Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This is an excellent 'transitional' TV for Home Theater enthusiasts, and certainly a great buy for the average person in the street. But it is absolutely vital that a potential customer knows what he's buying into. The 850c has three major weaknesses, and they must be taken into account. First, the VA panel on this TV is absolutely terrible for those people who want to sit at extreme side angles to the unit. If you sit beyond a foot to the side of a screen edge the image begins to fade, although when I sit about four feet to the side at 10 feet away the picture is still decent. Not great by any means, but decent. And so if you plan on extreme angle viewing, I would ask you to look it over very carefully in a video store. Secondly, it does not have High Dynamic Range. This is certainly not a deal breaker for me, because even without it the Sony displays a truly wonderful picture. Finally, it's upscaling engine is so good that it can at times seem to be bad. When you're viewing a station with poor video quality, this 4k TV will make a bad picture seem to look much worse. (But this viewpoint is, ironically, a comparative one. A poor video source, such as Turner Classic Movies, actually looks better on the 850c than it did on my Panasonic plasma, but because stations such as Nat Geo Wild can look really good upscaled on the Sony, Turner looks much, much worse than it would otherwise.) With these things going against it, it may seem strange that I gave the 65x850c a full five-star rating. I did so because this is, in my opinion, the best 'transitional' TV on the market right now. Which is to say, for its $2,600 price tag it gives a truly breathtaking 4k picture, superb upscaling quality to 1080p source material, great 3D, and can show a really stunning Netflix HD and 4k picture. But what do I mean by 'transitional'? What I mean is that LED is simply much too limiting in its technology, and the future belongs to OLED or Laser. But right now, OLED is far from refined and is much too costly for a person of average means to invest in. That won't be true four years from now. At its current price point, and because of its outstanding overall quality for the money, the 65x850c is to me that best economical choice for a high-quality TV enjoy 4k now, and to keep until Spring 2019. There is absolutely no way that I'm going to spend from $6,000 to $8,000 for a bells-and-whistles LED TV today, nor am I going to spend $9,000 for an OLED set that is anything but refined. In comparison, the 850c is the smartest purchase that I think anyone wanting 4k now can make