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Tom's Guide
24-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Tom's Guide
I test TVs for a living — this amazing 4.5-star Sony OLED is $800 off on Amazon right now
(Image credit: Sony) OLED TVs don't often come cheap. These premium displays tend to come with a hefty investment, and not all of them are worth it. But Sony's OLEDs make for some of our favorite displays, and its A95L is just too good to beat. Right now, you can get the 55-inch Sony Bravia XR A95L OLED TV for $1,998 on Amazon. That's $800 off one of our favorite OLED TVs and down to its lowest price yet. (For more sales, check out our guide to this week's best TV deals). Although launched in 2023, the Sony Bravia A95L OLED TV still remains one of the best OLED TVs you can buy. It's equipped with tons of features that make it stand out, and even won King of OLED in 2024 TV shootout. In our own review of the Bravia A95L, we gave it a 4.5 stars, calling into question its two HDMI 2.1 ports and lower brightness metrics. The latter is to be expected, given that OLED TVs tend to lack in brightness performance against their Mini-LED counterparts. Looking past these minor setbacks, the A95L shines with incredible detail. It sports some of the best picture performance you can find in an OLED TV and even has great sound quality. It's one of the few TVs to hit 89.41% of the Rec2020 gamut in our testing, which is absurd given that most TVs struggle to hit over a mere 80%. It also covers 99.95% of the UHDA-P3, which means you can expect vivid colors in all of your HDR entertainment. Despite a high input latency of 16.1ms, it still remains one of the best gaming TVs. It's made by Sony, after all, so you can expect some exclusive PS5 features, like Auto Genre Mode and Auto HDR tone mapping. While it might be one of the best TVs you can buy right now, it is still a hefty investment. If you're looking for an OLED TV that's even cheaper, you can check out this 65-inch Panasonic Z85A that's $799 right now.
Tom's Guide
30-05-2025
- Tom's Guide
OLED breakthrough — this display pumps out sound from every single pixel
OLED panel technology has come a long way visually since its debut a decade ago, but next-gen OLED TVs might feature cutting-edge audio with millions of tiny speakers. The technology was recently described in a post on the Pohang University of Science & Technology's website and it's called Pixel-Based Local Sound OLED. The idea here is similar to Sony OLED TVs like the Sony Bravia A95L OLED that use exciters to vibrate the OLED panel to create sound. Only in this case, there are several million of these exciters all working in tandem: "Piezo exciters, arranged similarly to pixels, convert electrical signals into sound vibrations without occupying external space. Crucially, they are fully compatible with the thin form factor of OLED panels." Allegedly the team successfully demonstrated the technology on a 13-inch OLED panel and says the technology could extend to TVs, laptops, phones and more. The university behind this innovation has a good track record in creating innovative display technologies. It's recently published research on flexible OLED displays and LCDs, and it keeps an eye on the industry. The latest innovation, Pixel-Based Local Sound OLED, has a lot of promise, even if it's not quite ready for adoption by mainstream panel manufacturers. 'This technology has the potential to become a core feature of next-generation devices, enabling sleek, lightweight designs in smartphones, laptops, and automotive displays — while delivering immersive, high-fidelity audio,' says Professor Su Seok Choi. Get instant access to breaking news, the hottest reviews, great deals and helpful tips. How it'll innovate is by bringing more dense clusters of actuators together without crosstalk (audio interference) of any sort. That's something we've yet to see from the likes of Samsung or LG Display, so there's reason to be excited. If you want a version of this technology without the wait, the upcoming Sony Bravia 8 II (pictured above) has two actuators and two subwoofers, the former of which are built into the panel. Having a million exciters all producing a different sound could give Dolby Atmos a run for its money, but there's a long road from prototype to mass-produced product. One possible scenario is that one of the major display manufacturers like LG, Samsung TCL CSOT or BOE will license the technology for use in upcoming models. But that will require loads of R&D and could take a few years. In short, don't let this new discovery stop you from buying one of the best soundbars to go with your next TV purchase. But you should know that there's hope that, at some point, soundbars may become obsolete thanks to Pixel-Based Local Sound OLED.
