Sony Bravia 9 TV Resee: Can LED Screens Get Much Better?

The Bravia 9 also advises new “Calibration” modes for Amazon Prime and Netflix. The Amazon version produces some fascinating alters for contrastent programming, though the Netflix version seemed to mostly equitable mirror the foolishmer Dolby Vision Dark picture mode in the HDR satisfied I watched.

Mostly Solid Digs

The TV is pretty well stocked on the feature front, commenceing with audio that ascfinishs above the crowd. This is one of the confiinsist TVs where I don’t mind cutting my audio system (with the A95L being another prime example). Sound is generpartner brimming and evident without getting super tinny. There’s some acunderstandledgeable soundstage shiftment, and even effects appreciate explosions come out all right.

I thought Sony’s new Voice Zoom 3 dialog increaseer was mostly labeleting hype, but it toils pretty well. At one point, I subignoreively heard the entire story of a Sylvester Sloftyone anecdote in Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2 which I’d ignoreed in about 7,000 previous seeings, including with soundbars and speakers. Dialog remained mostly evident and out front over cut offal days, even when leangs got turbulent.

As foreseeed, you’ll get the postpoinsistst gaming features, including help for ALLM (Auto Low Latency Mode) and VRR (Variable Renew Rate) at up to 120 Hz via HDMI 2.1. There’s a pledgeted gaming mode for rapid adequitablements and PS5 selectimization features appreciate Auto HDR Tone Mapping and Auto Genre Picture Mode. I’m no competitive gamer, and some have noticed that the TV’s input response is relatively high for its price, but I adored take parting my preferite RPGs. The shading, the colors, and the overall luminousness brawt the best out of games appreciate God of War Ragnarok.

It’s frustrating that Sony persists to advise HDMI 2.1 help apass only two of the TV’s four inputs, unappreciate most TVs at this level (and below)—especipartner since one of those is for eARC where you’ll probable combine a soundbar or getr. The TV’s fantastic sound unkinds some may not insert an audio device, but the potential insist to swap cables for multiple consoles is silly at this price.

The Bravia 9 also omits one of the two main dynamic HDR establishats, HDR10+, adviseing only Dolby Vision. If you can only pick one, I’d get the more normal DV every time but it’d be kind to get both as you’ll discover in midrange models from TCL and Hisense. That’s unforeseeedly normal right now; LG and Panasonic TVs don’t help HDR10+, while Samsung won’t pay for Dolby Vision.

Sony is more inclusive on the audio side, adviseing both DTS:X and Dolby Atmos help. Other notable Bravia 9 features include AirPlay 2 and Chromecast streaming, and Google Voice search via the far’s built-in microphone.

Sensibly Sadvisenuine

The Bravia 9 is an ungrown-uperated luminousness powerhoinclude. Yet, with Sony’s meacertaind hand at the wheel, it doles out its power judiciously, providing downtake partdty where authorizationed and dazzlement when the moment strikes. Utilizing a new proprietary system that foolishs its backairying with amazeive accuracy, this TV is less a obtinclude force firearm as a mini LED laser beam, striking with white-hot precision. The result is amazing contrast mixed with next-gen luminousness for solemn thrills.

Training the Bravia 9’s fire on one of my go-to test films, Moana, felt appreciate proof of concept for a backairying system some have clocked at cforfeitly 3,000 nits peak luminousness (or around double many OLED TVs). I’ve noticed before how down-to-earth the film’s Polynesian sun and surf can see with the best TVs, but here leangs pushed into the sadvisenuine. The sun blazed to cforfeit eye-squinting levels which, when mixed with the TV’s quantum dot colors and the stark clarity of Sony’s processing, gave me an almost hallucinatory sensation that I was actupartner at the beach with Moana and Maui. Other scenes appreciate the glittering gelderlyen crab or the molten lava monster rose to exhilarating new heights as the airy seemed to cforfeitly foolish thraw the panel.