Android 8.0 Oreo/ 9.0 Pie

[zlays84]

Is it OK to expect Android Oreo on 2017 Sony Android TVs?

[mr.vaja]

I think the only way is to go public and not solve it here under the sony roof.
 How sony not support its not cheap products is incredible.
I have a 65fx9005 home that is now a super monitor for that money. This is not right and the others should know to go elsewhere. 
  For me, never more sony.

[rooobb]

Really I do not understand what I read in the UK forum regarding the latest firmware update. In the Italian community anyone is really happy with it. Me myself installed it and it solved all the problems that were introduced along with Oreo (ARC, favourite, Video DTS support, etc.) and more (i.e. Youtube full support for HDR).

In the UK I see only bad feedbacks....

[Kuschelmonschter]

I summarized my findings in the German thread, see here. It does fix some bugs, but also introduces some new severe ones. The experience is still not great.

[stormyuk]

So far my experience with the XG9005 has been good, not yet tried to update the XE9005 as wanted to see how the XG was.

Oreo is definately quicker than Nougat on the TV although this could be because the XG already did seem slightly quicker than the XE (even though its identical mediatek hardware which is odd, this was after adding the same programs I use on the XE). Not really had any ill effects from the update here.

Dolby Vision seems to be pretty much the same to me on the XG although I only had limited use prior to Oreo update, Sabrina is still completely dark even with the new update.

The home menu layout is much better (even with the forced Sony Select bloat back).

Still going to hold off updating the XE for now.

[rooobb]

It's hard to translate from German

May you clarify something that I do not find on my own tv?

Google Advertising: the channel was indeed added even before the new firmware release from Sony on the Android TV platform. On my own tv it can be disabled and remain disabled. What about yours?

Samba TV: I do not see any difference with previous release. It is there (and I do not even know what can be done with it since it claims it works only with an Ipad) as before and can be disabled as before..

Regarding HDR and Dolby Vision, I see different behaviours on different sources, so the quality of the encoding on producer side is very important. Nonetheless even without a calibration set, using the appropriate HDR patterns the panel can be set to a brigther image

[SesioNLive]

@rooobb 

Indeed, very hard.

This google query took me 2.6 seconds.

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fcommunity.sony.at%2Ft5%2Fandroi...

[stormyuk]

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@rooobb wrote:

Regarding HDR and Dolby Vision, I see different behaviours on different sources, so the quality of the encoding on producer side is very important. Nonetheless even without a calibration set, using the appropriate HDR patterns the panel can be set to a brigther image

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Unfortunately when viewing Dolby Vision content there only seems to be limited things you can change, the brightness is already set to MAX so not sure what can be done there? Can you explain how I can make the panel brighter when its on Max brightness?

The only work around is to put the black level up massively which distorts the rest of the picture. I agree its mainly down to the source as other programms on Netflix are great.

[rooobb]

You can adjust the gamma  and/or the black level. Better do it via pattern support in order not to wash out the overall image. Actually I set the gamma level to zero and black adjust to 51/52, but it depends strictly on your set and panel technology

[rooobb]

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@SesioNLive  ha scritto:

@rooobb 

Indeed, very hard.

This google query took me 2.6 seconds.

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fcommunity.sony.at%2Ft5%2Fandroi...

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I'm not able to understand German so it is obviously what I did. Simply i do not trust too much automatic translation. But what abut the content? Are you unhappy with the upgrade?

[stormyuk]

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@rooobb wrote:

You can adjust the gamma  and/or the black level. Better do it via pattern support in order not to wash out the overall image. Actually I set the gamma level to zero and black adjust to 51/52, but it depends strictly on your set and panel technology

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I think with gamma at zero and black adjust to 52 Sabrina on Netflix with DV would be very dark for you too on a Sony TV.