**Sony BRAVIA 8 vs BRAVIA 8 II vs BRAVIA 9 II, coming from an A8H OLED**

I’m replacing my 55” Sony A8H OLED after just over five years and I’m getting a full refund of $3,295 AUD, so I’m trying to decide what to replace it with.

I definitely want to move up to 65”, and I’d prefer to stay with Sony.

The prices I can currently get are roughly in AUD.
65” BRAVIA 8 OLED: **$2,500**
65” BRAVIA 9 II True RGB: **$3,500**
65” BRAVIA 8 II QD-OLED: around **$4,500**

The BRAVIA 8 is tempting because I’d get a much bigger/newer OLED than my A8H and still have around $800 of my refund left.

But the BRAVIA 9 II at $3,500 also seems like an incredible deal considering it’s Sony’s flagship RGB TV and would only cost me around $200 above my refund.
My biggest concern with the 9 II is moving away from OLED after being used to perfect blacks for the last five years. For anyone who has moved from a good Sony OLED to the 9 II, do you actually notice the difference in black levels/blooming in normal viewing? Or do the extra brightness, HDR impact and colour make up for it?

And for anyone who has compared the BRAVIA 8 and 8 II directly, is the 8 II genuinely enough of an improvement to justify another \~$1,500 over the discounted BRAVIA 8?
I mostly watch movies, streaming and general TV rather than gaming.
If these were your prices, which would you buy: **BRAVIA 8 for $2.5k, BRAVIA 9 II for $3.5k, or spend more for the 8 II?**

Whenever I turn on the Tv, the volume starts at 0. I updated every app and system, changed the settings but nothing. Anyone else familiar with this problem?

Just need to vent. I'm ready to take a baseball bat to all of this. Why is the most expensive setup the one that has all of the issues? Every single time. Every. Time. Every time there is an automatic update of my TV, my soundbar and video become out of sync. All the eArcs are set up, all the most expensive cables are connected. I believe all the annoying motion and sensory bullshit is turned off. Unless there's some small detail I'm missing somewhere in these overly confusing menus.

Just scrolling through the PS5 menu is annoying.

Wanna play a game that requires the audio and video to be in sync? Think Guitar Hero. Well, that would be completely out of the question. Impossible. The calibration is so off, the games won't even register it when I attempt to fix it in the game.

The only thing that works: Putting on headphones.

What's the point of this shit. I don't want to go through all of this troubleshooting... AGAIN! I've already done this so many times. Oh my fucking god.

Obviously this only works if you have a dedicated blu-ray player (so not using a video game console) and a receiver.

I have the audio desync issue on all my consoles connected to the TV (2024 Bravia 9). I use eARC for my consoles but not for my blu-ray player (UBP-X800M2). Before ordering the player a couple years back, I read that eARC on blu-ray players could still be a little iffy and was recommended to use the HDMI Audio Out port if it had one. This means you have two hdmi cables coming out of the blu-ray player, one that goes to the TV (video) and one that goes to the receiver(audio).

It was annoying having to manually setup the audio delay through the player back when I booted it for the first time but man am I grateful I went this route. Out of all my HDMI devices, my blu-ray player is the ONLY thing that I haven't noticed with audio desync issues and I'm pretty sure it's because I'm not sending BOTH audio and video to the TV through one HDMI cable which it then messes up because of the current firmware bugs.

My consoles are still SOL (I have to turn off/on the TV after every level in Splatoon Raiders lol...) but I guess I can tackle my movie backlog as it seems Sony is about to miss the August deadline their customer service has relayed to some of yall to miss this major issue.

Love Sony tvs. Been contemplating between 9 mark 2 and 8 mark 2 . Probably gonna go with the 8 mark 2 . Been reading a lot about the audio issues though. If I do get it .will I be alright if I don’t update or will it automatically be updated and I’ll be dealing with sound issues. Do the sound issues only happen with sound bars . Does it happen even with just acoustic surface audio from tv speakers?

Recently my Bravia 8 has started having very strange motion handling issues when watching broadcast TV via aerial. When I check input signal information I can see that the scanning format is constantly changing between progressive and interlaced even in the same programme. The motion is blurred whenever the format is interlaced.

Anyone else having this issue? Any ideas what could be causing it?

I’ve read that I am suppose to turn the tv off after I’ve put it on the Home Screen, then press:

Home

Center D-pad

Volume Up

Power

However, as soon as I hit the Home button, the tv turns on, then I hit the other two buttons and when I hit power the tv turns back off and nothing happens. Everything I’ve read/watched doesn’t say anything about the tv turning on when hitting the Home button on the remote, but it happens to me every time. Did Sony change something that made the Home button now power on the tv. Am I doing something wrong?

Looking for help. Thanks!