Sony - 77" Class A9G MASTER Series OLED 4K UHD Smart Android TV

I have waited for several years before purchasing an OLED TV and I already own a 85" Sony Bravia 900 series set and loved it but the LG 77" always caught my eye but I couldn't justify the $6-7K price. Recently, I saw this unit and they were having a great sale of $1K off and 24 months no interest using by BB Visa so I purchased this Sony - 77" Class A9G MASTER Series OLED 4K UHD Smart Android TV. WOW incredible!!! I couldn't be happier and I'm so glad I stayed with the Sony family of products as my Sony 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray and my Sony Sound Bar all work from the single remote. Truly my "Best Buy" I have ever made of a TV! I would absolutely recommend this Sony Bravia OLED TV with my 100% positive satisfaction and enjoyment!

We bought a 75” Sony 940E from Best Buy a couple of years ago and it certainly was a premium LCD TV. We always wanted to get an OLED but had to wait till prices came down. When Sony’s 77” A9G came on sale for under $5k at Best Buy we decided that the time had come. The 940E went to the bedroom and the A9G joined our great room system. We have it paired with our Pioneer Elite AVR 5.2.2 Atmos system, a Panasonic 4K Blu-ray player, a DirecTV 4K satellite feed and a couple of Nintendo game systems. The A9G is all we expected it to be. Great colors, contrast and motion. 4K football and movies are amazing. 720 and 1080 feeds are expertly upgraded and displayed. My game stems are better than ever with no play problems. We have no complaints or regrets about this great TV. We have the TV on the wall using a standard tilt screen mount. My wife and I were able to unbox and hang the TV without problems. One HDMI cable runs to the TV from the AVR, using the HDMI-ARC ports on each, for the audio/video feeds. The ARC feature integrates the Sony well with the Pioneer and DTV for switching, volume and power. We have used Netflix, Disney+ and Curiosity Stream and the Sony had them or easily added the app to the main page. Our cable internet is hooked up to our router and then uses Netgear Powerline AV500s to get high speed wired internet to the TV on the other side of the house. We have had no problems watching whatever we want whenever we want with excellent pictures. My desktop PC has no problems using Chromecast to the TV and my android LG G8 phone likewise has no problems casting to this Sony android TV. The TV integrates the casting well with the DVR feed, switching away and then going back when the cast is opened and closed. A couple of minor problems. We tried the TV as our center speaker but we did not like the sound so went back to our regular center speaker. And my IR programmable remote control cannot learn from this Sony remote as I believe this Sony is RF. So I’ll have to use two remotes for now. The attached picture shows our setup. Sorry, but the TV is better than the camera and so the picture doesn’t show the TV’s full display potential. Overall, we are very happy with our purchase, price and results.

I have a Sony 4K LED 930C 65” for couple of years. Been waiting for the price of 77” OLED to drop. At $3500. This is such a great deal. Amazing picture and sound. It put the old TV to shame.

If you are looking for an TV that has amazing quality and sound this is the TV to get. The 77’’ I purchased makes my living room look like a home theater. Even if you wouldn’t want something that large, I would definitely recommend this TV and the amazing OLED quality.

The Sony A9G is the pinnacle of TV quality. From it’s beautiful minimalistic design, to its great sound features such as using it as a center speaker. To its immaculate picture. The Sony A9G is as good as it gets at the moment folks. Sonys picture processing, upscaling and motion control is unmatched. If you’re a videophile and your investing in a TV, you should only want the best. This is it. Casuals can look elsewhere.

Beautiful piece of decoration on my wall. I was told about the glare due to the shiny OLED glass panel, but I have not been distracted at all. One thing I Sony offers is a longer power cord. But otherwise, I can’t find anything bad to say about this TV. The colors and black are magnificent. I’ve held out for a few years after Panasonic discontinued their plasma offerings in the US, and this is a very an upgrade to that. I had previously owned the V G, V and Z series of the Panny.

