Hi, everyone.
It's Adam with World Wide Stereo.
Today, we're going to talk about the
Sony OLED TV, the A9G.
So this is the Sony A9G.
It is an OLED TV.
You're looking at the 65-inch version.
It's available in a 55, 65, and 77.
This is also a smart TV so you'll find all
your favorite apps in there,
and it can connect to the internet with
either a Wi-Fi connection or a
hard-wired LAN connection.
This is Sony's best TV available.
It has over eight million pixels on it,
and it looks great for watching sports,
movies, pretty much anything
you want to throw at it.
So now that OLED TVs are a few years
old now, certainly, there are other
manufacturers that make them,
but Sony I think does the best
job with it.
They have recently upgraded the processor
chip in here to the X1 Ultimate processor.
So what does that do for you?
So a new and improved X1 Ultimate
processor does a couple things for you.
But first and foremost,
it improves the picture quality.
If you think about when video games first
came out and the six-bit or eight-bit
color graphics that we had didn't look so
hot to where we are today,
that's one big improvement in a processor,
which will help you with your regular TV
looking good, movies looking more
accurate, pretty much everything
about the TV.
So that's a great thing to have the new X1
Ultimate chip from Sony in this TV.
If you're a big gamer,
this may not be the best TV for you,
although it does a fantastic job
for just normal gameplay.
But if you're a real serious gamer like
you compete over in the weekends and stuff
like that, there are panels that
are made specifically for that.
But the average gamer is going to find
this TV perfect for playing
their games on.
So let's talk about the inputs that are on
this TV, and you got a lot of them here.
You have four HDMI inputs,
three on the bottom, one on the side.
One of them will support what's called
eARC, which is Enhanced
Audio Return Channel.
That allows for the Dolby Atmos or some of
those upgraded surround sound formats if
you're streaming from your TV to be passed
down to either your soundbar or your
surround sound system.
You will get a digital optical output,
which you'll find on the bottom.
You'll also find a headphone or analog
audio output, which can be helpful
for connecting to things like wireless
headphones, so you can use your headphones
at night and not listen to the TV.
Now talking about speakers,
this TV has one really cool feature on it.
The entire surface of the
screen is the speaker.
It's called the acoustic glass surface.
So when you play or turn up the volume,
you can actually feel the front
of the screen vibrating.
That's your entire speaker.
So, as a standalone TV,
if you didn't want to get a soundbar or
have a surround sound system,
you're going to get some pretty awesome
sound coming out of this guy.
The other really cool thing you can do
with it is if you have a surround
sound system, and as you can see,
you don't have much space to put a center
channel speaker in front of the TV here
because it sits so low.
On the side of it, you have an input that
you can connect your receiver center
channel speaker output
directly to this TV.
So, you can utilize this big speaker on
the front panel here to be your center
channel speaker as part of your
traditional wired surround sound system.
This TV still offers an analog video
input or a composite video in.
However, you do need to purchase an
external dongle to do that.
So this Sony TV has the Android software,
and it has the latest version of Oreo,
and this is also Google Assistant enabled.
Sony did do a nice upgrade to the
remote control, the front, it looks
a lot cleaner-looking.
And the back has a nice textured finish,
so it feels nicer in your hand.
Also, on the front, you see here,
I like the direct access to Netflix or the
Google Play Store, and you have your
Google Assistant engaging
button right here.
Included with the TV is the
pedestal that you see here.
If you do want to a wall mount,
you have to buy additional wall mount,
not that hard to do.
I would recommend the articulating mounts
so when you mount the TV on the wall,
you can actually pull it away from the
wall so you can access all the connections
and the power cord back
there and things like that.
Just makes it easier to work with.
So, as part of the X1 Ultimate processor
upgrade, that also helped
with their menu system.
Now, you'll notice that their menu system
is a lot more speedy and responsive.
It comes up instantly now,
and you're able to really fly
through things really quickly to find
whatever you're looking for.
You can move these around
if you wanted to.
If you wanted to, say, Prime was
your favorite streaming service,
you could put that first, Netflix
second, whatever you want.
So, a lot of customization
available in this menu.
And because of that new X1 processor,
it moves a lot faster.
New to the Sony TVs this year is a video
mode called Optimized-for-Netflix.
So while you're watching Netflix,
if you can hit the Settings button,
you can put the TV in a picture mode that
has been optimized specifically
for watching Netflix content.
This does a fabulous job at getting the
color accuracy right, all the contrast,
and the brightness settings.
It looks really terrific.
One of the things you may read about
OLED TVs is they have this maybe issue
with what's called burn-in.
Now, that's not entirely true.
It does have the chance of getting what's
called image retention or burn-in,
but Sony TVs specifically have
kind of an anti-burn-in feature.
The TV knows if there's a static image on
it, and it'll start shifting the pixels
around as to not try and get what's
called that burn-in on there.
So, good safe mode on here.
At normal TV watching habits,
you're not going to have any problems
with burn-in or any image
retention issues.
Another thing about the OLED TVs is that
you're able to see this from any angle,
doesn't matter where you're sitting.
If you're directly in front of it,
if you're off to the side a little bit,
not a problem.
With these TVs, you can
see it from any angle.
The brightness stays the same,
the coloring stays the same.
It's accurate from anywhere in the room.
Overall, this is one of the most accurate
TVs that we have here
at World Wide Stereo.
It does a fabulous job with
movies and watching TV on it.
I'd say, in your room, you
probably want to make sure that you
control your light a little bit.
If you have a lot of ambient light,
you'll get a little glare on here.
Now, they have done a lot of things this
year to help reduce that glare,
but you sometimes can get a little
purplish tint to it
but not really distracting.
The TV's brightness will overpower that.
If you're watching at night,
the contrast on this TV is about the best
I've ever seen.
It's a jet black screen,
great colors are popping.
Again, one of the most accurate TVs that
we have here at World Wide Stereo.
This is the Sony A9G OLED TV.
It will be available online at
worldwidestereo.com.
Or, if you happen to be in the area,
you can stop by our Ardmore
or Montgomeryville, Pennsylvania
showrooms.
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This is Adam with World Wide Stereo
reminding you to listen
to music every day.
So long.
