The Bravia 7 ii and 9 ii blow the 8 ii out of the water.
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The Bravia 7 ii and 9 ii blow the 8 ii out of the water.
I saw the 7 ii, 9 ii next to the 8 ii and the regular 8 all together with the same demo reel at Best Buy. At times you couldn't tell the 8 ii from the RGB TVs. At other times, the RGB TVs from Sony dominated it. The puppy scenes were where the RGB TVs just looked a generation ahead of the QDOLED.
The mix of dark and light Kratos scene is where the 8 ii looked better on parts of Kratos body along the shoulders but the RGB TVs just had far more outright victories in the reel. They didn't just look better in certain parts like 8 ii where parts of the ground in one grass shot had better black dirt or the Kratos scene where only a portion of the scene was better. It was the entire image. It was like a veil was lifted off the image with RGB TVs. When they won they dominated the entire scene on screen.
The OLEDS just looked dim and couldn't touch the RGB TVs on color. They always looked better on color, often times to a ridiculous degree. It shocked me how little the on paper contrast advantage showed up in that particular demo. At least with that particular demo, RGB was clearly the better mix of traits. But it all comes back to the scenes with puppies. The brightness was clearly a super power that brought about far more clarity and color. QDOLED can hang in some scenes just to get blown out in quite a few others. Second and third generation RGB TVs are going to be ridiculous. No way would I choose the 8 ii over either one.
The Bravia 7 ii looked identical to 9 ii most of the time and there was very little difference when they differed. In fact, a few times it was brighter in certain parts of the screen. I would have no problem getting the 7 II and saving some money.