Sony KD-85Z9G
Any readers following our magazine’s cover-lines about slashed TV prices may want to flip a few more pages on. Sony’s TV here is 85 inches on the diagonal, and it’s 8K. And it’s $21,995, precisely because it’s 8K and an 85-incher. Sony Australia isn’t even listing the larger 98-inch version of the Z9G, perhaps because in markets where it is available, it’s about six times more expensive than this 85-inch. In other words, you need extremely deep pockets if you want to be at this bleeding edge of TV tech. But if you do, there’s really no downside to the KD-85Z9G. If we were in the market for a giant 8K TV, this is where we’d start.
8K is a comin’ in
Regular readers will know we’re not yet convinced by 8K. It’ll come, for sure, because the TV manufacturers will migrate to it just as they did with 4K, and one day all the best premium TVs will be 8K whether we particularly want the resolution or not.
But for now, this is early-adopter first-generation stuff. There is very little content anywhere, almost none available to Australia, and no easily foreseeable way, except maybe 5G, that it could be delivered any time
