The Sony BRAVIA 7 II, also known as the Sony BRAVIA 7 Mark 2, is a premium TV released alongside the higher-end Sony BRAVIA 9 II in 2026. It replaces the Sony BRAVIA 7 from 2024, and features a new RGB Mini LED backlight, which replaces the older blue backlight and quantum dot film with separate red, green, and blue LEDs in each zone. It offers a wide range of features, including an ATSC 3.0 tuner, the Google TV 14 smart interface, and HDMI 2.1 bandwidth on two inputs. It's powered by Sony's proprietary XR Processor, and features Sony's X-Wide Angle Pro screen coating. We bought and tested the 65-inch model, but it's also available in 50-, 55-, 75-, 85-, and 98-inch sizes.
Our Verdict
The Sony BRAVIA 7 II is a great TV for most uses. It excels in a dark room thanks to its deep blacks and high contrast ratio. Movies stand out incredibly well thanks to its high peak brightness and vivid colors. It's also an excellent choice for watching shows during the day, but its mediocre reflection handling means dark scenes can be a bit difficult to see. It's good for other uses like gaming, but motion is noticeably blurry in very fast action when gaming.
Great black levels with minimal haloing.
Bright details in HDR stand out incredibly well.
Fantastic SDR brightness helps it overcome glare during the day.
Fantastic upscaling and great low-quality content smoothing.
Colors are incredibly bright and vivid.
Dark scenes are hard to see during the day.
The Sony BRAVIA 7 II is an excellent TV for home theater. It looks fantastic in a dark room thanks to its high contrast ratio and excellent local dimming feature. Movies are bright and vibrant, with vivid colors that look incredible. It also gets incredibly bright, so small bright details in movies and shows stand out well, delivering a more life-like experience. It also supports Dolby Vision video playback and all common audio formats, making it a fantastic choice for physical media collectors. Finally, it has fantastic processing, so it does a great job displaying low-quality streaming content or older movies on DVD.
Great black levels with minimal haloing.
Bright details in HDR stand out incredibly well.
Fantastic upscaling and great low-quality content smoothing.
Colors are incredibly bright and vivid.
Outstanding PQ EOTF tracking.
Whites can take on a tint from surrounding colors.
The Sony BRAVIA 7 II is excellent for watching TV in a bright room. It has fantastic peak brightness, so it can easily overcome glare in bright scenes. It has mediocre reflection handling, though, so dimmer scenes are still hard to see during the day. On the other hand, ambient light has almost no impact on picture quality, with no noticeable increase in black levels and no significant change to color saturation.
Fantastic SDR brightness helps it overcome glare during the day.
Colors are incredibly bright and vivid.
Ambient light has no negative impact on picture quality.
Dark scenes are hard to see during the day.
Whites can take on a tint from surrounding colors.
The Sony BRAVIA 7 II is an excellent TV for watching sports. It has great visibility during the day, with high peak brightness and bright, vibrant colors during the day. It has a decent response time when watching content, but fast motion can be a bit blurry. Transitions are fairly even, though, with only minor unwanted color artifacts. It has just an okay viewing angle, though, so it's not the best choice for a wide seating arrangement.
Fantastic SDR brightness helps it overcome glare during the day.
Fantastic upscaling and great low-quality content smoothing.
Colors are incredibly bright and vivid.
Only very minor color artifacts in fast-paced scenes and sports.
Dark scenes are hard to see during the day.
Whites can take on a tint from surrounding colors.
The Sony BRAVIA 7 II is a good gaming TV. It has low input lag, so games feel responsive most of the time. It also has a pretty good selection of gaming features, including VRR support and HDMI 2.1 bandwidth to take full advantage of the latest consoles. It only supports it on two ports, though, which is a bit limiting if you have multiple consoles. It also has a very high CAD, resulting in very blurry motion in fast action.
Bright details in HDR stand out incredibly well.
Colors are incredibly bright and vivid.
Game Mode has no impact on picture quality.
Low input lag.
Only two HDMI 2.1-bandwidth ports.
Whites can take on a tint from surrounding colors.
Fast action is very blurry.
The Sony BRAVIA 7 II has excellent peak brightness. Bright highlight details in movies and shows stand out incredibly well, and bright scenes stand out incredibly well. Its also bright enough to overcome glare during the day.
Bright details in HDR stand out incredibly well.
Fantastic SDR brightness helps it overcome glare during the day.
The Sony BRAVIA 7 II has excellent black levels. Blacks are deep and uniform, with very little haloing around bright highlights or subtitles. There's very little backlight bleed or clouding in dark scenes, and the local dimming feature does a great job increasing the brightness of highlight details without impacting nearby dark areas.
