SONY A8F

price:-3,29,900.

Discover thrilling 4K HDR entertainment

This TV brings you the excitement of movies and games in 4K HDR. It handles a variety of HDR formats, including HDR10, Hybrid Log-Gamma and Dolby Vision™.

The Sony A8F is a 2018 4k OLED TV with excellent performance for a variety of different usages. It has excellent picture quality, with perfectly deep blacks that looks impressive in a dark room. Motion handling is excellent due to the instantaneous response time, but this lack of blur can make low frame rate content appear choppy. Like the Sony A1E and other OLED TVs, it isn't perfect as the brightness changes depending on screen content and there may be risk of burn-in with static content.

The stand has a very small footprint and will fit on most tables. The stand adds very little height to the TV. There are two small rubber spacers (not shown) that add stability, but don't necessarily need to be on the table.

The design of the stand is significantly changed from the A1E. It takes up less space and the TV does not tilt as much.

Borders

 Borders : 0.35" (0.9 cm)

The borders are very thin on the Sony 55A8F. When watching TV from a few feet away, they are almost not noticeable.

Thickness

 Max Thickness : 2.24" (5.7 cm)

The Sony A8F is thin but slightly thicker than the LG C8. The electronics are more spread out over the back of the TV and it is more uniform. The screen seems to be better supported by the frame than on the C8.

Temperature

 Maximum Temperature 

  : 95 °F (35 °C)

 Average Temperature 

  : 81 °F (27 °C)

Build Quality

Excellent build quality on the A8F. There are no obvious gaps or loose paneling. The top panel does have some flex to it, especially in the bottom corners, but this should not cause any issues.

Picture Quality

The Sony A8F OLED TV produces excellent picture quality. It is able to produce true blacks and infinite contrast ratio, which combined with the perfect black uniformity, makes for excellent dark room performance. Can produce bright highlights and although the whole screen can't get that bright, it should be good enough to combat glare in most rooms. Color accuracy is good out of the box, and most people won't need to calibrate their set. It also has an excellent wide color gamut. It is prone to temporary image retention and could experience permanent burn-in, although we don't expect most people to experience this.

Everything else pales in contrast

True reality comes to life with deep black and natural colour. Over 8 million self-illuminating pixels are precisely and individually controlled by the X1™ Extreme processor. Sony's 4K OLED TV creates exquisite, unprecedented contrast.

More power, more performance, more beauty

Our 4K HDR Processor X1™ Extreme includes powerful real-time image processing for ultra-detailed pictures. Images are upscaled closer to true 4K HDR quality.

Good peak brightness with SDR content. Screen brightness varies depending on the content on screen due to the TV's ABL. The LG C8 is slightly brighter in most scenes due to the less aggressive ABL. The A8F is a little bit brighter than the A1E, but it is not a significant difference.

ABL on the A8 can be disabled by setting 'Peak Brightness' to Off, in which case the TV's brightness is constant at ~110 cd/m² regardless of content. This could be useful if watching TV in a dark room and you don't want the screen brightness to fluctuate or for PC use.

Good peak brightness with HDR content. While far from the 1000-4000 cd/m² HDR is mastered for, it is bright enough to enjoy HDR content in most rooms. The brightness does change depending on the content due to the TVs 'Automatic Brightness Limiter' (ABL).

It didn't take much to calibrate the A8F. With some minor settings changes the color accuracy is excellent. Gamma follows our curve precisely, and color temperature is nearly perfect.

Motion

Like all OLED TVs, the response time of the A8F is nearly instantaneous, resulting in almost no persistence blur. This is great when watching fast-paced content as there is almost no ghosting/movement trails. There is some very slight overshoot when transitioning from a black frame, but this shouldn't be noticeable.

The blur in the photo is due to persistence, not response time.

Since the TV displays the full frame almost instantaneously, low frame rate content like 24fps movies stutters, especially in wide-panning shots. This can be reduced by enabling BFI or motion interpolation.

The Sony A8F displays 24p content without any judder, regardless of source.

To enable judder-free 24p playback from 60p or 60i sources like a cable box, 'Motionflow' has to be set to 'True Cinema', and 'CineMotion' as to be set to 'High'.

   

Inputs

The A8F supports a wide variety of input formats and resolutions. It has low 4k input lag, but not as good as the LG C8. Like all Sony TVs, only HDMI ports 2 & 3 support full bandwidth, but port 3 is also the audio return channel. If you have a receiver which supports ARC and you are planning on connecting more than 1 full bandwidth device, you may wish to consider connecting your receiver using an optical (Toslink) cable.

Sound Quality
The Sony A8F has an above-average sound. It gets quite loud and produces a decent amount of bass along with clear dialogs. However, their bass doesn't have any thump or rumble to it, and it doesn't have a room correction system either. For a better sound, a dedicated sound system or soundbars are recommended.