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Exceptional amounts of brightness make it onto the screen with startling consistency, delivering some of the most flat-out punchy and bright HDR pictures we’ve ever seen on a 50-inch TV. The X90J’s pictures aren’t exactly shy and retiring – and that’s fine by us.
But it’s been saying that for months, and all we can say is that they haven’t turned up yet. Sony continues to promise that it will add standalone apps for the key missing catch up services. So there’s no BBC iPlayer, no ITV Hub, and no All 4. Which means it doesn’t currently carry the catch-up apps for many of the UK’s biggest terrestrial broadcasters. While it carries many of the most popular video streaming services, though, Sony has fallen foul of a similar issue to that faced by LG’s 2020 TVs whereby it doesn’t carry either the Freeview Play or YouView apps.
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This is the latest, much improved evolution of the Android TV platform – and while it’s still not for us anywhere near the easiest smart system to use, it’s substantially more helpful and attractive than any other Android TV generation. The XR-50X90J’s smart features, finally, are built on Google TV. This is a little higher than the circa 10ms numbers being achieved this year by some rival TVs, but should still be low enough not to hand a significant advantage to your enemies. Input lag, meanwhile, measures 17.2ms in the XR-50X90J’s Game preset. Note, too, that while two of the XR-50X90J’s HDMIs support HDMI 2.1 features, one is also the eARC port, so if you need to use that for your sound, you’ve actually only got one 4K/120Hz HDMI port left. Confusingly you also have to manually choose in the TV’s input menus (not the Xbox’s menus) between either 4K at 120Hz with no Dolby Vision support when gaming, or 4K at 60Hz with Dolby Vision enabled.
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At the time of writing, though, our XR-50X90J sample still doesn’t register any support for variable refresh rates from an Xbox Series X, despite that feature having been promised for ages.
It’s supported 4K at 120Hz on two of its HDMI ports for a while, but it can now additionally handle automatic game mode switching with the PS5. The eARC support is not the only advanced HDMI feature the XR-50X90J offers, either. Panel type VA with direct lighting and 24-zone local dimming Sony’s enthusiasm for Dolby extends to the XR-50X90J’s audio as well, in the shape of both built-in Dolby Atmos decoding and the ability to output full, uncompressed Dolby Atmos to compatible soundbars and AVRs via HDMI eARC. Though as ever with Sony, there’s no support for the Dolby Vision-rivalling HDR10+ system, but that’s no great loss. The XR-50X90J adds Dolby Vision HDR support, too, alongside the more typical HDR10 and HLG HDR formats. This may well all play a part in the XR-50X90J having received IMAX Enhanced certification, revealing that its pictures have been deemed capable by IMAX of unlocking the picture quality potential of content mastered using its proprietary technology. This Sony gets a wide colour gamut panel to go with what experience of previous equivalent Sonys suggests will be unusually high levels of brightness for a mid-range LCD TV. But the Sony set is significantly cheaper, and we’ve seen in previous Sony generations just how much quality Sony’s processing can get from even such a limited dimming zone count.
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This is some come down from the 400-plus dimming zones found in Samsung’s mini LED-toting QE50QN90A (a full review of which we'll be publishing in the coming days). While this combination typically delivers superior picture quality, the dimming system only appears to comprise 24 separately controlled dimming zones. The XR-50X90J is built on an LCD panel, with direct LED lighting and local dimming. It achieves this by (as simply as we can put it!) identifying the type of image being received before breaking it down into its different components and then subtly manipulating local colour, sharpness and contrast to deliver more ‘real world’ results. Starting with Sony’s Cognitive Processor XR, which focuses on trying to make images appear more as your eye perceives the real world. The XR-50X90J boasts a decent set of features for its money. (Image credit: Sony / Lost In Space, Netflix)
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