The 65-inch Sony Bravia 8 II was listed at $2,149 on Greentoe when Notebookcheck reported the discount on Sunday, undercutting Amazon's concurrent promotion on the same display by roughly $349.
Amazon had marked the television down to $2,498 at the same time. The Greentoe price also nudged past the retailer's own prior promotion from December 2025, which saw the set go for $2,198.
While Sony reserves its top-tier branding for other sets, the Bravia 8 II sits as the company's premier QD-OLED offering. It slots above models like the Bravia 9 II for viewers chasing uncompromised black levels. The 77-inch version of the standard Bravia 8 relies on standard WOLED glass, but this 65-inch mark-two edition uses quantum dot tech to push richer color saturation without muddying contrast.
It is not a flawless panel for every living room. Testing from Rtings pointed out that ambient illumination in spaces with large windows can wash the display's deepest tones into a hazy gray. Rival sets like the Samsung S95H and LG G6 also push higher peak brightness. Where the Sony counters is viewing angle stability, keeping colors intact even when sitting well off-center.
Processing and Audio
Much of the premium asked for Sony hardware comes down to internal signal handling. The onboard XR Processor handles lower-resolution feeds with cleaner edge sharpening and fewer compression artifacts than typical bare-bones scalers.
Sound output is another clear differentiator. Sony builds vibrating actuators directly behind the panel through its Acoustic Surface Audio+ design, anchoring spoken dialogue to the physical position of characters on the glass. The television also handles DTS:X decoding natively, a surround codec Samsung leaves off the S95H entirely.
Console players get responsive latency figures and support for refresh rates up to 120Hz. The stubborn bottleneck remains port selection. Sony still limits full HDMI 2.1 bandwidth to just two of the four rear inputs, and one of those doubles as the eARC connection for dedicated audio gear. Anyone running both an Xbox Series X and a PlayStation 5 alongside an external soundbar will find themselves juggling cables.
At $2,149, the Bravia 8 II remains a major investment, yet it carves out space against brighter Korean rivals through audio implementation and picture processing. Greentoe's offer depends on merchant inventory, with checkout pricing subject to vendor allocation.
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