**Sony A9G: The Best 4K TV of the Year**

The Sony A9G is an outstanding television that showcases the company's expertise in picture quality and processing. This TV has been put to the test, and it's clear that it's a game-changer. The reviewer is thrilled with the results, praising the TV's ability to scale everything from zero nits all the way up to 1600-1700 nits without clipping. This level of brightness is outstanding, especially considering the TV's OLED panel.

The tone mapping on this TV is also impressive, with the reviewer noting that it seems to be doing a great job of balancing different elements in the image. The out-of-box color in Cinema mode is particularly noteworthy, as it sets a high standard for what to expect from any modern TV. While the reviewer does mention that some calibration may be necessary to get the HDR just right, they're quick to emphasize that this TV is already an exceptional performer.

One of the standout features of the Sony A9G is its processing. This TV boasts the best Sony processor yet, which has been honed to deliver a truly magical viewing experience. The reviewer notes that Sony's magic processing has really brought out the best in the LG OLED panel, making it feel like a premium product. In fact, this TV won the recent TV shootout, and its superior performance is largely due to this impressive processing.

The Sony A9G also delivers on other fronts, such as color accuracy and brightness. The reviewer notes that cable TV looks great on this TV, thanks to Sony's ability to clean up the signal. Overall, this TV is designed to deliver an exceptional viewing experience, with black levels, peak brightness, and color all perfectly suited for most use cases.

**Potential Drawbacks**

While the Sony A9G is an outstanding television, it does come with some caveats. As an OLED TV, it's susceptible to burn-in under extreme circumstances – watching the same channel every day for months on end could potentially lead to image retention or screen burn-in. However, Sony has included features that aim to mitigate this risk.

**Conclusion**

The Sony A9G is an absolute masterpiece of a television, and it sets a high standard for what's possible in 4K picture quality. While it may not be the most affordable option, with prices starting at $3800 for the 65-inch model, it's clear that this TV is worth every penny. The reviewer is thoroughly impressed with its performance, and we agree – this TV is an excellent choice for anyone looking to upgrade their home entertainment setup.

**Comparison to Other TVs**

While the Sony A9G may not be the only 4K TV on the market, it's certainly one of the best. As mentioned earlier, LG's 8k OLED TV is also worth considering – however, we're comfortable calling this TV the best 4k TV we've seen so far. The lack of HDMI 2.1 support may be a drawback for some, but the inclusion of EARC (enhanced audio return channel) makes up for it.

**Gaming Performance**

The Sony A9G is also worth noting in terms of gaming performance – while it doesn't have variable refresh rate, it's clear that this TV will provide an exceptional gaming experience with newer EARC audio equipment. We'll see if the upcoming year brings any improvements to this front.

**Final Verdict**

Overall, we're extremely impressed with the Sony A9G, and it's easy to see why it won our recent TV shootout. While not without its drawbacks – particularly in terms of burn-in susceptibility – this TV offers an exceptional viewing experience that's well worth considering for anyone looking to upgrade their home entertainment setup.

