Nikon launches D5600 DSLR with Bluetooth for instant photo sharing
Nikon has taken the wraps off its latest DLSR, the entry-level D5600, which it says is designed for photography hobbyists and content creators. The D5600 is the successor to the D5500 and features a similar 3.2-inch LCD screen that can flip out and be angled in almost any way so you can take a photo from virtually anywhere.
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It’s a touchscreen too and now has added functions of being able to crop during playback zoom and a frame advance bar to let you quickly scroll through your photos in playback mode. The D5600 also gets a time-lapse shooting function similar to the one found on Nikon’s D7200.
The D5600 can also connect to a compatible iOS or Android device with the SnapBridge app downloaded via Bluetooth. When you’ve connected your camera to your device, any photos you take are automatically transferred to the app so you can instantly share them on social media or send to friends and family. Photos will still transfer even when the camera is off and any images transferred to SnapBridge can be automatically uploaded to Nikon Image Space.
RAW and TIFF files can’t be transferred however, and any images that are sent to your mobile device are downscaled to 2-megapixels. If you want to transfer a video you’ll need to connect to Wi-Fi.
The camera itself has 24.2-megapixel DX-format sensor with no optical low-pass filter and an ISO range of 100-25600. Nikon says the D5600 is capable of producing “highly detailed images in which noise is effectively suppressed, even with shooting in dark or dimly lit surroundings”.
The Nikon D5600 will be available from 24 November with an AF-P 18-55 lens for £799.99 or with an AF-S 18-140 lens for £989.99.
John Lewis Christmas adverts over the years: Including amazing 2016 #BusterTheBoxer commercial
Over the last few years, John Lewis has firmly ensconced itself as the king of the Christmas commercial, not only with extended short movies but with cover versions of songs that make it to the top five of the British music charts.
Each year’s effort becomes a viral sensation, spreading faster on social media than a Kim Kardashian bottom pic, and this year’s is no exception.
Buster The Dog is funny, heartwarming and cost a staggering £1 million to make. A further £6 million will be spent on UK TV slots.
This year’s music track is One Day I’ll Fly Away covered by the Vaults. It’s available from numerous music download services.
You can check out #BusterTheDog below and we’ve also included all the ads from the last few years.
John Lewis Christmas advert 2016: Buster The Dog
This year’s effort includes a whole cast of CGI animals. We won’t spoil the ending (although you might be able to guess it easily), but we do hope that mum and dad were out afterwards with disinfectant before letting their little girl have a go.
John Lewis Christmas advert 2015: Man On The Moon
Cleverly filmed, albeit a little loose on the abilities of telescopes, Man On The Moon was criticised a little for its bleakness. The music is Half the World Away, written and originally released by Oasis, and covered by Norwegian 19-year-old Aurora.
Fans of The Royale Family will also recognise it, the original version was the main theme tune for that show.
John Lewis Christmas advert 2014: Monty The Penguin
In 2014, the company went on an all-out tech offensive, with a number of innovative initiatives that complemented its charming Monty The Penguin advert. As well as an interactive storytelling app for iPad and Android – Monty’s Christmas narrated by Dermot O’Leary – John Lewis hosted an online 360-degree panoramic tour of lead characters Sam and Monty’s world, and each of the shops had a dedicated section called Monty’s Den.
John Lewis Christmas advert 2013: The Bear & The Hare
Like its latest effort, The Bear & The Hare also cost the high street chain £1 million to produce. It released a dedicated iPad and Android tablet application, soft toys, online activities – including a Make your own card service – and in-store experiences in order to make some of that back.
The song used in the advert was a cover version of Keane’s Somewhere Only We Know performed by Lily Allen.
John Lewis Christmas advert 2012: The Journey
Considered by many to be the best Christmas commercial from the high street retailer, The Journey present a great, beautiful love story with a twist. The music was a cover of Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s Power of Love sung by Gabrielle Aplin.
John Lewis Christmas advert 2011: The Long Wait
The Long Wait changed everything for John Lewis and British Christmas adverts in general. By telling a sweet and sincere story, it engaged with audiences like never before and many advertisers have since aimed to emulate it.
Few have succeeded.
