The Sony A95K OLED is the flagship 4k TV in Sony's 2022 lineup, sitting above the Sony A90K OLED and the Sony A80K/A80CK OLED. It's their first QD-OLED TV, which is a type of OLED panel that features new technology to improve on traditional OLED TVs. It's one of the first QD-OLED displays available at the consumer level in 2022, alongside the Samsung S95B OLED. It uses a blue OLED panel with quantum dot filters that are supposed to combine the perfect black levels of OLEDs with the wide range of colors and bright highlights of QLED TVs. It's a high-end TV, so it's packed with features like HDMI 2.1 bandwidth and variable refresh rate (VRR) support for gamers. Its Google TV interface is user-friendly, and it comes with the BRAVIA webcam that adds a few new features, like gesture support if you don't want to use the remote to navigate the menu. It's been replaced in 2023 by the Sony A95L OLED.
Our Verdict
The Sony Bravia XR A95K is an incredible TV for any usage. It looks remarkable in dark rooms because of its nearly infinite contrast ratio and ability to display inky blacks without blooming around bright objects. This also makes it an incredible TV for watching HDR content, as vivid colors and bright highlights pop. It's great in a bright room thanks to its incredible reflection handling, but unfortunately, any bright light sources also cause the black levels to rise. The TV is exceptional for gaming as it has HDMI 2.1 bandwidth, VRR support, crystal-clear motion, and low input lag.
- Perfect black levels.
- No blooming around bright objects.
- Wide viewing angle.
- Near-perfect tone mapping.
- Bright highlights and vivid colors.
- SDR brightness is just decent.
- Ambient light causes black levels to raise.
The Sony Bravia XR A95K is an impressive TV for watching TV shows in a bright room. Despite the TV not having the greatest peak brightness in SDR, the remarkable reflection handling makes up for it with its ability to reduce glare from pesky light sources. The TV has a fantastic viewing angle, so no matter where you or your friends are sitting, no one will have to deal with a degraded image. The built-in Google TV smart interface has a huge selection of apps and provides both hands-free voice control and gesture controls with the included camera, so you have a few options on how you want to browse for your favorite show.
- No issues with upscaling content.
- Incredible reflection handling.
- Wide viewing angle.
- SDR brightness is just decent.
- Ambient light causes black levels to raise.
The Sony A95K OLED is an excellent TV for watching sports. The remarkable reflection handling makes up for its shortcomings with peak brightness, so glare isn't an issue in a bright room. It also has an incredibly wide viewing angle that doesn't degrade from the sides, so it's a great choice for watching the game with friends. Fast-moving balls and players look smooth thanks to the TV's nearly instantaneous response time, so you can make out all the action without motion blur becoming a distraction. Finally, low-quality cable sports channels and streams are upscaled exceptionally due to Sony's top-notch image processing.
- No issues with upscaling content.
- Incredible reflection handling.
- Wide viewing angle.
- Fantastic motion handling.
- SDR brightness is just decent.
- Ambient light causes black levels to raise.
The Sony Bravia XR A95K is exceptional for gaming. It has many gaming features like HDMI 2.1 bandwidth, VRR, and 4K @ 120Hz support. The TV has outstanding response time, so even the most fast-paced games are displayed without motion blur. The input lag is low enough for a responsive feel, but it is higher than other premium TVs, so there are better options if you're after the least input lag possible.
- Perfect black levels.
- No blooming around bright objects.
- Fantastic motion handling.
- HDMI 2.1 bandwidth and VRR support.
- Ambient light causes black levels to raise.
The Sony A95K OLED is an outstanding TV for watching movies in a dark room. Thanks to its infinite contrast ratio and incredible black uniformity, the blacks are deep and inky without the risk of blooming. The TV accurately displays a wide range of colors in HDR thanks to its outstanding tone mapping. It also gets bright enough to make colors look vivid and highlights pop, and with Sony's fantastic image processing, there's hardly any banding in HDR.
- Perfect black levels.
- No blooming around bright objects.
- Removes 24p judder from any source.
- Near-perfect tone mapping.
- Bright highlights and vivid colors.
- Stutter with low-frame-rate content.
