Product Reviews

A bit of a boring review, really. I bought Sony because I wanted the best and I haven't been disappointed. Great picture, sound, accessibility to my DVD player and recorder. All the little extras that came without my asking for them - bluetooth connection to my sound buds, for example. I'm still finding new things that it does. Set up is very easy, and basically it just works.

I bought thist two weeks ago and I'm happy with it.

(2020 model). No BBC text ,red button or std txt . Replacement should have been same or better model thank u but not ps5 ready as not even one 2.1 port and only 60hz. As i say "2020 model ".

I bought this TV about 1 month ago i had just bought an LG 55 inch , But i was not happy with the picture or a few other things that where not right in the LG . So i paid a lot more money for my new Sony TV and i have to say its everything in a TV i wanted love it..

We have a 65" KD9005 model (i.e. not that far behind) but needed to replace an older TV so have moved the 65" into the other room, and upgraded to the 85" 9505 in our main room.... and just wow.... colours are amazing, detail is amazing. I love the simple improvements like the link to my virgin box so we only now need one control etc. We bought this over OLED as it is better for movement and we watch alot of sports, and also for the crystal brightness of the screen which is exceptional. Only downside is that it is very expensive for what it is.... still love it though.

After a few weeks/months research (every test&review), as well as a few visits to the stores (very limited due to the Covid19 restrictions), it was impossible to see the best parts of this TV in the store (maybe the said stores have a preference on the sets they push). Bought this from Sony and once got it set up, all the commonly discussed benefits were very true, the picture is really, really good whilst watching a movie. What is even more impressive, is the fact that a freeview (HD channels) picture is just fantastic, the upscaling and colour accuracy is something different!

Had this a week now ... I did minimal tweaking of colour / brightness etc..., but things were pretty close straight out of the box. The response time of the remote is very quick. The kids play PlayStation games on it and again the response time of the tv is flawless. Overall, it’s a pretty impressive tv...highly recommended for sure. We use a soundbar for the audio, which is far and away better than the tv built in audio. However the sound is acceptable .

Bought this online a few days ago, only just set it up,but so far looks great. I still have a number of things to set up android tv wise, have set up Disney plus, and watched Star wars the rise of Skywalker, didnt think it was great in 4k, but then I started to watch Antman and the wasp, totally different experience, picture was excellent! Great tv many thanks.

Previous tv was a Sony so we had high expectations for a Sony smart TV. The new Sony excelled in most areas but had backward steps in others. For example the TV guide is not attractive or user friendly.

Bit disappointed probably on a par with less expensive models

This is my fourth Sony and my first 4K so easy to set up lovely tv and amazing picture definitely recommend this product

Easy to install with on screen guide and great picture

We have had this TV now for twelve day's and we are over joyed with both the picture and sound. The difference between this TV and our old one stands out a mile. The colour's make everything stand out. So happy that we decided to upgrade.

Happy with this device very good quality video and picture

Really nice TV, lovely picture and easy to set-up. Also brought the sound system with the TV but not sure if the volume is any better as didn't hear the TV volume on its own. I think my husband just wanted to buy it!

Does it all and does it well. The remote controller for TV also controls the Amp and Blu Ray player. It also has with built in microphone for the voice control function. Sound (through Amp + speakers) and image is unreal when streaming ultra 4K through TV apps (amazon, Disney +and Netflix). Sat and digital tv work with HD reception, but who watches live TV anymore? Throwing videos, photos and music from Iphone and android mobile phones is very easy. Plex and Spotify can easily be controlled on the TV from phone apps. SATA 2.5 inch hard drive connects for recording Live TV via USB 3 connector.

I got this to replace a KD55-XD9305. the difference is night & day. The picture is as good as you can get, the Android O/S is lightning fast. It all just works as it should.

I have only had the set for two weeks but I am so far very impressed. Having had a Sony BRAVIA before I had high expectations for the xh9505 and it doesn’t disappoint. The colours are bright but natural looking with little fine tuning required. The backlight thanks to local dimming gives excellent blacks even in a dark room. Motion is excellent with none of the soap opera effect found on some other models even when on full. The speed of the UI is the best I have experienced on a tv thanks to the X1 ultimate processor. Smart features are plentiful, coming shipped with Android tv 9.0. All in all this the best tv I have owned at a very reasonable price.

What a fantastic TV, overall one of the top high-end TV's. Best picture and sound is awesome. Upscale is fab, everything i watch even in SD get upscale near enough to HD. And anything in HD is almost a 4K picture quality. I'd highly recommend this telly if your after a cinematic experience.

Only one word for this Sony product FANTASTIC .....

Excellent and stunning picture quality and good sound. Really pleased with our purchase of this tv.

I have been using this product for two weeks and I am continually amazed at how good the picture quality is. The clarity is excellent and the colours are natural. Motion is handled superbly once you have turned off the additional filters in the settings. Black's are almost as good as my Sony A1 OLED with plenty of detail in the darker areas. The TV is used in an orangery where there is a great deal of ambient light. Nevertheless, the bright screen seems to cope very well and we have no problems viewing the screen. Overall, we are very pleased with our purchase and the 5 year manufacturer's warranty.