Great black levels with minimal haloing.
The Sony BRAVIA 7 II has excellent colors. Colors are incredibly bright and vibrant in both SDR and HDR. It also has good color accuracy out of the box, but there's no color calibration system to help you fully correct it. Like all RGB Mini LED TVs, though, colors can bleed into whites, giving them a noticeable tint. Certain settings can help reduce this effect, though, and you can force the TV to only use a white backlight if this bothers you.
Colors are incredibly bright and vivid.
Good accuracy out of the box.
Whites can take on a tint from surrounding colors.
The Sony BRAVIA 7 II has great motion handling when watching content. It removes judder from most content for a smooth motion cadence, and there's no micro judder. It also has only very minor transition artifacts and unwanted intermediate colors in fast action. There's very little stutter thanks to its relatively slow response time, and its motion interpolation feature does a fantastic job improving motion smoothing, even at low levels.
Only very minor color artifacts in fast-paced scenes and sports.
Most content is judder free.
The Sony BRAVIA 7 II has okay responsiveness in Game Mode. It has very low input lag for a responsive feel, but because of its slow response time, there's significant motion blur in fast-moving action.
Game Mode has no impact on picture quality.
Only two HDMI 2.1-bandwidth ports.
Fast action is very blurry.
Note: We're in the process of improving our tests related to image processing, but this score should give you a general idea of how a TV performs overall with its image processing capabilities.
The Sony BRAVIA 7 II has excellent processing. It does a great job cleaning up low-quality content streams like most streaming services, so the image is crisp and clear with little loss of fine details. It also upscales DVDs and other low-quality sources extremely well. It also respects creative intent well when watching more recent HDR content, with very little banding and accurate brightness levels.
Fantastic upscaling and great low-quality content smoothing.
Outstanding PQ EOTF tracking.
Very little banding in color gradients.
Low input lag.
Performance Usages
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Differences Between Sizes And Variants
We bought and tested the 65-inch Sony BRAVIA 7 II, and these results also apply to the 50-, 55-, 75-, 85-, and 98-inch models. The number of local dimming zones varies between individual sizes, but Sony doesn't provide the exact zone counts for each size. The increase in zones usually doesn't drastically change dark scene performance, as the number of zones usually increases proportionally with the size of the screen.
| Size | US Model |
|---|---|
| 50" | K-50XR70M2 |
| 55" | K-55XR70M2 |
| 65" | K-65XR70M2 |
| 75" | K-75XR70M2 |
| 85" | K-85XR70M2 |
| 98" | K-98XR70M2 |
Our unit was manufactured in Mexico in April 2026.
Popular TV Comparisons
The Sony BRAVIA 7 II is a great TV overall, with impressive picture quality and the same fantastic processing and motion handling that Sony is known for. Its RGB Mini LED backlight is a bit limiting, though, and while it helps improve colors over older LED technology, the TV looks best when the backlight falls back to white. It's also held back by its mediocre viewing angle and very blurry motion when gaming. While it remains a competitive choice over other RGB Mini LED models like the Samsung R95H, cheaper traditional Mini LED models like the TCL QM8L offer similar performance for less and remain the best choice for most people.
For more options, check out our recommendations for the best TVs, the best gaming TVs, and the best LED TVs.
The LG G6 OLED offers significantly better picture quality than the Sony BRAVIA 7 II. The LG delivers deeper, more uniform blacks, without a trace of haloing or color cross-talk around bright highlights. The LG also delivers a much better gaming experience, with lower input lag, a better selection of gaming features, and much clearer motion.
The Sony BRAVIA 7 II and the Sony BRAVIA 9 are fairly evenly matched, with no clear winner between the two. The BRAVIA 9 gets a bit brighter with small highlight details, but sports and outdoor shots are brighter on the BRAVIA 7 II. Colors are brighter and more vibrant on the BRAVIA 7 II thanks to the switch to RGB Mini LED backlighting, but this comes with a few noticeable issues, like color cross-talk.
The Sony BRAVIA 7 II is a slight step up over its predecessor, the Sony BRAVIA 7. The new model gets a bit brighter, especially when more of the scene is bright at once like when watching sports or in bright outdoor shots. Colors are also noticeably brighter and more vibrant on the new model thanks to the switch to the RGB Mini LED backlighting.
