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When placed in a dark room, this TV offers fair picture quality thanks to its ability to reproduce decent blacks. The blacks look deep and inky because of the panel's high native contrast ration and high black uniformity. The panel's native contrast ratio measures at 5000:1 which is a good result for a TV in this price bracket. This means that, within the same frame, the brightest highlights are 5000 times brighter than the dimmer blacks.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Ads-free
The main interface of the Sony X830F doesn't have ads. Additionally, there's a way to opt-out of suggested content on the home screen.
Pro Colors are accurate
The Sony X930F doesn't need calibration because its out-of-the-box color accuracy is very high. The overall color inaccuracy measures at the dE of 2.4. A human eye can not spot such a tiny color inaccuracy.
Pro Decent performance in a dark room
When placed in a dark room, this TV offers fair picture quality thanks to its ability to reproduce decent blacks. The blacks look deep and inky because of the panel's high native contrast ration and high black uniformity.
The panel's native contrast ratio measures at 5000:1 which is a good result for a TV in this price bracket. This means that, within the same frame, the brightest highlights are 5000 times brighter than the dimmer blacks.
Pro Supports HDR
This TV can play HDR10 content.
Cons
Con Poor HDR capabilities
This TV can not play HDR content properly because the highlights look too dim when the TV is dealing with the HDR content. The panel can't get bright enough to make the highlights pop in the HDR mode.
Con Requires calibration
You'll need to spend some time calibration this TV because it's out-of-the-box colors are noticeably off. Namely, all the colors look horrible at the default settings. All the critical calibration parameters are available on the Internet.
Con The main interface has ads
There are a lot of ads and suggested content in the main interface of this TV. Sadly, there's no option to opt out of that.