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Sony KD65A1BU TV review

Sony KD65A1BU. Display diagonal: 165.1 cm (65"), Display resolution: 3840 x 2160 pixels, HD type: 4K Ultra HD, Display technology: OLED, Screen shape: Flat. Smart TV. Motion interpolation technology: Motionflow XR, Native aspect ratio: 16:9. Digital signal format system: DVB-C,DVB-S,DVB-S2,DVB-T,DVB-T2. Wi-Fi, Ethernet LAN. Product colour: Black

OLED TV


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 OLED TV creates exquisite, unprecedented contrast that reveals more detail in shadows and more depth in every scene.

Acoustic Surface™ technology


Unlike most TV speakers, sound comes to you from the entire screen, immersing you in exciting new entertainment experiences. Two actuators behind the TV vibrate the screen to create sound that's truly engaging. It's pictures and sound in perfect harmony.

4K HDR Processor X1™ Extreme: So real you can feel it


Made to enhance the latest generation of 4K HDR pictures, the 4K HDR Processor X1™ Extreme brings reality to every scene. With 40% more real-time image processing than our renowned 4K Processor X1™, it delivers unprecedented picture quality for everything you watch, upscaling content from any source nearer to 4K HDR quality.

Uncover the detail with 4K HDR


This TV pairs the brilliance of 4K clarity with the brightness, colour and detail of High Dynamic Range (HDR) and can handle a variety of HDR formats, including HDR10, Hybrid Log-Gamma and Dolby Vision™.

TRILUMINOS™ Display: Extra colours, extra brilliance


More colours means more realism. A TRILUMINOS™ Display selectively maps colours across a wider gamut, ensuring subtle colours do not become oversaturated and appear naturally on screen. You’ll enjoy vivid, authentic images that bring out the emotion in every scene.

Rediscover every detail with 4K X-Reality™ PRO


Discover a thrilling world of extraordinary clarity. Every single pixel is enhanced beautifully by our most powerful 4K picture processing technology ever. Individual parts of each scene are analysed and matched with a special image database that independently addresses texture, contrast, colour and edges. The difference is clear with supremely lifelike detail, whatever you're watching.

Explore new worlds with Android TV™


Your smart TV just got smarter. Enjoy many of your favourite smartphone and tablet experiences on a big, beautiful BRAVIA™ screen. Android TV™ with advanced voice control lets you connect and access content, from movies and TV shows to thousands of apps, simply by talking.

This TV is recommended by Netflix


Get a better streaming experience with a Netflix Recommended TV. A Netflix Recommended TV is chosen for its high performance, cutting edge smart features and easy app access. And also, you can watch Marco Polo in 4K HDR today, with a premium Netflix subscription. Members will be able to enjoy more HDR content in the coming months.

Clean rear look


Easily manage all your cables, keeping wires hidden in the cover.

Beautiful picture in any style


Made to fit your lifestyle beautifully, on the TV stand or wall mounting.

Maximises the viewing area


The screen is edged with a slim, narrow, 4-sided frame that maximises the viewing area.

Designed to focus on the picture


No distractions, a stand-less body lets you focus on the screen.

Motionflow™ XR keeps the action smooth


Enjoy smooth and sharp details even in fast-moving sequences with Motionflow™ XR. This innovative technology creates and inserts extra frames between the original ones. It compares key visual factors on successive frames, then calculates the split second of missing action in the sequences. Some models also include black-frame insertion for a blur-free and truly cinematic look.

Object-based HDR remaster


By analysing the objects in each scene individually, Object-based HDR remaster optimises and enhances colour and contrast. It brings everything you watch closer to the quality of HDR. Dark elements get darker, bright elements brighter and everything in between is more accurately lit, for never-before-possible realism in every scene.

Super Bit Mapping™ 4K HDR


Super Bit Mapping™ 4K HDR creates a smoother, more natural picture by minimising its colour banding. With 14-bit powerful signal processing, it breaks up the solid bands of colour of an 8-bit or 10-bit source, up-converting to 14-bit equivalent gradation, with 64 times more colour levels. It delivers graceful reproduction of faces, sunsets and other areas of subtle colour gradation.

