Sony Bravia 8 II TV review OLED: extraordinarily clear

If you are looking for For a 2025 Premium TV, the last round of the best OLED ruined the choice. With LG and Panasonic using the new innovative four -stack panel of LG and Samsung and Sony who share the most advanced QD panel of Samsung, there are four attractive OLED TVs that hit the shops this year, each one who offers a significant brightness push to go together with the many other Oled talents.

What Sony did with the new Samsung display is, in a beautiful word. Bravia 8 II in an embarrassing way, which replaces the splendid A95L of 2023 (9/10, Wired recommended), is brilliantly balanced with an incisive brightness, expressive and natural colors and the sweet elaboration of Sony’s images for an image so clear that some images seem almost three -dimensional.

For all its talents, Bravia 8 II has some negative aspects compared to the phenomenal LG G5 (9/10, Wired recommended) has replaced on my console, including a lower peak brightness and a background that is deeper coal of black, bringing to contrast less impact and depth of the perceived image. For games, Sony continues to scrape connectivity with only two HDMI 2.1 doors.

Persnickety as these complaints play, they are high from prices: the 65 -inch Bravia 8 II model have examined lists up to $ 700 more than the G5 Stateside at the launch (even if there are already discounts). Don’t make mistakes: this is still a fabulous TV for the right buyer, offering places (and sounds) worthy of a front row point in the wonderful cloak of premium screams of 2025. As usual, if you want the best processing that money can buy, this Sony is a clear winner.

On the wall

Photography: Ryan Waniata

Unlike most of the televisions in its class, the best OLED of Sony opts again for the legs on the distant sides of the panel instead of a support for pedestal. This can be useful for the positioning of the soundbar in which the large pedestals cause problems, but unless your console is 60 inches wide, you will have to mount the wall on the wall as I did. The assembly screws of 8 II are placed rather at the bottom, which means that TV is sitting higher than you wanted, that it is something to note if your support is already underway.

The TV is slightly elegant, with family plastic combators on the rear panel and thin panel frame in front. There is a little prejudice of Reviewy here, but I could not help but notice how much more milk the panel appears to the black void of LG G5, which I continued to notice during my evaluation. On the bright (or rather dark) side, the management of the reflection of the TV is among the best I have ever seen, spreading almost everything except direct lighting, without the entire opaque aspect of the latest Samsung models.

The configuration of the software is a relative relative with the Google TV plug-and-go layout, allowing you to adjust most of the parameters with the phone credentials and G Suite. I am a fan of the general tour of Google TV, in particular the possibility of using Google photos as Screen Saver, on the only time I take to remember past adventures. Sony’s implementation has improved with any iteration and, apart from the excessively zealous ads of Google, I had practically no complaints for weeks of streaming and fluid navigation.

This includes the navigation of the Zoomy channel through 50-district channels via my HD antenna with the compact remote control of Bravia 8 II. The remote control is simple but intuitive, especially compared to the strangely oriented G5 remote control, even if it would be nice if it were backlit, considering that 8 II – like all OLED – does its best job in low lighting.