Sony’s Bravia 9 is the most luxurious variant in its 2024 lineup, and the company’s background for untouched TVs is that it was designed according to its untouched BVM-HX3110 professional track, which lets creators create movies and TV productions in 4K/ Provides the ability to understand. HDR with highlights up to 4,000 nits. That’s a hefty brightness boost compared to Sony’s first professional track, which peaked at 1,000 nits. It would take years for anything mastered with such a high-end glossy degree to become popular in Hollywood, although Sony says it wants to provide viewers with a top-rate TV option, now it’s up to speed. .
In our Sony Bravia 9 evaluation, its same old image method had a low peak brightness of about 2,300 nits, which is more than any TV TechRadar has tested so far. Neatly, almost — in the hands-on test of the TCL QM851G mini-LED TV that we conducted in May, the company’s low-end flagship model was twice as bright as the Bravia 9. However, the end result was that once completed within the Brilliant Image method, it was the only method to be finalized on life.
I’ve recently been working on a thorough evaluation of the TCL QM851G and was able to test it with a Sony Bravia 9. As part of that process, I watched different reference film clips and TV presentations on each TV. Both were able to take their respective film image methods – and the Dolby Ocular Glorious method for content with Dolby Ocular HDR – to better levels of clarity during the research. Switching to the film method reduced the brightness heights for each TV dramatically: the Bravia 9 now dimly lit to 1,871 nits, and the QM851G dimly lit to 3,035 nits.
One qualification I would like to point out is that after the TCL measurement was done, I changed its brightness and twilight degree image settings because each were too low within the default film method, which applied the “Eco” adjustment. Does. Before making those changes, TCL’s maximum brightness dropped to 2,859 nits, still a degree above average for a Mini-LED TV.
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I began watching with the overhead lighting turned on, and both TVs still looked extremely lifelike. This was especially evident with sporting events like the unwatched New York Yankees vs. Baltimore Orioles game that I streamed on Amazon Top Video. The whites of the Yankee players’ uniforms appeared hidden, and the orange and purple colors of the golf green turf and signage also appeared bright and vibrant – and this was in the film image method, with its relatively muted image.
The main reason both TVs look so good is that they have superb full-screen brightness: I slurred about 500 nits on the Sony and 801 nits on the TCL, respectively, in movie mode. For modes like sporting activities, where the picture is softly illuminated through stadium lighting, having a high luminous degree throughout the cover makes an impressive addition. And the day TCL started shining overhead here, I didn’t need any TVs—each TV looked attractive enough, even with the overhead room lighting fixtures on.
The most notable issue in my analysis was the inadequacy of hidden brightness on both TVs. Both the Sony and TCL have an anti-reflection concealer that effectively reduces glare from luminous resources in the room. Display glare will always be less of an issue with live content like games, although it can seriously release image element on dark colors with deep blacks and shadows – Dragon’s Field For example, at max.
When the overhead lighting in my room was on, I saw a scene Dragon’s Field Season two, episode one, where Alison Hightower talks to her father, the King’s Hand, and more, where Mysore is interrogated by Daemon Targaryen in a dungeon. Shadowy backgrounds appeared deep and suggestive in both scenes, without on-screen glare reducing image contrast or clarity on both TVs.
When I turned off the lighting devices and watched in an unlit environment, the candles in Alicent’s chamber appeared to glow powerfully on both TVs, and their respective native dimming functions made sure to prevent brightness bleeding into the nearly black background.
I’ll have a fair amount of additional information to mention about the TCL QM851G Mini-LED TV once the full review is posted, but as you can surely tell, my initial impression is favorable. It surpasses the Sony Bravia 9 as the brightest TV we’ve tested so far, even if the QM851G, in its movie image mode, is no longer that brilliant we were limited to measuring during our May hands-on testing. Have done.
However, what became interesting during my Sony vs TCL comparison is that exceptionally top-notch brightness isn’t everything when it comes to the image component. Sony’s Bravia 9, with relatively little glare, had an equally impressive image with darker 4K/HDR content like sports activities and movies. Dragon’s Field,
The takeaway for TV consumers? Optional aspects like anti-reflection concealment and native dimming efficiency add weight to the Luminous equivalent and should rarely be considered when choosing a TV.