the brand's Mastered in 4K Blu-ray
disc line, although this only works on the cinema preset.
Of
course, it's not just that four times Full HD resolution that
impresses. The screen boasts huge dynamics with deep blacks and peaky
whites, a consequence of Sony's X-tended Dynamic range image
manipulation. Edge backlighting is reassuringly even.
Colour
fidelity is also excellent. Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim looks
positively psychedelic, with deep saturated primaries. There's such
intensity to the onscreen hues that this TV could make a rainbow seem
dowdy.
A change of panel supplier from last year's 4K Sony models
has meant that this UHD screen offers Active Shutter rather than Passive
3D. Two pairs of 3D glasses are supplied.
The set's Active 3D is
best viewed in a dark room; multiple light sources causes the 3D goggles
to flicker which is quite distracting. Overall dimensional performance
though is very good, with little in the way of crosstalk double imaging.
The screen is particularly effective with Sky's side-by-side 3D
broadcasts, exhibiting pronounced stereo separation and excellent colour
retention.
Motion handling has always been a strength of Sony
screens, and here it's characteristically impressive, although arguably
not as comprehensively fine as that seen on the brand 2013 X9005A
models. The various Motionflow settings are more of a lottery in terms
of unwanted motion artifacts. I found the best settings to be standard,
clear and true cinema; the latter has quite low levels of motion detail
though. Avoid the impulse setting as it's too flickery to be watchable.
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