{"id":171065,"date":"2023-10-10T18:17:46","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T17:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=171065"},"modified":"2023-10-18T05:54:14","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T04:54:14","slug":"sony-a75l-vs-a80l-cheaper-or-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/tv\/sony-a75l-vs-a80l-cheaper-or-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony A75L vs A80L: Cheaper or better?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"smallFont align-justify\"><b>Sony, in the wake of the popularity of the A80L TV, a very successful model and highly rated by experts, has released a new product that is more affordable.\u00a0Good news?\u00a0Yes.\u00a0Until you dig deeper.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"smallFont align-justify\">The Sony A75L is equipped with the same 4K OLED display (manufactured by LG Display) and a proprietary XR processor, supports HDR, Dolby Vision and HLG, as well as AirPlay 2 (which allows wireless streaming directly from a smartphone and Apple tablets).\u00a0Operating system: Google TV.\u00a0The functions demanded by gamers are preserved: there is support for VRR and ALLM, two HDMI 2.1 ports;\u00a0From the A80L, a special gaming menu has also been transferred to the new model.<\/p>\n<p class=\"smallFont align-justify\">The design of the stand has changed a little &#8211; and this is where the compromises begin.\u00a0Yes, the price of the new product is lower.\u00a0But, for example, its stand is fixed, unlike the A80L: in the \u201colder\u201d model you can change the angle of the display.\u00a0The Sony A75L does not have a built-in microphone that would allow you to communicate with the Google Assistant voice assistant.\u00a0A more serious \u201closs\u201d is the simplified audio system, which consists not of three actuators (in these Sony TVs the sound is emitted by the screen itself), but of two.<\/p>\n<p class=\"smallFont align-justify\">Considering the very high sound quality of the A80L (by TV standards with built-in audio), those who want to buy \u201cthe same thing, but cheaper\u201d may be disappointed&#8230; And the cheapness of the new model is relative.\u00a0The Sony A80 has been on the market for more than six months, and during this time its price has dropped significantly.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-171068\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/image\/2023\/10\/SONY-A75L-Features.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2402\" height=\"1551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/SONY-A75L-Features.jpg 2402w, https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/SONY-A75L-Features-1200x775.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/SONY-A75L-Features-1920x1240.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/SONY-A75L-Features-770x497.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/SONY-A75L-Features-1536x992.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/SONY-A75L-Features-2048x1322.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2402px) 100vw, 2402px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, now these TVs (depending on size) can cost as much as\u00a0how much are new A75Ls, and in some cases even cheaper.\u00a0Experts expect Sony to rectify the situation by raising prices for the A80L, or to release the A75L directly on Black Friday, allowing retailers to sell it at deep discounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony, in the wake of the popularity of the A80L TV, a very successful model and highly rated by experts, has released a new product that is more affordable.\u00a0Good news?\u00a0Yes.\u00a0Until you dig deeper. The Sony A75L is equipped with the same 4K OLED display (manufactured by LG Display) and a proprietary XR processor, supports HDR, [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/tv\/sony-a75l-vs-a80l-cheaper-or-better\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10402,"featured_media":171066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[641],"tags":[779],"class_list":["post-171065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}