

The Brightness Preferred setting helps increase the EOTF, but it doesn't change the peak luminance. We also took measurements using the Brightness Preferred setting enabled, and another measurement with Peak Luminance disabled, and got the following: We measured HDR brightness before calibration in the 'Custom' Picture Mode, with Brightness set to max, Contrast at '90', Color Temperature set to 'Expert 1', and HDR Tone Mapping set to 'Gradation Preferred'. HDR content should still pop, but it may not be able to bring out the brightest highlights. Scenes with small highlights get very bright, but dim more with larger areas of brightness. As with SDR, there's a lot of variation in brightness across different scenes, in part due to the aggressive ABL. The EOTF follows the target well until it rolls off at higher brightness levels. The Sony A80J OLED has okay HDR brightness, but it's still good for an OLED. We were able to hit 726 nits in the 2% window using these settings. To get the brightest possible image at the expense of accuracy, set the Picture Mode to ‘Vivid’, then set Advanced Contrast Enhancer to 'High', Peak Luminance to ‘High’, Brightness and Contrast at their max, Color Temperature to 'Cool', and Live Color to 'High'. However, if the ABL bothers you, it would be best to disable Peak Luminance because brightness doesn't vary between different scenes. We also tested the brightness with Peak Luminance turned off and measured the following:Īs you can see, it's a lot dimmer, so we recommend leaving Peak Luminance enabled. We measured SDR brightness after calibration, using the ‘Custom’ Picture Mode, with the ‘Expert 1’ Color Temperature, Peak Luminance set to ‘High’, and Brightness at its max. Overall, it performs well in moderate lighting conditions but isn't bright enough to fight glare in really bright rooms. It has an aggressive Automatic Brightness Limiter (ABL), which causes large areas to be less dim, and this could be distracting while watching sports like hockey. It even measured a little higher in real scenes than the Sony A90J OLED however, the difference between the two is small. The SDR brightness is okay and is on par with other OLEDs.
