TVs and monitors · Sony
Owners keep the Bravia 9 for picture quality that still impresses them well after setup day, though many have had to work around audio sync problems and rough support calls along the way.
Picture quality is the clear praise here: most owners who raise it describe it staying sharp and impressive, including comparisons favoring it against other OLED and mini LED sets they've tried.
Audio sync is a clear complaint. Owners describe recurring delay between sound and picture, often tied to firmware updates and setups running through a PS5 or an AV receiver via eARC, and several say the problem keeps coming back after power cycling or updating.
Pick up to three. You get a page with just those, side by side, on the subjects owners raised.
Once the newness wears off, the picture is what keeps people happy: owners talk about it holding up well against other panels on the market, and gaming performance gets specific praise too, with several owners happy with how it handles 4K gaming. That part of the experience seems to stay good over time rather than fading.
What breaks tends to break through software, not the panel. Firmware updates come up again and again as the source of new problems: stuck resolutions, stutter on HDR content, audio sync that reappears after an update, and in some cases owners waiting on a fix that never lands. Contacting Sony support during these episodes is itself a common source of frustration, with owners describing being dismissed or getting no resolution.
On the panel side, burn-in worries come up, but the specific reports about burn-in itself lean positive: owners with older OLEDs, including sets several years old under heavy daily use, report no burn-in showing up. That said, the sample talking specifically about long-term burn-in on the Bravia 9 itself is thin, most of the burn-in comments reference other OLED models as points of comparison, so treat that as background context rather than a verdict on this set specifically.
Counted from the owners who raised each subject, not from everyone. A subject is judged once at least 4 owners raise it.
35 more subjects came up from fewer than 4 owners each, which is not enough for a fair reading. To see how it stacks up, compare it with another machine.
The same owner, asked again at each point. Fills in as owners answer.
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