Sony BRAVIA 7 Reddit Verdict: Great TV, Wrong Room Kills It

You'll never notice the difference once the set is in your home and not mounted directly next to the alternative.

B7 owner for a little more than a year now. Love it! Reflections are real, but manageable. When I saw it in the store next to the B8, I knew I was going to be a mini LED person. It draws you in. I'm sure OLED is great for movies in the dark, but the B7 is perfect for my needs. Great all around.

Bravia 7 viewing angle and reflection handling complaints, in my opinion, are blown way out of proportion.

No regrets with our purchase, the Bravia 7 is excellent with beautiful picture quality. We bought a 75" and since the TV is wide it's easy to sit in front of it. And I don't notice much contrast degradation unless I move way off angle.

I just got the 65" B7 about a month ago and I absolutely love it. I glad I went mini LED over OLED.

I'm not really understanding where the salesguy is coming from. You can see the blooming if you are on an angle but from straight ahead it's surprisingly good. The X90L for sure has bloom, its still a good TV for the price but its a step down from the 7.

The Bravia 7 is so well priced now, it's hard not to buy it. The 85" is 1999. It may even get lower when new ones come out, but if they are RGB Mini's as rumored, they will cost a lot more. The Bravia 7 has an amazing picture and hard to distinguish from the 9, unless you are off angle, or have reflections.

I agree, I have had the Bravia 7 for a couple of months. I got it for 1199 with the backlit remote from Costco which is nice. Everything you throw at this tv looks great. Prior I had the LG C2, this might be a hot take, but the Bravia 7 is so much better, especially for hdr highlights on the ps5. I never could get my LG oled to pop like the Sony. I'm happy with my purchase.

Sales guy is trying to sell you the more expensive tv.

Note that Mini-LED blooming looks horrible on video or when viewing the TV from odd angles. I would recommend you try demo-ing them in person straight-on before dismissing them because with the natural properties of our eyes, the high end models look almost OLED-like, the blooming almost seems to be filtered out by your brain. As an OLED+Subtitles guy, I was mighty impressed.

I have had the B7 for a little over a week now, and its great. I have a similar situation as you and use case. I don't notice it at all. Works great in a bright room. The view angles are way overblown IMO. But, some people like to have the best of the best and nitpick every little detail, which is fine, but this is a great TV and we are loving it.

Nah. I like my B7, but if I saw it side by side with a B9, I might regret it, but I got a 65" B7 from Costco with their warranty for $1198, so can't complain and a 65" B9 would have been easily what, $1,500 more?

I've had a Bravia 7 75" for a year now and I still love it. The reflection issue has been non existent for me. I paired it with a ub820 and a denon x3800 with an additional amplifier and full atmos. It's an awesome set.

The Bravia 9 has the better IC chips that control the local dimming zones, the same IC chips used in the Sony miniled reference master monitor the bvm310. The Bravia 9 also has the x-wide angle and anti-reflections features. The bravia 7 does get insanely close to the Bravia 9 though on a lot of side by side tests.

Honestly the Bravia 7 is a great TV. You really can't go wrong with a Sony. I had the same dilemma as you and read a comment on this subreddit that basically said 'if you're questioning which one maybe that means the extra money for the B9 is something you can't swing' and that advice alone made me grab the B7 without regret.

I freaking love my Bravia 9. Mini Led ftw.

I've had my 85" 2024 B7 for over a week coming from a x91j. Great TV. There is very little out of the box changes needed. Color is incredible, especially the reds. Very good contrast. Plays incredible with the PS5. No regrets.

Came from a very burnt in LG oled B7v. Loved it but the burn in got too much. Got the Bravia 7 since December. Still love it and don't miss OLED at all. Maybe in the occasional dark scene it ain't as good with black levels but 95% of the time its awesome.

Bravia 7 is amazing, compared it against the Bravia 8 several times in different stores before getting it a week ago. The angle issue that reviews keep mentioning is a non issue in real life in a normal room. The brightness of the miniLED is amazing and has really good colors, and if you don't have an OLED tv next to it has amazing black level in a dark room at night.

Yes I have the 7 and it's amazing for the price. Go for it.

I got the Bravia 7 and it's a brilliant TV. I wanted the 9 but couldn't justify the extra cost. I paid £1,385 for 65" Bravia 7 in UK after getting 10% off. Getting the 9 at same screen size would have cost me 1614 more. Yeh obviously the 9 will be better, it should be, but the 7 is a quality TV.

The only thing I didn't like was its motion and blacks. I went with the 8. The 7 is amazing for 95% of people. You can't beat the value. At the time the 8 was only 200 more when I bought.

