Our Overall Score:
9.2/10
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Latest price search at John Lewis & Partners: £9999
The most important part of buying online can be to read reviews and that’s why you’re here. We’ve scanned the internet to find as many Sony Bravia KD85ZG9 (2019) LED HDR 8K Ultra HD Smart Android TV reviews as we can, regardless if they’re good or bad as we want to give you the most truthful and realistic overview of just how good Sony Bravia KD85ZG9 (2019) LED HDR 8K Ultra HD Smart Android TV is. In finding reviews, we discovered that the best and most informative reviews were from customers over at John Lewis & Partners, to read these review just tap on the View Reviews button now.
When it comes to buying products online, whether that’s a TV, clothes, Televisions or even a something like a sofa, there are a general set of guidance or advice that you can follow to help you get the best product for your needs and also the best for your budget. As you can imagine there are tons of different options in the Televisions category and even loads of options of products from Sony so it’s important to take the time to find the right one for you. The four areas that we want to delve in to a little more are the quality, the price of the product, what the reviews are saying about it and then finally we’ll look at an overall score which takes into account the other factors.
Quality of Sony Bravia KD85ZG9 (2019) LED HDR 8K Ultra HD Smart Android TV
Sony Bravia KD85ZG9 (2019) LED HDR 8K Ultra HD Smart Android TV scored an incredible 9.4/10 for quality.
As you’d expect with a lot of products, quality is a very important factor for choosing products in the “Televisions” category. But it’s even more important to consider and get a feel for quality when you’re buying online because you aren’t given the benefit of being able to see and try the item for yourself.
This is of course why we can’t stress enough the importance of reading lots of reviews, as it will really help you to get a good feel for how good the quality is. A top tip when reading the reviews is to use the search function on your browser and search for the word “quality” in the reviews that way you can skip straight to customers that have mentioned about the quality of Sony Bravia KD85ZG9 (2019) LED HDR 8K Ultra HD Smart Android TV.
Once you’ve had a good look over the reviews you’ll have a pretty good indication of how good the quality of Sony Bravia KD85ZG9 (2019) LED HDR 8K Ultra HD Smart Android TV is, but we also have the following factors that you should consider to get an idea of the quality of the product you’re looking at.
- Price: It probably sounds obvious, but there are links to the price you pay and the quality of a product. Try and set your expectations for the quality based on your budget. You wouldn’t expect a Rolls-Royce for the price of a Fiesta so bear this in mind when shopping.
- Specification: It’s a really good idea to look over the product description and specification section of the website, for Sony Bravia KD85ZG9 (2019) LED HDR 8K Ultra HD Smart Android TV you can read the full details on the John Lewis & Partners website where it will give you all the detail you need. It’s useful as you’ll probably already have a good idea of the sort of specs that make good Televisions. Also compare these specs to other similar products that are in the same price bracket.
- Brand: Sony are obviously a strong and recognisable brand for making great Televisions, so you’d expect Sony Bravia KD85ZG9 (2019) LED HDR 8K Ultra HD Smart Android TV to deliver to these expectations. But always consider the brand when you’re thinking about the quality of the product you’re going to buy, and where quality is an important factor to you, look only at those well known brands (of course only if your budget allows).
- Your experience with Televisions: You’ll no doubt have some history with buying Televisions, and you may have even bought products from the same brand, Sony, use this information to your advantage. You’ll probably have a good idea of how good the quality of the product was and any faults or floors you remember from it.
Price analysis of Sony Bravia KD85ZG9 (2019) LED HDR 8K Ultra HD Smart Android TV
Sony Bravia KD85ZG9 (2019) LED HDR 8K Ultra HD Smart Android TV scored highly with 9.8/10 for price in our review.
Price, a hugely important part of any purchase. Price becomes even more of a consideration when we’re shopping online because it’s so amazingly simple to compare the price of several retailers in literally just a few clicks. In fact you don’t even need to do that, we’ve run price comparisons for you in order to find the best price. The lowest price we’ve managed to find Sony Bravia KD85ZG9 (2019) LED HDR 8K Ultra HD Smart Android TV for is just £9999 over at John Lewis & Partners.