The Sony BRAVIA 7 II and the Samsung R95H trade blows in a few different ways, and the best one ultimately depends more on your needs than anything else. The Sony offers a more polished experience, with better processing, better motion handling, and far better accuracy out of the box. The Samsung, on the other hand, has far better reflection handling, making it the go-to choice for bright room viewing. Sony's RGB Mini LED implementation also takes a more conservative approach, and there's significantly less color cross-talk with the right local dimming settings.
We buy and test dozens of TVs yearly, taking an objective, data-driven approach to deliver results you can trust. Our testing process is complex, with hundreds of individual tests that take over a week to complete. Most of our tests use specially designed test patterns that mimic real content, but we also use the same sources you have at home to ensure our results match the real-world experience. We use two main tools for our testing: a Colorimetry Research CR-100 colorimeter and a CR-250 spectroradiometer.
Test Results
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The Sony BRAVIA 7 II has excellent peak brightness in HDR. Small highlight details are incredibly bright and impactful, and it maintains that brightness well even when more of the scene is bright at once.
These results are after a full calibration with Auto local dimming set to 'Medium'. Setting it to 'High' increases the brightness of very bright scenes, but decreases the impact of small highlight details and most real scenes.
- Hallway Lights: 980 cd/m²
- Yellow Skyscraper: 400 cd/m²
- Landscape Pool: 280 cd/m²
- Peak 2% Window: 1,613 cd/m²
- Peak 10% Window: 1,939 cd/m²
- Peak 25% Window: 2,097 cd/m²
- Peak 50% Window: 1,217 cd/m²
- Peak 100% Window: 841 cd/m²
- Sustained 2% Window: 1,589 cd/m²
- Sustained 10% Window: 1,883 cd/m²
- Sustained 25% Window: 2,063 cd/m²
- Sustained 50% Window: 1,215 cd/m²
- Sustained 100% Window: 839 cd/m²
The above measurements are all with HDR tone mapping set to 'Gradation preferred', which limits the overall peak brightness of some content but ensures fine details remain visible in bright areas. Setting it to 'Brightness Preferred' instead changes the peak brightness of real scenes:
With Auto local dimming set to 'Medium':
- Hallway Lights: 1,093 cd/m²
- Yellow Skyscraper: 1,402 cd/m²
- Landscape Pool: 703 cd/m²
With Auto local dimming set to 'High':
- Hallway Lights: 1,237 cd/m²
- Yellow Skyscraper: 743 cd/m²
- Landscape Pool: 767 cd/m²
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The HDR peak brightness in Game Mode is fantastic. There's very little difference in brightness between this mode and the calibrated one. Note that the Backlight lighting mode can't be changed in this mode; it's locked to the RGB mode.
The Sony BRAVIA 7 II has fantastic peak brightness in SDR. It's bright enough to easily overcome glare during the day, even when watching very bright content like sports.
These results are after a full calibration with Auto local dimming set to 'Medium'. Setting it to 'High' increases the TV's peak brightness across all scenes, but it's not recommended as there are some noticeable downsides to this mode.
- Real Scene: 953 cd/m²
- Peak 2% Window: 1,323 cd/m²
- Peak 10% Window: 1,583 cd/m²
- Peak 25% Window: 1,710 cd/m²
- Peak 50% Window: 1,105 cd/m²
- Peak 100% Window: 766 cd/m²
- Sustained 2% Window: 1,309 cd/m²
- Sustained 10% Window: 1,541 cd/m²
- Sustained 25% Window: 1,687 cd/m²
- Sustained 50% Window: 1,102 cd/m²
- Sustained 100% Window: 766 cd/m²
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The Sony BRAVIA 7 II has great contrast. The native contrast of the panel is good, which helps maintain deep blacks in more complicated scenes when the local dimming feature can't keep up. The local dimming is very effective at boosting contrast, resulting in deep blacks in most scenes.
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The local dimming feature does an excellent job of dimming around bright highlights or subtitles. There's very little light bleed into adjacent zones.
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The zone transitions on this TV are good. It keeps up well with fast-moving objects, and there's relatively little flicker as they move between zones. Sony's algorithms are relatively conservative, though, leaving more zones on than strictly necessary.
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There's no difference in dark details when you switch to Game Mode. The local dimming feature is a bit different, though, as you can't set it to white only in this mode. The TV will still fall back to white only in more complicated scenes, but you can't force it into this mode unless you disable local dimming entirely.
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The Sony BRAVIA 7 II has excellent color volume in SDR. Colors are incredibly bright and vibrant, and there's almost no loss of saturation in lighter scenes. These results are in the most accurate post-calibration mode, with the backlight set to 'RGB' and local dimming enabled. The exact combination of local dimming settings used has a significant impact on how colors are displayed.
