Bravia 9 (65-inch)
The Bravia 9 is Sony's mini-LED flagship and the brightest, most controlled LCD the company has ever shipped, using a dense backlight with far more dimming zones than typical to suppress the blooming that usually plagues the technology. Sony's processing remains the benchmark for upscaling, motion, and out-of-box accuracy, so it tends to make lower-quality streams and broadcast TV look better than rivals do. The trade-offs are price and ports: it costs more than the Samsung QN90D and ships with only two full HDMI 2.1 inputs, one shared with eARC, which is a real constraint if you want to connect two consoles and a PC. For movie-first buyers who value tuning over checkboxes, it is hard to beat.
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- Class-leading brightness with minimal blooming
- Best-in-class processing, upscaling, and motion
- Dolby Vision plus excellent out-of-box accuracy
- Google TV with broad app support
- Only two full HDMI 2.1 ports
- Premium price versus other mini-LEDs
- No HDR10+ support
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