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Sony’s redesigned remote is a breath of fresh air-it’s also universal. That’s my roundabout way of saying I like it-I don’t like it as much as the Roku remote, but… It’s big enough you won’t need to worry that it will get lost in the couch cushions it rests comfortably in the hand and functionally, it marries well with the TV’s onscreen interface. The included remote is the revamped model we first saw with last year’s models, and most recently, the A90J. Sony also provides a comprehensive channel guide that makes it easy to surf content.
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Sony’s Z9J uses the Android TV operating system, with its proximity to the Android ecosystem of apps and features.Īndroid TV is easy to browse, and it has all those Android features and apps that occupy Google’s enormous ecosystem. If you’re willing to live in Google’s world, you’ll like the interface. The Z9J uses the Android TV operating system, which is much improved from the crash fest of a few years ago. Other featured technologies include Apple Airplay 2, Chromecast, Dolby Vision, and HDR10. Unique to Sony is a two-wire output for a center speaker. Variable refresh rate and auto low-latency mode are also featured.Īudio is also output via an optical jack on the back and a 3.5 mm headphone jack on the side of the TV. Two of the HDMI ports support HDMI-CEC as well. There are four HDMI ports, one of which supports eARC audio output, and another that supports high-bandwidth 4K UHD/120Hz and 8K UHD/60Hz signals. The illustration to the left illustrates your options. Using different mounting points, you can orient the legs to the sides, so the bottom of the TV rests flush against the supporting surface place them near the sides, but angled to raise the unit off the supporting surface or further toward the center of the TV to accommodate narrower platforms. Sony’s new and unique three-position stand. Heavy the Z9J may be, but Sony has designed a very clever three-position stand to make sure it remains stable on whatever surface you set it on. But the latter scenario is possible only with those exceedingly rare devices-PCs, mostly-that are capable of pushing 8K video through HDMI. Sony’s impressive 8K UHD Z9J displays 8K UHD images internally, and 8K UHD video via HDMI. There’s a full-array backlight with somewhere around 400 fully dimmable backlight zones, if the zone counters (videos of small white blocks that travel the edges of the display) are to be believed. The Z9J is an 8K UHD (7680 x 4320) display with a 120Hz refresh rate, and it uses Sony’s proprietary technologies for color and brightness.
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This review is part of TechHive’s coverage of the best smart TVs, where you’ll find reviews of the competition’s offerings, plus a buyer’s guide to the features you should consider when shopping for this type of product. You might be able to manage setting it up by sliding, leveraging, tilting, leaning, and propping (I did-but it wasn’t easy) but why risk it? The Z9J is also rather thick at just over three inches, but that’s largely due to its audio infrastructure-more on that in a bit. I recommend having a friend or two help you setting up the rather heavy Z9J. As shown below, Sony illustrates three folks handling the job in Its setup guide. You’ll likely need a burly friend or two to set up the 75-inch-class model Sony sent for this review-its shipping weight is a whopping 130 pounds. And Sony declined to promise us that it will down the road. It’s pricey-and them some, at $7,000-but the bigger issue is that it won’t play 8K video files, either from local USB media or via YouTube.
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Sony’s Bravia Master Series Z9J 8K TV delivers very good image quality, great looks, and fantastic audio features and performance.