If you are watching For a premium 2025 TV, the latest round of best OLEDs has spoiled you to like. Using LG and Panasonic using LG’s new breakthrough four-stack panels, and Samsung and Sony have shared Samsung’s most advanced QD-OLED panel yet, this year four tantalizing top-tier OLED TV Hitting Stores, each is an offering to a notable glitter boost to enhance a remarkable glow.
What Sony has done with Samsung’s new performance is a word, beautiful. Funny Bravia 8 II, which replaces the grand A95L (9/10, recommendation of Wires) of 2023, is luxurious with punch brightness, expressive and natural colors, and Sony’s sweet image is processing for a photo so that some images look almost three-dimensional.
For all its talents, Bravia 8 II has some downsides compared to the unprecedented LG G5 (9/10, wired), which has been replaced on my console, which includes lower peak brightness and a background that is more deep wooden coal than the pitch black, which leads to a lowering coal. For gaming, Sony continues to skimp on connectivity with only two HDMI 2.1 ports.
As a sound of these complaints, they are elevated by pricing: 65-inch Bravia 8 II model I reviewed lists of $ 700 more than the G5 status at the launch at the launch of $ 700 as high (although existing exists). Do not make any mistake: This is still a great TV for the right buyer, which surprisingly stunned the premium screen of 2025 offers a front-in-spot space (and sounds). As always, if you want the best processing that can buy money, this Sony is a clear winner.
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Photograph: Ryan Vaniata
Unlike most TVs in its orbit, Sony’s top OLED again oppose the legs in remote sides of the panel instead of a pedestal stand. This can be helpful for soundbar placement where large paddles cause trouble, but until your console is 60 inches wide, you will need to climb the TV as I did. The Mount screw of 8 II has been kept low, which means that the TV sat more than as much as I wanted, which is something to note if your mount is already.
The TV is subtlely stylish, which has plastic checkers familiar in the back panel, and there are paper-thin bezels out of front. There are some reservations bias here, but I cannot help see how milky the panel looks compared to the black zero of LG G5, which I paid attention to during my evaluation. On the bright (or rather dark) side, the reflection of the TV is the best that I have seen, which is spreading almost everything but direct lighting, without a full matte look of the latest models of Samsung.
The software setup is a relative chinch with the plug-end-go layout of Google TV, allowing you to adjust most criteria with your phone and G suite credentials. I am a fan of the overall ride of Google TV, especially the ability to use Google photos as a screen saver, only about the time when I remind me of the previous adventures. Sony’s implementation has improved with each recurrence, and in addition to Google’s highly enthusiastic advertisements, I had no complaints in the weeks of almost smooth streaming and navigation.
This includes zumi channel surfing through 50-odd channels via my HD antenna with compact remote Bravia 8II’s compact remote. The remote is simple but comfortable, especially compared to the oriented G5 remote, although it would be good if it was a backlit, given that 8 II – such as all OLED – do their best work in low light.
