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Sony BRAVIA 9 Mini LED TV: The Best HDR TV EVER?

Published on Wed, Apr 17th 2024 Science & Technology Rectangular HD

The Sony BRAVIA 9 Mini LED TV was launched at Sony Pictures Studios back in March with the Sony BRAVIA 8 OLED and BRAVIA 7 Mini LED also breaking cover. As well as the TVs there are also BRAVIA Theatre products including new soundbars and a Home Theatre system. Sony is not removing OLED TVs from their line-up, the A95L continues for another year.

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Sony has finally revealed the BRAVIA 9 TV model number for the 2024 flagship, based on the backlight demonstrations that were given in Tokyo late last year to a small group of journalists and again in closed-door demonstrations at CES in January. I was so impressed at the prototype demo I received at CES that we gave Sony a ‘Best of CES’ award on the spot. To finally see the product in person and with a model number was interesting and a good opportunity to see some content playing without half of the screen missing as was the case in the earlier demos.

While Sony will never divulge figures for backlight zones, the number of Mini-LEDs used or the peak brightness nit values, the BRAVIA 9 is designed to be the brightest set it has ever produced based on technology and know-how from the company's professional grading monitors.

The latest grading model, the 31-inch BVM-HX3110 is capable of achieving 4,000 nits peak brightness and in demonstrations, it is incredibly impressive with HDR content looking natural and life-like, as intended. The sun in the sky behind clouds has stunning peak highlight detail, mixed with superb mid-tones and blacks, that give the image depth and realism.

The technology used by Sony to achieve this peak brightness and accuracy with HDR content at 4,000 nits is trickling down to the consumer BRAVIA 9 which will be capable of achieving at least 3,000 nits peak with some degree of accuracy for HDR content.
Sony has decided to use the BRAVIA branding to rename its TV and Home AV products to make it easier for consumers to choose and combine products within the range and understand the levels that the products perform in. By simplifying the naming convention the company hopes that consumers can easily identify the products that will suit them most within the line-up and be able to understand the product hierarchy easily. This change will take some time to work through for the entire range as some models will be staying around for a while with the older model naming structure.

Those screens remaining in the line-up for most of 2024 are the A95L QD-OLED, A90K WRGB OLED, X90L, X85L, X80L, X75WL and W800 LCD TVs.

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