Starter Sony

Although it kicks off Sony’s entry into the 4K range of televisions, the X75H is no slouch and doesn’t shy away from charging for it.

- Nishant Padhiar

Evenly matched

Wthe X75H bucks the trend of slimmer top and side bezels with a slightly thicker bottom bezel for a more even look throughout.

Being an Android TV in its stock form helps the Sony to keep things simple and straight but does take a bit longer during initial set-up while firmware and apps update. Once done, the interface is zippy and thankfully, it’s easy to get to its huge bank of custom video settings.

You could of course, still get a very vivid picture by just using one of the factory presets, but with the X1 processor built-in, you can fine-tune the colours, contrast and motion processing until the next SRK release and still be working on it. There’s no Dolby Vision but you do get HDR and HLG support.

Tanhaji, with its elaborate costumes, engravings on artillery and weapons and the colour corrected skies make for a great test for detail, clarity and motion smoothness and the Sony X75H passes all with flying colours. Colour consistency is great off-axis too so you can have a much wider seated audience too.

The X75H makes you want to invest yourself into the material with its smoothness of motion and pitch-perfect colours. Mind you though, it’s easy to overcook things and make even 24fps films look like soap operas shot at 30fps, so you have to use the motion processing judiciously.

Tech specs

Screen size 55in Direct LED Resolution 3840 x 2160 4K Picture processor X1 Inputs HDMI x 3, USB x 2, 3.5mm, optical out Storage 16GB Dimensions (WHD) 1241 x 721 x 79mm Weight 15kg