What ‘The Last Guardian’ creator learned from ‘No Man’s Sky’
The video game world is vastly different now than it was in 2007, when Fumito Ueda and his team began working on The Last Guardian. Nintendo dominated the hardware market with the 3DS and Wii, while the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 trailed by millions in console sales. Assassin’s Creed, BioShock and Mass Effect debuted, kicking off a fresh round of long-running AAA franchises.
Today, we have the Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PS4 Pro, and Nintendo is attempting to rebound from slow sales of the Wii U. Day-one patches are normal, pre-order DLC bundles are standard practice, we’re on the ninth Assassin’s Creed and, sometimes, indie games are indistinguishable from AAA titles.
This is the brave new world that Ueda will release The Last Guardian into on December 6th. Over the past nine years, he’s kept an eye on the video game industry and he knows that the market is volatile. He knows that the industry has changed. Fans are used to a constant barrage of information, trailers, screenshots and interviews about upcoming, high-profile games. Sometimes this marketing strategy works out just fine. And sometimes, No Man’s Sky happens.
At least Ueda has been down this road before. He’s the creator of Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, two cult classics that captured the hearts of players in the early 2000s. However, his experience fuels a potential issue that looms heavy over The Last Guardian: After nine years of development, fans of Ueda’s work have had time to build up the game in their minds. They’ve had the space to imagine a million perfect, uncompromising experiences, each one different and attuned to a specific person’s taste. When these fans finally sit down to play The Last Guardian, they might expect impossible things.
“Obviously there’s a level of expectation, and it’s really down to each and every person’s level of expectation and imagination that they’ve created based on what they’ve seen,” Ueda says.
That’s what happened recently with No Man’s Sky, an independent game that received massive amounts of attention from the moment its first trailer went live in 2013. Sony immediately seized the momentum and ran with it, featuring No Man’s Sky in its largest convention speeches and press tours. The game was pitched as a sprawling AAA experience, even though it came from Hello Games, a small team in the UK known for creating the quirky side-scroller series Joe Danger.
It took three years and one delay for No Man’s Sky to go gold, giving a flood of hungry fans plenty of time to envision the perfect space-exploration game. And then, when No Man’s Sky landed in August, it didn’t meet many fans’ expectations. Backlash was swift. Livid players gathered on Reddit and Steam demanding refunds, and the game’s ratings plummeted. It’s now being investigated in the UK over charges of false advertising.
Ueda is aware of the potential pitfalls that come when a game finally goes public after years of anticipation. However, instead of dissuading him from development, he says the weight of fans’ expectations actually fuels his team.
“I try not to think about the pressure that has been added or is probably assumed to be added to this title,” he says. “But, having said that, I don’t think all pressure is always negative. It’s actually kept us motivated because of the expectations that people put on our next game. What that does is it creates this weird cycle, in a good way, where the pressure that we feel is then turned into motivation, and then that in turn helps Sony and our partners and our team to have even a stronger belief in the product.”
Ueda has already proven he knows how to make moving video games that touch millions of people, but he refuses to settle for average with The Last Guardian. He says he wants as many people to play the game as possible — and this isn’t just the dream of a legendary developer yearning for another slice of glory. Instead, it’s the foundation of Ueda’s approach to The Last Guardian.
“We found out that a lot of people are very curious and interested in animals,” Ueda tells me through a translator. “So we felt like if we introduced an animal or living creature in this game that hopefully it would appeal to a wider audience. That is something that really kicked off our brainstorm in the idea and formation of The Last Guardian.”
Trico, the game’s massive bird-dog companion that’s been plastered on posters and trade show floors across the world, is a direct representation of Ueda’s attempt to intrigue a wide audience. Trico is adorable, vulnerable and the perfect tool for manipulating the hearts of every pet owner who sees him. That’s a fairly large audience.
Not only does Ueda want animal lovers across the globe to play The Last Guardian, he wants them to understand and accept the game as it is. He’s keeping many aspects of its story secret, but he says it’s a unique experience, much like Ico and Shadow of the Colossus were. Those titles eschewed standard video game elements like UI and NPCs in favor of a minimalistic aesthetic, setting them apart from their contemporaries. They were different. So is The Last Guardian.
“For me, that means, ‘Oh gosh, is it going to be accepted? Are people going to understand where we’re coming from and where we want to go?’” Ueda says.
