LG CX OLED vs Sony A8H OLED Side-by-Side TV Comparison (2024)

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LG CX OLED vs Sony A8H OLED Side-by-Side TV Comparison? ›

Our Verdict. The Sony A8H OLED and the LG CX OLED are almost identical in performance. The Sony delivers slightly better picture quality, as it has better gradient handling and a much better color volume.

Despite being the only one of these three brands not to make its own display panels, Sony has somehow managed to make a better OLED TV than either LG or Samsung. That's right, the best OLED TV we've ever tested isn't made by either LG or Samsung — it's the Sony Bravia XR A95K OLED TV.

Sony vs LG

LG is the dominant OLED brand for OLEDs because they have better overall gaming performance and cost less. However, Sony's LED models are far better than LG's because they get brighter, have better uniformity, and usually have better contrast.

The Samsung TV is brighter than the LG in most usage. However, it can hold onto its brightness much better than the LG in Game Mode. The Samsung has a much wider color gamut than the LG; it can output vibrant, saturated colors, making the TV really pop.

Further complicating things, LG Display and Samsung Display both make OLED displays for Sony and Samsung OLED TVs — only LG makes 100% of its own OLED display panels. So which one should you buy? Let's break down all three brands and then see if there's a clear OLED TV brand that makes the best OLED TV.

Overall, TVs with the OLED standard simply offer the best visual impression at this point when it comes to the topic of viewing angles. Even when viewed from the side, the self-luminous pixels of an OLED manage to almost completely avoid annoying color or brightness fluctuations.

Regarding color, OLED and QLED TVs offer very similar performance. That said, high-end QLEDs have a slight edge. Thanks to quantum dot technology, the best QLED TVs can provide a wide spectrum of colors, along with high color volume, which enables those colors to look very bright when called for.

The biggest advantage OLED has over its QLED competitors is the way it handles light. With light being emitted on a pixel-by-pixel basis, it means that when one pixel is on, the adjacent pixel could be off, allowing for the deepest possible blacks and an infinite contrast ratio.

Picture Quality: Neo QLED Is Best for Bright Rooms

Thanks to its Mini-LED backlight and its ability to produce a higher level of brightness, it's great for a light and airy TV room setup. In contrast, OLED is best for darker environments but it provides viewers with better color reproduction when doing so.

Is Sony leaving OLED? ›

Sony revealed its 2024 TV lineup earlier this week and the announcements included four new models. The Sony Bravia 9 is the flagship TV for 2024, but, in a reversal of course for the company's flagship models, it will use mini-LED technology, not OLED.

The Bravia 8 is Sony's latest midrange OLED, boasting a thinner design than last year's A80L model. It delivers all of the contrast and black-level benefits that OLEDs are known for, but it can't get as bright as high-end models. Sony's Bravia 8 is its only new OLED TV set for release in 2024.

Screen burn-in is (usually) not covered under warranty

In their warranties, LG and Sony explicitly state that image retention and burn-in are not covered on their OLED TVs.

Are OLED TVs worth buying? If you want a truly excellent TV, OLED is absolutely worth considering. It offers better picture quality than standard LCD TVs can match, and with prices coming down every year, they're no longer prohibitively expensive either.

While both of these TVs are impressive in their own right, the LG C2 is the better pick for most people. It's an especially strong winner for gamers, as its four HDMI 2.1 inputs offer more flexibility for those with more than one connected HDMI 2.1-capable device.

OLED has superior contrast to QLED thanks to its individually dimming pixels while QLED has the superior full-screen brightness. Both have spectacular colors in their own way that will suit different people. If your viewing environment doesn't suffer from bright conditions, then OLED will probably suit you better.