Leo Lopez
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Tom's Guide has the Bravia 9 II review up and the verdict is roughly what you would guess. Best backlit set they have tested, OLED-rivaling blacks, almost no blooming, an anti-reflective coating good enough that they call it the bright-room champion. I believe all of it. What I cannot get past is the port list.
Two HDMI 2.1 and two HDMI 2.0 on a $3,599 65-inch flagship in 2026. Sony has been shipping this same compromise since the original Bravia 9 and here it is again on the set above it. A PS5, an Xbox, a gaming PC and an AVR is four devices and two of them are landing on 2.0. So you buy a switch for a television that costs as much as a used car, or you route everything through the receiver and pray the handshake behaves on a cold morning.
Pricing goes $3,599.99 for the 65, $4,599.99 for the 75, $6,499.99 for the 85, then the 115-inch at $30,999 which is not even available yet and drops the Mirage stand. That last one is not a product, it is a press release with a price attached. The 85 at $6,499 is the size I would actually think about, since an RGB backlight wants screen area to show what it can do.
The other flagged weakness is off-angle viewing still trailing OLED, and that is the honest dividing line. One couch pointed straight at the screen in a room with windows, this is the buy. Wide sofa in a dark basement, an OLED at half the money will make you happier and the difference goes into speakers.
Anyone with a sample checked whether both 2.1 ports run 4K/120 with VRR at once, or is one of them doing eARC duty as usual?
Two HDMI 2.1 and two HDMI 2.0 on a $3,599 65-inch flagship in 2026. Sony has been shipping this same compromise since the original Bravia 9 and here it is again on the set above it. A PS5, an Xbox, a gaming PC and an AVR is four devices and two of them are landing on 2.0. So you buy a switch for a television that costs as much as a used car, or you route everything through the receiver and pray the handshake behaves on a cold morning.
Pricing goes $3,599.99 for the 65, $4,599.99 for the 75, $6,499.99 for the 85, then the 115-inch at $30,999 which is not even available yet and drops the Mirage stand. That last one is not a product, it is a press release with a price attached. The 85 at $6,499 is the size I would actually think about, since an RGB backlight wants screen area to show what it can do.
The other flagged weakness is off-angle viewing still trailing OLED, and that is the honest dividing line. One couch pointed straight at the screen in a room with windows, this is the buy. Wide sofa in a dark basement, an OLED at half the money will make you happier and the difference goes into speakers.
Anyone with a sample checked whether both 2.1 ports run 4K/120 with VRR at once, or is one of them doing eARC duty as usual?