He’ll soon have his answer, regardless of whether he’s ready to hear it. Ueda he hasn’t thought much about what he’ll do on launch day, if he’ll be glued to the internet, immediately soaking up players’ reactions, or if he’ll take a step back for a while and simply let the moment sink in.
Eventually, he specifically wants to hear from people who play the game in its entirety. This isn’t a hint about The Last Guardian’s story, per se, but it does suggest a connected and thoughtful narrative that rewards those who play to the end.
“If they can share their feedback and their impressions, that’s going to be something that I really, really look forward to hearing,” Ueda says.
Whatever he decides to do on December 6th, Ueda is ready for the game to be done. The Last Guardian represents the last nine years of his life and even now, a month from release, he says it seems surreal that the journey is ending.
“Even though the game is on its way to being boxed up and going in stores and being delivered to players, it hasn’t really sunk in yet for me,” Ueda says. “I haven’t been able to digest the fact that it’s all done and completed. …What I’m looking forward to is for everything to just really be done and all the items on the checklist to be checked off. I think at that moment, hopefully, it will register and I would feel like it’s finally done. I look forward to that day.”
What the world searched on Google after the US elections
Based on the search strings that trended for November 9th, the world turned to Google in an effort to understand the President-elect’s surprise win and the United States’ complicated voting system. Google Trends posted the most popular searches after Donald Trump was named the 48th President of the United States on Twitter, and as Mashable noted, it reflects a lot of people’s confusion.
As you would expect, the candidates’ names are linked to election-related searches, such as “What will Hillary Clinton do now?” and “How did Donald Trump win?” But even generic search strings like “How did…” and “Why did…” were dominated by the presidential elections. “Why did Hillary concede?” trended, as well as the question that probably plagued a lot of people’s minds: “How did the polls get it so wrong?” Across the pond, people also looked up what Trump means for Brexit.
We embedded some of Google’s top search trends below, but you can check out Google’s World POTUS website for more search data. As for what results come up when you look up these questions, we’re afraid you’re going to have to Google them yourself.
“What does Trump mean for Brexit?” was among the top questions on #Brexit in the hours following @realDonaldTrump’s #USElection2016 win pic.twitter.com/wmb7JERu5M
— GoogleTrends (@GoogleTrends) November 9, 2016
“Who won the #popular vote?” Top questions on Google today#USElection2016 pic.twitter.com/l1nGjbldb8
— GoogleTrends (@GoogleTrends) November 9, 2016
Top searched “why did…?” questions today on Google#Elections2016 pic.twitter.com/95OjQHPieg
— GoogleTrends (@GoogleTrends) November 9, 2016
“How did Donald Trump win?” Top questions on Google outside the US today#USElection2016 pic.twitter.com/JgkYcfGBkZ
— GoogleTrends (@GoogleTrends) November 9, 2016
“What will @HillaryClinton do now?” Top questions on Google today#Elections2016 pic.twitter.com/THPyLc1y9I
— GoogleTrends (@GoogleTrends) November 9, 2016
How @realDonaldTrump won the election in search#dataviz #Election2016 https://t.co/1AAVYl1QPm pic.twitter.com/x1A26yRhaL
— GoogleTrends (@GoogleTrends) November 9, 2016
Via: Mashable
Source: Google Trends (Twitter)
Donald Trump’s ‘Transition Team’ launches GreatAgain.gov
Now that the election is complete, the business of transitioning into a Donald Trump presidency is upon us. The president-elect’s Transition Team launched its Twitter account and the GreatAgain.gov website, inviting citizens to connect with the incoming administration directly. Its descriptions of policy (including building a “great” wall) and Help Wanted sign for presidential appointees arrive just as thousands are marching in cities across the country protesting the election’s result. If you just can’t wait to follow the new/old POTUS account on Twitter, this is where things start.
Working together, we will begin the urgent task of rebuilding our nation and renewing the American dream. Join us at https://t.co/jioPNgivfT
— The Transition Team (@transition2017) November 9, 2016
Source: GreatAgain.gov
Play ‘Overwatch’ for free all weekend long
If you already aren’t one of Overwatch’s 20 million players, developer Blizzard Entertainment wants to fix that. Starting Friday at 1pm Eastern, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One owners can play the wildly popular shooter for free. And this isn’t just a limited slice of the game, either. The entire roster of heroes and maps are available across Quick Play, Custom Games and the Weekly Brawl.
