Sony A95L QD-OLED initial review: The future is bright

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Anyone who clapped eyes on the Sony A95K last year was pretty unanimously wowed. If you could afford its pretty sizeable price tag, there were few others that topped it for all round performance, despite a very competitive year in 4K TVs.

Now, we have seen its successor — the A95L. And given our experience last year, we were a little bit excited to see what it has in store.

We've only got to see a short Sony-controlled demo on a pre-production sample so far, but even so — we think the Sony's second stab at QD-OLED could be even better than its first. Here are our first impressions.

The A95K was always going to be a tough act to follow, but the A95L is showing all the right signs of doing that without issue. The brightness of the new panel should look fantastic with HDR content, and when combined with improved colour volume and enhanced detail and subtlety, there's a lot to look forward to when we get to see a finished sample.

Last year's A95K divided opinion on its design. Not the TV itself — that was as slick and near bezel-free as you'd expect from a flagship OLED telly — but the stand. For a start, it was big, bulky and heavy — not great from an eco perspective when it comes to shipping, but also quite difficult to accommodate too. It ran across the whole length of the TV — so if you had a 65 inch set, you needed a stand the same size. It also caused issues for people needing to put a soundbar on their stand, so it would block the bottom section of the screen.

This year, that's all change — to some extent. Slim aluminium feet sit at the very edge of the set, so they're near unnoticeable. The default position is to have it sitting flush to your stand, but this year it does offer the ability to raise it up, so you can