However, Sony’s coverage of the UHDA-P3 and wider Rec. In the sets’ closest-to-calibrated modes, the Samsung was the champ throughout, with the Sony’s brightness significantly lower. With HDR, the story was largely the same. And its SDR colors tended just a touch toward oversaturation, whereas the others were basically spot-on. And theLG surpassed both the Sony and Samsung in color accuracy, with the trio’s lowest Delta-E value (lower results are better). In our SDR tests, the Sony’s 232-nit brightness was right on par with the LG’s 228 nits, but noticeably behind the Samsung’s 329 nits. The A80K excelled here, too - but with very stiff competition from other OLED models: the Samsung S95B and the category-leading (and practically industry-leading) LG C2. Rather than merely trust our eyes, we supplement our content watching with a battery of technical tests designed to examine a TV’s performance at a deeper level, which we perform using an X-Rite i1 Pro spectrophotometer, a SpectraCal VideoForge Pro pattern generator, and Portrait Displays’ Calman calibration software. Sony Bravia XR A80K TV review: Test results But the A80K highlights every nuance, so that the black-cowled Caped Crusader looks vividly detailed even against a midnight Gotham cityscape.Īdd excellent upscaling capabilities - the 1080p version of Mission: Impossible-Fallout looked almost as good as the 4K-native one - and the superb viewing angles you associate with OLED, where there is barely any color degradation regardless of viewing positions, and the A80K often seems as though it can do it all. Similarly, The Batman is dependent on the subtle interplay of dark colors punctuated by blinding light, and can easily look like a muddled mess.
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