Sony KD-85X8500G (Asian and Oceanian versions)

•   Overview
•   Pros and Cons
•   Predecessor
•   Selected Features
•   Specifications
•   Successor

Sony KD-85X8500G was introduced in 2019. It has a LED screen with 4K UHD (3840 x 2160) resolution and 100 Hz/120 Hz refresh rate. The TV is HDR compatible. It supports HDR10, Dolby Vision and HLG. Its powerful X1™ picture processor guarantees a high quality upscaling of any low resolution source to 4K UHD (3840 x 2160).

We give Sony KD-85X8500G TV 92 overall score out of 100. Our ranking system is based on the display specifications, video, audio and other features, connectivity and format support.

In this section we highlight pros and cons of Sony KD-85X8500G.

A predecessor of 2019 X85G series is 2018 X85F series. In this section we show their comparison.

For this comparison we chose 85" version of the predecessor - model KD-85X8500F. For more detailed comparison between the two please visit Sony KD-85X8500G vs Sony KD-85X8500F where you can also choose different size and country models to compare.

VA Panel

Sony KD-85X8500G has a vertical alignment (VA) panel which is most commonly used in LCD TVs as it provides deeper blacks compared to the IPS panel. However, it is still limited with the viewing angle compared to the IPS panel or OLED display.

HDR10

Sony KD-85X8500G supports HDR10 which was announced on August 27, 2015, by the Consumer Technology Association and uses the wide-gamut Rec. 2020 color space. It is not backward compatible with SDR. It sends static metadata via video stream to the TV which calibrates its screen brightness and color according to that. HDR10 is technically limited to a maximum of 10,000 nits of brightness and uses 10-bit color which corresponds to 1024 shades of the primary RGB colors.

Dolby Vision

This TV also supports Dolby Vision which is an update to HDR10 by adding dynamic metadata that can be used to more accurately adjust brightness levels up to 10,000 nits maximum brightness on a scene-by-scene or frame-by-frame basis and support up to 12-bit color depth (4096 shades of RGB) and 8K resolution.

In this section we present all the features and specifications available for Sony KD-85X8500G.

The 2019 X85G series has a successor - 2020 X85 series. Let us now display the changes that the successor brought.

For this comparison we chose 49" version of the successor - model KD-49X8500H. For more detailed comparison between the two please visit Sony KD-85X8500G vs Sony KD-49X8500H where you can also choose different size and country models to compare.