Dual database processing


The 4K HDR Processor X1™ Extreme has two imaging databases that work together in real time to improve your picture. By searching through thousands of picture patterns in Sony-exclusive databases for noise reduction and super-resolution, they remove unwanted noise and upscale every image to the clarity of 4K, so you can enjoy incredible picture quality no matter the source.

Say what you want to see with voice search


Spend less time browsing, and more time watching. Voice search on Android TV™ provides you with the power of Google search, allowing you to find content across different services without the hassle of time-consuming text entry. You can also get recommendations; asking for “romantic comedies” for example, brings up a list of suitable options.7

Content Bar: find everything fast


The unobtrusive content bar quickly lets you find the movie, TV show or video you’re looking for. Call up the Content bar and you can keep watching, while you scan through live TV, videos on demand, downloaded TV shows and much more. You can even customise the content bar to show you the content you go to most often first.

Chromecast built-in: Plays nice with your other devices


BRAVIA™ is Chromecast built-in ready so you can easily cast your favourite entertainment like YouTube™ or Netflix from your personal device on to the stunning BRAVIA™ screen.8 You can cast from Android™, iOS™, or your laptop.

Google Play™: A world of content and apps


Discover movies and TV shows, games and much more from Google Play™. Enjoy a huge and ever-growing choice of apps on your TV in a brand new way.

Made to listen: ClearAudio+


Make your listening as lifelike as your viewing. ClearAudio+ fine-tunes TV sound for an immersive experience that seems to surround you. Hear music, dialogue and surround effects with greater clarity and separation, whatever you're watching.

DSEE restores detail to your digital music


Low-resolution Internet video, catch-up TV and other heavily compressed audio files don’t always sound so great. A large amount of information gets thrown away when digital audio is compressed. With Digital Sound Enhancement Engine (DSEE) technology, lost frequency components (especially high frequencies) are restored for natural sound with a more spacious feel.

Clear Phase for smooth, balanced frequencies


BRAVIA™ uses a powerful computer model to analyse and compensate for inaccuracies in speaker response. It does this by ‘sampling’ the speaker frequency with higher precision. This information is fed back to cancel out any peaks or dips in the speaker’s natural response – resulting in pure, natural audio with smooth, even reproduction of all frequencies.

Cinematic S-Force Front Surround


Enjoy an immersive soundstage that pulls you into the heart of the action. S-Force Front Surround mimics the way the brain correlates sound sources to create proper volume, time lag, and sound wave spectrum – using only left and right speaker channels. By naturally emulating three-dimensional sound fields, you’ll enjoy rich, high-fidelity audio across a wider listening area.

Experience the best in 4K UHD picture quality


Our range of 4K UHD TVs deliver stunning picture quality and are compatible with the Digital Europe UHD requirements.

Turn your TV into a digital recorder: USB HDD REC


Store your favourite TV shows on an external USB hard disk drive to enjoy whenever you want. USB HDD REC allows one-touch and timer recording of a digital broadcast onto any USB HDD device up to 2TB in capacity. While viewing the show, simply press REC to start recording, which will automatically stop at the end of the programme.

IR Blaster – control everything with one remote


The Infra-red (IR) Blaster lets you control other devices in your home from your Sony TV remote. You can use it to control your Set-top box (cable box) with the TV remote controller.

YouView: the best of catch-up and on-demand TV


With YouView built-in, you can scroll back up to seven days to watch shows from BBC iPlayer, ITV Hub, All 4 and Demand 5. You can also access an extensive library of on-demand content. Simply connect your BRAVIA™ to an aerial and broadband connection to get started with YouView.

Transform your viewing with dramatic imaging


Bring scenes to life with striking highlights, deeper darks and vibrant colours. Dolby Vision is an HDR solution that creates an immersive, engaging cinematic experience in your home.