I've got mine in a dark room, and never thought to myself 'I wish I was watching this upstairs on my OLED'. Blacks are very impressive. And being in a dark room you won't experience the reflection issues known with the 7.

Yes. After having different TVs Sony TVs still have great image processing that others do not.

Just jumped on a BRAVIA 7 yesterday. My 5 year old Samsung QLED bricked and I went back and forth between the Sony and a TCL QM7. Last night I dialed in the RTINGS calibration settings and loaded up Game of Thrones Season 8 Ep 3 and was blown away by the blacks. This episode is notoriously dark and the QLED was so blotchy and pixelated. The BRAVIA is spectacular. The blacks are crisp and clean.

I got one for almost 1.5 years now. I think its mainly a cheap and safe choice, but not the best choice. I mean I got it for a very good price back then. Around €500 less than the LG C series OLED. Also the energy consumption is less than OLED. With safe I mean you don't risk potential burn-in.

I have a bravia 7 and there is judder on literally everything filmed in 24p. I'm not sure if it's a modern tv problem, the model or a defect but for the price I paid I'm not always satisfied. Especially since Sony is said to have the best motion processing.

I have the Bravia 7, 8 and 9 all in different rooms. Honestly the only tv I would not buy again is the 7. If the tv is going in a darker room I would definitely buy the 8 again. If reflections and daytime watching mostly is going to be your thing for this tv just spend the extra cash and get the 9. The viewing angles and dimming are just not as good with the 7 compared to the 9.

I personally find Bravia 7 to have terrible reflection issues and that makes all the screen improvements less enjoyable.

My room is brighter during the day than I thought, so reflections can still be an annoyance even with the B9. Also, the Sony TVs have known problems with some AVRs connected with HDMI. The symptom is audio dropouts where I lose sound and have to use the TV speakers.

I recently upgraded from a 55" Sony X90L to a 65" Bravia 7 because the B7 was on closeout at Costco for $700 with a 5 year warranty. I am very happy with my Bravia 7 and it is vastly superior to the X90L. I agree that off angle viewing issues are way overblown, but can see where reflections may be an issue for some.

Currently watching my 75 inch Bravia 7 I got 2 weeks ago, and absolutely love it. I actually had the Samsung S90F OLED and returned it. My sitting arrangements are almost the same as yours as well, no issues. Go for it, you'll love it.

I couldn't be any happier with it, especially considering the price difference. If the difference was about 500 then I might have gotten the 9. Otherwise I see no alternative and no regrets about it.

I got an open box Bravia 7 85 inch and love it. I came from a Sony X90 that died. The blacks are great for a miniLED as it's close to an OLED and I agree, the viewing angle isn't as bad as reviews claim.

Nope. Saw them side by side and could not justify paying nearly double for it. B9 is amazing but not 2x the price amazing. It's maybe 25% better for almost 100% the price increase. B7 is amazing.

Reflections are horrible. It is basically the x95J with a bit more brightness but lower side angle view and lower build quality and significant reflections compared to x95J. I ended up moving my B7 to the basement with low/no lights and moved my qn90b into the living room.

Its ok. I really wish I had paid the extra for the bravia 9 instead. For the glossy screen + better viewing angles + higher brightness. It's too similar but better than my X90L without the blooming. I'll be definitely upgrading this TV to an RGB mini led or whatever Sony's flagship is next year.

I watched the video. The portion where they showed the blooming has now essentially convinced me I need an OLED. I watch a lot of content with subtitles, and the example displayed would bother me. I am used to plasma.

Honestly it's a good tv. Nothing amazing. If I could go back in time I would've got an OLED alternative. It's so true that once you have an OLED almost every other type of TV looks pretty meh. Brightness with the b7 is great and reflections and glare is pretty much a non issue for me.

Absolutely love my 85inch Bravia 7. I was hesitant at first with all the rubbish about bad angles, reflections. I'm glad I ignored that. Best choice I made in years. Love Sony. I have a 140inch projector, stopped using it since I got the Bravia 7.

I also just bought a Bravia 7 85 inch, coming from an aging LG C8 OLED. At times I missed the OLED contrast but the black levels on the 7 is pretty respectable. Add to it the 120 fps support and the fact that on tests it ran pretty close the flagship Bravia 9 — I know I made the right choice.

Not at all. I got 2 Bravia 7's, a 75 and 65, for almost the same price as one Bravia 9 75. B9 is ridiculously priced imo, especially when you can get a tv almost as good for so much less. Only way I see people getting the B9 is people with no budget at all. Absolutely love the Bravia 7 though, amazing TV.