X800H 65-inch TV: 4K Ultra HD Smart LED TV with HDR and Alexa Compatibility - 2020 Model

I’ve had tv a few months, works great!, love all the internet apps and using google account with tv, that has more free apps for Sony tv, love Airplay apple feature, on my iPad I can can just tap AirPlay and Then I see everything on Tv, movies from IPad or YouTube, anything your watching on ipad will transfer To tv with Airplay feature, very nice!!!, Excellent picture quality, 4K works very good when watching Streamed movies in 4K, Or music concerts in 4K, A lot of movie apps, and music apps, That have many Concerts in 4K, Tv Speakers are ok not to bad, a little tiny, but turn volume up sounds ok, I have a sound bar, with sub woofer, so it improves the sound a lot, But still not to bad without sound bar, my old Sony Didn’t have all the newer internet apps and stuff, so this TV is a big upgrade, well worth it!!!, best TV I have owned so far, Excellent TV!!!

The TV is great. I also have a Sony x900h in the family room and absolutely love the snappy interface. For the garage, the x800h (this tv) is a much better pick as it is bright and has a great viewing angle. The x900h is capable of a brilliant picture so long as you are dead center in front of the TV, it gets washed out at the sides. The interface to the x900h feels more snappy. Still very happy with the x800h though - great TV and perfect for its location. Frustrating delivery process, said I could have it as soon as 4 days from date of purchase. After purchase ran thru i received an email to schedule with a freight service and they were over 3 weeks out. I made arrangements to be home for the scheduled delivery and get a call after the delivery window (after first calling in the morning to verify tv would be delivered that day) that the TV was too large for the delivery truck. Eh? It’s a 65”… So 2 days later had to make arrangements to be home again and the TV arrived about 4 wks after purchase. The product is great but will not be buying another TV from Amazon due to this experience.

Before I purchased this TV I bought a TLC Roku and there was a world of a difference. Setting up was easy and streamline. I was a bit confused that it was asking for Google play and Android connection since It said it connect to Alexa.I am a OS Apple user so I was concerned that I needed a Android phone. It did connect to Alexa and I just ignored the rest. The picture is clear and although not as great as OLED the color are detail and rich. I like the speed of changing Channels and volume. The remote control is awesome. We have the TV hooked up to an outdoor antenna and when we want to watch Cable we connect to the internet by pressing the AP button. You do have to download the Apps let say you want to add HBO, Disney, Prime Video and Youtube etc. I like the TV button where you press it and you are on local tv channels. There is a Netflix button and Google Play button which will directly send you to those providers. I like the voice command where.I can tell it to go to youtube to watch my favorite videos if you are on youtube search for whatever subject you want by voice command, and when I want to go back to TV just hit the TV button. The remote is slim and light and easy to hold and the buttons are very clear. I am very satisfied with this unit and still exploring the other options.

Our experience with the Sony X800H & the ills of its IPS panel leaves us with some clear impressions: First, and most important, this model does not display well in a dark room and is a poor choice for night time movie, Netflix or DVD watching. There is significant light bleed through when the original intent is to show a black screen with only a logo, title, screen credit and the like. Dark scenes are not Film Noir with this set as the bleed through spoils the dark areas particularly in the lower areas & corners. Frustrating is that when you watch a series, each between scene change displays a partially washed out screen when the intent was to show a momentary black screen. We could not shake the disappointment as we were used to our Sony X900F 49 inch TV which preserves, for the most part, what the original show is trying to display. In fairness, read on. The TV's performance in a well lit or daytime setting is admirable. Very bright, clear and easy to enjoy watching cable content. Some of this enjoyment disappears if we put on a DVD or switch to Netflix. This is the perfect set for an automobile dealer to use in a customer waiting room or for a store to use as a demo unit. Again, watching cable news or main channel programming, the set was enjoyable to view. The set we received was clearly a repacked unit and the box showed much wear & tear. The bagged set was in disarray and the accessories, paperwork, etc. were casually thrown in. Still, we have enough faith in Sony not to let this top us from trying the set and we gave it our best shot. We wall mounted intending to keep it and powered it up without a problem. Noted was a much improved navigating response time and a welcomed quick "opt out" of the apps which we avoid. We do use Netflix and hope to see Britbox soon but that is all. The power up, channel change, function change times are the best we have ever seen. On the "con" side however are two points that disappoint us: first, while the TV detects and automatically changes to a powered up DVD player, the TV WILL NOT change back to the cable box. There is an advertised setting for this be we could not find it. Secondly, the new simplified remote omits the important DVD functions such as eject, chapter change, etc. We solved this by using our X900F remote and it worked well but we should not have had to do this. In Summary: the poor black level performance, absense of local backlight dimming, and excessive bleed through were the game changers. We love cinema and any TV worth its salt must display the classsic movies with 35mm quality. Despite the loss of time, the additional work and the inconvenience of dealing with UPS's unreliable pick up service, we are returning the set and will study the VA panels and the QLED options. We hope these comments will help someone else in selecting their set. Cheers.