A great tv and it also controls my Virgin Media box with the Sony remote control with is awsome

This is the second Sony TV in 7 years, upgrading last month to the 65 inch. Its every bit as good as the marketing material. But there is so much more to this peice of electronic engineering than meets they eye, take tour time to activate each of the elements of the TV learning as you go, you won't be disapointed. Oh and the picture and sound quality is just amazing.

Enjoying the new features, picture quality and sound. A great upgrade from my previous television, the Android operating system works a treat too.

Good TV but came without an adequate manual so found it difficuly to set up with ancillary equipment (e.g. how to stream a movie from an ipad pro to the tv?).

i got this tv from hbh woolocotts the service i got was perfect and the tele i cant fault im no tec but i picked it up very quickly well done sony

An outstanding TV in all respects, from build to picture. The blacks and whites are awesome.

We have always had Sony television’s and this is just the best we have had so far. Many thanks Sony

I bought this 2 weeks ago and as expected another excellent product by Sony!

Not the must straightforward to operate but very good when you understand it

I bought this great tv six weeks ago and I am delighted with everything about the item

We have always had Sony tv`s and we have always been pleased with them. This is a lovely TV it is a very good picture the colours are true the sound is very good. Brilliant.

This tv is our first for 12 years and having done our research has proved to be the right choice - excellent picture and sound and very easy for us seniors to use.

Excellent picture and very good sound. Unfortunately, you have to choose which smart features you want as they are mutually exclusive! The one 'must have' feature that is lacking is the ability to pause live TV. Also, you should be able to record from YouView, and to make these changes would be easy for Sony and would then make the product brilliant.

I mounted this tv last month. As a prior Samsung user, it was a shame to find out that the distance between the screws used for mounting purposes are not uniform. However, that said, this tv is a significant improvement! Great graphics and audio quality.

Excellent picture,I wear hearing aids so sound quality is important, purchased matching Sony sound bar at the same very pleased with sound quality

Bought this in March 2020 just as it was released to replace the previous XG model. I mostly use this for movies and video games along with a 7.1.4 Dolby Atmos setup. Great anti-glare coating on the screen means I rarely have to darken the room down. Motionflow works well for most scenarios should you wish to use it. The LED lighting for HDR and even non-HDR sources really changes the experience of video games; detail pops out much more than before, regardless of whether your source is Mario Kart 8 on Switch at 1080p or Last of Us Part 2 on PS4 at 4k. If you are a gamer used to fast response times of gaming monitors of 1ms, then you will notice that this TV can't match that; however for a super-large TV it performs really well for games, and if the framerate is reliable from the source e.g. a gaming PC, having MotionFlow on a few notches really helps keep the movement as sharp as it can be on this panel. having MotionFlow on max is good, however you do get some artifacting around sharp, contrasting items on screen sometimes like HUDs or text if the background is moving. This is to be expected due to the complex nature of the interpolation being performed between frames to enhance the smoothness, but to put it into context, I played through the entire TLOU2 with MotionFlow on max and it was great. I much prefer tweaking settings on the normal picture modes than utilising the "Game" mode built into the TV settings which disables MotionFlow and has a very washed out feel to the colours and contrast. Latency between button presses wasn't an issue at all using other picture modes, even though the connection goes through my AVR also, and even when playing old retro games that sometimes require frame-perfect timing. The sound built into this TV is absolutely brilliant. The speakers are massive for a panel this thin, and really provide a good experience. It's so good in fact, that I actually feel bad that I don't use the TV sound due to the AVR/Atmos setup. if you are the sort of person who normally goes for a soundbar, I'd say you probably wouldn't bother with one and would stick with the TV speakers here, as there are dedicated speakers for each frequency range, with two (relatively compared to the TV) large subs underneath. The remote control is super sleek, has a built in microphone if you want to use voice control, and also has a nice light-up feature that senses when you pick it up and activates. Wall-mounting the TV was a breeze, but you obviously need at least two people. With the panel mounted as close to the wall as you can get, you will struggle to get your hand behind to fit cables into the ports, so plan accordingly, and either pack the TV out further from the wall with standoffs, or (as I have done), fit the cables first and get a bracket that allows you to unhinge the one side so you can hold the TV and plug cables in/out as needed and then just slot the TV back onto the bracket. Obviously depending on your setup, this shouldn't need to be done very often anyway, but I would recommend utilising the best cabling you can get first off, so that you don't have to change it later e.g. some 4k HDMI cables, a decent ethernet cable (unless you rely on Wi-Fi) etc. Beware also when this gets delivered to your house, as with its packaging it's a monster! You will need a good area of space to have the TV delivered to, and an even bigger space to unpack it as the box and packaging are bulky and heavy to protect the panel. Also if you have it delivered to a "straight" area such as a hallway, remember to consider whether you can "turn" the packaging when thinking about moving it to the desired room, as obviously it's not going to bend around tight corners! To put this in context (as the measurements are online), when it arrived, it was wider than the lorry that delivered it. The TV's interface and applications are nice and quick and responsive. It runs on Android, which can sometimes be a bit clunky frankly (just like my previous Sony TV), and I have had some odd behaviour, such as it getting slower over March-June, and requiring a hard-reset to restore the speed of the interface. I suspect a memory-leak or a poor implementation of freeing up resources that may be causing this, so hopefully they fix it with a future patch. The TV supports eARC which is great, giving you more features and control over HDMI to compatible devices. The TV also supports HDR features of various Blu-Ray and Game Consoles, so I've not had any issues hooking up PS4, Xbox one X, PC or the UBXP-800 Blu-Ray player. If you are not getting the features you want over HDMI, such as the correct 4k or RGB modes you want, and assuming you've gotten the devices configured correctly, remember to double-check the points between the devices along the "chain", because some ports such as my front-HDMI Aux port did not support RGB 4k, it only supported YCbCr 420, and this caused me a few head-scratchings before I realised. Likely this is because the front panel HDMI isn't mounted on the AVR mainboard like the rear-ports and probably cannot support the bandwidth needed for the more hungry modes. So in summary, great TV, obviously expensive for a lot of people, but you get a good warranty period (5 years) from Sony, and it's a LOT of TV that will definitely give you an immersive, cinematic feel when watching as it pretty much fills your peripheral vision.

