When comparing Sony X900E 65" (XBR65X900E) vs Hisense H9E Plus 65" (65H9E Plus), the Slant community recommends Hisense H9E Plus 65" (65H9E Plus) for most people. In the question“What are the best TVs?” Hisense H9E Plus 65" (65H9E Plus) is ranked 95th while Sony X900E 65" (XBR65X900E) is ranked 111st. The most important reason people chose Hisense H9E Plus 65" (65H9E Plus) is:
The main interface of the Hisense H9E Plus is free of ads. Additionally, you have an option to opt-out of the suggested content.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Excellent for HDR media
The Sony X900E has everything needed for displaying high-quality HDR content. First, the X900E supports wide color gamut which is essential for a decent HDR experience as it allows the TV to reproduce deep and vibrant colors. Second, in HDR mode, the Sony X900E can sustain up to 525 nits of brightness, which enables it to fight glare and display vivid colors even in bright environments. In its range, the Sony X900E is the most luminous TV.
Pro Handles reflections well
The Sony X900E is an excellent option for those who need a TV for a bright room since its panel does an outstanding job of handling reflections thanks to the semi-gloss screen finish, which can diffuse around 98.8% of the incoming light.
Pro Excellent for 60p and 24p signals
The Sony X900E is an excellent TV for those who use cable/satellite boxes, DVD/Blu-ray players, and Apple TV because it can detect and eliminate the ‘2:3’ judder effect. This effect is usually caused by 24p content being transmitted using the 60 Hz signal.
Pro Ads-free UI
The main interface of the Sony X900E does not have advertising.
Pro Large app selection
The Sony X900E runs the Android smart TV platform, which has the widest app selection among all current smart TV platforms. All of the applications are available via the Google Play Store.
Pro Compatible with all current-generation consoles
This 4K120 TV is entirely compatible with all of the current generation of gaming consoles, including the Xbox One X, PS4 Pro, and Wii U. Additionally, it’s highly unlikely that within the next couple of years any gaming console will break the 120 Hz barrier; so it is expected that this TV will remain compatible even with the next generation consoles.
Pro Suitable for gaming
The Sony X900E is also suitable for gaming because of the TV’s low input lag. While in ‘Game Mode’, the TV’s input lag remains at 34.2 ms allowing for relatively fast-paced gameplay.
Pro Excellent picture quality
The Sony X900E has the best picture quality in its range as the TV manages to balance high contrast ratio, marvelous SDR and HDR brightness, decent color uniformity, acceptable black uniformity, and good color accuracy.
The TV does an outstanding job with dark scenes as its contrast ratio of 5411:1 is perfectly balanced with its decent black uniformity, allowing the X900E to display deep and immersive dark scenes.
As for bright scenes, the TV’s peak luminosity is 509 nits, which is more than enough for making colorful scenes look really luminous, even if the TV is in a bright room.
Pro Excellent for watching sports
The Sony X900E is an excellent companion for watching sports because of its admirable image quality, decent motion representation, and good color uniformity.
Aided by a highly sensitive panel, the Sony X900E handles its motion blur well as the TV needs only around a 100th of a second for its pixels to switch their color entirely. As a result, moving objects leave just a tiny trail on the screen. The X900E’s pixel response time outperforms every competitor in its price range.
The TV can also display beautiful and uniform colors, which allows it to reproduce sports pitches correctly. In fact, the Sony X900E is among the best in its range concerning color uniformity.
Pro Ads-free
The main interface of the Hisense H9E Plus is free of ads. Additionally, you have an option to opt-out of the suggested content.
Pro Fair performance in standard mode
The Hisense H9E Plus offers decent performance while dealing with the non-HDR content thanks to its good overall SDR picture quality. The TV reproduces beautiful images that feature relatively bright and accurate colors as well as some pretty deep blacks.
The H9E Plus offers a relatively wide range of vivid and accurate colors. It can reproduce a wide variety of colors thanks to its wide color gamut that measures at around 86% of the DCI-P3 - only the best TVs in this price range can perform on par with the H9E Plus. In the SDR mode, the colors look genuinely bright thanks to the TV's sustained brightness that peaks at around 300 nits.
Regarding its dark scene performance, the H9E Plus performs on par with the best TVs in its price bracket thanks to its ability to reproduce uniform and inky blacks. The dark areas look genuinely dark without losing the detail thanks to the TV's high native contrast ratio that measures at 6000:1. Also, blacks don't look washed out thanks to the TV's high black uniformity that measures at around 1.2 %.
Cons
Con Horrible sound quality
The sound quality of the Sony X900E is a total mismatch to the TV’s excellent picture quality. Additionally, the TV is unable to get really loud as it caps off at 90 dB.
Con Minor image retention problems
If you leave an image on the screen for an extended period, you might notice some minor ghosting effect which will disappear within a couple of minutes. This is a very unusual thing for a VA LED TV.
Con Narrow viewing angle
Like most VA panel TVs, the Sony X900E suffers from massive image degradation due to the viewing angle. The maximum viewing angle of this TV is only 17 degrees.
Con Poor build quality
In terms of overall build quality, the Hisense H9E Plus resembles an old, low-end TV. The back of the TV is built from soft and cheap plastics and there are no integrated cable routing solutions present in this TV.