Sony BRAVIA XR OLED XR83A90J - 83-inch smart tv - OLED - 4K Ultra HD (UHD) - High Dynamic Range (HDR) - Google TV - (Black)

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The A90J gets great value out of its native 4K resolution, too. The impressive shadow detail in dark areas, subtle colour shading and extremely fine light control helps delineate every pixel of image information in a good 4K source. Sony continues to offer superb motion processing options too, enabling you to remove pretty much as much panel judder and motion blur as you feel comfortable with without having to worry about the processing throwing up unpleasant side effects. Sony is moving on from Android TV as its preferred smart platform in favor of Google TV. It’s effectively an upgraded, streamlined version of Android TV, providing largely the same apps, services, and features, but with a friendlier interface that more readily aggregates and recommends content. For instance, while the LG G1 tops out at around 890 nits in its most vibrant Vivid mode and around 750 nits in its Cinema and Filmmaker modes, the A90J gets around 915 nits in Vivid mode and around 790 nits in Cinema Mode. These look like relatively small differences on paper, but as we’ll see, they do matter – especially when married to Sony’s new video processing system. The Sony A90J is the high-end Master Series OLED TV for 2021 and it offers new image processing and better brightness for more realistic and accurate HDR picture quality. The new panel has a Laminate aluminium heatsink as part of the XR OLED Contrast Pro technology and this helps dissipate heat away from the panel while boosting the brightness capabilities. Added to this is a change to how the pixel emits light and, where other manufacturers use the white pixel to achieve this on its own, the Sony approach also adds the red, green and blue pixels to the white to increase the brightness of the colours at the same time. This helps keep the colours looking purer without wash out at higher peak brightness. The XR processor also adds tone mapping that pushes accuracy to the standards and retains detail in the brighter reaches of the HDR image and it also tries to replicate the master monitors that Sony produces for the professional market, like the BVM-300.

With XR Contrast Booster bright areas are brighter and dark areas darker, so no more details overwhelmed by shadow or lost in blown-out highlights. Enjoy beautiful pictures from any angle with X-Wide Angle. Information about the maximum vertical viewing angle, within which the image on the screen is of acceptable quality. The most widely used panels are those with 6, 8, and 10 bits for each of the RGB components of the pixel. They provide 18-, 24-, and 30-bit color, respectively. Input lag time measured via 4K/120fps game HDMI input, may differ by real-time usage environment or specific conditions. Game title supporting 4K/120fps required. The extra brightness isn’t limited to mere HDR highlights, either. It also makes its presence clearly felt in full-screen bright HDR imagery. There’s a radiance in sun-drenched daylight shots, for instance, that I’d started to think I’d never see from an OLED TV.The new video processing I mentioned earlier is Sony’s Bravia XR processor. Sony describes this processor’s approach as ‘Cognitive’, which means, as succinctly as possible, that it breaks each incoming frame down into multiple constituents – colour, contrast, detail, object definition and so on – and then slightly manipulates everything to deliver a final image that more closely resembles the way our eyes perceive the real world. Sony additionally claims for the new XR engine general improvements in contrast, colour, motion and the upscaling of sub-4K sources. Particularly intriguing on the colour front is Sony’s claim that its new processor works equally on the red, green and blue colour elements, rather than just manipulating the white element that’s so key to affordable OLED technology. This should hopefully mean that the A90J’s colours don’t become desaturated by the extra injection of brightness they’re getting. The Sony A90J has good HDR brightness, good enough to make bright highlights pop. However, there isn't much consistency across scenes with different luminance levels due to the TV's Automatic Brightness Limiter (ABL). It performs similarly to the LG G1 OLED, but it's not as bright as the LG G2 OLED. Warming up the TV doesn't significantly impact the HDR brightness.

In 2021, there’s a new settings menu called HDR Tone Mapping. Our measurements use the 'Gradation Preferred' setting, but it may be helpful to note that while the 'Gradation Preferred' setting results in a more accurate EOTF, the 'Brightness Preferred' setting lets you get a brighter image without having to make too many other adjustments. If you want to see the difference these settings make, you can see the 'Brightness Preferred' EOTF here and the EOTF with HDR Tone Mapping disabled here. Speakers are usually a perfunctory aspect of a TV, typcially a set of downward-firing drivers a handful of watts each to provide enough sound to easily hear what you’re watching. Sony put more thought than this into the A90J’s XR Sound system, combining conventional drivers with actuators mounted behind the screen. The TV features a pair of 10-watt actuators for higher frequencies and a pair of 20-watt drivers for lower frequencies, for more audio power than typical TVs. MPEG1:MPEG1/MPEG2PS:MPEG2/MPEG2TS(HDV,AVCHD):MPEG2,AVC/MP4(XAVC S):AVC,MPEG4,HEVC/AVI:Xvid,MotionJpeg/ASF(WMV):VC1/MOV:AVC,MPEG4,MotionJpeg/MKV:Xvid,AVC,MPEG4,VP8.HEVC/WEBM:VP8/3GPP:MPEG4,AVC/MP3/ASF(WMA)/LPCM/WAV/MP4AAC/FLAC/JPEG,WEBM:VP9/AC4/ogg/AAC/ARW(Screen nail only) Ergonomics Information about the ergonomic functions - height adjustment, swivel angles, tilt angles, etc. VESA mount The ratio between the horizontal and the vertical side of the display. Some of the standard and widely used aspect ratios are 4:3, 5:4, 16:9 and 16:10.

