Sony BRAVIA XR OLED XR55A80J - 55-inch - OLED - 4K Ultra HD (UHD) - High Dynamic Range (HDR) - Google TV - (Black)

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Finally, for most content, the curiously named Custom mode provides the closest thing to a tightly calibrated picture out of the box.

This TV includes a Light Sensor that optimises picture brightness to room conditions, boosting brightness in light rooms and reducing it in dark ones so you get the perfect view. The picture quality is superb with both SDR and HDR thanks to accurate colours, deep blacks and bright specular highlights.Curtains, for example, absorb sound while objects in front of the TV can disturb the passage of sound, compromising the quality of what you hear. XR Smoothing creates smooth, natural 4K pictures as you watch, without the “banding” that can occur on other TVs. Updates to Android TV have brought it close in feel to Google TV; but this interface feels more accessible and more inviting. Google TV is so good at aggregating your current content and helping you find more, Bravia Core seems an extraneous, if better-than-it-has-to-be, addition.

Our BRAVIA XR processor precisely analyses and processes data to power 4K pictures with four times the resolution of Full HD to enrich scenes with real world detail and texture. A film like Interstellar fully benefits from the deep blacks and impressive shadow detail, while the white spaceships really pop against the dark background. Of course, you can’t live on a televisual diet of 4K HDR alone, so it’s good news that the A80J also makes the most of lower-resolution, SDR signals. The only major change from previous iterations of this remote is the addition of two dedicated buttons for streaming services.Our contact at Sony recommended testing in Custom mode, with the dynamic adjustments off, and the set’s color gamut coverage skyrocketed to 111.