PS5 Is a Key Influence on Sony's Upcoming Range of TVs

Holiday 2020 is going to expensive - new 4k (if not 8k) tv plus PS5 and games! Might need to sell the house and live in a caravan with my new shiny tech

Anyone have any idea on the pricing for these badboys?

Would make sense to get a Sony TV for a Sony console, where input lag will probably be at the lowest you will be able to get it, seeing that it will be tuned for the PS5 in mind.

I just bought a Samsung QLED tv capable of 4K60 output, so I'm set. I only hope all PS5 games will hit that mark (which is doubtful in my book). 8K at 60 fps seems borderline madness at this point.

I don't think a lot of people will be able to afford a 8k TV in the first place but a better speced 4k tv would be something that people will look for instead, especially if the price is good enough.

I bought lg oled tv B6 with 4k & hdr for ps4 pro. I usually bought tv every 8 years from sharp 21inch tube, to lg 1080p lcd, and last lg oled 4k tv. I think I'll upgrade my tv again in about 5 years time lol.

I've got a good ol' 55" 4K/120fps Sony TV. And I barely see any difference between 1080p and 4K apart from HDR (compared both with Netflix, prime video and PS4 Pro). I doubt changing for 8K will be justified any time soon as I expect the price tag to be a lot higher for 8k TVs

@huyi my thoughts exactly. 8K TVs mean 4K will become cheaper and might justify an upgrade

Considering Sony LAG (LOL) behind both Samsung and LG in terms of 'gaming' TV's, they had to try and catch-up sooner or later. Samsung have consistently had the lowest Lag with LG fractionally behind. Sony TVs' have decent input lag but not to the same degree as the other two. Samsung were first to market with 8k and has Game VRR, HDMI 2.1 and LG's C9 4k OLED has HDMI 2.1 as well. Its understandable why Sony though struggle to match the Korean giants on features and price...

i'll still be using a 1080p screen. on the plus side, if the image is supersampled from 4320p for lower resolutions , it should be super sharp.

Next TV will be LG. Sony TV's just do not stand out enough in terms of value

I just want 4k, freesync 2.0, and high refresh rates. 8k is stupid for gaming.

just bought a 4K TV last month so I'm all set for PS5 baby

Interesting.

I still use my LCD Bravia that I bought in 2008(!) - may it live forever!

@KALofKRYPTON 2008 must have been a terrific year for tvs as I still my LG from that year!

@JoeBlogs There is a 4k TV Recommendations thread https://www.pushsquare.com/forums/ps4/4k_tv_recommendations and I am sure it would be OK if you also thinking of discussing 8k TV's.

@Amplified Just buying a 4k TV won't mean that you will be able to take advantage of all the features the PS5 may offer. Certainly not of doesn't have HDMI 2.1.It may well be a great TV for some features though...

I just hope the PS5 (and the Xbox Series X) support the Dolby Vision HDR format.

@ShaiHulud
It's a proper 'supermarket' Bravia too

I'm so used to the picture (which is fine, and I spent a lot of time getting the settings right through AV forum and a few days of running the set without any adjustments) that I really don't want to have to replace it!

My gaming TV is a 72 Sony 1080P with a killer game mode. Every other TV in house is 4k. My next gaming TV will def be a Sony. People still come over and see my base ps4 looking just incredible lol

@BAMozzy I'm good, its a sony KD49X80G(btw) and honestly all I'm aiming for is 4K60 Fps stable, (8k would be unreasonable due to the size of my living room), though it would be nice if those firmware updates that enables higher refresh rates would also come to my model

I doubt the 8k will be used much for the games but rather the video content out there.

@NathanUC Freesync is now divided into 3 categories: Freesync, Freesync Premium and Freesync Premium Pro

Lol everyone talking about 8K while they haven't even master 1080p/60 maybe some but not all of them and let's not even mention 4K much less 8K

@hotukdeals I only had Sony TV's for me the look great and its quality. My first HD made it from the start from PS3 untill last year when i upgraded and my mom still uses it now. 😉

@Amplified k... AMD FreeSync™ Premium Pro then. Seems like the exact same thing as 2.0 only with an annoying rebrand.

@NathanUC seems people are not really happy with the "Freesync 2.0 HDR" branding so there we go, Freesync Premium and Freesync Premium Pro

@Grindagger they just announced at CES that a new sony 8k telly was around 13,499 I think 75 inch if I remember. They are expensive still to expensive.

@Amplified As long as you are happy with it, that's all that matters. Unless it can be upgraded to HDMI 2.1 - which is unlikely, the best is 4k/60 and, as numerous games are 4k/60 on Pro, its entirely possible that games could be up to 120fps on PS5. With VRR, it wouldn't matter if a game is 45fps, 52fps, 73fps, 92fps or 108fps, it wouldn't judder or tear either - something else that PS5 is likely to offer.

HDR is a bigger upgrade than resolution - certainly on smaller screen sizes - although gaming does have a lot more defined lines/edges so makes a bigger difference - especially if you are comparing to the '4k' from streaming services like Netflix which also have compression. The greater the dynamic range, the better the HDR experience and the majority of 'HDR' TV's still cannot deliver the 'full' HDR experience as the content was intended to be displayed. Its tone mapped down and depending on the algorithm, you can lose highlight details because the TV clips everything above a certain point to try and give an overall brighter looking image. Colour range too is not as full as the content is meant to be displayed so you are getting a compromised HDR experience but still better than SDR. Its a bit like buying a 1440p TV and being impressed at the extra resolution compared to the HD you were used to but missing out on 4k because its super-sampled down to fit the TV's capability. Some of the best TV's are more like 1800p so not having to tone map down as much and getting closer to the HDR as it was meant/mastered to be displayed.

