Sony XF90

hornetstinger · 9 Mar 2019 at 10:24

If sky 2:35 movies are full screen then you need to change that

beachBOYken · 9 Mar 2019 at 10:37

Try ringing the store where you purchased from and ask for a partial refund.

ivrytwr3 · 9 Mar 2019 at 10:40

That makes sense. I tried the zoom and pan etc, but lost some of the movie. I was worried it was the WDTV player as that is quite old now and wasn't sure if it supported new scales etc.

Vimes · 9 Mar 2019 at 11:17

Just done the Oreo update and all seems fine.
The optical sound out works great and it also has fixed the green line artefact corruption that I was having with Plex. Good result so far.

hornetstinger · 9 Mar 2019 at 12:43

Use 1:1 aspect mode. Also make sure your sources are set to wide-screen

hornetstinger · 9 Mar 2019 at 12:57

Put the TV on a bench saw and cut along the black borders.

Thekwango · 9 Mar 2019 at 13:03

hornetstinger said:
Put the TV on a bench saw and cut along the black borders.

I think you need to be a bit more detailed with your reply. Just saying a ‘bench’ is a bit ambiguous. OP could think you mean a park bench for example when you really mean a nice level work bench. Poor sod could end up in the local park, saw in hand and then he’d look a bit silly.

hornetstinger · 9 Mar 2019 at 13:07

Thekwango · 9 Mar 2019 at 13:51

hornetstinger said:

That’s much better.

MoRT489 · 10 Mar 2019 at 21:19

Wait, so what is this thread for :confused:

?

ivrytwr3 · 11 Mar 2019 at 06:31

MoRT489 said:
Wait, so what is this thread for ?

Didn't you know? To belittle those who who are unsure of the tech and dare to ask the Gods a question.

Psycho Sonny · 12 Mar 2019 at 11:55

MoRT489 said:
Wait, so what is this thread for ?

the XF90 iirc

aoaaron · 12 Mar 2019 at 23:52

I'm after a 75 inch TV set. This is one of the TVs within my budget. Any thoughts on it? Looking at sub 3k. Not sure whether to wait a year and stick with a 65 incher until the VRR tvs come out.

aoaaron · 12 Mar 2019 at 23:55

200sols said:
Any TV speakers pale into insignificance compared to most decent soundbars, and a modest 2.1 setup will eclipse them for sound quality.

Its all about the 5.1 surround sound home theatre setups with a subwoofer too big for ur room.

I listened to my friends soundbar and thought it was pathetic in comparison.

But then I'm sure someone is running a dolby atmos ceiling installed setup here which will kill my 5.1.

Vimes · 13 Mar 2019 at 08:36

We used to have a set of Logitech Z5500's for many years. They worked fine with our TV. After they became faulty we bought a set of Logitech Z906 speakers to replace them.
They are affordable for us and work well for 5.1 sound. Optical out from the Sony TV which provides DD, sadly the TV doesn't allow DTS when using Kodi or Plex, transcoding needed.

Poneros · 13 Mar 2019 at 09:26

aoaaron said:
I'm after a 75 inch TV set. This is one of the TVs within my budget. Any thoughts on it? Looking at sub 3k. Not sure whether to wait a year and stick with a 65 incher until the VRR tvs come out.

Do you do any PC gaming on it? I think that's the big thing about these new TVs, the major improvements are really related to that more than anything else imo. I'm not counting consoles into it yet simply because we don't know anything about future ones & current ones don't benefit much from VRR as a lot of games have capped framerates & a lot of the time below the VRR threshold anyway.

I do wish I had VRR on my XF90, but only if the range were bigger. Even more I'd like 4K 120 for overall smoothness, even outside games, and especially being able to do 10bpc RGB when playing in HDR rather than having to change to 4:2:2.

bakes0310 · 13 Mar 2019 at 09:48

What's it like playing your pc games on this TV at 1440p@120hz does it look any good?

Pyr0m@nI@]{ · 13 Mar 2019 at 10:19

1440p 120Hz is not possible
120Hz is only available at 1080p with a custom resolution

bakes0310 · 13 Mar 2019 at 10:57

How do you setup a custom resolution?

Pyr0m@nI@]{ · 13 Mar 2019 at 11:09

I'm not on my PC at the moment so unable to give exact screensots, but you just create a custom resolution via the nvidia control panel.

[edit] not my pic, but found this with a google search:
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net...7/Step1.png/revision/latest?cb=20121123141704