Enjoy HDR gaming with PlayStationÂŽ


Sony’s 4K HDR televisions are perfect partners for PlayStation®4 and PlayStation®4 Pro consoles. Immerse yourself in a responsive, fun-filled gaming experience with vivid textures and intensely vibrant colours. See your favourite games come to life with the incredible picture quality.

Sony KD65A1BU TV specs

Packaging Data

Package type: Box
Package weight: 49 kg
Package height: 995 mm
Package depth: 196 mm
Package width: 1587 mm
Manual: True
Quick start guide: yes
Remote control included: yes
Cables included: AC

Ports & Interfaces

Common interface Plus (CI+): yes
RF ports quantity: 1
Headphone outputs: 1
Digital audio optical out: 1
Composite video in: 1
USB 3.2 Gen 1 (3.1 Gen 1) Type-A ports quantity: 1
USB 2.0 ports quantity: 2
Ethernet LAN (RJ-45) ports: 1
DVI port: no
HDCP: yes
Audio Return Channel (ARC): True
HDMI ports quantity: 4

Weight & Dimensions

Weight (without stand): 29.8 kg
Height (without stand): 82.3 cm
Depth (without stand): 8.6 cm
Width (without stand): 145.1 cm
Weight (with stand): 36.2 kg
Height (with stand): 834 mm
Depth (with stand): 339 mm
Width (with stand): 1451 mm

Management Features

On/Off timer: yes
Sleep timer: yes
On Screen Display (OSD): True
Electronic Programme Guide (EPG): True
Voice control: yes

Network

Browser supported: Opera
Web browser: yes
Miracast: True
Bluetooth profiles: A2DP,AVRCP,HID,HOGP,SPP
Bluetooth: True
Bluetooth version: 4.1
Wi-Fi standards: 802.11a,Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac),802.11b,802.11g,Wi-Fi 4 (802.11n)
Ethernet LAN: yes
Wi-Fi: True

Performance

Picture processing technology: Sony Dynamic Contrast Enhancer,Sony Live Colour,Sony TRILUMINOS Display,Sony X-Reality PRO
Subtitles function: yes
Teletext function: yes
High Dynamic Range (HDR) supported: yes

TV Tuner

Analog signal format system: PAL,SECAM
Digital signal format system: DVB-C,DVB-S,DVB-S2,DVB-T,DVB-T2
Tuner type: Analog & digital

Power

Energy saving mode: yes
AC input frequency: 50 Hz
AC input voltage: 220 - 240 V
Power consumption (max): 498 W
Power consumption (standby): 0.5 W
Power consumption (typical): 154 W

Design

Production year: 2017
Panel mounting interface: 400 x 200 mm
VESA mounting: yes
Product colour: Black

Other Features

Energy efficiency class (old): A
HDD capacity: 16 GB
Google applications: Google Play
Annual energy consumption: 214 kWh
Built-in speaker(s): yes
Batteries included: yes
3D: False
Light sensor: yes

Smart TV

Video apps: Amazon Prime Video,Netflix
Smart modes: Animation, Cinema, Custom, Game, Graphics, Photo, Sports, Standard, Vivid
Screen mirroring: yes
Operating system version: 6.0
Operating system installed: Android
Internet TV: True
Smart TV: True

Audio

Audio system: ClearAudio+
Sound modes: Cinema, Music, Sports, Standard
Audio decoders: DTS,Dolby Digital
Audio decoding technologies: DTS Digital Surround,Dolby Digital,Dolby Digital Plus,Dolby Digital Pulse
Built-in subwoofer: yes
RMS rated power: 50 W
Number of speakers: 5

Display

Peak luminance ratio: 77%
Display diagonal (metric): 163.9 cm
Motion interpolation technology: Motionflow XR
Native refresh rate: 60 Hz
Supported video modes: 480p,720i,720p,1080i,1080p,2160p
Native aspect ratio: 16:9
Screen shape: Flat
Display technology: OLED
Display technology: OLED
Display resolution: 3840 x 2160 pixels
HD type: 4K Ultra HD
Display diagonal: 165.1 cm (65")