For owners of one of the Sony’s “Perfect for PlayStation 5” LED TV from 2021 or 2022 and playing with a PS5 or Xbox Series X there is good news: now you can get both full video quality and VRR at the same time. Until now, enabling variable refresh rates on Sony’s LED TVs using the cognitive XR processor disabled the backlight’s localized dimming feature, meaning you couldn’t get good HDR contrast if you had the VRR active, and this was definitely a big frustration.
But now We are working on an update of the affected TVs which solves this problem, so that VRR and local attenuation can finally coexist in harmony, allowing users to use the functions simultaneously. This update affects TVs Sony X90J Sony X95J And Z9J 8K of the 2021 models e Sony X90K X95K And Z9K of its models for 2022. The change was noted by reviewer Vincent Teoh.
The update is available now, but some users will notice the TV software update in some time, it’s still a while so you should check the settings to see if v6.5929 is already available for you. The update will not affect Sony OLED TVs that support VRR . support, such as the Sony A90J, because they don’t use the same kind of local dimming technology. It also doesn’t change anything for the Sony X85J and Sony X85K, which also support VRR and use LED backlighting, but they don’t have local dimming enabled by the XR processor.
Sony TVs continue to be extremely popular and for good reason, as the company makes some of the best 4K TVs out there, especially for those who use them with their game consoles.
Source: Lega Nerd
