Sonia Bravia KD49EX9005 slow performance

[George Smiley]

Hi All,

recently purchased said TV to replace a Panasonic (which now sits upstairs). The Bravia display is brilliant, however, Amazon is virtually unwatchable as it stutters, black screens, pauses, hangs, plays sound but no picture or sometimes works perfectly.

It is somewhat disappointing as the Panasonic is a good few years old and plays 4k on Amazon without fault. Is there anything that can be done?

Overall the TV is good but the performance from the controller has a laughable delay at times.

[George Smiley]

its probably the same. Shocking really, the 2 year old Panasonic works a treat and is super fast, this thing works after a while but woe betide the person that changes the volume whilst watching Amazon prime....

[George Smiley]

Wonder if its possible to replace os with firefox tv

[George Smiley]

Have disabled Youview and will monitor. It is using wifi but it is full strength and would expect a newer tv to not be outshone by the one it has replaced (but will go wired if I get around to it).

Thanks for the tip regarding Youview, never really watch telly anyway so never record anything

[George Smiley]

Now I know why Currys were keen to sell me the extended warranty - er EU law protects me (at least until next year )

Had fun with changing from HDMI3 to TV yesterday. Pressed button, nothing, press again, nothing then it jumps two inputs so I press again - after 15 attempts eventually I got it onto TV.

[George Smiley]

Firefox seemed to have nailed the smart TV OS, how come google can't?

[George Smiley]

cuprabob said:

George Smiley said:

Firefox seemed to have nailed the smart TV OS, how come google can't?

You could ask Google Assistant that question?

You try pressing that microphone button and getting a reaction! Metal Mickey had more compute power on TV.

[George Smiley]

talkssense said:

Don’t use the smart functions in a TV. They are all st.

Just plug a fire stick or an Apple TV in and do the smart stuff through that instead.

Talking nonsense!

My other TV, the Panasonic (with the Firefox OS) was brilliant for Youtube, Netflix, Amazon 4k.

The Sony is good at youtube and Netflix, Amazon is an issue. The speed it takes at times to register you've pressed a button is an issue too.

I just bought a new 40inch Panasonic for upstairs, it uses their fork of the Firefox OS since Mozilla dropped it = faultless. It appears that Android TV is the issue.