Outline
Sony Bravia A1E OLED XBR-55A1E - Sony has been putting additional exertion into the outline of its items for the recent years, and this exertion is writ expansive everywhere throughout the 55-inch 55A1.
Sony's thought with the A1 (or A1E as it's known in the States) was to concentrate 100% on the TV's photo, keeping the bodywork around the picture to a flat out least. The outcome is a TV with simply a staggeringly thin dark edge around each of the four s
ides of its screen. There's no clue of any speakers, a stand or even a Sony logo to occupy you from what you're viewing.
The screen is upheld in picture outline design by a leg that edges out from its back, while sound obligations are performed by the screen itself as opposed to ordinary speakers. Yes, you read that privilege: the screen itself conveys the sound.
Associations are found at the base of the shelter leg, and are copious. Features incorporate four HDMIs, three USBs, a RS-232 port so you can add the TV to a more extensive home mechanization framework, and an Ethernet port for individuals who might preferably hardwire the TV to their system than utilize the inherent Wi-Fi framework.
Screen Sizes accessible: 65-inch and 55-inch now, 77in later in the year | Tuner: Freeview HD | 4K: Yes | HDR: Yes (HDR10, Dolby Vision, HLG) | Panel innovation: OLED | Smart TV: Yes/Android | Curved: No | Dimensions: 1228 x 711 x 86mm (W x H x D) | 3D: No | Inputs: Four HDMI, three USBs, Wi-Fi, RS-232, satellite and earthly RF inputs, earphone jack, sound line out, subwoofer line out, optical computerized sound yield
Shrewd TV
The 55A1's shrewd components and interface are given overwhelmingly by Google's Android TV stage ... which is a touch of disgrace, truly, considering Android's cumbersome interface, absence of customisation alternatives, inadequate proposals framework and absence of center with regards to the kind of applications most TV watchers need to discover.
Luckily Sony isn't oblivious to Android TV's inadequacies, working autonomously of Google to ensure that and additionally conveying 4K and HDR forms of Netflix and Amazon Video, UK proprietors likewise get the get up to speed TV administrations of all the principle four earthly telecasters.
Android TV does at any rate run somewhat less lazily now than it used to, however it's still tormented with customary and broad firmware updates, and still appears to be buggier than any adversary keen TV stage.
Android TV is still excessively unwieldy and unfocused, making it impossible to truly suit a TV domain, yet the expansion of YouView spares the day for UK clients.
Execution
The 55A1 presents a convincing defense for being the absolute best TV we've ever observed with regards to indicating standard dynamic range, HD content.
First off, its HD to 4K upscaling is mind-bogglingly great. The utilization of a double picture reference database framework - one database concentrates on including subtle element, the other on expelling clamor - and some exceptionally spotless, fresh movement dealing with adds to upscaled HD pictures that get nearer to the look of genuine 4K than those of whatever other TV mark.
Sony's Triluminos shading handling likewise adds to the nature of the HD upscaling, helping the 55A1 open nuances of tones most different TVs can't equal while ascertaining all the additional pixels they have to add to a HD picture.
4K Performance
The A1's mix of outrageous shading artfulness, remarkable light administration, hypnotizing enumerating and class-driving movement playback guarantee that the 55A1 makes a stunning showing with regards to with the present Ultra HD Blu-beam circles and 4K/HDR gushing administrations. The exquisite force you get with high differentiation HDR shots demonstrates immediately that a TV doesn't completely require immense measures of brilliance to make HDR look great gave it can convey adequately significant dark levels and pixel-level light control - two things OLED innovation does remarkably well.
Sony's Triluminos shading innovation demonstrates a dazzling accomplice for the wide shading range pictures found with such a large amount of the present 4K content, joining astoundingly extreme immersions with a level of tone detail and nuance that leaves the greater part of HDR-able TVs looking pale and quieted by correlation.
Sound
We truly didn't think the 55A1's insane arrangement of utilizing its screen as its speakers could work. Be that as it may, it does. Indeed, the 55A1's sound lowers that of most opponents instead of feeling like an outline based trade off.
Especially striking is the means by which open, warm and substantial in scale the 55A1's sound is. Sound spreads a long ways past the limits of the TV's body work, filling even very expansive rooms and upgrading your drenching in what you're viewing. Detail levels are shockingly high as well, and the way the framework can wed the position of these sound points of interest to the position of their source in the picture is uncanny.
The 55A1 even makes a tolerable showing with regards to of handling level speakers' customary issues with bass by building a smooth-sounding subwoofer into the TV's shelter stand.