r/sony

Bought this TV because I thought it would be a dimmer TV for a bedroom, however, this Sony is unexpectedly too bright for me. It's not the peak brightness in content, it's the overall light output of the TV (Anyone know the correct terminology for that)? Have tweaked settings as recommended, also for easy on eyes. But even with the brightness on MINIMUM, it's still very bright for me. The home menu is the worst.

Basically, if this TV was a lightbulb, it could use a dimmer switch or lower wattage.

Questions:

1. This is my first Sony, are they all this bright?
2. Am limited because I need 43 inch, anyone have any less bright TV suggestions? (cheap TVs ok) Just want to watch a few streaming shows.
3. Are there any Settings to knock down brightness I might have overlooked?
4. At the store, the Sony Bravia 2ii was dimmer than this one, so am considering that, but it wasn't showing the home menu, so hard to tell. Anyone have feedback on comparative screen brightness on the 2 ii model, or the Bravia 3? Thanks so much.

While I am disappointed that Sony will stop making physical games, and the PS6 probably won't have a Disc drive, this is partially our fault. As consumers, we watched physical media being increasingly phased out, and didn't protest it. Disc drives were removed from computers, and we were silent. CD players were removed from Cars, and we were silent. Now that it's happening to Consoles, we now notice that it's a problem? We should have been protesting this a decade ago so it wouldn't come to this point.