With Auto Local Dimming set to 'Medium', the TV will fall back to a pure white backlight with the vast majority of real content. You can also force the backlight to white only, which changes the results a bit:
- CIELAB DCI-P3 Coverage: 90.53%
- CIELAB BT.2020 Coverage: 72.20%
The white results represent the most frequent scenario that you'll encounter with most real content, since the TV will fall back to a white backlight in scenes with varied colors. If you set Auto Local Dimming to 'High' instead, it'll maintain the separate red, green, and blue zones more often, but like the Samsung R95H, this also leads to noticeable color cross-talk.
| Volume ΔE³ | DCI-P3 Coverage |
BT.2020 Coverage |
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| L10 | 97.10% | 78.64% |
| L20 | 97.78% | 79.02% |
| L30 | 97.45% | 78.03% |
| L40 | 94.71% | 78.11% |
| L50 | 93.61% | 78.99% |
| L60 | 93.50% | 77.01% |
| L70 | 95.72% | 71.90% |
| L80 | 98.69% | 74.87% |
| L90 | 98.55% | 74.11% |
| L100 | 96.12% | 74.21% |
| Total | 95.87% | 75.90% |
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The HDR color volume on this TV is fantastic. Dark, saturated colors are displayed incredibly well thanks to the TV's high contrast ratio, and colors are bright and vivid. Like with SDR, though, the TV often falls back to a white backlight, which reduces color saturation a bit.
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The Sony BRAVIA 7 II has good accuracy out of the box. The white balance and overall color accuracy are both great, with very few noticeable issues. The overall color temperature is a bit warm, though, and the TV has a slightly reddish tint out of the box. Gamma is fantastic, but very bright scenes are over-brightened a bit.
Note that, unlike our usual process, the pre-calibration results on this TV are with Auto Local Dimming set to 'Medium' instead of disabling it. This is because disabling it forces the backlight to white instead, and it's less accurate in that configuration.
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The Sony BRAVIA 7 II has fantastic accuracy after calibration, but it's not as good as previous Sony TVs, as there's no color management system. The white balance and overall color accuracy are excellent, and the color temperature is much closer to the target, so most of the red tint is gone.
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This TV has good accuracy in HDR before calibration. The overall white balance and color accuracy are good, with a few noticeable issues, mostly in midtones. Color mapping is quite good, but there are some issues with saturated reds, and the overall color temperature is too warm.
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The PQ EOTF tracking on this TV is nearly perfect. Midtones and bright highlights are slightly raised, but it's extremely minor and not noticeable. Shadow details are displayed incredibly well, but near blacks are very slightly raised. Unlike most TVs, there's no difference in EOTF tracking with content mastered at different brightness levels. It's bright enough to display content mastered at 600 and 1,000 nits nearly perfectly, though, so this doesn't matter much.
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The Sony BRAVIA 7 II does a great job smoothing out low-quality content. Compression issues like macro-blocking are smoothed out well without causing any significant loss of fine details.
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This TV does a fantastic job upscaling lower-resolution channels and older movies on DVD. There's no obvious over-sharpening or other artifact, and text is well defined and easy to read.
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This TV has great gradient handling. There's some very minor banding across all shades, but it's not very noticeable.
The Sony BRAVIA 7 II has excellent input lag across all supported modes, as long as you're in Game Mode. Unlike most other brands, it doesn't offer a low-latency motion interpolation mode, though, so the input lag with interpolation enabled is too high to be playable.
This TV has fantastic format support, but it's limited to a 120Hz refresh rate, which is disappointing to PC gamers. Chroma 4:4:4 and RGB signals are displayed properly with 1080p and 4k signals, which is essential for clear text when using it as a PC monitor. HDMI ports 1 and 2 are limited to HDMI 2.0 bandwidth and don't support 4k @ 120Hz inputs.
The Sony BRAVIA 7 II supports variable refresh rate technology to reduce screen tearing. HDMI Forum VRR and G-SYNC compatibility work over the entire refresh rate range, but it doesn't support FreeSync.
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Unfortunately, the TV's CAD at 4k @ 120Hz is disappointing. There's very little overshoot or inverse ghosting, but most transitions are slow, resulting in blurry motion overall.
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The maximum refresh rate supported by this TV is 120Hz, so these results are identical to the Max Refresh Rate test.
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Except for 1440p, the TV is fully compatible with everything the PS5 and PS5 Pro offer, like 4k @ 120Hz, as well as HDMI Forum VRR. It also supports Auto Low Latency Mode, so you don't have to manually switch to Game Mode to get the lowest input lag.