Now had for 2 weeks. Slowly getting used to the new functions

Amazing Tv, compared to the last TV I had from another brand this just does everything I want it to with outstanding picture quality.

Due to being locked down I had to rely on reviews online to get information about this model. I am very pleased with the purchase. The quality of the picture and sound are stunning.

Last TV is now 5 years old. Found this to be a big step up from my last UHD set. Picture quality is exceptional and no need for a sound bar. Android menu system is now instant and looks and feel like a lot of work has went into to this TV. Very happy with purchase.

The XH95 delivers sublime crystal clear 4k resolution pictures, with deep colours, immersive contrast and detailed images. The internal 4 speaker sound system also provides a fantastic sound suitable for high quality 4k films as well as standard and HD television. The Inbuilt Youview tuner and the android operating system also gives the viewer additional viewing content from antenna based TV to several on demand apps like Youtube, Amazon, Netflix and BBC IPlayer.

The tv is amazing. Love the picture quality. It looks brilliant even in an very well lit room. The tv is next to a large window but has no reflection what so ever. Loving it.

a lot better quality picture and sound than the lg I had.

Hosts a really stunning authentic true colour picture, blows my previous Sony TV away, it has a really smooth image which is great for watching live sports and having that cinematic experience. The Dolby Atmos sound from this TV fills the room, it's really fantastic. Sony have pulled this one out of the bag 10/10!

I’ve hooked up the TV to my Str-1080 AV unit and the results have been outstanding. Picture quality and colors are clear and vibrant and streaming Netflix and Disney+ In 4K really utilized the TV’s features. Even content that is 1080p is upscaled flawlessly. This TV will not disappoint, from movie lovers, to Gamers!

We traded up from a 42 inch to a 49 picture quality excellent sound very good,Google Assist helpful

This is an amazing LCD TV I have seen so far. TV is hooked to my Sony UHD X700 Bluray player and together they produced some of the most amazing 4K pictures.The Android powered set is very easy to use, including applications like You tube,BBC Iplayer,Amazon Prime video and Netflix. Loading and navigating applications is very quick, so is the streaming quality ,thanks to a very powerful processor. For a thinTV, the sound quality is one the best I have ever heard with good bass output and clear vocals. Excellent musical output which fills the entire room too. The only complain I have is this TV does not support HDR 10+ but does support Dolby Vision and HDR. Other than that this TV in my view is of a premium quality.

Picture amazing, android TV works really well, would be 5* if Freesat worked, plugged in sat cables , nothing.

Amazing HDR and a great bright room TV. Sound is also really good. You do get some blooming when it’s dark, but the trade off is fine with the punchy highlights. The only slight annoyance is lack of HDMI 2.1 features, mainly VRR. Maybe a firmware update for these, as I’ve read that doesn’t require HDMI 2.1 hardware, specifically?

It was time to change our TV, the best of a previous generation; Pioneer's Kuro. I did research, I was not going to regress in picture quality, but I wanted to avoid burn in from gaming HUDs and the static graphics of news stations. I also wanted a wide viewing angle, so this tv immediately rose to the top of a very short list. There is one errant pixel, but you can't see it from further than 6 inches. Thoroughly pleased with this in home 'cinema' screen. I'm even more impressed with its sublime handling of 1080p content.

Replacement from John Lewis for a 3 year old Sony that died, we’ll pleased, great picture, sound as good as you can expect from a flat screen and it boots up instantly, lots of features, can access my Amazon Prime video, all in all a great package