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Enjoy an immersive viewing experience with this 65-inch Sony 4K UHD smart TV. The X-Motion Clarity technology eliminates skipping and ghosting for bright, clear visuals, while the 4K resolution provides a rich palette of colors for enhanced picture clarity. This Sony 4K UHD smart TV has Bluetooth connectivity that lets you pair compatible devices for seamless wireless entertainment.
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So far, very good. Purchased this tv on sale for a significant discount under $1000. The picture looks nice, especially 4k. I am using settings I found in a Youtube video posted by CO Guy Stuff. His settings are good, but I lowered my brightness settings even more, because this TV is super bright and anything that was white, was just too white. I also changed the color setting from 'Expert 1' to 'Neutral' because the expert setting looked like it was adding a sepia filter.
One knock is over-the-air broadcasts look better on my 7 year old 51 inch Samsung Plasma, which is probably somewhat normal due to native resolution of broadcast tv matching the older tv. But one of the reasons I decided on this TV was some of the future-proof tech it is touting besides the HDMI 2.1, like having an ATSC 3.0 tuner built in. So we will see how good this tv looks in the near future when our area upgrades to this standard.
Another knock on this unit was sound drop out issues. I nearly took this TV back, and might still do so if the problem comes back within my return window. I was getting sound drop outs while watching OTA tv broadcasts. Sony tech support had me change some audio settings including turning system sounds off, sending Dolby Digital instead of DD Plus, turning AV Sync 'On', and a few others I can't remember. I haven't had drop outs now for several days, and the technician I chatted with was confident those settings would help.
I have not had the banding issues that some have had with this 65 inch model. However, if you are really looking for it on screens that have a basically uniform color, you can see it slightly. It is not of any concern to me. The corners are just slightly darker than the rest of the tv, as others have noted.
Other than these things, so far this seems like a nice TV, and I hope it is one that will last me for several years.