Sony Bravia Master Series Z9J 8K TV review: Great picture, but where’s the onboard 8K?

Sony’s Z9J delivers a great image and upscales lower-res video with aplomb, but it won’t play local or YouTube 8K videos, and Sony makes no promises that it ever will.

Sony’s Bravia Master Series Z9J 8K TV delivers very good image quality, great looks, and fantastic audio features and performance. It’s pricey—and them some, at $7,000—but the bigger issue is that it won’t play 8K video files, either from local USB media or via YouTube. And Sony declined to promise us that it will down the road.

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