There’s a lot of geeky analysis to be done on price, but what we find most effective and informative is to look at 3 different figures when comparing products and that is the average price, the most expensive and the cheapest. This gives you a really good feel for what the normal product would cost but also giving you an idea of just how cheap you can find it or the opposite, just how expensive some are. It’s also useful to look at the average of the products that fit in the same category as well as products from the same brand. So we’re going to look in more detail now at the price of Sony Bravia KD85ZG9 (2019) LED HDR 8K Ultra HD Smart Android TV.
Prices of products in the Televisions category
We thought it would be useful to spend a bit of time exploring the price of Sony Bravia KD85ZG9 (2019) LED HDR 8K Ultra HD Smart Android TV and seeing how it compares to other similar products. And also seeing how much variance there are in prices of products in the Televisions category. To do this we looked at all of the products over at John Lewis & Partners, there were a total of 117 products in the Televisions, and of these 117 products the average price was £1310.38, making Sony Bravia KD85ZG9 (2019) LED HDR 8K Ultra HD Smart Android TV above average at £9999. We also looked at the cheapest option in the same category which was just £139.00 whilst the most expensive was £9999.00. So you can see there’s a huge variance in the price of products in this category, as an indication there were 240 products less expensive and 0 more expensive than Sony Bravia KD85ZG9 (2019) LED HDR 8K Ultra HD Smart Android TV in this category. So we thought it would be worth going into a bit more detail and looking at the prices of products from Sony.
Prices of products from Sony
So the average price of the 252 products available from Sony was £545.61, making £9999 above average against the other products from the same brand. With the most expensive product from them coming in at £9999.00 and the cheapest at £7.99. We thought a good next step would be to look more specifically at products from Sony that fit in to the category of Televisions rather than looking at all their products.
Of the 31 products from Sony in the Televisions category, the average price is £1679.00 making Sony Bravia KD85ZG9 (2019) LED HDR 8K Ultra HD Smart Android TV above average at £9999. Again we looked at how much price can vary and found that the cheapest product to fit this criteria was £249.00 and the most expensive was £9999.00 so there are again a lot of varying prices with the products. In fact to be precise we found 0 products from Sony that were more expensive and 44 that were cheaper.
Reviews of Sony Bravia KD85ZG9 (2019) LED HDR 8K Ultra HD Smart Android TV
Sony Bravia KD85ZG9 (2019) LED HDR 8K Ultra HD Smart Android TV scores 8.5/10 for customer reviews.
Reviews are really the most valuable part of your online shopping, they’re giving you the next best thing to being able to actually try the product for yourself. You’re not relying on a manufacturers sales description telling you just how good their product is, you’re getting genuine feedback from actual users of the product. We can’t stress enough how important it is that you spend some time reading the reviews of Sony Bravia KD85ZG9 (2019) LED HDR 8K Ultra HD Smart Android TV over at John Lewis & Partners, click on the “view reviews” button now to read them.
Below is a video we found for Sony Bravia KD85ZG9 (2019) LED HDR 8K Ultra HD Smart Android TV over on YouTube.
Overall score
Sony Bravia KD85ZG9 (2019) LED HDR 8K Ultra HD Smart Android TV got an amazing overall score of 9.2/10 in our review.
This figure takes into account the various criteria that we’ve covered above, the price, the quality and the customer reviews, in order to give you an overall score. This overall score of 9.2/10 then gives you a really easy figure to use for comparison purposes if you’re then going on to read any of our other reviews of Televisions.
As you’ve already seen in the pricing section there are absolutely loads of different options from Sony so take your time to read the reviews, do your homework on setting a budget and seeing how the price of Sony Bravia KD85ZG9 (2019) LED HDR 8K Ultra HD Smart Android TV stacks up against your budget and make sure you also set yourself a list of “must-haves” so you know that this product ticks all your boxes.
