Sony does not give its A8 OLED TV an HDMI 2.1 connection

Sony has a few TVs in its range this year that can handle signals via HDMI in 8k and 60fps or 4k and 120fps, but the A8 is not one of them. This is the 4k OLED TV that Sony is launching this year.

The Japanese manufacturer has informed the FlatpanelsHD website that the XH90, a 4k LCD TV that will be released this year, will have a full HDMI 2.1 connection, in the sense that there is support for 4k and 120fps via HDMI, but also for vrr, allm, and eARC. In addition, the ZH8, an 8k LCD TV that will also be released this year, has an HDMI connection that can handle sixty images per second in an 8k resolution. The only other TV that can do this is the ZG9, released last year, also an 8k LCD TV.

This means that the A8, the OLED TV that Sony is launching this year, does not have an HDMI 2.1 connection. This TV will support eARC, so it is possible to transmit lossless audio formats such as Dolby TrueHD, DTS:X and Dolby Atmos. Other parts of the HDMI 2.1 standard are not supported by the A8.

Sony presented its OLED and LCD TVs for 2020 at the beginning of this month. The XH90 is described by the company as a mid-range that is compatible with 4k and 120fps, although this will require a future software update. In addition to the A8, Sony also comes with the ZH8, an 8k TV that, according to the manufacturer, can upscale images to 8k in real time. The company is also coming this year with the A9, a 48-inch OLED TV. Whether this A9 should also lack HDMI 2.1 is still unknown.