Sony Bravia 5 Review: An Excellent Mid-Tier TV for Cinephiles

Speaking of 4K Blu-rays, this TV truly showed disconnected its fantabulous processing erstwhile successful Movie mode and watching a precocious acquired transcript of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo. The gorgeous usage of airy and shadiness was presented without assertive blooming, and the colors looked heavy and well-saturated. A country wherever the 2 leads look the Golden Gate Bridge looks peculiarly similar a coating connected this screen, praise that belongs to the XR spot and Sony’s fantabulous usage of multi-zone, mini-LED backlighting.

Streaming apps delivered still-great quality, and it besides did good successful darker scenes from Apple TV’s Pluribus, and successful Sport mode erstwhile streaming F1. Colors were vivid, and the TV’s 120-Hz refresh complaint was connected afloat display, but not rather arsenic heavy arsenic erstwhile I plugged successful Sony’s PlayStation 5 Pro. Gran Turismo looks creaseless and realistic successful Gaming mode, with the adaptable refresh complaint helping everything enactment smooth, adjacent erstwhile doing hard-to-process things similar bedewed races successful shiny cars.

This surface is disposable successful a wide assortment of sizes, from 55 inches each the mode up to a gargantuan 98 inches (enjoy hanging that connected the wall), and I ideate the higher sizes are apt wherever a batch of folks volition store for this exemplary alternatively than a importantly pricier enactment successful Bravias 7, 8, oregon 9.

Competitors see the TCL QM6K, Hisense U8QG, and Samsung QN80F. The TCL is cheaper, looks brighter, and has an arsenic usable interface. The Sony has better, much earthy processing. The Hisense is simply a spot harsher-looking but does awesome successful the brightest rooms, making it a large prime for anyone who doesn’t privation oregon request Sony Pictures Core and watches much casually. Samsung has astonishing mini-LED quantum dot panels, but an annoying interface and nary Dolby Vision support.

Sony is intelligibly a premium prime successful this class for processing, but fixed that it does outgo a just magnitude much than the contention and the surface isn't arsenic bright, it is worthy asking yourself: How often bash I program connected watching high-end contented connected this TV?

If you’ve been increasing your integer media, Plex server, oregon 4K Blu-ray collection, the Sony mightiness beryllium the amended buy. If not, much affordable brands with arsenic large streaming apps (and astir identical displays) mightiness enactment great, particularly successful brighter rooms.