Sony Bravia X80J vs TCL 85S455

The sound is not much to write home about but then again most built in television speakers never are. If this is going in a small room I’m sure you’ll be fine with the built in speakers. If you’re going to put it in a medium sized room or in a room that may have ancillary sound coming in you may want to invest in a sound bar. If you’re going to use this in your main media room or in any large setting you should hook it up to a sound system for a true movie experience

The sound quality is poor. You’d have to buy a sound bar to get greeter volume. Also commercials are so much louder than the program I’m watching. I also set up payments and they tried to take the payment 5 days earlier then they were supposed too!, and then the payment was unsuccessful because I didn’t have enough money in my acct to pay it

On a positive note, if you have an established Google account, setting up the TV is a breeze and actually borderline fun (weird, I know). You need the Google Home app on your phone or tablet. The app helps set up the TV. But really what the app wants to do is absorb this TV into an army of Google-powered devices in your house into one app

Not just any menu to view what is on tv right now, but a menu to show you what is coming up. TCL is so high tech for cord cutters, by adding a USB drive to the tv you can pause live tv. This is amazing. imagine watching your favorite show but you need a bathroom break

The only dislike and difficulties I'm experiencing is the new remote and how to pair it with our old universal remote. I'd prefer to use just one but having problem with setting up surround sound and having to use TV speakers each time I turn on tv. Overall, I do like the new TV, better than my old 55" Samsung curved TV which I would never recommend to anyone. Back to Sony products for me

I had a ROKU device attached to the LG so the choice of a ROKU TV was a given. I do like the O.S. and user interface

The remote control had an inelegant feel to it. Simple narrow rectangle. Loading apps was more difficult than on other smart TVs. This unit would not support Netflix

A few times it wouldn’t turn on at all. I realized at that point that if the Roku function broke on this, that it would be totally worthless and I would be unable to turn it on to use. The remote control is the same type as you get for a freestanding Roku device that you hook up separately to a smart TV. It just does not work very well, and I have a feeling the TV is going to have a relatively short life before it just won’t work