TVs and monitors · Sony
Owners keep the A95K for a picture several call the best they have owned, with sound that comes from the screen itself, and they put up with a long-running audio handshake bug to have it.
The picture is the thing. Owners who have moved through several generations of Sony sets describe this one as the best display they have had, and note that even low-resolution 480p material holds up for contrast.
A firmware update introduced an HDMI eARC handshake fault that stops the TV from switching audio to a soundbar reliably, and owners say Sony has not fixed it in over a year despite further updates.
Pick up to three. You get a page with just those, side by side, on the subjects owners raised.
Once the set is in, what people keep noticing is contrast, and the way dialogue seems to come straight out of the actors on screen because the panel itself is the speaker. One owner who upgraded from an older 55 inch Sony OLED to a 65 inch A95K described the brightness jump as night and day. The thin bezels get mentioned too, though at least one owner preferred the sleeker look of the earlier easel-style model.
The adjustments are practical. The stand design means a soundbar cannot sit under the screen, which one owner called the only annoying thing about it. And for those hit by the eARC problem, turning the TV on has become a routine of dismissing an audio system error before sound routes to the soundbar. On the wider question of Sony's tie-up with TCL, the few owners who raised it were divided: one is cautiously optimistic, one worries about cheaper build at Sony prices, and one sees it as Sony returning to plants it once owned.
The panel and the picture are not what owners complain about. The recurring fault is software: an eARC handshake problem that appeared after a firmware update on sets that had been working without trouble for a couple of years. Owners install each new firmware hoping for a fix, report that the error persists, and say Sony has left it unresolved for more than a year. One owner of the newer A95L, by contrast, called its build quality the best they have had.
Long-term accounts here are thin. A handful of owners mention having the set for two years or so, and their reports center almost entirely on that one audio bug rather than on hardware wear, burn-in, or panel failure. There is not enough here to say how the A95K holds up physically over the long run, only that the picture still satisfies the people who have it and that the eARC fix has not arrived.
Nothing with a clear majority yet. Owners who raised these subjects were split, or too few to judge.
Nothing has a clear majority against it yet. Counted from the owners who raised each subject, not from everyone. A subject is judged once at least 4 owners raise it.
The same owner, asked again at each point. Fills in as owners answer.
More in tvs and monitors: Sony Bravia 5, LG OLED, Sony Bravia 8.
Public discussions we read and summarised in our own words. Nothing here was submitted to Still Kicks.
Counted from public accounts by people who said they own it, and summarised by Still Kicks in its own words. Not a manufacturer claim, a lab test or an estimate.
Nothing here asks for anything about you unless you write to us.