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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.
Left and right subwoofers provide powerful bass, so you can enjoy truly immersive cinematic sound at home. audio quality is well above average for a TV of this type and on par with the use of a mid-range soundbar 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. 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. 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.
If you’re looking at the A90J sitting flush to your desktop wondering how you might be able to add a soundbar if you decide the built-in sound system isn’t enough for you, the legs can be attached in such a way that they raise the screen up enough to fit a soundbar underneath. Moving to the new Google TV smart TV software makes the A90J easier to use than Sony’s previous Android TVs. The onscreen interface is more friendly, customisable and reflective of how people are using TV features nowadays. All this talk of powerful image processing may sound alarming to AV purists. But trust me: The Cognitive Processor XR is driven much more by naturalism than any desire to make pictures in any way gaudy. In fact, it’s pretty easy to imagine Sony sitting there tuning the XR processor with the brand’s legendary X300 OLED mastering monitor sat alongside for reference. Perhaps in part because they are found on the TV’s rear, the bass drivers feel a little detached from the main sound action. Also, while they can go deeper without distorting than you might reasonably expect from a TV that’s so super slim over much of its rear, the bass drivers can feel more hemmed in than the rest of the soundstage. Updated 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.
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Conclusion
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. 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.
Great contrast often leads to great colours, and that’s true of the A90J – with bells on. Sony’s promise to deliver colours richly saturated enough to keep pace with the panel’s high brightness is fully delivered on, as the screen holds on to even the brightest of tones without even a hint of desaturation. We uploaded the brightness measurements and uniformity photos after running the TV for four months in our Accelerated Longevity Test. Netflix streaming membership required. 4K Ultra HD availability subject to your Netflix subscription plan, internet service, device capabilities, and content availability. www.netflix.com/termsofuse It’s also a pity that there’s no Dolby Vision Game mode. This means that if you want to game in Dolby Vision you’ll have to put up with much higher input lag than the mere 16.2ms or so you get when playing in standard HDR with the A90J’s Game mode selected.Information about the maximum horizontal viewing angle, within which the image on the screen is of acceptable quality. 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. Remote design may differ depending on country. Interoperability and compatibility among Bluetooth® devices vary.
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).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. The new processor can upconvert relatively low quality sound sources to a 3D Surround effect too – all, again, in keeping with an over-riding idea of creating a truly immersive, life-like experience. Sony is so confident about the A90J’s audio capabilities, in fact, that it’s equipped the TV with spring clip audio cable connectors so that you can make it the centre speaker in a wider multi-channel sound system. Requires HDR compatible content from supported streaming services or HDR compatible content device connected via HDMI input (sold separately). 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.
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