A few things to know about me: I have a very high standard for quality, and I'm extremely blunt and critical. So the fact I'm giving this TV a 5/5 the day after trying it out means a lot. I usually wait a month or two - but I've seen enough! PRIVACY My biggest hesitation in buying a television over a projector was the fact they all come with bloated apps, malware, and sell your data to companies. Some of the worst examples of this have manufacturers tracking everything you're watching and data going through your home network. Sony gets an A+ here because in the install process they let you opt out. Sony has always been very good about privacy implications, which is the only reason I even bought this TV. Everyone else is sneaky about forcing you to agree to tracking. USER INTERFACE - Performance My second biggest concern with getting a TV was that I've always seen these user interfaces lag. I hate lag, no one likes lag, it makes you feel frustrated. The apps that I saw my friends use on their devices were slow, sometimes taking multiple seconds just to show basic information. The processor in this TV is crazy. I've not only never seen lag, but the TV remembers what you were last doing in apps so you can easily swap between apps. Truly unbelievable they achieve this without lag, this television often feels more like a computer. USER INTERFACE - User Experience I've been developing user interfaces for 10 years now. I've seen a lot of horrible interfaces. This though.. this is one of the absolute best. Your dashboard entirely customizable with apps you want to use. The dashboard is great at showing you content from each app that you want to see without having to dig for it. As an example, the news app shows latest news that's relevant. Or the music app shows your recently played playlists. Amazing. The UI is great, but what is more amazing is that each app has its own well-designed interface. Truly the individual apps for Netflix, Google Music, and others are even better than the companies that made those apps have developed. I would take Sony's app interfaces over the others any day. So good. It's hard to believe Sony made such a killer UI for its products and the products of other companies, and yet, they did. ANDROID OS I've always been an android guy. Naturally this TV integrates with my entire ecosystem of Android and Google products. You get deep integration with the Google Assistant, all the Google products, and if you have an android phone you can easily pair/cast it. And without hassle! I was very impressed with how simple everything I wanted to do was. iPhone users also get Air Play and other goodies too. SOUND QUALITY If you care about sound quality you're going to always skip the tv speaker and use your own hardware. That's the truth here too, but the default sound quality is above average. Very good lows, highs, and hearing conversations in noisy moments is well done. PICTURE QUALITY As another review said, the tv gravitates towards a darker picture. I had no trouble modifying this, and the settings to quickly do this from one moment to another is extremely simple. Otherwise, this has been my first 4k tv so I can't give a great comparison, but I'll say the opening sequence had my mouth dropped :) APP STORE This is just a notice that you can (and should!) install more apps for your tv. If you want to add apps in the Play store that Sony doesn't offer you can "sideload" them. I love that advanced users have this option! The App store Sony gives access to by default is also extremely good, with plenty of apps for all uses cases, even techie users who might want to do crazy things like SSH into their device or run a file server. OVERALL This unit nailed every single thing I was weary of, and over-delivered everywhere else. I would buy this device again in a heartbeat. Keep it up Sony, you truly are a wonderful manufacturer.

