Best TVs of 2017
2017 has seen high dynamic range technology giving rise to the very finest TVs. The powerful app of the 65Z9D is that it merges up Sony’s exemplary color and clarity technologies with a new high-end backlight system that’s apparently been tailor made to deliver maximum HDR impact while minimizing LCD TV’s typical light clouding/inconsistency problems. How does it do this? First, it puts more than 600 LEDs directly behind its screen rather than around its edges. Second, it provides enough electrical and processing control to enable every single one of these LEDs to produce its own light level independent of its neighbors. Lastly, new ‘calibrated beam’ technology focuses the LED s more narrowly on the brightest parts of the picture, to give them more punch and expand the sense of contrast. The Sony XBR-65Z9D rewrites the picture quality rule book. Promising as all this sounds, though, the 65Z9D (known as the KD-65ZD9 in Europe) doesn’t make the b...