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We just bought this tv as our Xmas gift to each other. Our previous tv was a 60” Sony which lasted us 11 years. Our TV is hooked up to our Dish Hopper 3.
We bought the best (we were told these were on Sony forum) HDMI cables

Anker 8K@60Hz HDMI Cable, Ultra High Speed 4K@120Hz 48Gbps 6.6 ft Ultra HD HDMI to HDMI Cord, Support Dynamic HDR, eARC, Dolby Atmos​


Plugged it into the HDMI port 4 because it says 4K on it and then connected other end to Hopper 3. We also have a HDMI cable running from the arc on the tv to our 11 year old Sony sound bar.

We get above average sound from it, I wish it was better.
Anyway, we didn’t find the picture had much improvement when we hooked it up using these HDMI cable. And both of us agree that our 60 inch had a better picture than this brand new Sony.

Ok, I hope I’ve given you enough info. What haven’t we done that we should be doing?


Thanks,
Nakedland
 
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Go into settings and make sure the video input for HDMI 4 is set to 4K.

Not familiar with Dish equipment anymore, does the Hopper output 4K?
 
I now have the new cable plugged into the HDMI 4. I’ve been looking at all the settings on the tv and then I look them up to see what each does. I want to make sure I have it at the perfect settings you pro’s would use on your own. Haven’t changed anything yet. Kind of scary
 
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Nakedland1 said:
We just bought this tv as our Xmas gift to each other. Our previous tv was a 60” Sony which lasted us 11 years. Our TV is hooked up to our Dish Hopper 3.
We bought the best (we were told these were on Sony forum) HDMI cables

Anker 8K@60Hz HDMI Cable, Ultra High Speed 4K@120Hz 48Gbps 6.6 ft Ultra HD HDMI to HDMI Cord, Support Dynamic HDR, eARC, Dolby Atmos​


Plugged it into the HDMI port 4 because it says 4K on it and then connected other end to Hopper 3. We also have a HDMI cable running from the arc on the tv to our 11 year old Sony sound bar.

We get above average sound from it, I wish it was better.
Anyway, we didn’t find the picture had much improvement when we hooked it up using these HDMI cable. And both of us agree that our 60 inch had a better picture than this brand new Sony.

Ok, I hope I’ve given you enough info. What haven’t we done that we should be doing?


Thanks,
Nakedland
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There are a LOT of settings on Sony and other TV's. One is setting the Inputs for Enhanced Mode. The other is calibrating your TV for SDR, HDR, Netflix (Yes, that's a setting) etc. Rtings.com is a decent source for most TV Calibration settings
 
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It's been awhile since needing to do sound tweaks. Also using a Sony soundbar with arc.
If I'm not mistaken. Aren't most of the sound settings now done in the soundbar menus?
I looked in my action menu at sound settings. Speakers set to audio system (not tv speakers).
All of my sources, sat, fire tv, roku...are using the tv hdmi ports. The soundbar inputs are unused except for ARC.
Sound mode is fixed at cinema. Most every other sound settings are grayed-out. Because that's the soundbar's job.
 
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Nakedland1 said:
We just bought this tv as our Xmas gift to each other. Our previous tv was a 60” Sony which lasted us 11 years. Our TV is hooked up to our Dish Hopper 3.
We bought the best (we were told these were on Sony forum) HDMI cables

Anker 8K@60Hz HDMI Cable, Ultra High Speed 4K@120Hz 48Gbps 6.6 ft Ultra HD HDMI to HDMI Cord, Support Dynamic HDR, eARC, Dolby Atmos​


Plugged it into the HDMI port 4 because it says 4K on it and then connected other end to Hopper 3. We also have a HDMI cable running from the arc on the tv to our 11 year old Sony sound bar.

We get above average sound from it, I wish it was better.
Anyway, we didn’t find the picture had much improvement when we hooked it up using these HDMI cable. And both of us agree that our 60 inch had a better picture than this brand new Sony.

Ok, I hope I’ve given you enough info. What haven’t we done that we should be doing?


Thanks,
Nakedland
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I got this same TV in the 75" size and I used the same 4K cables I had on my previous Sony TV. It has been working great especially the Google TV streaming. One thing I found out real quick was this TV would not work on my small UPS. There was not enough power to do some features.
 
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reubenray said:
I got this same TV in the 75" size and I used the same 4K cables I had on my previous Sony TV. It has been working great especially the Google TV streaming. One thing I found out real quick was this TV would not work on my small UPS. There was not enough power to do some features.
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I had the same problem with my 85” Sony Z9K, my APC UPS was rated to 1500 watts, but running 3 Class D 500W Monoblocks with it kept causing it to shut down.

So I bought a Soundavo PMX-6600 Power Conditioner, rated , roughly, 3000 watts, been perfect since, any more and I will have to put a 20 amp in.
 

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