In the past I'd have cared a lot more about the kinds of features that the higher end sets have, but in my current house there is enough ambient light leakage that chasing super dark blacks and high contrast ratios is pointless, so instead I decided to just go for something as big as I could fit with HDR. I bought this to replace my existing 65" LG 4k non-HDR set. I only use this as a display. I do not use any of the smart TV features in the set and I only connect it briefly to install the OS and security updates (since over time on other sets Sony has bundled display processor improvements with the Android updates). Beyond that, installing updates in the background is relatively unobtrusive. I picked the Sony mostly because I use the Sony HT-ST5000 sound bar and my experience has been that while all of these things should work transparently across brands, in practice there is enough underlying complexity that putting products together from the same manufacturer results in fewer encounters with user experience quirks. Sony seems to make a bit more of an effort to explain privacy features than Samsung or LG, but in the end you're bolting what is essentially a giant Android phone to your wall, and it will probably not get security updates after a year or so. I have been driving it with an Apple TV 4K and a Sony Playstation 4 Pro. It works perfectly well with both and I have not run into any weirdness - unlike the LG which would occasionally take a very long time to sync the picture when changing inputs and while it was attempting to enable its fake HDR mode with the Apple TV. Brightness in a room with a lot of ceiling lights is excellent. Since I have a relatively high ambient light level from lights outside the house at night, it seems to do a good job of giving me reasonable blacks and low level details.

i am a very picky kind of guy, back in 2011 i bought a panasonic 65 inch plasma tv from amazon wonderful tv, still works like new, now for this sony tv i am so happy is it as good as the plasma, no and yes, the plasma has blacker blacks however i was looking at a night scene on the sony, and i could see a tree in the back ground, that i cant see on the plasma tv, because of the blacker black on plasma so its a trade off, this tv is so easy to set up wifi was a snap it has a tun of apps very easy to understand, the instructions are built into the tv is the samsung better or the lg i dont know they offer a few more features for the money, but i am very happy with this tv the skin tone is a hair better then the pasma, or samsung and lg, however i may send it back, only to get the 85 inch, and for the money this model is the one to buy, sony has upper line but at a very steep price, and by the way i called sony, on a tec question, and they were very nice to talk to, and answered my question just fine, just kidding going to keep tv big enough for my area, takes alot to satisfy me, and this does so in spades, remote is not bad 3 stars remote, 5 plus stars for tv.

All-caps subject line is warranted in this case: There are reviews about Sony introducing bugs in their software updates. I'm an experienced engineer, so I doubted that their rollouts would introduce serious bugs. Usually you'd test very thoroughly before risking failures of all TVs with software updates enabled. You know where this is going. I made the mistake of running their update shortly after purchasing a new X800H from Amazon. Now audio fails intermittently, and requires going through a reboot process. There is no provision for rolling back to a previous software revision! Repeat: NO ROLLBACK Feature! So once it's done, it's done. There is no excuse for this. Their chat support also kept me answering silly questions like "What external devices are connected?" Despite having all the clues that exactly profile their well-known bug. Couldn't they just ask if any software updates had been run? Shame that I have to write this, since Sony did a lot of things right with this design. But good features don't do much good if the TV has no audio. --- Update one week later: This is bizarre: The TV turned on by itself this afternoon. No one standing nearby. No one near the remote. No pets. No power glitches in other equipment (I have about 10 computers running 24/7). The Sony's built-in software is constantly monitoring for signals, even if it is turned off (which is why you can power up via the remote). Evidently another software bug that activated the power function randomly. I have not heard back from Sony yet about the bugs introduced by their own software update, but this could be yet another. Their promised fix for the other bugs is evidently still not ready. The other reviews regarding bluetooth not working for headphones (including Sony's own $350 XM4 headphones) are correct. This is by design. They claim that you need to step up to a more expensive model. Unfortunately, they don't make some of the sizes in their more expensive models. So the word 'bluetooth' in their ads should have that attached caveat. (BTW, they have already written the bluetooth drivers that would do this. They have chosen not to include them in the X800H models) There's a lot to like about the X800H, but these are some fatal flaws that should be considered. This would be a great TV line if Sony could get their software engineers to work on the problems.