**Additional Resources**

If you're interested in learning more about the Sony A9G or other TVs, be sure to check out our collection of articles and videos on Digital Trends. We've got expert analysis, reviews, and more to help you make an informed decision when it comes to choosing your next TV.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enI gotta be honest with you this TV review is kind of a big deal it's not kind of a big deal it's a really big deal for me and I'll tell you why every year this gentleman Robertson who owns value electronics puts together a TV shootout where he invites all the foremost authorities on TVs and TV technology they get in a room with all the best TVs of the year and they vote on them and at the end of the day they come out with what they claim is the best TV of the year the TV behind me right now is supposedly that TV I am of course talking about the Sony a 9 G OLED the TV that finally knocked LG off of its perch LG it was the reigning champion for the last four years and I personally have ranked our TVs as the best here at digital trends because they work but this year does look a little bit different the question is do I agree with them is this really the best TV of the year we're about to find out I'm gonna talk about picture quality in a minute I won't drone on too long I know you guys hate it when I do that but I have to talk about everything that isn't picture quality so just forget this amazingness happening right here right now and take a look at the design of this television I mean the bezels are remarkably thin the TV panel itself is very thin it's got great cable management in the back a small footprint for the stand which i think is a really big deal for a lot of people and it sits right down on the stand itself so it kind of has this appearance of just floating on the media stand and if you wall mount it it's gonna look fantastic as well another thing that you want to note this screen is the speaker so it's got a couple of actuators back there and the screen makes the sound also if you have an elaborate home theater system with an AV receiver and what-have-you you can use the TV as the center channel there's little speaker inputs on the back you just run your speaker wire to it and there's no need to have a separate speaker it will function very well as the center channel now audio files may balk at that because there is a notion of having voice matching across all different speakers but I'm telling you it functions really well and hey if you don't want a full-on home theater system this TV sounds fantastic all on its own it's got a couple little subwoofers in the back so it has a big robust sound I totally approve of the sound quality of this TV now I want to take a second to talk about Android TV mister barclays I've hated an Atari TV and it's not the platform itself so much as the fact that it's a resource hog really hard to drive but Sony made a chip that makes it lightning-fast so all the lag that I experienced and hate it in the past is now gone I'm not a fan of some of the sponsored content that I see popping up but you know what that's kind of par for the course with pretty much every Smart TV platform these days so yeah I'm gonna call Android TV overall a win for this TV I mean you get chromecast you get the Google assistant it works great okay now we're gonna get to the picture performance of this review and I want to remind everybody what we're looking at is an LG OLED panel what makes this TV different is the processing so let's throw some patterns up there see how that behaves and then we can talk about really what the picture quality is like to experience when you're sitting in front of this thing okay so if you follow my TV reviews this pattern should look familiar by now we've got really bright boxes in each corner what we're looking for is halo and there is none now it may appear to you that there is but that's actually just optical trickery if I cover up one of these boxes with like a black piece of paper there is a hard stop it's jet black beyond the border of that white box and that's what you expect from olan same deal here we have black boxes next to white boxes we're looking for some bleed we don't want those black boxes to look gray which they will on most LED TVs and here again we're getting perfect black levels out of these dark boxes things get a little bit trickier with this test pattern though we're an HDR right now and what we should be seeing on the right-hand side of the screen are three individual bars instead of just one big white mass that indicates to me that this TV is clipping in that area it's not doing too bad a job with the blacks we're getting a little bit of resolution on the far left there before it drops to full black but I find this really curious let's look at the next test pattern this is also supposed to be a ramp but I don't see any segmentation at all let me switch it to h LG HDR really quick and now you can see in hybrid log gamma HDR we are getting a ramp and if I put this back into SDR mode we'll see the ramp there as well just not as bright so I'm not sure exactly what's going on here because I'm not seeing that kind of clipping in real life content will circle back and check with another test in just a moment okay so I just switched over to the new Spears and Munsell UHD evaluation disc this thing is amazing for reviewers and calibrators and I'm happy to see what I'm seeing right now so it appears that the TV is not actually clipping until somewhere around 1600 1700 nits which is outstanding that means that it's scaling everything from zero nets all the way up to that level very well I'm happy to see this tone mapping I don't know what's going on with my video Forge Pro but we'll figure it out otherwise everything looks fantastic especially the out of box color in the cinema mode is totally acceptable I do think that this TV deserves the benefit of a professional calibration especially to get HDR just right but make no mistake right out of the box this thing is going to dazzle you test patterns are great because they help us keep things objective we can take measurements and we can drill down to where the TV is behaving particularly well or maybe not so well but you don't need test patterns to see how absolutely beautiful this TV is everybody at Digital Trends who's come into this room and taking a look at this television even just playing YouTube videos has been absolutely gobsmacked and that's because it just really launches out at you and grabs you and this