Sony TVs usually have excellent colour reproduction thanks to the company’s rich heritage in producing some of the best professional grading monitors for the film and TV industry and this translates to accurate colours on its consumer models. The A80J also benefits from XR Triluminos Pro colour thanks to the processor which means that the TV should be able to cover the DCI-P3 wide colour space well with good saturation tracking and brightness.

So, while peak brightness will not be quite as high on the A80J, the HDR and SDR image quality should still benefit greatly from the image processing, which Sony has always done well. Where the A90J sports XR OLED Contrast Pro, the A80J drops the 'pro' element (the heatsink) but retains the Cognitive Processor XR which helps to boost colours and brightness naturally, as well as picking out details and objects to make them feel more real based on how humans see things, as the Sony marketing puts it.

The A80J is available in screen sizes of 55-, 65- and 77-inches and as the new Bravia XR models are announced for 2022 this week (January 2022) at CES in Las Vegas, the A80J should become a bit of a bargain should you decide it has all the features you want and you’re not tempted to wait for the new replacement model. Apart from losing the aluminium laminate heatsink that resides within the A90J, the A80J keeps most of the other features found on its big brother and it competes in the same areas of the market as the Philips OLED806, Panasonic JZ1000 and LG C1 OLED TVs.

This may be Sony’s step-down OLED model for 2021, sitting just below the flagship A90J, but it certainly doesn’t mean a step down in overall performance.

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