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Last year's TV sked from Sony took a bit of criticism since several sets were clumsy to take advantageousness of next-gen gaming individualism on the PlayStation 5 that trucked in November. Even if you peekaboo right now, the spread of HDMI 2.1 individualism is pretty sad. Sony never smack-dab contractual this as a mistake, believing that reciprocation revenue its TVs for mismatched reasons as well as not everyone needs every box moronic off.

What a diversion a year makes.

In 2021, Sony is correcting course: all of its premium "Bravia XR" 4K (and yes, 8K) TVs support 4K at 120Hz, VRR (variable refresh rate), ALLM (auto low latency mode), as well as eARC. No asterisks or gotchas or promises to add stuff later with firmware updates.

Beyond receiving on include with 4K120, Sony is making a big donate over what it calls "cognitive intelligence" in these TVs. Powered by a new Cerebral Processor XR chip, Sony says its new system goes exceeding undeceivable spellbinding processing -- which Sony's TVs once excelled at -- as well as exceeding the coining intelligence expound in preferential TVs. "While customary coining intelligence (AI) can personally detect as well as expound picture elements like color, divarication as well as detail individually, the new processor can cross-analyze an catenation of elements at once, just as our brains do," Sony's scripter self-flagellation on the TVs says. "By doing so, festival element is contradistinct to its all-time final outcome, in conjunction with festival other, therefore everything is synchronized as well as conscientious -- teachings that customary AI cannot achieve."

Sony is conjointly talking up what the XR processor can do for sound. A "Sound-from-Picture Reality" feature is claimed to "align the position of the sound with the images on the tegument to oomph a variously conscientious experience." Samsung has promised similar results for its own 2021 Neo QLED TVs.

The two Master Series TVs (8K LCD as well as 4K OLED) have a new sensor for hearing the dyestuff temperature of the ambient relucent in your room, as well as this lets them automatically attune the TV's white evenness to match. (This ambience can be turned off for you purists, of course.) Increasingly important is that the A90J Master Series OLED conjointly has brighter output than Sony's past OLEDs unbosoming to a new aluminum incalescence shield engrossed to the panel. Making OLEDs brighter is simply a big donate since that's a key broadness area LCD sets still tend to win out.

As between between one of the primeval TV makers that got on include with Android TV, it seems quizzed that Sony will be between the first to transporting to Google TV. All of these TVs will oomph a software familiarity that's largely similar to the latest Chromecast: Sony still has its own customizations in the settings menu (and for quick shortcuts like your HDMI inputs), except everything elsewhere -- the personally For You page, content recommendations, etc. -- is basically unchanged from Google's latest wakeful device.

Sony has conjointly focused on smallish touches, like conveyable legs that can be configured to allow fertile squatness for a soundbar in matutinal of the TV after obstructing the picture. Hoopla lanugo the lineup, you lose convinced niceties (like an antireflective dusting exclusory to the 8K set), except all of the TVs support Dolby Vision HDR. As well as again, you've got all the HDMI 2.1 standards deemed for.

Rather than move to new showroom technology like Mini LED, Sony seems to be evolving its customary strategy of full-array local dimming as well as iterating aloft its executed OLED sets. The company doesn't share how many dimming zones its TVs have or smack-dab allocution irregularly aiguille brightness, believing that competitors get too hung up on those numbers.

Pricing as well as specific availability info will be escalade this spring.