I don’t need this upgrade - Sony A95L

Linus has some pretty stellar TVs in his house, so it can be hard to find reasons to upgrade to the latest and greatest offerings as they come out. We got the Sebastian household the latest A95L QD-OLED TV to put in their living room to see if these new gen panels are enough of a boost to go through the hassle of re-setting up their living room.

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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Does Linus need this?
0:41 Unboxing and the remote control
3:08 A Google TV annoyance
4:09 Comparing the A95K and A95L's ports
5:56 Misc. specs and putting the kids to work
6:33 Sponsor - Manscaped
7:06 Setting it up
8:10 Screen brightness impressions and test results
9:46 Speaker impressions and Bravia camera features
11:57 Trying to compare A95L/A95K screens, SDR content impressions
13:24 Overall thoughts
13:53 Outro

[ShortCircuit]

Also, a couple quick notes, How to Train Your Dragon 1 appears to be available in HDR (yay) and it looks like I can turn off Tubi if I dig deeper in the menu! (double yay)

[TheFoley]

These highlited movie suggestions may cause unwanted conversations with your wife or kids but at least you can have smooth balls with help from our sponsor...

[callumery]

You should rename this video to: "linus learns how to use his old tv" 😂

[ewatfred]

New TV releases: Linus’ structurally important TV Wall starts to sweat

[Vole]

I hadn't upgraded my TV in 10 years and upgraded to the A95k based on Linus review and boy oh boy... It was a life changer! like going from VHS to Blu-ray.

[oriolesfan]

Watching your kids listen to you talk reminds me of listening to my dad as a kid and how I really didn’t give a shit when he talked. And now in life I wish I could time travel back and give him a hug when he was done talking.

[qfurgie]

Linus casually scrolled past the "1 Billion Orgasms" on his TV

[DizConnected]

HEY! Editor! You better remember Snitches get Stitches!

[AlexCruise]

Hello from a guy who has a gigabit USB3 dongle plugged into his Sony TV... Works great as long as you use the USB3 port and not the USB2 one, I've, uh, heard

[steffanaarts-greven]

When Linus' kid asks what inside the box I was surprised it wasn't a segue, to the sponsor. Slightly disappointed they missed that opportunity.

[GreyLukeD]

11:06 love Sony's throw back to 2003 by letting you play with the EyeToy camera

[thexgamer]

I always love watching Jake’s husband unboxing and reviewing a new TV with his kids and a guy who has more lore than anyone at LMG without saying a word throughout the video.

[flexingmecha]

In regards to your Tubi situation

Not gonna say I’m correct but I’m pretty sure if you go into settings and channel set up you need to unlink Tubi to remove it from your google tv channels and suggestions and or unlink it from your google account sign in

[colorona]

That 100 Mbit LAN port is a huge issue and still incredibly annoying since even WIFI 6 doesn't offer a stable enough connection with enough bandwidth to stream 4k HDR10 content from a NAS. But thankfully you can use a USB to LAN dongle to circumvent this, only problem then is to hide the bulky dongle under the cover in the back. Accept for that, I'm quite happy with the A95L (if I could just personalise the home screen more, I'd be even happier though).

[theonik]

The A95L is a brand new SoC and platform with 6GB of RAM compared to 3-4GB on the old one. It's also the only TV that ships with Android 12 from Sony at the moment.

[goldenheartOh]

6:11 Putting the earc port on one of the two 120hz inputs -BRILLIANT!!!

[ParloPenguin]

13:04 I actually recently discovered that HTTYD 1 is now available in both SDR and HDR if you purchase it from iTunes (as 2 separately purchasable versions for some reason). The HDR version is just listed as "HDR" tho and not HDR 10, Dolby Vision, etc, but in theory that's still better than SDR. I'm also not sure how recently this additional option became available, or if other platforms have access to it, but I'd hope it isn't just some iTunes exclusive since the movie is fantastic and more people should get to watch it in HDR.

[gippygames]

65" A95K owner here. Good to know that the only real difference between it and the 65" A95L is an extra $800 CAD, a garbage webcam accessory, and a Crunchyroll button on the remote. Thanks for confirming that I won't have buyer's remorse for a very long time.

[Metal_Maxine]

2:48 Toy rollercoaster! I bet Linus' cats love it.

[BeyReaper]

Always adorable when Linus is with the children. The two girls look like they could be twins. But I imagine you get that often, Linus.