Sony's Bravia 9 flagship mini LED TV is a fascinating new addition to the increasingly diverse 2024 TV landscape. As perhaps the most advanced 4K LED TV ever made, it offers a brilliant display of television's 'Three Cs': colors, contrast, and clarity. It centers, however, on the all-important 'B', for brightness, which stuns even against the backdrop of the brightest year in TVs to date. It's also expensive, skimps on HDMI 2.1 gaming inputs, and comes with some of the inevitable limitations of virtually all backlit LED TVs. Even so, as Sony's most powerful TV you can buy, the Bravia 9 does some things (most things) so phenomenally it's worthy of high praise even at its high price. If you're after the ultrabright punch of LED mixed with the poise and elegance of a flagship Sony display, this TV may be difficult to resist. I'd describe the style of Sony's current top TVs as 'refined utility.' As with the Bravia 7 (7/10, WIRED recommends) and 2023's A95L OLED (9/10, WIRED Recommends),...
learn more
