Sony LED TV Buyer's Guide | X90L or X93L Which Is For You? 

agreed

Sick deal!

Great idea, I will definitely look into doing this

@@TechWithKG Thank you. That would be very helpful, with a major buying season approaching.

That is what I will do.

Thank you for the support!

My 72 Mitsubishi Dlp stopped working 4 days ago. I'd keep using it but I can no longer find where to buy bulbs for it. I'm eyeing the 75 inch Sony X90CL (C for Costco). Hoping it's worth it. How are you finding blooming and detail with yours?

@@KevintheVerbose my problem was the bulb fan seized and replacing it was going to involve a lot disassembly. M Even more than replacing the DLP chip or readjusting the light tunnel.

@@KevintheVerbose Amazon mitsubishi dlp tv lamp replacement osram

@@KevintheVerbose on this TV, you pretty much see blooming when looking for it.

Exactly the TV I'm looking at. X90L 85 inch. How are you enjoying it?

@@amylaila2252I am enjoying it a bunch, having learned though about the viewing angles and things now, if I could have waited I might have waited for an 85” S90C when the prices came down. I think it all comes down to what price you want. The Sony processing is great but you can really tell a difference between OLED and qd oled and not, just a heads up.

Yikes. If you had the money, you definitely should have just gotten the X93L 85 inch. Its like 95% as good as the X95L. The X90L's off viewing angle is unacceptably bad.

Nah QN90A will offer more contrast and brightness but if you stream a lot the content will look clearer and cleaner than the qn90a but with less contrast

I see this too, the off angle viewing is bad. The blacks are not good either. I ront get all the love for this set.

X93L is the same thing as the X95k from 2022 including processor.

Looks the same to me with VRR on or off also local dimming still says high , and let's me adjust with VRR on or off. If you want to add more depth lower the black levels to your preference. In game mode the only thing that is disabled is "motion blur reduction", and other motion settings when VRR is on. In some games "Reality Creation" makes a huge difference once you have adjusted it manually . I even made my own color settings to make this TV way more vibrant for gaming too which makes the out of the box settings look washed out in comparison.

​@@asole100🎯 people forget you can adjust the TV to your liking lol

It just needed better viewing angles and 240 dimming zones instead of 80. That would have made it the best choice by a mile for the money.

@@techsamurai11 That would have worked too to reduce blooming

Mini LED is not always better ! I orderd the X95L and compared this TV with my ,,old" X900H. The X900H has sharper Picture Quality, better Contrast, better XDR experience. So i returned the X95L. You cant trust this TV Test on RU-vid !

It still beats all other mini led tv’s in its price class!

@@Aizman87 x900h still beats everythig. Bought it for 700€

How is your TV? I'm looking at the same...

@@amylaila2252 the entire family is loving it. Easy to set up. It's mesmerizing in person to be honest.

@@john12ryan Amazing to hear! I reckon I'll get one.

@@amylaila2252 get it asap lol. I ordered it thru Amazon coz its free delivery lol.

Use the optical input. I had the same issue using HDMI. Like you , my Denon is older. I’m guessing that’s part of the issue.

Not sure but side by side in BB, the X93 is the clear winner to me. And 2 others agreed with me, viewed several times at diff angles. We compared the 2 in 85 and 65 sizes. the X93 was better. If Clear Image made a big diff, you would think the demos would have shown better in the 90L. Do not get me wrong, the 90L is fantastic for the price and close, just not as good as the 93L. The 90 has a strong reflections. The 93 cuts the reflections down, but will rainbow smear the reflection horizontally.

@@vybo8921 Demo mode isn't low bit rate content therefore you wont be able to judge if the upscaling is better or not. Demo mode also doesn't show case the TV's best capabilities since it's using out of the box settings.

The last sentence shows me why I want the X93 and why it is a premium. The 93L has better color pop, better blacks, is brighter (a little) and the mini led will look better in dark viewing. The only thing I may not like on the 93 is the reflection reduction causes the rainbow smear.

