Painstakingly designed by Sony’s audio department expressly for the 84X9005, these speakers employ a remarkable 10 drivers to produce 50W of power that will also, hopefully, exhibit a truly hi-fi sensibility. Your £25k also gets you a pair of startlingly potent-looking speakers that can bolt onto each of the TV’s sides. Mostly to do with making it clear that despite its lofty pricing and ambitions, the 84X9005 is still definitely a TV rather than a pro-level display not truly aimed at home users.įor starters, Sony has tried to make the 84X9005 reasonably attractive, giving the admittedly rather stern metallic bezel an unusual ribbed finish and providing a glinting silver, two-poled floorstand for the 84in screen to slot onto. Design and featuresīefore we get into the nitty gritty of how well - or otherwise - the 84X9005 performs with both native and upscaled 4K images, there are a few other ‘housekeeping’ issues to cover.

So if the upscaling is up to the job, it could deliver the best ‘HD’ pictures to date, which in itself would be an achievement worth a king’s ransom to well-heeled cineastes. However, this argument forgets one key point: that the 84X9005 can also upscale current HD and even standard def sources to fit its 4K pixel count. The Internet is too slow, and you can’t currently fit full movies in 4K on Blu-ray discs.Īll of this means that the 84X9005 could be seen as not just an expensive TV, but an expensive gamble on a technology that’s by no means guaranteed to be the next big thing. And perhaps even more pertinently, there also still remain substantial issues over just how you package and distribute 4K, with its huge data requirements. But at the same time there are certainly parts of the film industry that are deeply suspicious of 4K as a domestic format. And we’d like to think it would know, given its own involvement in the movie world. Sony, though - along with other brands that have already shown 4K displays - clearly thinks that if it builds 4K screens, then 4K content will inevitably follow.

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