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<\/a><\/p>\nThe position of the legs is easy to change if you later want to move the TV to another room.\u00a0It is possible to raise the legs by 4 cm to the position of the soundbar.\u00a0In this embodiment, typical soundbars will not block the image.\u00a0The Sony TV is also available with a central oval stand (X92K) and side feet (X93K, X94K).<\/p>\n
The ports of the 55X90K TV are directed sideways, and this contributes to the closest placement of the case to the wall when mounted on a VESA bracket.\u00a0There are two clips to organize cable routing.\u00a0Build quality is generally decent.\u00a0The rear panel flexes slightly due to its size.\u00a0The stand holds the case steady with little wiggle.<\/p>\n
Image quality<\/h3>\n
The X90K has what Sony calls the XR Cognitive Processor.\u00a0It’s a technology the company touts as being able to understand how people see and hear, allowing you to optimize the contrast, brightness, and colors of your content depending on what’s going on.\u00a0You can promise a lot, but how everything looks in reality, it\u2019s hard to say for sure.<\/p>\n
Paired with this cognitive processor is a new contrast enhancer that complements Sony’s already renowned processing quality.\u00a0As a result, upscaling up to 4K is fantastic.\u00a0Poor highlight gradation due to low bitrate content is perfectly corrected and smoothed out.<\/p>\n
Although the VA panel used has traditionally narrow viewing angles\u00a0versus IPS\u00a0, you still get good contrast and color when off-center in the Sony X90K.\u00a0A more significant problem with the XR-5590K is that it tends to flare easily.\u00a0The screen is glossy, and the brightness of the TV is not enough to suppress even the slightest reflections.<\/p>\n
But the black ones are amazingly black.\u00a0And, as mentioned, while the TV is still not particularly bright (peak brightness in SDR is around 500 nits, and in HDR it does not exceed 800 nits), its ability to bring blacks to such a depth means that it can generate some outstanding HDR visuals. including Dolby Vision.\u00a0The downside of this contrast is that it’s hard to find a balance between shadow detail and not blurring all the colors.<\/p>\n
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Sony doesn’t publish the number of local dimming zones, but a manual count in the\u00a0X90J\u00a0showed 24. The company regularly states that the number of zones is a spec that doesn’t match how Sony uses them, and to some extent, this can be accepted.\u00a0Sony seems to be doing a lot more with 24 zones than any other manufacturer, but it still has limitations.\u00a0These zones are quite large, and in a clean test environment, you can clearly see that bright objects on a black background create a very noticeable halo.<\/p>\n
Motion processing and gameplay<\/h3>\n
Unfortunately, content played on the Sony X90K at a lower frame rate (such as movies or TV shows) may stutter when panned slowly.\u00a0Stuttering refers to shaky, jerky video, and is especially noticeable around the outside of the frame.\u00a0In game scenes that run at 60 frames per second, this is not visible.<\/p>\n