⁠​⁠@@vybo8921I mean, yes, the rainbow smear was pretty bad, it was very distracting with the lights we have in our living room, I had to turn them off. I stand by what I said though, the X93L is not $1,000 better than the X90L, and after using an OLED I’m not sure any LCL LED tv is worth $2,000, $2,500, etc. The Samsung S90C blows both of these TVs away, in color, depth, lack of blooming. The only thing I could say for the X93L over the S90C is it’s brighter overall, but it still lacks that 3D depth that I’ve learned now that only really OLED gives. And this is coming from a Sony fan that had been burned by Samsung in the past and thought I wouldn’t go back, but hey the best picture is the best picture, movies, sports and gaming on the S90C are outstanding. But yes if you’re LCD or nothing, the X93L is good, but I’d wait for clearance in the spring, or even for the X93M if they bring it out and it has the XR Clear. What Sony is asking for a rebadged X95K without all the latest features is a bit much IMO, and it’s pretty well known too that the 65 and 75 inch models are inferior panels to the 85 inch, so keep that in mind.

The X90L also has terrible off angle viewing, the X93 view angle is much better. It also has less blooming than the X90L.

OLED runs the risk of burn-in plus it can't be brighter than an LED in a well lit environment

It is if you plan to watch a lot of sub-4k content or plan to use apps that push you low bit rate

X90l very good tv i have this TV ❤❤

I just returned the x90l! My current TCL 6 series beat it in every way! Going to give the U8k a try!

@@scottbowman5021 for ps5 X90l is best of both TV

X90l will upscale ps4 games really well

@@scottbowman5021beat in every way how? Most consider the X90L a better tv than the TCL QM8, and the QM8 is a much better tv than the TCL 6 series.

QN90C when it’s that close better overall contrast and viewing angles

Only a 85 inch in the US. Other countries got a 65 and 75 inch

The X95L is better at gaming - the G3 loses brightness unless you use non-game mode with ALLM. TechKG has videos showing the G3's brightness dimming. So many reviewers bought the 85 inch X95L for their main room. The 85-inch may have a different panel than the 65-inch but Vincent Teoh reviewed the 65 inch X95L and it tracked the reference Sony monitor better than anything else and in the comparison with the G3 it looked great except for some blooming with subtitles but I couldn't tell if that was over-exposure from the camera lens as the X95L's blacks are the highest measured for a non-OLED at 200,000. In all videos I've seen of it, it's near impossible to detect blooming unless they change the camera. Also if you have any ambient light, the X95L instantly becomes an OLED becomes with almost any light, IPS panels with a contrast of 1,000 have perfect blacks. I have put side-by-side so many OLED vs LED phones and you can't tell the OLED with any light. It's only in small highlights that the OLED will look brighter but in large highlights the opposite will happen.

@@techsamurai11 Like I said the X95L is tempting, it's certainly the best non-OLED TV available to consumers currently but it's not a one-way street. There's no Dolby Vision game mode and only DV gaming at 60hz if you disable VRR, it's limited to 2 x 2.1 HDMI ports and from what I understand, it doesn't have the full suite of game bar controls that is present on the A95L. Input lag is double that of the G3 and it affords far narrower viewing angles. Also, in TV reviews we've seen mini-led TVs limit brightness to control blooming leaving them less bright than OLEDs in many scenes. So it's a matter of priorities for folk and I'm personally still mulling it all over.

Lol with all due respect you have no idea what you are talking about

@@HasNiHassaan lol ok, I guess you’re somebody that believe streaming is as good as a native 4K blue ray (you probably need glasses) just to put this as simple as possible a standard Blu-ray looks better than anything you stream. If you’re gonna buy a TV to stream you shouldn’t buy a high-end TV. Go ask any movie enthusiast what is better (The difference is night and day)