More info: Sony Bravia KD85ZG9 (2019) LED HDR 8K Ultra HD Smart Android TV
- Brand: Sony
- Model Number: KD85ZG9
- EAN: 4548736096561
- Description: Step into the next era of picture quality with the 8K resolution of Sony’s ZG9. Sony have brought the creator’s vision to life by combining a stunningly realistic 8K HDR picture with their Master Series TV tech. A Full Array LED panel with Backlight Master Drive delivers exceptional, real-world contrast. Its TRILUMINOS display is beautifully colour-rich, while Sound-from-Picture Reality tech perfectly matches the audio to the on-screen action. The Android platform opens up a wealth of online content, you can control it by voice with the Google Assistant, and its minimalist design is supremely elegant. HDR with Dolby Vision HDR deepens your view and shows shades previously unseen in home entertainment. Expanding light, dark and every colour in between to extraordinary new levels, this model’s picture gets closer to real life. This set supports multiple HDR formats including Dolby Vision. 8K Ultra High Definition This 85 screen has four times the number of pixels as 4K UHD TVs, for an extraordinary level of flawlessly realistic detail, even on larger screen TVs. Features: Sound-from-Picture Reality: Sony’s Acoustic Multi-Audio system adds two sound positioning tweeters in the rear of the TV to the bass reflex speakers, for precise alignment of sound with vision. X1 Ultimate Picture Processor : Powering the display is Sony’s X1 Ultimate processor which intelligently enhances brightness, detail and colour. 8K X-Tended Dynamic Range PRO : This TV has up to twenty times the brightness range of a standard LED TV (based on comparison with Sony conventional LED TVs without local dimming), for brilliant whites and deep, rich blacks. Backlight Master Drive :With an ultra-dense LED structure, a unique local dimming algorithm and optical design, this panel’s Backlight Master Drive achieves an exceptional contrast range. 8K X-Reality Pro : Upscales non-8K content to reveal extra detail. It analyses every pixel and improves contrast, colour and sharpness for increased clarity. X-Wide Angle : The vivid, real world colours of this TRILUMINOS display are enjoyed from any angle of view, thanks to X-Wide Angle technology. Super-Smart Android Platform Developed by Google, you’ll be able to enjoy seamless entertainment, intelligent search and the latest apps from the likes of Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Youtube and Google Play.* This TV features a special Netflix Calibrated Mode for studio quality content, and it’s also compatible with Alexa devices. Apple Airplay and HomeKit compatibility is also supported (may require a future firmware update). Android TV with Google Assistant With the Google Assistant built-in, you can use your voice to find your favourite programmes, apps, videos or music, as well as search for information and more. You can also control connected smart devices in your home (smart device control depends on compatibility). Chromecast built-in casts your videos, photos and apps to the TV straight from your smartphone or tablet (Android or iOS) via Wi-Fi. There are also hundreds of apps and games available for you to explore in the Google Play store. Youview Catch-Up In addition to a wealth of online entertainment, this set comes with built-in YouView. The seven day scroll back TV guide brings together catch up TV from across BBC iPlayer, ITV Hub, All 4 and My5**. You can also enjoy over 70 live TV channels and radio stations for free, such as BBC 1 & 2, ITV, Channel 4, E4, Channel 5, 5 USA, ITV 2 and Dave. Immersive Design Every design element of the ZG9 keeps you focused on picture and sound. Cable management features keep connecting wires hidden from view in the black stand, and a narrow aluminium black bezel maximises the viewing area. Perfect partners With TVs getting slimmer and built-in speakers getting smaller, choosing the right sound system is more important than ever. Soundbars enhance your TV’s sound quality and add that extra audio punch to all your movies, games and TV programmes. More affordable and easier to set up than a full size speaker system, they don’t compromise on quality either. Take a look at our full range of soundbars. Don’t forget… If you want to connect your TV to a blu-ray player, games console, soundbar or soundbase then you’ll need a HDMI cable. View our collection of cables & connections And if you’re looking to elevate your viewing experience with cable management, then why not take a look at our wall mounts and TV stands . *Use of this TV requires consent to Google Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Simulated UI. Applications availability varies by country and device. **User interface may differ. Limited ITV content in Scotland and NI. Suitable coverage, broadband speed and aerial required. Terms and conditions apply. A Smart TV is a platform that can run 3rd party Apps. 3rd party content providers may remove Apps from the Smart TV platform or stop supporting them at any time, and we cannot guarantee an App’s availability. When new Smart TV products are launched, there may also be a delay before certain Apps become available. Availability of Apps is not included within the terms of the manufacturer’s warranty, or the John Lewis 2-year Guarantee for audio visual products, or the 5-year Guarantee for TVs. Delivery information : If you buy a sound bar or DVD/Blu-ray player along with this TV, please note that they’ll be delivered separately.
- Product ID: 24123729975
- Category: Electricals > Televisions > View All TVs
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