What’s more, you’ll also have access to Loot Boxes containing bits like character skins and graffiti tags. Best of all? Your progress and unlocked items will carry over to the full game should you decide to buy it. That’s assuming you buy it on the same platform you played. My tip for newcomers? Start out playing as Mercy. Trust me.
Source: Overwatch
Samsung launches Android 7.0 beta program for S7 and S7 edge
If you have a Galaxy S7 or S7 edge, you might be able to give your device an Android Nougat refresh before everyone else. Samsung’s Galaxy Beta Program is now available for S7 users, but only in the US, the UK and the company’s home country of Korea, though it will soon launch in China, as well.
You’ll have to apply for the privilege to be one of the first — and fast, since it’s first-come, first-served — by making a Samsung account and then downloading the Galaxy Beta Program or the Samsung Members app. Since the Korean conglomerate introduced the program for Android Marshmallow last year, you might already have either app. In case you do get early access to Nougat, you’ll obviously be able to preview Samsung’s updated user interface and provide feedback on anything you think needs fixing.
Take note that that if you somehow managed to snag a limited edition S7 edge Olympic Games or an S7 edge Injustice Edition, you won’t be able to participate in the beta. Further, you’re only eligible in the UK if you have an unlocked device. In the US, on the other hand, you’ll have to be a Sprint, T-Mobile or a Verizon subscriber. If you can’t participate in the beta or end up not getting a slot, Sammobile has some screenshots of Nougat on a Galaxy S7 so you can get an idea of what it would look like on your device.
Source: Samsung
How to use GoPro’s new voice commands – CNET
GoPro’s Hero5 likes water, swearing and flying on the Karma drone
The new GoPro Hero5 is waterproof and features voice control, GPS and a touchscreen. GoPro’s long-awaited Karma drone is foldable and compact, but the best thing about it may have nothing to do with flying. CNET’s Lexy Savvides and Josh Goldman go hands on with the new gear.
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GoPro users have a few options available when it comes to controlling the tiny action camera without fiddling with its buttons or touchscreen.
You can purchase a GoPro remote, use the Capture app on your phone, or starting with the Hero5 series of cameras, you can use your voice.
Voice commands on the new cameras aren’t enabled out of the box. To turn the feature on, you can swipe down from the main screen on the back of the Hero5 Black and tap on the voice command icon. Or Session owners can use the Settings section of the Capture to toggle the feature on or off.
With voice commands enabled, you can bark out commands whenever the camera is powered on, even if it’s in standby. Every command you give starts with “GoPro.”
Here’s a complete list of commands you can give:
- GoPro, start recording
- GoPro, stop recording
- GoPro, take a photo
- GoPro, shoot burst
- GoPro, time-lapse mode
- GoPro, start time lapse
- GoPro, stop time lapse
- GoPro, video mode
- GoPro, photo mode
- GoPro, burst mode
- GoPro, turn off
- GoPro, HiLight
The HiLight command will mark the video at that exact moment and tell the Quik editing app to use the section of footage just before the highlight when creating a video. Not included in the official list is a command of “that was sick!” which does the same thing as the HiLight command.
If you forget the commands, you can always find it directly on the Hero5 Black under Preferences > List of commands. In Preferences you can also set your preferred language for voice commands, choosing from English (US), English (UK), English (Australian), German, French, Italian, Spanish (EU), Spanish (N.A.), Chinese and Japanese.
Beats Solo3 Wireless review – CNET
The Good The Beats Solo3 Wireless is a well-built wireless headphone that sounds good in both wireless and wired modes and is relatively comfortable to wear for an on-ear headphone. Its battery life is best-in-class (40 hours) and has a remote control built-in to the right earcup that’s easy to operate by feel. The new W1 chip makes it supersimple to pair with Apple devices.
The Bad It’s expensive, and doesn’t sound quite as good as other wireless headphones that cost $300.
The Bottom Line Beats has taken the same headphone that so many people know and love and improved its battery life dramatically, but the price is still too high.
Beats’ Solo3 Wireless on-ear Bluetooth headphone ($300/£250/AU$400) looks nearly identical to the Beats Solo 2 Wireless because — on the outside at least — Beats hasn’t updated its design. The big change is on the inside: The Solo3 uses Apple’s new W1 custom Bluetooth chip, which improves battery life drastically and makes pairing the headphone with Apple devices dead simple.
