2020-05-15, 08:46
(2020-05-15, 08:24)wrxtasy Wrote:(2020-05-14, 20:10)noggin Wrote: Accepted wisdom is that XF and XG series have quite underpowered SoCs running Android TV -
The Premium Sony 2019 X95G/X9500G, A9G and the 2018 “Master Series” specifically...
Have been packing a much more powerful MediaTek SoC in them for a while now.
Everything else Sony was rubbish - If we are talking SoC’s.
Ah - I hadn't seen the XG9500 series had received an upgrade. The XG9000 and XF9000 both had the same underpowered (for Kodi at least) older Mediatek SoC.
The big annoying change with the XG9000 series was the switch to an 8-bit (with FRC) rather than a 10-bit panel (My XF9005 has a 10-bit panel). Whether I'd see the difference I'm not sure - but I certainly see the benefit of 10-bit h.265 SDR encodes from 10-bit sources over 8-bit SDR encodes. Huge decrease in banding and other quantisation artefacts. (Whether I'd see similar benefits on an 8-bit+FRC panel, or a plain 8-bit panel with decent dithering who knows.)
