New KD43XF8796 (same as 85 series I believe) bought for bedroom has some slight but noticeable motion blur/smearing on some images. I have spent ages going through picture setting and have got what I believe to be a decent picture but cannot get rid of this occasional motion blur on broadcast TV both via free view and Sky Q. It’s a strange one because not on all broadcast images. It is most noticeable on HD broadcast when a person just moves their head in normal but quick movements, but is not evident on live football broadcast. We also have a KD65XE9005 (2017 model) in lounge which does not have this same issue.
The other issue with these Sony TVs is incompatible hardware/software, the TV has dual satellite inputs and I had a spare twin satellite feed into bedroom so connected this up tuned in and initially all worked ok, but subsequently all satellite channels were lost with a no stored channels message, it seems that if you want to use satellite you have to disable YouView. We can receive most Freeview channels in our area but cannot get a few weaker ones which we can receive via satellite. Not an issue at moment because we have Sky but if we do decide to leave Sky it will be an issue. My other general gripe is the lack of quality smaller TV’s from any of the manufacturers, if the 9005 had been available in 43 inch I would have bought that (much better contrast, blacks/shadow detail) Come on Sony please give us at least one quality TV in smaller screen sizes, that includes provision of adequate inputs because some of the 40 inch HD (not 4K) TV’s seem to have decent picture quality but do not have the 4 HDMI inputs which we needed.
