The Sony Bravia beat many high ground players in picture quality. The TV delivers excellent picture quality. The OLED panel is especially well suited for a dark room, as the self-emissive technology delivers perfect blacks.
In darker scenes, shadows were deep and rich, without sacrificing ultra-fine details. Some OLED TVs will struggle with crushed blacks, where anything below a certain brightness becomes a single, undifferentiated black mass; the A9F had none of these issues.
Sony Bravia 65A9F is bright enough for most rooms, but it doesn’t get very bright with bright white scenes. It has an excellent wide color gamut. A9F is powered by the X1 Ultimate chip.
The X1 Ultimate is said to be double powerful as the X1 Extreme and also brings with it better picture processing along with object-based HDR rendering.
Like all OLED TVs, since each pixel is self-emitting there is no local dimming as each pixel can dim individually.
Sony has packed 65A9F with all the video processing and optimizing tricks it has, from the Sony’s top image-processing chip (X1 Ultimate) to Sony’s Triluminos Display, which configures images from a wider color palette to the Pixel Contrast Booster, which emphasizes the contrast offered by OLED’s perfect blacks and uses object-based enhancement that makes on-screen objects more unique.
Decent peak brightness in HDR and Good peak brightness in SDR on the 65A9F. The 65A9F has decent viewing angles nearly identical to the other 2018 OLED TVs, like the 65A8F, the image remains very accurate even at wide viewing angles.