madmozg

What is the HGiG clipping point according to the Xbox HDR calibration app? I suggest you include this in your reviews as it could be useful for gamers that play games with poor calibration screens that don’t match well to the in-game experience, but that do have sliders in nits.

May 08, 2024 11:28 AM By  Samuel Breton

Hey! It certainly is less glossy that it’s counterparts and we even ahd an internal debate as to if we should call it glossy or semi-gloss. ultimately we ended up siding with glossy as it’s still quite easy to make out precise details in the reflections (whereas the haze on semi gloss tends to make it harder). But it is definitely a close call and an edge case, so depending on your threshold, it could go either way. Hope that helps!

It may be different when you’re seeing them in person, but judging from the pictures, this is not a glossy panel. It looks very similar to most of the high-end, semi-gloss Sony TVs. it also has slightly higher reflection values, like other non-glossy panels.

Are you sure the upscaling score is correct? It’s slightly lower than the S90C, which has the same processor. If anything, you would expect them to offer worse performance on the lower-end model, not on the flaghship one.

I’ve read through pretty much every other review I could find and they all report peak brightness values in the 900-1000 nits range for HDR, so it does seem like you somehow measured SDR brightness for the HDR tests and vice versa.

Thanks for the answer. Anyway, maybe consider this for a future test:

• Choose a TV model with a wide range of sizes and FALD system where the number of zones increases significantly with size - like the Sony X90K - double or even triple the count from 55" to 85"
• Perform all the tests that are affected by FALD, such as “Contrast”, “Blooming”, “HDR brightness” on both units
• Let us know if such a large increase in the number of dimming zones (2-3x) on the same TV model results noticeable improvements

I see the review was updated, but it only mentions VRR and nothing about the brightness.