all comes down to Sony's processing this has the best Sony processor yet and I've been a fan of Sony's processing since the XBR days back when they were making the Vega television and yes I just dated myself but the fact of the matter is I've always enjoyed the look of a Sony television and I'm especially enjoying the look of this particular Sony TV it's an LG OLED panel but it's Sony's magic processing that's really bringing it home and I think the reason that this TV won the TV shootout that I mentioned earlier is because of that processing I think that Sony has been very judicious about where it wants to put its peak brightness in the highlights and how it wants to handle low luminance levels in the black areas like all other old LEDs it struggles a little bit in that area but they managed to map everything so that everything you watch is just magical it looks fantastic even cable TV looks good on this television and like cable doesn't look good on anything that's Sony cleaning up the signal so what you're getting here is absolutely amazing black levels perfectly suitable brightness I wouldn't worry at all about putting this TV in a bright room it looks fantastic the color is great you sit down and you just love this TV so are there any downsides well yeah as an OLED it's susceptible to burn in under extreme circumstances so here comes the disclaimer if you watch the same TV channel every single day all day for months and months and months on end ultimately you could see a little bit of image retention or screen burn in happen the sony tv does have some stuff that helps try to abate that but like if you abuse the TV with hardcore viewing like that yeah you're gonna get a little bit of burnin and maybe this TV isn't for you in that case but for pretty much everybody else if you're looking for the best picture quality of money can buy the Sony a 9 G is offering that right now is it the best TV I've ever seen well there is the 8k OLED from LG that's pretty stinkin fantastic but I am comfortable calling this the best 4k TV I've seen so far and it gets me really excited about where TV technology is going how it could be better well maybe if it was a little bit friendlier towards gamers it doesn't have HDMI 2.1 speck it does the EARC so you get the uncompressed dolby atmos and with newer EARC audio equipment you won't have any latency with like a sound bar or what-have-you but it doesn't do variable refresh rate yet and I think that's something we're gonna see next year are they expensive TVs yeah they're a little pricey but I mean the picture quality you get for the price I think is outstanding we're looking at like 2800 for the 55 inch 3800 for the 65 inch and let's say you want to go crazy and get the 77 inch model yeah that's gonna run you about seven grand which is super hefty but I think $3,800 at a 65-inch is just money picture quality to me absolutely fantastic so Best 4k TV of the year absolutely worth buying totally are there any major faults with this TV no I think it's setting the standard for everybody this year folks thank you so much for watching we really appreciate it hit like subscribing that notification bell hit me up in the comment section did I get it right did I get it what else would you like to see done with this television we'll try to make it happen as always here's a couple of videos we think you might like and always visit Digital Trends calm for the latest tech news and reviewsI gotta be honest with you this TV review is kind of a big deal it's not kind of a big deal it's a really big deal for me and I'll tell you why every year this gentleman Robertson who owns value electronics puts together a TV shootout where he invites all the foremost authorities on TVs and TV technology they get in a room with all the best TVs of the year and they vote on them and at the end of the day they come out with what they claim is the best TV of the year the TV behind me right now is supposedly that TV I am of course talking about the Sony a 9 G OLED the TV that finally knocked LG off of its perch LG it was the reigning champion for the last four years and I personally have ranked our TVs as the best here at digital trends because they work but this year does look a little bit different the question is do I agree with them is this really the best TV of the year we're about to find out I'm gonna talk about picture quality in a minute I won't drone on too long I know you guys hate it when I do that but I have to talk about everything that isn't picture quality so just forget this amazingness happening right here right now and take a look at the design of this television I mean the bezels are remarkably thin the TV panel itself is very thin it's got great cable management in the back a small footprint for the stand which i think is a really big deal for a lot of people and it sits right down on the stand itself so it kind of has this appearance of just floating on the media stand and if you wall mount it it's gonna look fantastic as well another thing that you want to note this screen is the speaker so it's got a couple of actuators back there and the screen makes the sound also if you have an elaborate home theater system with an AV receiver and what-have-you you can use the TV as the center channel there's little speaker inputs on the back you just run your speaker wire to it and there's no need to have a separate speaker it will function very well as the center channel now audio files may balk at that because there is a notion of having voice matching across all different speakers but I'm telling you it functions really well and hey if you don't want a full-on home theater system this TV sounds fantastic all on its own it's got a couple little subwoofers in the back so it has a big robust sound I totally approve of the sound quality of this TV now I want to take a second to talk about Android TV mister barclays I've hated an Atari TV and it's not the platform itself so much as the fact that it's a resource hog really hard to drive but Sony made a chip that makes it lightning-fast so all the lag that I experienced and hate it in the past is now gone I'm not a fan of some of the sponsored content that I see popping up but you know what that's kind of par for the course with pretty much every Smart TV platform these days so yeah I'm gonna call Android TV overall a win for this TV I mean you get chromecast you get the Google assistant it works great okay now we're gonna get to the picture performance of this review and I want to remind everybody what we're