Sony 85-inch Bravia 7 4K QLED XR Mini-LED (2024) + Soundbar

The Sony Bravia 7 turns my living room into a real home cinema. The razor-sharp image, powerful sound and user-friendly smart platform make this TV a good choice for anyone who wants a complete viewing experience.
Clear images with strong contrast
I think the Bravia 7 shows razor-sharp and clear 4K images. The Bravia XR processor adjusts the image settings to what you are watching. Images with a lower resolution are made sharper for this, for example. This means I always enjoy the best image quality. The mini-LED screen has thousands of small LED lights that light up or dim individually. For example, a light part of the image is very bright and a dark part of the image is very dark. Dark shadows are therefore very deep and I can see all the subtle colour details. Black is not as deep black as with an OLED television. The 100 hertz refresh rate makes fast movements, for example during an exciting action film, appear smoothly on screen. When I watch a sports match, I notice that the movements of the athletes look very smooth. This is due to the high refresh rate of 100 hertz. As a result, movements hardly ever falter and I lose sight of the ball less quickly.
Powerful sound
I find the sound of this television quite powerful. Thanks to Dolby Atmos, I hear the sound from all sides, which makes me feel like I am completely in a film. The TV has 4 speakers of 40 watts each, so I don't miss a single detail of the audio. This TV does not have a built-in subwoofer and soundbar. As a result, I hear little low bass tones, which makes the sound less full. Do you like watching films and series with good sound quality? Then I recommend a separate soundbar with subwoofer.
Smart platform
Like all other Sony televisions, the Bravia 7 uses the Google TV smart platform. When I open the platform, I quickly find popular apps such as Netflix and YouTube. The platform also makes a number of suggestions for films and series based on my search history. I log in with my Google account for this. I can easily operate the television with the compact remote control. It has a number of smart buttons, which allow me to navigate to apps such as Disney+ and Netflix with one press of a button.

The installation was extremely simple

The installation was very easy, you can click the leg in at the bottom. You can then take this out again if you want your TV to be higher on its feet for a soundbar, for example.
Plug in an internet cable at the back (in my case) and I was done.

You can then choose a standard TV configuration or a Google TV configuration.
I chose the Google configuration because I already had the Google TV Chomecast on my old TV.
Take some simple steps and your TV will boot into the Google TV setup.

Let's immediately test what the image quality does... Astonishing

My old TV had HD, so 4K is suddenly an unprecedented quality thing.

The sound can and should really be better, surround sound is advertised, etc., I haven't found it yet.
Yes, you notice that there is sound left and right, but you don't feel like you are in the film, the sound is very flat.

So far I have no complaints, the menu is very easy and the remote control can be charged with a USB-C, for example, which saves batteries.

I have been able to test the Sony Bravia 7 for a few days now. My comparison material is a Philips LED TV from 2020 and that is absolutely a world of difference. In the apps it is immediately visible that the image has much better contrast and the brightness immediately catches the eye. The black is much blacker than gray, as with many LED TVs. This makes movies nice to watch on this screen. I look in a room with backlight and this TV performs better than its predecessor.
The installation is easy to do with 2 people and the manual provides clear instructions. The legs can be installed in 2 positions and 2 heights, so that many TV furniture can suffice and a soundbar can still be placed under the TV. Something that is not standard with many TVs.
GoogleTV works as expected, but fortunately very smoothly for the latest chipset. An eARC connection is possible to connect a sound system. Since the flat TVs, this has always been better than the sound from the TV, but the standard sound performance of the Sony is excellent.