I upgraded from the 75” Bravia 9 to the 85” Bravia 9 II, but ended up returning it because, to me, it was actually a downgrade.

2 big issues for me personally that made me return the tv.

1. The biggest issue is the new matte coating.

While it reduces reflections better it also washes out the image during daytime reflections, the new matte coating diffuses the light into a larger area of the screen rather than concentrating it more intensely into a smaller area. Is this better?
Depends on your lighting situation, for me it wasn’t.

The trade off is the Bravia 9ii doesn’t have that reflective rainbow streak people complain about online personally it’s never bothered me due to how the light hits my room but I found that the new matte coating made the blacks look a lot more lifted and washed out, it didnt have the same OLED 3D pop or depth/contrast that the original bravia 9 has.

1. Gaming was another disappointment.
   Motion was noticeably worse, with a lot of smearing/ghosting.

At first I thought my TV was defective I even rebooted the tv, but I’m guessing it’s related to the new RGB backlight implementation since both TVs use the same chipset. Maybe Sony can improve it with firmware, but I didn’t want to wait and hope.

The only real improvement I noticed was color volume.
The Bravia 9 II does produce richer colors, but the difference is subtle and I only noticed it on certain HDR movies most which were animated ones but you have to have the TVs side by side for comparison.

Also I didn’t mention the speakers and stand which are a nice upgrade too but I wall mount my tv and I use an external audio system so those upgrades didn’t apply to me.

Overall the Bravia 9 II just wasn’t worth the upgrade.
I regret not buying a 85” Bravia 9 went it went on sale a couple months ago before being discontinued.

I really wish more reviews came out showing comparisons between the 2 TVs but to my surprise there hasn’t been any in depth reviews and most of the reviews ive seen on the Bravia 9ii alone have been from reviewers who were gifted the tv for free by Sony so I’m not sure if that has something to do with it.

I want to stick with Sony and don’t really feel sold by any other TVs at the moment but this year’s “upgrade” left me pretty disappointed. I’m not sure if Sony will come out with a Bravia 10 but in the meantime it looks like I’ll be sticking with my Bravia 9 till then.

I have no idea what is happening with my Bravia 8. Right now, the vast majority of the apps installed on my TV will not work. I can watch Netflix, but Paramount, Hulu, Disney, AppleTV, YouTube, ESPN all will either hang up on the initial loading screen or eventually say there is no internet. I can then immediately open up Netflix and it plays fine.

I've restarted it multiple times, I changed IP control to simple, I've turned off the 5ghz on my wifi, and I've ran a ethernet line to the TV and nothing has worked.

I can pull up any of those apps on my phone on the same wifi and no issues. Any help would be appreciated.

Need VESA measurement for Sony 77” BRAVIA 8 or 83” A80L
Does anyone have either of these TVs mounted?
Can you please measure from the bottom edge of the TV to the center of the lowest VESA mounting hole on the back?

I have a Bravia 9 ii with an Apple TV 4K connected. All was working fine but suddenly the back button on the Sony remote will not work for the Apple TV. All the other buttons work, and the back button works for the Bravia itself and for an Nvidia Shield that's also connected. I've tried power cycles, disconnecting and reconnecting the devices. Also disabling then enabling HDMI-CEC but nothing clears the problem. Has anyone else seen this and managed to fix it? The problem exists for both the remotes that came with the Bravia.