The Sony Bravia XR A95K is superb for gaming in HDR. It has gaming features like HDMI 2.1 bandwidth, a 120Hz panel, and VRR support, so it's a great choice to pair with a modern console. Because of the TV's outstanding response time, even the fastest motion is displayed smoothly. The input lag isn't as low as some other TVs, but it's still quite low, and there's no discernable delay between your controller and the actions on the TV. In terms of HDR, it looks remarkable as highlights pop and colors look vivid, and it also displays deep blacks without any blooming around bright objects. Unfortunately, the TV only reaches 60Hz while using Dolby Vision, so you'll have to decide whether 120Hz or Dolby Vision is more beneficial to your gaming needs.
- Perfect black levels.
- Fantastic motion handling.
- HDMI 2.1 bandwidth and VRR support.
- Near-perfect tone mapping.
- Bright highlights and vivid colors.
- Ambient light causes black levels to raise.
- Dolby Vision limited to 4k @ 60Hz.
The Sony Bravia XR A95K is a great TV to use as a PC monitor, but there are some drawbacks. It has an incredibly wide viewing angle, so the sides of the screen stay uniform when you're sitting close to it. It displays 4:4:4 correctly, an important aspect of the TV's ability to display clear text from a computer. Still, there are some text clarity issues because of its unusual subpixel layout, and there's color fringing when displaying content with black bars. Both issues are noticeable if you sit close to the TV, but it's not apparent if you're far enough away from the screen.
- Incredible reflection handling.
- Wide viewing angle.
- Fantastic motion handling.
- HDMI 2.1 bandwidth and VRR support.
- SDR brightness is just decent.
- Ambient light causes black levels to raise.
- Text clarity issues and color fringing.
Changelog
- Updated Sep 26, 2025: We uploaded the latest brightness measurements and uniformity photos for the Accelerated Longevity Test.
- Updated Jul 08, 2025: We uploaded the latest brightness measurements and uniformity photos for the Accelerated Longevity Test.
- Updated Apr 17, 2025: We uploaded the latest brightness measurements and uniformity photos for the Accelerated Longevity Test.
- Updated Feb 11, 2025: We uploaded the latest brightness measurements and uniformity photos for the Accelerated Longevity Test.
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Differences Between Sizes And Variants
We tested the 65-inch Sony Bravia XR A95K, but the results are also valid for the 55-inch model, which is the only other size available. The model code remains the same across different regions.
| Size | Model |
|---|---|
| 55" | XR-55A95K |
| 65" | XR-65A95K |
Our unit was manufactured in July 2022, and you can see the label here.
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The Sony A95K is a remarkable TV that delivers better HDR picture quality than most TVs we've tested. If you're looking for the best TV for watching HDR movies or for a home theater setup, you won't be disappointed, as it displays a wide range of colors and highlights pop. However, it comes with a premium price, and if you don't need Dolby Vision or DTS support, competing models like the Samsung S95C OLED deliver nearly identical picture quality for a lot less. If you want these features but aren't willing to pay the A95K's high-end price, consider the much cheaper Sony A80L/A80CL OLED.
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The Sony A95K OLED is an improvement over the Sony A90J OLED, especially with watching HDR content. The A95K uses new QD-OLED technology, which is a type of OLED that allows it to display more vivid colors and brighter highlights than the A90J. However, if you want to use your TV in a well-lit room, the A90J maintains perfect black levels in well-lit rooms, as the black levels raise on the A95K when there's ambient lighting.
The Sony A95K OLED is better than the Sony A80L OLED. The A95K has a QD-OLED panel that is brighter and more colorful than the WOLED panel in the A80L. They're both Sony TVs, stellar in image processing and upscaling, and they have the same feature set, so the A95K is just a better, higher-tier TV.
The Sony A95K OLED is a much better TV than the Sony A80J OLED. The A95K uses QD-OLED technology, which is a type of OLED panel that allows it to display more colors and get brighter than traditional WOLED panels, so it's much better for watching HDR content. However, the A80J performs better in well-lit rooms because the black levels raise and become purple-tinged on the A95K when there's any ambient light.
The Sony A95K OLED is much better than the Sony A90K OLED. The A95K delivers a much more impactful HDR experience thanks to its wider color gamut and significantly better color volume, so bright colors are more vibrant and realistic. There's also less banding in gradients, and it gets significantly brighter, so bright highlights stand out much better.
We buy and test dozens of TVs yearly, taking an objective, data-driven approach to deliver results you can trust. Our testing process is complex, with hundreds of individual tests that take over a week to complete. Most of our tests use specially designed test patterns that mimic real content, but we also use the same sources you have at home to ensure our results match the real-world experience. We use two main tools for our testing: a Colorimetry Research CR-100 colorimeter and a CR-250 spectroradiometer.
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