More rumours about Sony’s upcoming Bravia 9 II and Bravia 7 II RGB-LED TVs have emerged courtesy of a Chinese blogger, who has dug deeper into the company’s application to patent the trademark “True RGB” in Canada and Japan.
We first reported on Sony’s patent application last week. The filings were first spotted by The Walkman Blog, which revealed that the True RGB phrase related to “LED displays, television sets and televisions”.
The name strongly hints at the trademark being used for Sony’s upcoming RGB-LED TVs, which use a new kind of display technology that’s said to be superior to traditional Mini-LED. It’s believed that the best RGB-LED TVs could even surpass the capabilities of the most premium OLED televisions because of the way they use red, green and blue LEDs to enhance brightness and contrast and improve colour accuracy.
It’s likely that Sony is going to market its RGB-LED displays as “True RGB”, similar to how Samsung is using its own phrase “Micro RGB”, and the first models are expected to be the Bravia 9 II and Bravia 7 II. The Walkman Blog said last week they’ll launch in a range of sizes, from 50-inches all the way up to 115-inches.
However, DisplaySpecifications has now surfaced some contrasting information from the Chinese blogger Salivaxiu Zhang on the popular Bilibili platform, who says that the Bravia 9 II will come in 75-inch, 85-inch, 98-inch and 115-inch options. Meanwhile, he claims that the Bravia 7 II will be sold in 65-inch, 75-inch and 85-inch options.
Zhang also dug up the first rumored details of the new Bravia TV’s specifications, and both models are likely to be big hitters. Reportedly, the Bravia 7 II will be able to hit between 2,000 and 2,500 nits peak brightness and feature around 5,100 mini LED local dimming zones, while the Bravia 9 II will crank it up to 4,000 nits peak brightness with an astounding 15,000 local dimming zones.
DisplaySpecifications speculates that Sony may also launch a new Bravia 5 model next year, going on the company’s past performance, but it notes that no details on this model have surfaced so far. It’s also not clear if Sony will reveal its 2026 TVs at the CES show in Las Vegas next month, or hold out a few weeks longer and launch them at its own special event.
