Sony X930E Series 55" 4K HDR Smart TV (2017)

Sony's X930D TV should appeal to people who can't afford OLED yet still want a high performance, beautifully designed TV from a well known brand.

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  The Sony XBR-X930D delivers spectacular overall picture quality, with extreme brightness, deep black levels and superb color. Its understated design includes a pencil-thin upper cabinet. Android TV's large app selection means you might not need to use an external streamer.

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  More expensive than some similarly performing TVs, and not as good of a picture as OLED.

Sony's X930D 4K television line brings native HDR video support to a reasonable price range, and really shows off just how good the new video format can look.

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  HDR content is visually impressive. Excellent color reproduction. Very bright panel. Good connected features.

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  Middling black levels. Remote and Android TV operating system are a bit clunky.

We were able to view this model alongside the X930D from last year. The new model has superb up-scaling and conversion of standard definition, HD, DVD, and BluRay incoming content. Sony's new advanced (video) noise reduction gives their newer models an excellent smooth quality.

The X930D does a lot of things right, and looks very good doing them

New features in this years Sony flagship LED-LCD TV model has a slim backlight drive, which is a full array backlight feature that's new and improved. As we have noted in the past, the best LED-LCD TVs have excellent full array backlighting as a separating feature.

Sony's X930D 4K television line brings native HDR video support to a reasonable price range, and really shows off just how good the new video format can look.

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  HDR content is visually impressive. Excellent color reproduction. Very bright panel. Good connected features.

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  Middling black levels. Remote and Android TV operating system are a bit clunky.

Sony's hero HDR 4K TV for 2016 is a triumph of design and image ingenuity, but usability remains its Achilles' heel.

I love watching movies in IMAX 3D. It's unfortunate that most television reviewers seem to downplay the added benefit of 3D viewing. I was torn between this TV and last years Samsung JS9500. Best Buy only had an open box unit of the JS9500 that was missing its stand and remote.

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  Android TV, HDR, and good color accuracy

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  Terrible Cross Talk for 3D movies

I buy a new TV every 2-3 years being a customer of high end Samsung, Sharp, Panasonic and Sony televisions. This is the best TV and most favorite TV I have ever purchased. After using Android TV for 2 weeks I could never go back to any other Television without it built in.

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  Android TV is its killer feature, Best picture quality for the price on any TV, Hangs on the wall like a picture frame

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  No 3D glasses included, if you care about that

same price as every other retailer online, just google the model number, very deceptive to say you save $1500

When we purchase a high end TV, it is always a Sony so, let me preview this review by saying that we already own a Sony XBR-65X930D TV, along with three other older XBR Sony TV's and this TV is awesome The colors are simply amazing and the installation was rather simple.

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  A bit pricey but less that an OLED.Excellent picture and easy set-up.

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  Needs a few more connection ports.