Anyway, as long as you are happy, that's all that matters. Its possible that the games on PS5 could still run at over 60fps and you get the benefit of the faster response times but the TV will only display at 60fps. The bandwidth of HDMI 2.0 is not wide enough to allow for higher frame rates and even full RGB at 10bit either. Therefore, you won't be able to take full advantage of the PS5 but doesn't mean that it won't still offer a great experience.

Their current stuff has some things tying it into PS4. My Bravia turns on automatically if I turn my console on and the blue light on the PS4 changes to match the light of the TV.

@BAMozzy thanks for the info, I'm satisfied with the TV, and I'm not planning on buying the PS5 on day one, depends on what games it'll launch alongside with then maybe I might consider, I'll most likely wait for the hardware production to mature and skip the chance of having to RMA a day one PS5 (hopefully no one here goes through that experience) and maybe by the time I get my hands on a PS5 I'd have one of those fancy OLED displays with a significantly higher spec

@Amplified You are in a better position to take advantage of the PS5 than most. I am in a similar position with my TV too but mine is over 3yrs old now. It will be an upgrade to my Bedroom HD TV when I do upgrade to a new TV for the front room as I hope to own a TV for more than 4-5yrs - just the 2nd half of its life is as the 2nd TV.

Its seen me through the SkyQ, Pro and X 4k era really well and, apart from VRR which the X offers, its a great HDR gaming TV suited for the current 'high-end' consoles. Works well with Netflix and Amazon HDR too so I am in no rush to jump in - especially with nearly a year before the next gen launches. I am better off waiting for the 2020 TV's to be on sale in November time or even waiting until 2021. OLEDs do suffer from uneven wear (which some confuse with Burn-in) so maybe LG will sort out the life span and fading over use of the sub-pixels to minimise the effect of uneven wear - especially with HDR HuD's, channel logos, News boxes/ticker tape news feeds etc that wear out the sub-pixels faster and so fade more leaving what some think is 'burn-in'.

As a high TV user, OLED isn't the best option for me but PQ is unbelievable until the wear affects the evenness and accuracy of the that.

I hope you get a lot of enjoyment from your TV until you are ready to upgrade. I am sure you are in a better position to take advantage of the PS5 than many...

@KALofKRYPTON I don't want to replace it either It's a plasma tv and for some reason I prefer how games look on it insteada of how they look on some of my mates' more modern tellys.

those pretty specs don't mean too much in the world of tv's since most manufacturers are hitting those marks. the most important factor to look out for is input lag. if sony is taking this idea seriously, they need to strive for under 10ms input lag which to my knowledge does not exist for tv's at this point in time. 11-15ms is considered quite good, but they can do better. older, average quality tv's are in the 30ms range.

I have a Sony KD-49XD8077 from 2016. It’s capable of displaying 4K at 60 frames a second with HDR.

I have no intention of upgrading to 8K but if PS5 games are regularly hitting 120 frames per second I might think about a higher frequency screen. I’m certainly not going to upgrade now in the hopes that the PS5 will be producing the theoretical maximum of HDMI 2.1.

I’ve got a Samsung series six, it’s ten years old and absolute garbage now. The Picture quality is dreadful. I actually went to a store last week to buy a Samsung q8, saw all the new oleds from LG and Sony , got myself all confused and left without buying anything!! I’m gonna wait till April/may then try again. Like someone else said I’m buying a new tv and ps5 this year so I really need to get this bit right!!

Wish theyd make some smaller sets for us poor (aka average income) people lol.
A 4k 120hz 35inch would be nice.
I still haven't even joined the 4k club. Feels like a necessity when the ps5 shows up

@Gmork___ agreed. i would like to see a 32" OLED more than anything else to be honest. that said, i belive there is a samsung 4k model at 32", but i don't know if it is 120hz.

@hoffa007 Jesus! £14k... Ok, might need to reconsider that then hahaha.

I’m looking to buy a new tv sometime this year but not an 8K one as they will be at silly prices for at least a few years, like 4K was when they first came out. I don’t think we will even see that much of a difference from 4K to 8K unless you sat in an unrealistic viewing distance, like your face right up to the screen that you can’t even view the whole screen.

I’m after one mainly for hdmi 2.1, game VRR and preferably Dolby Vision, if I can have them on a decent priced 4K HDR tv then that’s what I’ll get. PS5 and XSX will be aiming to deliver 4K 60fps and may be 120fps with some games but if either console support games with 8K they’ll be in the very few. Realistically we could expect 8K to be the standard if there was ever a PS6 but that’s at least 6 or 7 years away from now.

@BAMozzy Have you still got your Samsung KS8000? If so are you upgrading ready for the PS5 and XSX? I’m tore between a QLED Samsung with all the bells and whistles (hdmi 2.1, game VRR etc) or an LG OLED with the same features.

@MaccaMUFC Still got the KS8000 and will look to upgrade in the next year or two. Obviously I want HDMI 2.1 with all the bells and whistles but right now, I don't think OLED would suit me due to the uneven wear issue. Its not 'burn in', but because certain elements cause the sub-pixels to be on and used a lot more than others, they wear faster and fade - more so if in HDR as they have to much brighter and therefore fade faster. As a high TV user, the risk is much greater so unless LG find a way to increase the life span and reduce the fading, an OLED is not the best option for me.

I may get an upgrade before the new consoles release or wait for the 2021 sets. My KS will go to the bedroom so I am effectively upgrading both my TV's but as my KS is still going strong (at the moment) I have time to decide the best options for me and to see how the 2020 TV's actually perform.