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    The ‘wow’ within

    Oct 14, 2018 4 minutes
    Jez Ford

    Well, in one respect, this is rather dull. Sony’s A1 OLED last year was a spectacular television, a design statement, a slab of OLED leaning back on a giant picture-frame support. We loved it, gave it our Best Television of the Year award. This A8F — it looks like any other TV, or we should say like any other premium TV, being nice and low, less than a centimetre off the benchtop, its panel just 5mm thick, with another 85mm or so of electronics on the back. But the design itself is not a ‘wow’.

    Of course, Sony has done this purposely. The A1 has been called a ‘love-it-or-hate-it’ design. That lean-back stance made positioning impossible in many homes. This one can go

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