Sony ZD9 - The 65in Sony ZD9 we're trying today is joined by the 75-inch KD-75ZD9 and the mammoth 100-inch KD-100ZD9. The Bravia KD65ZD9 retails at £3,999, which honestly is great esteem considering the remarkable execution on appear.
Alignment
Our Sony KD65ZD9BU audit test displayed a couple of peculiarities for alignment. Initially, a large portion of the settings including [Colour] and [Adv. shading temperature] are shared between SDR, HDR and 3D modes inside a similar picture preset on the same HDMI port. This implies in the event that you utilize a solitary source player (for instance the Panasonic UB900) to watch standard Blu-beam, 4K BD and 3D Blu-beams on the Z9D, you'd need to physically change to various (adjusted) picture presets in the event that you'd jump at the chance to encounter the best picture quality from each arrangement.
Additionally, on our audit unit, the Basic [RGB Gain] and [Bias] esteems continued as before crosswise over various [Colour Temperature] settings inside the same preset, keeping us from utilizing [Colour Temperature] as an alternate route to apply isolate day and night present adjusted settings on other HDMI contributions on the KD-65ZD9.
To wrap things up, the installed 10-point white adjust controls were dislodged unless [Contrast] was diminished to an esteem that is excessively low. Luckily, making alterations utilizing just the 2p white adjust framework was sufficient to accomplish precise greyscale on the 65Z9D. Our alignment outfit incorporated a profiled Klein K10-A meter, DVDO's AVLab TPG flag generator,
Shading
This was presumably the one uncommon event where we wished Sony had actualized a more propelled shading administration framework (CMS) on a Bravia TV past the essential [Colour] and [Hue] controls. As should be obvious from the CIE chart beneath, our 65-inch ZD9 test painted most hues in a somewhat oversaturated way. Hypothetically, bringing down the worldwide [Colour] setting could work to correct the oversaturation, yet shockingly by and by, doing as such likewise expanded the shading luminance mistakes, making it a no-go.
In any case, potential proprietors will be satisfied to realize that regardless of this mellow oversaturation, just 1 out of 140 patches measured in the Color Checker SG graph surpassed the humanly detectable edge of delta mistake (dE) 3. At the end of the day, hues would for the most part look exact and reasonable in genuine substance.
Picture Quality
The VA-sort LCD board actualized on the Sony KD65ZD9 yielded the joint-most profound local dark level (i.e. without the assistance of nearby diminishing) we've gauged from a Sony 4K TV to date. Subsequent to pegging crest white to our ordinary dull room focus of 120 cd/m2, our light meter recorded a figure of 0.048 disc/m2 from the focal dark fix on a 4×4 ANSI chequerboard design. On a full-field dark raster, dark level came in at 0.041 compact disc/m2 with [Auto neighborhood dimming] impaired.
Obviously, no proprietor in his/her correct personality would spend this much cash on a FALD LED LCD and not turn on neighborhood darkening. An advanced [Auto neighborhood dimming] setting would develop blacks considerably further to 0.029 cd/m2 on a 4×4 ANSI chequerboard design, and basically unmeasurable on a full-field dark raster since there were sufficient dimmable zones to close off the LEDs at the focal point of the screen.
Sony's neighborhood darkening calculation was so great, and the radiances so all around controlled, that we were attempting to decide the correct number of autonomously dimmable zones. Utilizing our own particular specially created test design containing a little white box creeping on a level plane then vertically against the edges of a dark screen, and in the wake of constraining HDR mode to misrepresent the haloing/sprouting, we tallied 36 vertical segments and 18 even columns, giving an aggregate of 648 diminishing zones. We'll be the first to concede this is just a guestimate, and the genuine number most likely lies somewhere close to 600 and 650.
Where the ZD9 edged in front of the OLED was in the region quite recently above dark. As Sandra Bullock was throwing through space in Gravity, her outline seemed more particular against the night sky, regardless of the possibility that the LG OLED rendered the stars brighter and the blacks further. To uncover comparable measures of shadow detail, the LG's [Brightness] and gamma would need to be acclimated to such a degree, to the point that the 0 cd/m2 blacks were demolished, or close dark antiquities were cruelly uncovered.
HDR
When adjusted to D65 white point, the Sony KD-65ZD9′s pinnacle splendor in HDR mode could be maintained over 1800 disc/m2 inconclusively (measured on UHDA-determined window sizes), cresting around 1870 cd/m2 toward the begin. This figure speaks to the most noteworthy we have on record as of now of composing, outperforming the pinnacle luminance produced by the past record holder, Samsung's KS9500/KS9800, by an extent of about 400 nits. Full-field crest shine achieved 745 disc/m2.
Gaming
The most reduced slack circumstances on the Sony ZD9 could be found in the [Game] and [Graphics] picture presets, measuring 42ms as indicated by our Leo Bodnar analyzer. [Auto nearby dimming] had be incapacitated, or else input slack would go up a touch to 45ms.
Conclusion
We've been long-term admirers of Sony's video preparing especially with regards to neighborhood diminishing calculation and movement smoothness, and when record-breaking details are added to the condition, the outcome is nothing not as much as astounding. Some may whine that the Bravia ZD9′s crest brilliance and FALD zone number missed the mark regarding the 4000 nits and 1000 zones exhibited on the organization's "Backdrop illumination Master Drive" model at CES, yet Sony expected to make a residential TV that is semi moderate for the majority, and regardless the KD-65ZD9 easily conveyed the most entrancing HDR introduction we've seen up until now.