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Sony XR-55A95K QD-OLED TELEVISION £2399

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Sony’s A95K stakes its place as the first QD-OLED set we have reviewed, with Samsung’s QE65S95B (see page 42) hot on its heels. OLED has become the premium TV tech of choice thanks to its perfect blacks, pixel-level contrast control, near-perfect viewing angles, super-thin designs and increasingly aggressive pricing. QD-OLED is (broadly speaking) designed to blend the best qualities of both OLED and QLED and so is expected to overcome OLED’s main limitation – brightness.

If you were therefore expecting the A95K to be vastly brighter than the OLED norm, you may be disappointed. In fact, it’s fair to say that the first QD-OLED TV isn’t a huge leap in quality over the best standard OLED TVs you can now buy. It is better, though,

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