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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. 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 The A90J is certified for IMAX Enhanced – a serious rarity in the current TV world. This means its images have been assessed by IMAX as being good enough to deliver the extra picture quality created by the IMAX Enhanced mastering system. IMAX Enhanced content is available, if you're wondering, on a small selection of 4K Blu-rays, plus Rakuten and Sony’s new Bravia Core movie platform.
Some aspects of the A90J’s functionality aren’t quite as complete as its new processing system seems to be, though. For starters, while the set is capable of handling the Dolby Vision, HDR10 and HLG formats of HDR, there’s no support for the HDR10+ system. Like Dolby Vision, this format adds extra scene by scene picture data that compatible TVs can use to render HDR more accurately (and, usually, more dynamically). The video processing on the A90J is top class as you would expect with the Sony TV and the new processor certainly helps out here. The motion is excellent, delivering superb 24fps performance with MotionFlow switched off, with correct 5:5 pulldown for film content and no induced judder. There can also be a little more colour banding in bright, relatively uniform areas of colour when gaming in HDR than I customarily see, and the approach Sony takes to accuracy with its Cinema picture mode sees it clipping detail quite substantially out of the brightest HDR picture areas.Information about whether the stand can be dismounted. Usually, this is required for wall mounting. 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. As of 11/18/20, Cognitive Processor XR cross-analyses multiple picture elements combined with focal points; recreating human perspective. Verified by Strategy Analytics.
version 4.2,HID (mouse/keyboard connectivity)/HOGP (Low Energy device connectivity)/SPP(Serial Port Profile)/A2DP (stereo audio) 2 /AVRCP (AV remote control) Having finally slipped into negative mode regarding the 65A90J’s pictures, I’d usually now take the opportunity to go into a few other problems. However, problems are pretty hard to find on Sony’s OLED flagship.There’s also eARC support on HDMI 3, so that you can pass lossless Dolby Atmos and DTS:X out to eARC-compatible soundbars. We also measured the brightness in the 'Vivid' Picture Mode. It reached 777 nits in the Real Scene Highlight and 976 nits in the 10% window. audio quality is well above average for a TV of this type and on par with the use of a mid-range soundbar For UK users, it's also worth noting that while I’ve been testing the A90J, it doesn’t currently support the BBC iPlayer app. So it wasn’t possible to use the TV to watch the BBC’s live Euro 2020 streams in 4K HDR. In fact, at the time of writing the A90J doesn’t support the majority of UK catch-up TV apps. As well as the missing iPlayer, there’s no ITV Hub and no All 4. Nor is there any sign of the YouView umbrella app that’s provided all of the UK’s catch-up services on previous generations of Sony TV.
If minimalism is your thing, you’ll love the Sony A90J. Its 65-inch screen is surrounded by an incredibly thin bezel, while the support feet sit so flat in their ideal extreme bottom corner locations that you barely notice them. Sony describes the look as a ‘minimalist one slate design with a seamless edge bezel’. Which is actually pretty accurate as marketing descriptions go. User must setup broadband network environment. By default, Pure Stream setting is turned OFF and must be turned ON in BRAVIA CORE settings. BRAVIA CORE offers streaming between 30Mbps-80Mbps once user turns ON Pure Stream. To access Pure Stream at 30Mbps, user must have a minimum internet speed of 43Mbps over Wi-Fi. To access highest quality Pure Stream available at 80Mbps user must have minimum internet speed of 115Mbps over Wi-Fi. Subject to user’s network operator’s video streaming restrictions, BRAVIA CORE automatically selects the best bitrate as following with adaptive streaming functionality based on the internet speed available. Information about the maximum horizontal viewing angle, within which the image on the screen is of acceptable quality. Netflix streaming membership required. 4K Ultra HD availability subject to your Netflix subscription plan, internet service, device capabilities, and content availability. www.netflix.com/termsofuseUpdated to Test Bench 1.7 with an updated HDR Brightness test that better reflects real world usage. We've also split the console compatibility boxes into separate PS5 Compatibility and Xbox Series X|S Compatibility tests. You can see our full changelog here. Converted to Test Bench 1.10. With this update we've revamped our Gradient testing, added a new test for Low Quality Content Smoothing, and expanded our Audio Passthrough testing.
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