The headphone works just fine with Android and other Bluetooth-enabled devices and the battery life rating is the same for iOS and Android — a whopping 40 hours. That’s a huge jump over the 12 hours that the Beats Solo2 Wireless is rated at and this has the best battery life of any Bluetooth headphone I’ve tested so far (I used it for a week without recharging). It also features Beats’ Fast Fuel feature, which gives you 3 hours of battery life from a 5-minute charge.
The Solo3 Wireless in silver.
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However, unlike the new BeatsX, which uses a Lightning cable for charging, this model sticks with a Micro-USB charging cable.
On the plus side, my wireless connection using the headphone was rock-solid and the W1 chip makes it easy to switch between Apple devices you’ve paired the headphones to. Overall, the headphone performs very well, and I’ve always liked its compact size and how it folds up to fit into a relatively small carrying case (yes, that carrying case is included).
For better or worse, Beats hasn’t upgraded the sound. The Solo3 Wireless sounds very good for an on-ear Bluetooth headphone and will appeal to bass lovers who prefer a sound profile that accentuates the bass but manages to avoid being too boomy. However, it doesn’t sound quite as clean as Beats’ more balanced Studio Wireless over-ear model, which has come down in price and I find more comfortable (the Beats Solo3 Wireless offers a very snug fit — the headphones do stay securely on your head, even while running — they end up pressing down on your ears somewhat firmly).
This is a headphone that’s designed to be worn outdoors, and the extra bass did come in handy when I was walking the streets of New York and was competing with a lot of ambient noise, including the subway when I went underground. The headphones passively seal out a good amount of sound, but some ambient noise does leak in and the extra bass doesn’t sound as accentuated outside (you really hear it in quiet rooms, however) and the headphones comes across as a little more balanced.
Sony XBR-X850D series review – CNET
The Good The Sony XBR-X850D offers cutting-edge 4K HDR features, accurate color and solid video processing. Its minimalist design looks understated yet futuristic. Android TV’s large app selection means you might not need an external streamer.
The Bad Worse contrast and overall image quality than many competitors we’ve tested.
The Bottom Line The midpriced Sony XBR-X850D gets the features, style and smart parts right, but falls short where it really counts: picture performance.
The name Sony is synonymous with high-performance televisions, but the X850D series isn’t one of them. Compared to its peers from Vizio and Samsung in side-by-side comparisons, this relatively affordable bearer of the company’s “XBR” moniker fell well short, with worse contrast and impact overall.
In my book contrast is the most important aspect of image quality, and image quality for the price is the most important factor in choosing a TV. If you judge it by other factors, however, the X850D brings a lot to the table. Its features include 4K resolution and high dynamic range (HDR); its sleek, minimal design goes with pretty much any decor; and its Android-based smart TV system is one of the best — good enough that you probably won’t need to connect an external streaming box.
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If that stuff, along with the cachet of the Sony name, are enough for you, then the X850D could be a worthy choice. But in my book there are plenty of better choices, including the slightly more expensive Samsung UN65KS8000 and the cheaper Vizio M series, both of which beat this XBR’s picture. If you want a TV that truly lives up to the Sony pedigree, you’ll have to pay extra for a model like the X930D or something even more expensive.
Series information: I performed a hands-on evaluation of the 65-inch Sony XBR-65X850D, but this review also applies to the other screen sizes in the series. All sizes have identical specs and, according to the manufacturer, should provide very similar picture quality.
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Design: Thin and sleek
This is one sharp-looking television. Its thin frame is flat black and all sharp angles, classy understatement ruling the look. Seen from the side the TV is even more impressive, almost as razor-slim as the X930D — the 65-inch size measures 1.73 inches deep at its thickest point and 7/16-inch at the thinnest.
Like other Sonys this year the edge is banded with a thin metallic strip, chrome in this case rather than the higher-end sets’ gold, providing the only bright spot beyond the blue power LED under the logo.
The silver stand base angles up for an unusual and attractive alternative to the staid pedestal. I much prefer a single central stand to the splayed-leg designs on some other sets.
