Sony Bravia KD55XE8596 LED HDR 4K Ultra HD Smart Android TV, 55" with Freeview HD & Youview, Black

Be thrilled by the colour-rich contrast and breathtakingly realistic visuals of Sony's XE85. It combines the exceptional detail of 4K with the brilliant brightness and colour of HDR to give an amazingly lifelike picture. Depth of field is startling and motion is pin-sharp, driven by Sony's X1 4K HDR Processor engine. The brand's TRILUMINOS display ensures beautifully rich and realistic colours, with incredibly smooth shading and texture rendering. Sony's suite of Smart features on the Android platform opens up a wealth of extraordinary online content, and its thin aluminium frame makes it a most elegant, premium addition to the modern home.

Game-Changing HDR Premium
Sony are one of the forerunners of colour-boosting High Dynamic Range (HDR). As members of the UHD Alliance, they've delivered top-shelf HDR with a staggering 14-bit colour depth. This means that there are over a billion individual colours to deepen your view and show shades you’ve never seen in home entertainment before. Usually, studios are forced to dilute the colour of their shows and films to fit on our TVs. Now, HDR screens like the XE85 can channel content from studio-to-living room with the same precision and utterly otherworldly hues. Super Bit Mapping™ technology delivers up to 64 times more levels of colour for beautifully smooth tone gradation (based on an 8 bit signal capable of 256 levels of colour and a 14 bit signal capable of 16,384 levels of colour). With such exceptional HDR, this model almost matches real-life, bringing you closer to your shows than ever before.

Rich, Ravishing 4K
To respond to screens getting bigger, brands have packed their screens with more pixels. This 55” screen has four times the number of pixels than 1080p HD TVs, delivering stunning realism, natural motion and incredible detail.

Up-Scaling 4K X-Reality PRO
Enhance everything you watch on your Sony Bravia TV with 4K X-Reality PRO and the X1 4K HDR processor. Thanks to these unique technologies from Sony, you can get closer to reality. After analysing each pixel and comparing patterns, the system restores detail lost in compression and transmission. The system also reduces noise and reproduces optimum contrast, colour and sharpness. The result is that you experience stunning picture quality with better clarity, for anything you watch.

Delightful TRILUMINOS Display
Sony’s TRILUMINOS Display Technology expands the range of colours of that you see on more conventional LED displays, injecting images with more lustre. The eye-popping picture is treated with deeper reds, more natural greens and sharper blues, giving your shows and films a richer palate. Combined with image-deepening HDR, this tech will make your viewing simply extraordinary.

Crisp Motion
With Motionflow XR 1000Hz, every image on the screen refreshes at a higher rate than normal. Sports and fast-moving action look noticeably smoother, sharper and more natural, with reduced blur and judder.

Super-Smart Android
Your Smart TV has just got smarter with Android. Developed by Google, you'll be able to enjoy seamless entertainment, intelligent search and the latest apps from the likes of Google Play, Netflix, Amazon Prime and Youtube. All the personalisation, intelligence and entertainment of your Smartphone or tablet can be easily viewed on the Sony TV too, taking your viewing experience to the next level. Enjoy built-in Chromecast, letting you beam content from your smartphone straight to the big screen, Voice Search and the hundreds of apps. This latest version has been refined for even easier, intuitive interaction with your favourite content, and allows you to expand app storage space onto a USB device (sold separately).*

Youview Catch-Up
In addition to a wealth of online entertainment, this set comes with built-in YouView. The seven day scroll back TV guide brings together catch up TV from across BBC iPlayer, ITV Hub, 4oD and Demand 5**. You can also enjoy over 70 live TV channels and radio stations for free, such as BBC 1 & 2, ITV, Channel 4, E4, Channel 5, 5 USA, ITV 2 and Dave.

Stunning Slim Design
The sleek XE85 has looks to match its picture quality. Cable management features keep cables hidden from view in the Silver U Slate stand, and a slim black aluminium frame maximises the viewing area. It looks equally elegant wall-mounted using the compatible wall mount bracket (sold separately).

Perfect partners
With TVs getting slimmer and built-in speakers getting smaller, choosing the right sound system is more important than ever. Soundbars enhance your TV’s sound quality and add that extra audio punch to all your movies, games and TV programmes. More affordable and easier to set up than a full size speaker system, they don’t compromise on quality either.
Take a look at our full range of soundbars.

Don't forget...
If you want to connect your TV to a blu-ray player, games console, soundbar or soundbase then you'll need a HDMI cable.
View our collection of cables & connections

And if you’re looking to elevate your viewing experience with cable management, then why not take a look at our wall mounts and TV stands.

*Use of this TV requires consent to Google Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Simulated UI. Applications availability varies by country and device.

**User interface may differ. Limited ITV content in Scotland and NI. Suitable coverage, broadland speed and aerial required. Terms and conditions apply.

Please note: A Smart TV is a platform that can run 3rd party Apps. 3rd party content providers may remove Apps from the Smart TV platform or stop supporting them at any time and John Lewis cannot guarantee an App’s availability. When new Smart TV products are launched, there may also be a delay before certain Apps become available. Availability of Apps are not included within the terms of the manufacturer’s warranty or the John Lewis 5 Year Guarantee (2 Year for Audio Visual products).

Delivery information:If you buy a sound bar or DVD/Blu-ray player along with this TV, please note that they'll be delivered separately.