Top picture quality: OLED TVs deliver the best results In the search for top picture quality, one still ends up with ?televisions with organic light-emitting diodes (OLED). Their advantages over LCD technology: rich blacks, strong contrasts, wide viewing angles. However, current OLED TVs are also quite expensive - but the quality is almost always right...
Sony OLED KD48A9
48", OLED, 4K, 2020In Detail

Overall, the Sony offers an excellent performance. However, the clearly too high purchase price runs like a red thread through the entire test. Of course, there is a reason for this. 48-inch Ultra HD OLED panels are still quite new on the market, are correspondingly expensive and are probably nowhere near the quantities of 55-inch Ultra HD OLED panels...

- Most compact OLED TV
- Acoustic Surface
- DolbyVision
- Audio calibration
- many apps through Android TV
- Double tuner
The confusing operation spoils the Sony A9's "very good" rating. It deserves this for the picture quality alone: colours, contrast, sharpness and clarity, even in motion, leave nothing to be desired, plus good anti-reflective properties. In terms of sound, the Sony is also among the best of all TVs. In the size class around 1.20 metres, it is an exception.

- excellent image quality
- Good, spatial sound
- Calman ready
Finally: First-class OLED picture quality and good sound are now also available in the living-room-friendly 48-inch format. The Sony KD-48A9 is the best TV under 50 inches that we have ever tested.

- excellent image quality
- Good, spatial sound
- Calman ready
Finally: First-class OLED picture quality and good sound are now also available in the living-room-friendly 48-inch format. The Sony KD-48A9 is the best TV under 50 inches that we have ever tested.