In the realm of modern home cinema, resolution is almost a given. 4K and UHD are ubiquitous. What is not so common is the art of reproducing accurate colours. Every television brand talks about accurate colour, but Sony is one of the very few that can actually prove the claim. For nearly 60 years it has built most of the chain between the camera that captures a scene and the screen that shows it in your living room.
It all started back in Tokyo in 1968 with the original Trinitron which became the first ever consumer electronic product to win an Emmy for its colour accuracy! Trinitron production ended in 2007 as CRTs gave way to flat panels, but the obsession behind it never really left the company. To this day, Sony’s professional BVM and Trimaster monitors are widely used as reference displays in professional production and colour-grading environments. So when Sony makes a TV, it isn’t guessing at a spec sheet. It is trying to match a screen it already owns at the other end of the pipeline.
That context matters for the Bravia 9 II, Sony’s first True RGB television and, at 115 inches, the largest set the company has sold in India. Conventional LED TVs typically generate white light and create colour through the LCD layer and colour-conversion/filtering technologies. True RGB takes a fundamentally different approach, using independently controlled red, green and blue LEDs to generate colour directly. RGB Backlight Master Drive Pro does away with that entirely. It drives red, green and blue LEDs independently, directly behind the pane. The RGB Backlight Master Drive Pro works alongside Luminance Booster Pro and RGB Triluminos Max to push colour volume and brightness while retaining the nuance of HDR highlights. Smooth Color Gradation further refines subtle transitions, preserving the delicate shifts between shades that can otherwise appear as visible banding. X-Wide Angle Pro helps maintain colour and contrast consistency across a wider viewing angle, allowing the entire room to share the same cinematic image. All but the 115in model feature an Immersive Black Screen Pro treatment that helps suppress reflections and glare, while the panel’s high brightness keeps HDR imagery vivid even in naturally lit rooms.
With exceptional brightness, the Bravia 9 II comes closer to Sony’s own mastering monitors than any previous Bravia. It delivers a remarkable combination of colour volume and highlight brightness at unprecedented levels for a Bravia. More importantly, it maintains this performance even when you crack open the blinds.
For a TV as large as the 115in, even the slightest artifact in motion is easily discernible. An area where Sony displays have historically had an edge over the competition is the handling of motion processing. It treads the fine line between eliminating judder and preserving the cinematic feel perfectly, without making every movie look like a mid day soap opera. Cognitive Processor XR uses AI to handle the real time scene analysis and ensures the “film-like” quality of 24fps content isn’t generically altered while live sports are rendered without any motion trailing artefacts. Through Studio Calibrated modes for Netflix, Prime Video and Sony Pictures Core, compatible content can be experienced with picture settings designed to reflect the creator’s intent.
The Bravia 9 II is built for people who wish to have an uncompromising rendition of their favourite content, be it audio or video. The sonic experience extends beyond the screen. Acoustic Multi-Audio+ with Beam Tweeter helps place sound where the action happens, while Dolby Atmos and DTS create a spacious, immersive soundstage. The result is a more convincing sense of being inside the scene, rather than simply watching it. In India, the Bravia 9 II spans 75, 85 and a genuinely cinema-scaled 115 inches. At 115 inches, Bravia 9 II transforms the television from a piece of consumer electronics into an architectural centrepiece— bringing true cinema scale into the home. It differentiates itself by not approximating the mastering suite but rather closing the same argument Sony started with the Trinitron in 1968. Every pixel on this TV is designed to be true to the director’s input and once you see it, you’ll start believing it!