Sony Bravia 9 II vs. Sony Bravia 9: I compared the True RGB TV to standard Mini LED - this model wins

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Sony conscionable announced the caller Bravia 9 II True RGB TV, on with the Bravia 7 II and a big of updates and refreshes crossed the remainder of Sony's TV offerings. And if you've been connected the obstruction astir upgrading your main TV oregon adding a 2nd surface to your home, present mightiness beryllium the cleanable clip to buy, whether you're a Sony loyalist oregon conscionable looking for a decent deal. 

With a big of caller features and a cutting-edge screen, the Bravia 9 II is positioning itself to beryllium crowned the caller king of Sony's premium lineup. But is it truly worthy skipping implicit the archetypal Bravia 9?

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To assistance you recognize what Sony changed, I enactment unneurotic a database of the champion reasons to bargain some the Bravia 9 and the Bravia 9 II, truthful you tin take the champion acceptable for your abstraction and budget.

At a glance

You should bargain the Sony Bravia 9 II if...

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1. You privation a cutting-edge display

Sony updated the Bravia 9 II with an all-new True RGB LED screen, which works likewise to the Samsung R95H. It works successful tandem with Sony's caller RGB Backlight Master Drive Pro engine, which precision-controls the idiosyncratic red, green, and bluish LEDS for ultra-accurate colors, awesome contrast, and a brighter surface than Sony's OLED offerings. 

The Bravia 9 II besides adds a 115-inch enactment to the lineup for a genuinely cinematic acquisition (as agelong arsenic you person the currency to burn).

2. You privation adjacent amended sound

To lucifer the awesome representation the True RGB sheet is susceptible of, Sony besides refreshed the Bravia 9 II's audio. Along with Dolby Atmos virtual situation dependable (which is practically an manufacture modular astatine this point), the Bravia 9 II supports DTS: X for older media, IMAX Enhanced dependable for streaming caller movies, and Sony's Acoustic Multi-Audio+. 

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The Acoustic Multi-Audio+ exertion uses tiny actuators down the TV surface arsenic good arsenic tweeter speakers built into the TV framework itself to crook your full surface into a speaker. It besides produces spatial audio that sounds similar it's pursuing the on-screen enactment for a much immersive experience.

3. You privation customization options

If you similar the thought of switching up your benignant by adding customized bezel options to your TV, but don't privation a afloat art-inspired exemplary similar Samsung's The Frame, the Bravia 9 II lets you adhd a existent wood veneer frame. Available successful 4 colors (black, white, pine, and oak), you'll beryllium capable to seamlessly blend your caller TV into your decor truthful it looks little similar a portion of tech erstwhile not successful use. 

You should bargain the Sony Bravia 9 if...

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1. You privation tried-and-true show tech

The Bravia 9 features a Mini LED panel, which falls betwixt a regular LED TV and Sony's premium OLED models. You'll inactive get large contrast, detailing, and colour accuracy, without the precocious retail terms of OLED. The Bravia 9 features a 120Hz refresh complaint for creaseless enactment successful everything from unrecorded sports and movies to TV shows and video games. 

And with a astir bezel-free screen, you'll get a existent edge-to-edge picture, truthful you get the astir retired of your caller TV screen. It's besides smudge-resistant, truthful you tin walk much clip enjoying your surface and little clip cleaning disconnected fingerprints.

2. You're moving with a budget

Since the Bravia 9 is an older exemplary that uses much established surface technology, you'll beryllium capable to find it for a overmuch little terms than different Sony TV offerings. The Bravia 9 is often connected sale, letting you prevention hundreds connected a prime TV for upgrading your location theatre oregon adding a 2nd to your home. 

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And erstwhile the Bravia 9 II hits store shelves, you'll apt spot those discounts get adjacent steeper, which is large quality if you're looking to agelong your budget.

3. You request much placement options

The Sony Bravia 9 comes with a 4-way basal that lets you acceptable up your caller TV successful astir immoderate room. You tin take 2 constrictive stances for smaller stands and furniture, arsenic good arsenic 2 taller, wider placements that let you to acceptable up a soundbar underneath your caller screen. 

Once a soundbar is acceptable up, the basal feet are virtually invisible, giving your caller TV the content that it's floating supra its stand. And of course, you'll besides get VESA wall-mounting options if you similar to support your TV disconnected the furniture. 

Writer's choice

While the archetypal Bravia 9 from Sony is an awesome TV, the updated Bravia 9 II wins retired with enhanced colour accuracy, improved sound, and customization options. It's a measurement up successful virtually each mode and sets the modular for competing RGB models successful 2026 (and beyond).

The True RGB sheet delivers color, detail, and opposition that astir rival OLED options -- astatine a terms tag to match. You'll conscionable person to settee for immoderate blooming and colour crosstalk if you look adjacent enough. Sony's besides added a 115-inch surface to the lineup if you're looking to make a afloat customized theatre successful the comfortableness of your ain home.