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Sony Bravia 9 Mini LED TV - Tom's Guide's first impressions on the performance and features. It's the brand's brightest 4K TV ever with an ambitious new backlight driver that other TV makers might have a hard time figuring out how to beat.

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00:00I'm here with one of your first looks at the Sony Bravia 9 Mini LED TV that's brand new for 2024.

00:06Let's go check it out.

00:07Obviously, this is what you're going to see if you get this TV in your home.

00:11But Sony peeled back some of the filters for us to see what the backlight is really doing behind the screen

00:16and what those major improvements are for this year.

00:19In some ways, Sony's previous-gen Mini LED TVs didn't seem to have the same finesse as some of the brand's other TVs.

00:26It didn't give Samsung's Neo QLED-branded Mini LED TV a real run for its money.

00:31But the Bravia 9 looks to shake things up.

00:34That's all thanks to a new backlight driver developed by Sony's microprocessor division

00:38that the company says is the world's smallest Mini LED driver to date.

00:43By decreasing the size of the Mini LEDs, Sony can increase the number of LEDs and number of local dimming zones,

00:49resulting in 320% more zones than the previous-gen X95L.

00:54We're looking at a beautiful static screen here, but I did get to check out some demo footage.

00:59And in that footage, I think the biggest impact was the spectrum of brightness.

01:03So you get those bright spots and those dark spots.

01:05And in those, because of the control over the driver, you can see a bit more definition.

01:09I would say it has an especially visible impact in bright, bright spots of the scene.

01:14They just look a little bit punchier without causing so much blooming.

01:17The biggest thing you need to know about the Bravia 9 is that Sony is saying it's its brightest 4K TV yet.

01:23We'll have to do our own testing to see if that's true,

01:26but Sony says that the TV is up to 50% brighter than the previous-gen version,

01:31and that there are three times the number of local dimming zones.

01:35So we got some clever cable management going on back here.

01:38The HDMI inputs are back here, but Sony has created this removable panel that conceals them.

01:44That way, the cords are feeding down here.

01:46It just makes for a much cleaner look at the back of the TV.

01:49That would be especially nice if, say, you have your TV set up somewhere where you might have a little bit of space behind it,

01:55or simply if you're wall-mounting it and just need the cords to feed to a convenient location.

02:00Otherwise, in the sound department, the Bravia 9 has features like 3D surround upscaling,

02:05as well as Acoustic Center Sync with a compatible Sony soundbar, and Voice Zoom 3.

02:11Whoa, okay, we're changing to a nighttime scene here.

02:14And the reason that's possible is because we're on Sony's PXO stage.

02:18That's basically made of the company's CLED screens.

02:23It's a custom creation that's made for movie sets.

02:26It's supposed to set up actors in 3D environments.

02:29It's been used for projects like Game of Thrones, Star Trek.

02:34But now, in this space, we're just getting to see what our TV might look like at home.

02:38Now, imagine if you can go to the store with a picture of your living room,

02:41and actually have them put this up this way so you can see what your TV and entertainment setup would look like.

02:47I don't know. Idea right there.

02:50A lot remains to be seen with the Sony Bravia 9, but we'll find out more once we get it in our lab.

02:55Let me know if you think this looks like it'll be one of the most exciting TVs of the year in the comments section of this video.

03:01Otherwise, you can see what we're doing on social everywhere at Tom's Guide.

03:05And as always, I'm at Kate Kozich.

03:07Thanks for watching. I'll catch you next time.

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