I wasn’t thrilled about needing a new TV.. but the burn in on my 1st generation LG OLED was just too much. So.. after much research I landed on the A9G. To say that it was the right decision would be an understatement. I’m watching Netflix, Amazon prime and Hulu native right through Sony’s OS on the TV and the image quality far surpasses running the app through my fire tv. My Xbox games look amazing as well. If you’re thinking about it.. do it! You won’t regret it!! :)

As with any OLED TV, the black level is outstanding. While its peak brightness is considerably lower than the current crop of LCD-based TVs, it is plenty bright in a moderately lit room. In my setup it faces four large windows on the south side of the room and two equally large ones on the west side, so we have been using blackout curtains anyway with our last TV. Also saying that LCD panels backlit by LED are much brighter than OLED panels is not an accurate statement. When the whole screen is showing a bright sky, of course the latest LCD panels are brighter; but when delivering highlights over a small area (stars in a dark sky, or a lamp in a movie scene, for example), OLEDs are actually brighter because LCDs have to find a compromise between letting those highlights stand out and lighting up the surrounding area as well - on a 4K panel even a 1% area contains some 80,000 pixels and these highlights are significantly smaller than a zone on LCDs with local dimming. For decades I had hated letterboxed contents, first it was CRT where the lines were never straight, then it was LCD where the black bars were dark grey. In a dimly lit room, the black bars on letterboxed contents on this TV simply melt into the darkness and I cannot tell where they meet the edge of the screen. With its massive size, I no longer mind “wasting” some screen real estate. I purchased this rather than the LG C9 because I prefer the overall design, especially the option to use the TV itself as the center channel speaker in my 5.1.2 Dolby Atmos setup - there is a slight input lag here, as my A/V receiver’s calibration showed it to be almost 20 ft further away from my sitting position than it actually is. In comparison, when using a “regular” center channel speaker the distance measurement is accurate. But the A/V receiver has no difficulty compensating for that and in actual use I have found no lip sync issues. White balance is slightly warm but quite decent overall under “Custom” color settings, and drifts somewhat depending on brightness - it is visible when viewing greyscale gradient patterns, but to be honest I have not found it objectionable when watching any real contents and don’t want to shell out $$$ to purchase the hardware necessary for calibration or to have someone else calibrate it. There are extensive and very technical reviews of the 65-inch version A9G on several popular review sites for TVs, including post calibration settings - but keep in mind that each panel is slightly different, and when I tried their settings the pictures actually got slightly worse on my set so I reset it to factory default. Neither Disney+ nor Prime Video app is able to passthrough Atmos metadata over Dolby Digital Plus, but Netflix and Plex are able to do that, so it is not the TV’s fault but rather Disney and Amazon’s. Amazon’s Prime Video app currently does not support Atmos passthrough on any Android TVs, per its published support matrix, although it does on its own “flavor” of Android running on Fire TV Stick 4K as well as TVs powered by WebOS from LG and Tizen from Samsung. Disney does not publish a support matrix, all I can say based on personal experience is that it does not pass along Atmos on Android TV but does so on Fire TV 4K stick. This may or may not be important to you, I just thought I should point it out. Amazon has few contents with Atmos audio at this time, but Disney+ has Atmos with all its recent movies so I am surprised its app does not pass it through. The only real negative I have found so far after four weeks of ownership is that Dolby Digital Plus passthrough is not consistent: I could watch several movies without a hitch, and then the next one can have random audio drop-outs, each drop-out lasts a fraction of a second but quite obvious and annoying; when I switched the passthrough to Dolby Digital instead, the audio was fine without any drop-outs. This does not affect the output of built-in speakers, and becomes evident only when passing through DD+ soundtracks over HDMI to an A/V receiver. Apparently this is a known issue with Sony’s Android TV platform in general and not just with the A9G product line. Sony’s recommendation is to use Dolby Digital passthrough instead. While DD+ to DD conversion does not require decoding and re-encoding, per Dolby’s design, and streaming contents hardly ever include DD+ audio with a bitrate high enough to really matter, this blocks out Atmos which is only transmitted with Dolby Digital Plus or Dolby TrueHD. Besides the connection between my A/V receiver and the eARC capable HDMI port on the TV, I do not have anything else plugged in directory to the TV. So my observation regarding DD+ passthrough is limited to the built-in apps only. If you don't use the built-in apps and rely on a streaming stick plugged into your A/V receiver, I am happy to report that it works perfectly without any audio issues. While the TV is great, the buying experience with Best Buy was not. This is likely my last big ticket purchase from this company. Since none of my local stores stocked the 77-inch model, it had to be transported from a warehouse. It took 8 days to get there, over a distance of 50 miles. Had I known that, I might have selected the warehouse as the pickup location, but then I would end up paying extra in sales tax because it was in another state. I fully understood that due to the impact of COVID-19 everyone at Best Buy was under stress, I was just surprised by how little information was given to their customer service reps so none of them could tell me what was happening.