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I like the remote a lot, although it’s more traditional than some competing clickers. Instead of separate buttons, the entire face is rubberized with raised sections that correspond to buttons. They’re pleasantly tactile, a feel reinforced by the rounded sides and Sony’s typically excellent arrangement and differentiation. Downsides include relatively hefty size, numerous buttons, lack of backlighting, and a big Google Play shortcut key that pales in usefulness next to the Netflix key.
The new clicker also has a prominent voice search button up top that doesn’t require you to aim at the TV to work. That’s smart, because most people will hold the top of the remote up to their mouths to speak into the mic, screwing with that aim. Unlike most voice remotes, however, you do have to aim it to perform any other function, from power to volume to the Home button. You also have to manually activate the mic button using the TV’s setup menu, an annoying extra step that seems like classic Android (that is, needlessly complex).
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Android TV brings on the apps
Sony’s sets run Google’s smart TV system, and it beats the home-brew solutions from Samsung and LG (if not Roku TV) in the most important area: app coverage.
Unlike external Android TV boxes such as the Nvidia Shield and Xiaomi Mi Box, Sony TVs have an Amazon Video app, complete with its substantial library of 4K and HDR content. So does the X850D’s Netflix app. The TV also comes with Sony’s own Ultra app — the latter offering 4K and HDR movies by Sony Pictures on a purchase-only basis (typically $26-$30 each). There’s a Vudu app (as of press time it hadn’t been updated to support 4K or HDR), an UltraFlix app with some niche 4K content and, of course, 4K support on the YouTube app.
Other apps abound, from PlayStation Vue to CNNGo to HBO Now to Plex to PBS Kids to Sling TV to Watch ESPN to CBS All Access to MLB.TV to Spotify, and of course numerous lesser apps and games are available via the Google Play Store (don’t get too excited, it’s specific to Android TV, and much less extensive than the one on your phone). Speaking of phones, many more apps can be cast to the Sony via its built-in Google Cast functionality, which works exactly like a Chromecast. And speaking of speaking, voice search using the remote works very well to find stuff.
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While it may lack Samsung’s cool universal remote control feature or LG’s motion remote control, Android TV on Sony is better than either of them overall thanks to its variety of apps, Along with Roku TV it’s the one system that’s so good, you probably won’t need to connect an external streamer.
Key features
| LED LCD |
| Edge-lit |
| 4K |
| HDR10 |
| Flat/Curved |
| Android TV |
| Standard |
| No |
The one feature that consistently improved LCD TV image quality the most, local dimming, is absent from the X850D. In theory such an absence leads to lighter black levels and less contrast, and in practice that’s exactly what we found. The more expensive X930D, which has significantly better image quality than this TV, does have local dimming.
The set supports HDR (high dynamic range) content in HDR10 format only; it lacks the Dolby Vision HDR support found on Vizio and LG’s 2016 HDR TVs. It’s still too early to determine whether one HDR format is “better” than the other, and I definitely don’t consider lack of Dolby Vision a deal breaker on this TV; instead it’s just one more factor to consider. Check out my article on the HDR format war for more.
Other image quality specifications are suitably high-end. The TV uses Sony’s Triluminos wide color gamut technology for more realistic colors, and has its MotionFlow XR 960 processing and a 120Hz native panel. Unlike the X930D, the X850D does not support 3D.
Plenty of connectivity
- 4x HDMI inputs with HDMI 2.0a, HDCP 2.2
- 1x component video input (another shared with component)
- 1x composite video input
- 3x USB ports
- Ethernet (LAN) port
- Optical digital audio output
- Stereo audio output (minijack)
- RF (antenna) input
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Sony’s input selection is solid, including four state-of-the-art HDMI inputs (all are HDMI 2.0a with HDCP 2.2) and a good selection of other jacks.
Picture quality
Given how well the Sony XBR-X930D performed, and Sony’s claims of improvement over last year’s XBR-X850C, I expected more from the X850D. I didn’t get it.
The TV’s image quality has some strengths, including accurate color and solid video processing, but it simply can’t compete against other comparable sets from Samsung and Vizio. Its black levels and contrast are poor, washing out both standard and high dynamic range material, and its uneven uniformity causes noticeable bright spots across the screen.
Click the image at the right to see the picture settings used in the review and to read more about how this TV’s picture controls worked during calibration.
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