JUNE 2020 T3 318K TVs
SONY KD-85ZG9
Sony’s debut 8K TV is a typically emphatic effort from the
Japanese brand, where its native 8K resolution is just one of many
groundbreaking charms.
It’s also, for instance, the brightest TV ever, getting close to the
4,000-nit brightness peaks found on some of the most aggressive
HDR sources out there. It thus has the potential to show such full-on
HDR images completely natively, without having to ‘remap’ them to
lower brightness levels like other TVs do. The extreme brightness
also means that daylight HDR scenes look unprecedentedly lifelike
and convincing, while colours look vibrant and refined.
Despite this, the technology Sony uses to give the 85ZG9 a wider
viewing angle compromises its contrast a little, and means you can
sometimes see backlight ‘blooming’ around stand-out bright
objects. But for many this will seem a small price to pay for the
85ZG9’s really extraordinary sharpness, detail and brightness.
£13,999, sony.co.uk
SAMSUNG QE75Q950TS
The Samsung QE75Q950TS’s picture quality is jaw-dropping,
delivering in full on the almost uncanny realism that’s 8K’s
trademark. Even better, it uses new deep learning and AI technology
to turn the 4K and HD sources you’ll still mostly be watching into 8K
more convincingly than any TV before it.
Its QLED Quantum Dot colour technology also helps it deliver
unmatched extremes of brightness and colour with aggressive high
dynamic range (HDR) images. At the same time, a new backlighting
system, which controls the current as well as the voltage used to
light the TV’s 480 separately controlled zones of LEDs, provides the
most deep and controlled black colours ever seen on an LCD TV.
Add in an innovative ‘Object Motion Tracking’ sound system that
places sound effects in precisely the right place on the screen, along
with a wealth of gaming features, and the Samsung QE75Q950TS is
the very definition of a cutting edge TV.
£7,999, samsung.com