We uploaded the brightness measurements and uniformity photos after running the TV for four months in our Accelerated Longevity Test. Three-way stand is only available on the 85” Class model. 75” Class and 65” Class models have two-way stand with standard and raised positions. Actual look may differ depending on TV size and type of cables used. The actuators serve a much more immersive purpose than simply providing crisp sound. The sounds they generate seem to come directly from the screen, rather than simply the general area of the TV. The result is audio that better matches exactly what you’re watching, and a capable center channel that can be integrated into a surround sound system. Information about whether there is a possibility for wall mounting according to the VESA Mounting Interface Standard (MIS). Sony also states that the Cognitive Processor XR can also analyse the sound position in the signal so the sound matches precisely with the action on the screen. In addition, it upconverts any sound to 3D surround, to deliver an immersive soundscape.

Overall, though, the A90J sounds better than you’ve a right to expect with such a beautifully designed screen. Sony A90J review: Design and usability We uploaded the latest brightness measurements and uniformity photos for the Accelerated Longevity Test. The A90J supports HDR10, HLG (Hybrid Log-Gamma) and Dolby Vision. There is no support for HDR10+ or Dolby Vision IQ. There are also movie based picture presets available for watching content as it was intended to be seen and these include the Custom mode, Netflix Calibrated mode for watching Netflix content and the IMAX Enhanced mode. There is no getting away from the fact that Sony believes the A90J is the best possible OLED TV for accurate to the standards movie watching - something I’ve been testing for a solid month. Two narrow, rectangular, gunmetal feet keep the A90J upright on flat surfaces. By default, the feet simply hold the TV stable, with the bottom of the screen nearly flush with your entertainment console. The feet can also be rotated to lift the TV up a few inches, in case you want to place a soundbar under it. The 83-inch model has a third configuration that moves the feet from the edges of the TV closer to the middle, so you can place the big screen on a surface that isn’t as wide as it is. IMAX Enhanced content enables full IMAX Enhanced experience with compatible streaming services such as Fandango Now (US only) and BRAVIA CORE, or compatible content device connected via HDMI input (sold separately).We test TVs using a Klein K-80 colorimeter, a Murideo SIX-G signal generator, and Portrait Displays’ Calman software with methodologies based on Imaging Science Foundation’s calibration techniques. The maximum number of colors, which the display is able to reproduce, depends on the type of the panel in use and color enhancing technologies like FRC.

As of 11/18/20, Cognitive Processor XR cross-analyses multiple picture elements combined with focal points; recreating human perspective. Verified by Strategy Analytics. There’s enough dynamic range available to deliver a really open sound, too, that comfortably avoids that thin, compressed feeling associated with many TV sound systems. There’s enough headroom in the sound, as well, to allow it to shift through a decent amount of gears as an action scene builds to a crescendo. The Sony 65A90J’s combination of a new high-brightness panel and sophisticated new processing engine yields pictures that can consistently only be described as breathtaking. Or beautiful. Or maybe breathtakingly beautiful. We uploaded the brightness measurements and uniformity photos after running the TV for two months in our Accelerated Longevity Test.

The new XR processing doesn’t restrict its hefty brainpower to picture quality. It also joins forces with Sony’s Acoustic Surface technology, where the screen actually functions as the set’s speakers, to place sound effects more accurately, so that they have a more effective balance in the mix, and appear to be coming from the area of the screen that matches the position of the object making the sound. There are various panel technologies. Each has its own specific features - viewing angles, color reproduction, response time, brightness/contrast, production cost, etc. The image quality depends directly on the type of the display panel used. The brightness boost is easily the big headline here – brightness has always been the one key weakness of OLED TVs, and Sony's sets in particular never really sought to push that in the past. Some of the A90J’s picture presets, especially Vivid, also seem able to overdrive bright parts of the picture to the point where small very bright HDR areas can fleetingly achieve higher brightness levels than the measured figures given above.