The result is more vibrant colors and clarity than your eyeballs could ever appreciate. Some TVs like the QD-OLED A95L can achieve up to 200 percent brightness with wider color gamut.

That’s then passed through whatever display hardware a specific Sony TV is capable of (full array, mini LED, OLED, etc.) and what you should (hopefully) see is a great picture. This chip reads the data from a video source (Netflix, TV, cable, optical disc) and then converts that into an image with less noise at a high bitrate. It’s just like your phone one phone display might be very saturated and another more “natural” or muted.įor the majority of Sony’s new TVs (X90L, X95L, A75L, A80L, and A90L), there’s a new XR Clear Image processor. Every TV uses its own processor and different picture calibration. It all starts with the image processor, because of course it does. If you want a TV that’s also an art piece, Samsung’s got a Frame TV to sell you. The bezels are slim and some models (A90L) have an aluminum bezel instead of plastic. Sony’s TVs are still big giant black rectangles. I’m also not gonna spend an unnecessary amount of time on aesthetics. TV, movies, and games look spectacular on these panels, but they don’t come cheap, especially at the large sizes Sony is selling them. But TL DR: OLED and QD-OLED push out the brightest pictures with the highest contrast and the deepest blacks. Wikipedia is a search away if you need to learn the difference between LED, full array LED, Mini LEd, OLED, and QD-OLED. And then at the very top, in its “master series,” is the new addition, the QD-OLED A95L. Sony’s “premium” bracket includes Mini LED with the X93L and X95L and OLED with the A75L and A80L. One step up is the “gold standard” which includes the X90L with full-array LED.

Starting at the base or what Sony calls its “foundation” is a new direct LED panel, the X77L. Sony’s got seven new TVs from bottom to top pricing to be announced in the spring. Sony’s XR 75X90L TV Photography by Raymond Wong

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