looking at is an LG OLED panel what makes this TV different is the processing so let's throw some patterns up there see how that behaves and then we can talk about really what the picture quality is like to experience when you're sitting in front of this thing okay so if you follow my TV reviews this pattern should look familiar by now we've got really bright boxes in each corner what we're looking for is halo and there is none now it may appear to you that there is but that's actually just optical trickery if I cover up one of these boxes with like a black piece of paper there is a hard stop it's jet black beyond the border of that white box and that's what you expect from olan same deal here we have black boxes next to white boxes we're looking for some bleed we don't want those black boxes to look gray which they will on most LED TVs and here again we're getting perfect black levels out of these dark boxes things get a little bit trickier with this test pattern though we're an HDR right now and what we should be seeing on the right-hand side of the screen are three individual bars instead of just one big white mass that indicates to me that this TV is clipping in that area it's not doing too bad a job with the blacks we're getting a little bit of resolution on the far left there before it drops to full black but I find this really curious let's look at the next test pattern this is also supposed to be a ramp but I don't see any segmentation at all let me switch it to h LG HDR really quick and now you can see in hybrid log gamma HDR we are getting a ramp and if I put this back into SDR mode we'll see the ramp there as well just not as bright so I'm not sure exactly what's going on here because I'm not seeing that kind of clipping in real life content will circle back and check with another test in just a moment okay so I just switched over to the new Spears and Munsell UHD evaluation disc this thing is amazing for reviewers and calibrators and I'm happy to see what I'm seeing right now so it appears that the TV is not actually clipping until somewhere around 1600 1700 nits which is outstanding that means that it's scaling everything from zero nets all the way up to that level very well I'm happy to see this tone mapping I don't know what's going on with my video Forge Pro but we'll figure it out otherwise everything looks fantastic especially the out of box color in the cinema mode is totally acceptable I do think that this TV deserves the benefit of a professional calibration especially to get HDR just right but make no mistake right out of the box this thing is going to dazzle you test patterns are great because they help us keep things objective we can take measurements and we can drill down to where the TV is behaving particularly well or maybe not so well but you don't need test patterns to see how absolutely beautiful this TV is everybody at Digital Trends who's come into this room and taking a look at this television even just playing YouTube videos has been absolutely gobsmacked and that's because it just really launches out at you and grabs you and this all comes down to Sony's processing this has the best Sony processor yet and I've been a fan of Sony's processing since the XBR days back when they were making the Vega television and yes I just dated myself but the fact of the matter is I've always enjoyed the look of a Sony television and I'm especially enjoying the look of this particular Sony TV it's an LG OLED panel but it's Sony's magic processing that's really bringing it home and I think the reason that this TV won the TV shootout that I mentioned earlier is because of that processing I think that Sony has been very judicious about where it wants to put its peak brightness in the highlights and how it wants to handle low luminance levels in the black areas like all other old LEDs it struggles a little bit in that area but they managed to map everything so that everything you watch is just magical it looks fantastic even cable TV looks good on this television and like cable doesn't look good on anything that's Sony cleaning up the signal so what you're getting here is absolutely amazing black levels perfectly suitable brightness I wouldn't worry at all about putting this TV in a bright room it looks fantastic the color is great you sit down and you just love this TV so are there any downsides well yeah as an OLED it's susceptible to burn in under extreme circumstances so here comes the disclaimer if you watch the same TV channel every single day all day for months and months and months on end ultimately you could see a little bit of image retention or screen burn in happen the sony tv does have some stuff that helps try to abate that but like if you abuse the TV with hardcore viewing like that yeah you're gonna get a little bit of burnin and maybe this TV isn't for you in that case but for pretty much everybody else if you're looking for the best picture quality of money can buy the Sony a 9 G is offering that right now is it the best TV I've ever seen well there is the 8k OLED from LG that's pretty stinkin fantastic but I am comfortable calling this the best 4k TV I've seen so far and it gets me really excited about where TV technology is going how it could be better well maybe if it was a little bit friendlier towards gamers it doesn't have HDMI 2.1 speck it does the EARC so you get the uncompressed dolby atmos and with newer EARC audio equipment you won't have any latency with like a sound bar or what-have-you but it doesn't do variable refresh rate yet and I think that's something we're gonna see next year are they expensive TVs yeah they're a little pricey but I mean the picture quality you get for the price I think is outstanding we're looking at like 2800 for the 55 inch 3800 for the 65 inch and let's say you want to go crazy and get the 77 inch model yeah that's gonna run you about seven grand which is super hefty but I think $3,800 at a 65-inch is just money picture quality to me absolutely fantastic so Best 4k TV of the year absolutely worth buying totally are there any major faults with this TV no I think it's setting the standard for everybody this year folks thank you so much for watching we really appreciate it hit like subscribing that notification bell hit me up in the comment section did I get it right did I get it what else would you like to see done with this television we'll try to make it happen as always here's a couple of videos we think you might like and always visit Digital Trends calm for the latest tech news and reviews\n"