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With the exception of 1440p, the TV is fully compatible with everything the Xbox Series X|S offers, including 4k @ 120Hz, HDMI Forum VRR, and Dolby Vision gaming. It also supports Auto Low Latency Mode, so you don't have to manually switch to Game Mode to get the lowest input lag.
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The motion interpolation feature on this TV does a great job of reducing stutter. Even with very low levels of interpolation, the TV reduces the frame hold time considerably. The feature is also very consistent, so the frame pacing is even and smooth.
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The Sony BRAVIA 7 II removes judder from most content. 24p signals are always judder-free, but 60Hz sources and the native apps require a few extra settings. The frame timing isn't quite perfect with 25p content, like many European shows and movies, but it's not too bad.
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This TV has a decent response time when watching content. It's a bit slow overall, which causes fast action to look blurry, but it handles movies well. It struggles most when going from a very bright scene to a very dark one.
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There are some very minor unwanted color artifacts in motion. They're difficult to notice, though. The red tint on the photos is caused by color cross talk from the RGB backlight mode. Color transitions are the same with the backlight set to pure white.
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The Sony BRAVIA 7 II uses pulse width modulation (PWM) to adjust the backlight intensity. It flickers at 720Hz in all picture modes, even with Auto Local Dimming disabled.
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This TV has an optional backlight strobing feature, which is commonly called black frame insertion. It flickers at either 60Hz or 120Hz to match the frame rate of the content you're watching, which is great. Unfortunately, the pulse timing is a bit off, causing two secondary images. They're faint and difficult to spot with most real content, though.
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The total amount of reflected light is decent. You'll see reflections from bright lights and lamps opposite the TV, and there's a small rainbow smear around bright lights. Its bright enough to overcome this glare in bright content, but dark scenes are hard to see if you're watching during the day.
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Ambient light has no noticeable impact on color saturation.
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The Sony BRAVIA 7 II has a mediocre viewing angle. The image fades at a fairly consistent rate, so there's no sudden drop off as you move to the sides of the screen, but colors gradually wash out and brightness decreases. It's not a good choice for a wide seating arrangement.
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The Sony BRAVIA 7 II uses a new RGB Mini LED panel, which is mainly designed to increase color volume. Instead of a traditional blue backlight with quantum dot color converters, it uses separate red, green, and blue LEDs to produce light.
There are high peaks on reds, blues, and greens, and there's excellent separation between them, giving the TV great color purity. It uses an RGB subpixel arrangement, which helps with text clarity when used with a PC.
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The Sony BRAVIA 7 II supports HDMI 2.1 bandwidth, but only on two of the inputs. One of the high-bandwidth ports is also the eARC port, so you can connect the TV to a receiver with high bandwidth passthrough if you need more high bandwidth inputs.
This TV supports eARC, which allows you to pass high-quality, uncompressed audio to a compatible receiver through an HDMI cable. It supports all major audio formats, so you don't have to worry about compatibility with external sources.
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The TV has a very premium design that looks great in any setting. It has thin, uniform bezels on all four sides. The stand has a unique lens panel on it that hides cables routed through the back.
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The center-mounted pedestal stand has a unique design, with a semi-opaque lens panel that helps hide cables that are routed through the back.
Footprint of the 65-inch stand: 13.6" x 13.4" x 3.6"
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The back of the TV has a nice, clean look, but it lacks the checkerboard pattern found on previous high-end Sony TVs. There are cable clips on the back of the TV to help with cable management.
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The Sony BRAVIA 7 II has fantastic build quality. Although it's largely made of plastic, it feels high-quality and sturdy, with no signs of issues or quality control problems.
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The Sony BRAVIA 7 II ships with Google TV version 14. It's fast and easy to use, and we didn't encounter any issues or bugs during testing.
Running AIDA64 on the TV shows that it's powered by the MediaTek 1000 chipset.
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Unfortunately, like most TVs, the interface contains ads. You can opt out of personalized ads, but this doesn't change the number of ads you'll see; they just won't be personalized to match your search and viewing history.
During initial setup of the TV you can opt-out of signing in to Google and use the TV as a basic TV instead. This disables most smart features and removes ads.
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- Remote control
- 2x AAA batteries
- User guides
- Cable ties
- Optical adapter
This TV was initially tested with firmware version 114.602.050.1NAA.
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The frequency response on this TV is decent. It gets very loud, so it's a great choice for loud rooms, but voices become a bit drowned out by other sound effects at max volume. It has a well-balanced sound profile at low and moderate listening levels.