Sony's Bravia 9 II True RGB TV Changes Everything (HANDS ON)

This is the Sony Bravia 9 Mark II, and it's actually not the first time you've seen it here on the channel, surprise. Remember the true RGB explainer I dropped? Well, that was and is Sony's first consumer-ready mini LED TV with an RGB-based backlight. I'm so excited that I can finally tell you all about it. I'll also go over all of the features that make this feel like Sony's most premium flagship possibly ever, because believe it or not, it's not just about the backlight. I guess you'll just have to stick around to see what I'm talking about. Not too long ago here on the channel, I broke down Sony's revolutionary true RGB mini LED tech, but there was a catch. I couldn't tell you the exact TV we were looking at. Say hello to the Sony Bravia 9 Mark II. Did Sony miss a golden opportunity to call this a Bravia 10? Maybe. All I know is that this is Sony's new flagship mini LED powerhouse. If you missed my previous true RGB video, I recommend you go watch it for a full deep dive, but for a quick refresher, true RGB is Sony's answer to getting the absolute best of both worlds, jaw-dropping mini LED brightness with unmatched color precision. It delivers double the color volume of the Bravia 9 and a staggering four times the color volume of the newer Bravia 8 Mark II OLED. Sony's big claim here is matching both the intent and peak brightness of the legendary BVM-HX3110, their $30,000 professional studio mastering monitor. To do that, this consumer TV would need to hit around 4,000 nits peak brightness. So we ran some tests. Granted, this is a pre-production unit here, but when we threw the standard 10% HDR window at it, it truly hit that 4K mark. Thanks to that Illuminis Booster ProTech, it was just a few nits shy right out of the box without us even tweaking the settings. On the design front, Sony is doing some edgy things. They're using a lenticular material on the base that completely conceals your cables, combined with a slidable element to adjust the stand, making the TV look like it's actually floating in midair. But the real flex is on the front panel featuring immersive Black Screen Pro. Traditional anti-glare just adds a rough layer to scatter light, which can make the picture look a little hazy. Sony is using a low reflection treatment here that works like a reverse wave effect to actually absorb and cancel out competing light sources. I saw it side-by-side against Samsung and LG's latest OLEDs, and Sony's panel easily absorbed the most ambient light. It was in a controlled demo environment, so I'm anxious to get this into my own studio for independent testing. But first impressions, incredibly impressive. Sony also redesigned the acoustic layout, physically aligning the sub, mid-range drivers, and tweeter ducts. This allows the TV housing to be thinner without losing sound amplitude. The result is a higher, more central soundstage that makes dialogue feel like it's coming straight out of the characters' mouths. From the demo room, I can't say I noticed a massive difference over the original Bravia 9, but to be fair, Sony TVs already sound a lot better than the competition anyway. A real jaw-dropper moment came when we booted up Black Widow. I was hunting for the classic, blooming Achilles heel, but on the Bravia 9 Mark II, it was virtually non-existent. Like, very stunning. Sony insists OLED isn't going anywhere, but when mini-LED controls backlighting this well while pumping out 4,000 nits, why would I even want OLED anymore? Of course, this was just a preview. We still need to do official test results on retail units to see how this scales from the 65-inch model all the way up to the monstrous 115-inch version. But what do you guys think? Is true RGB and 4,000 nits enough to make you skip OLED this year? So that is Bravia 9 Mark II, and this is just my hands-on. I know we covered a lot, you guys, so you're gonna wanna stick around for the full review. And yes, that is my excuse to remind you to subscribe to the channel. But hey, while you're here, be sure to give this vid a thumbs-up and leave me some really good questions about Bravia 9 Mark II in the comments. Thank you so much for watching. I will catch you next time.