Sony KD-55A8
£1799
Sony rightfully has an excellent reputation for TV technology. The Japanese company might now be in the shade of its South Korean rivals, but its clever picture processing and unusual approach to TV sound is respected far and wide. It’s little wonder that the combination of LG OLED panel and Sony processing gets so many people so excited.
The Sony KD-55A8 combines a 2020 LG OLED panel with Sony’s 2020 picture and sound smarts, and does so to excellent effect.
The A8 replaces 2019’s AG8 and sits below the Master Series AG9 OLED, which continues into 2020.
From the front, OLED TVs are becoming increasingly similar, with the quest for thinner and thinner bezels and the fashion for removing badges meaning that to the untrained eye it won’t be immediately obvious that this is a Sony TV. But the way these TVs are now designed means they do their talking through their performance.
The black bezel is flush with the screen so you don’t notice it when the set is off – just a thin metal
