Sony has been quietly developing a technology for more than two decades that now, finally, has its own name and is ready to hit the living room. The Japanese firm has just presented its Sony Bravia 9 II, with which it claims to have made the most ambitious leap in its history in LCD televisions: an RGB backlight controlled LED by LED that promises color accuracy that until now only existed in reference monitors in post-production studios. Next to nothing.
According to the brand itself, this new panel is not one more evolution of the MiniLED conventional blue LED, but integrates the three RGB subpixels in each LED diode, giving you greater control over the lighting and the resulting color volume. The Bravia 9 II arrives with the flagship label and new technology under its arm, but it doesn’t do it alone. Sony has also presented the Bravia 7 II with which it shares technology of True RGB display.
More than 20 years cooking an idea: True RGB
The history of new technology Sony’s True RGB begins in 2004, when the brand launched the Qualia 005, the first LCD TV on the market equipped with a Triluminos panel that used red, green and blue light sources to backlight the LCD panel.
Twelve years later, in 2016, the brand took a new step in that evolution with the Backlight Master Drive system that I was riding the Sony ZD9which laid the foundations for the control over backlighting that later gave rise to dimming zones as we know them today.
With the arrival of Bravia 9 II, the Japanese brand closes the circle of development after more than two decades, resulting in True RGB technology, which combines the RGB backlighting that the Qualia 005 brought to the table and the zone lighting control of the ZD9.
Conventional MiniLED uses white or blue LED diodes grouped into dimming zones. True RGB replaces these diodes with others made up of smaller diodes that integrate a blue, green and red LED in a single capsule that are controlled independently, so that the light that reaches the LCD panel already does so with the color it should represent.
This means that the light that reaches the panel is already, from the outset, purer and more accurate in terms of color, without the need for the panel’s filters to do so much correction work. In this way, the colors obtained are more intense and saturated even when very high brightness levels are reached, at which time the MiniLED technologies conventional ones suffer to maintain color fidelity.
Sony Bravia 9 II, the benchmark of the range
The reference model for Sony’s True RGB technology is the Bravia 9 II, which incorporates the most advanced of this RGB MiniLED technology with the lighting system RGB Backlight Master Drive Pro which incorporates new self-developed LED drivers that, according to Sony, improve the level of backlight control.
This model also includes the technologies RGB Triluminos Max and Luminance Booster Pro to increase the volume of color and a softer gradation even in rooms with a lot of ambient light, something especially relevant for living rooms with windows or a lot of artificial lighting.
Sony Bravia 9 II arrives with diagonals of 65, 75, 85 and up to 115 inches, making it one of the most ambitious proposals on the market in terms of size. The bet on these large format diagonals This is not a coincidence, but rather responds to one of the great advantages of RGB MiniLED technology: offering image quality and depth of blacks close to OLEDin a screen size unattainable for this type of television.
On non-115-inch models, the screen includes Immersive Black Screen Pro screen treatment, a low-reflection, anti-glare coating developed with the participation of Sony Pictures Entertainment to ensure deep blacks and visible details even in dark scenes, in any lighting conditions. That is, less glare and reflections on the screen, without affecting color fidelity.
A complete family with audio included
The Bravia 9 II does not arrive alone. Sony presents it together with the Bravia 7 II, in which it applies the same True RGB technology, but in sizes of 50, 55, 65, 75, 85 and 98 inches, with X-Wide Angle technology to maintain color uniformity from wide viewing angles.
Both the Bravia 9II and its little sister Bravia 7 II share features aimed at home theater, such as My Cinema mode, which adjusts the image and sound to your living room and image modes calibrated for platforms such as Netflix, Prime Video and Sony Pictures Core, as well as support for Dolby Vision, IMAX Enhanced and Dolby Atmos audioDTS:X.
To complete the proposal, Sony presents the Bravia Theater Trioa three-speaker system (front left, right and center) developed in direct collaboration with the sound creators at Sony Pictures Entertainment.
This sound system uses 360 Spatial Sound Mapping technology to generate up to 24 virtual speakers and create an immersive soundstage from all directions.
Sony has not revealed the price of its new products, but all the products presented will be able to rbe kept from May 27.
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