The 2025 TV season has hit, and it’s not just about TVs, as Sony reveals bigger screens thanks to a projector.
Living rooms around Australia and the world may not be getting larger, but that doesn’t mean the TVs aren’t being supersized all the same. Depending on how much space you have, the minimum size for a TV could still be quite big, at least based on what some of the TV manufacturers are telling us this year.
In the world of Sony, that appears to hold true for this year, as the Bravia range now starts from a minimum of 55 inches, and can hit a staggeringly large 98 inches, before jumping into an even bigger projection screen if you have the size and the cash.
We’re hearing about all of this right now because like the other major TV makers, March to May is the typical TV changeover season, as new models arrive and the last generation disappears.
Sony is next on the list, it seems, and it has only a couple of ranges, which should make things a little easier. The model names aren’t necessarily simple, but the technology choices are, with a choice of either Mini-LED and lots of sizes, or quantum dot OLED and two sizes, plus a larger projection alternative if you have the space and the cash.
On the Mini LED side of life, there’s the Bravia 5 with a range start from a 55 inch screen stretching all the way to 98 inches, and offering a backlighting technology Sony uses on its professional monitors, the XR Backlight Master Drive.
All of the screens are 4K and support calibration for movie quality as well as Imax Enhanced picture modes, while the screens also support Dolby Vision HDR and even Dolby Atmos virtualised sound.
If you prefer a purer colour, Sony will also offer TVs using organic LEDs, also known as “OLED”, but with a quantum dot filter. Shortened to simply “QD” (or “QD-OLED” for the technology Sony uses), the Bravia 8 II being released this year uses a combination of AI, contrast boosting, and quantum dot Triluminos technology (Sony’s answer to quantum dots) to boost the colour.
Meanwhile a new generation of Sony’s Acoustic Surface Audio from its older OLED TVs hides the sound behind the screen, using the display as part of the speaker system.
You won’t find a lot of options for screen sizes in the Bravia 8 II, with a choice of either 55 or 65 inches in the range. If you need more, the Mini-LED Bravia 5 will come in 75, 85, and 98 inches, but if you still need more again, there’s also a shiny new projector.
The Sony Bravia Projector 7 brings a 4K laser projector to big living spaces, supporting a brightness of 2200 lumens and 4K at 120 frames per second, plus a way of playing back Imax Enhanced video on a projector.
This gadget will arrive a little later in Australia, though, because while the TVs are set for May, the Bravia 7 projector will land locally in August, priced at a staggering $13,999.
By comparison, the TVs will start at $2499 for a 55 inch Bravia 5 and cost as much as $3699 for a 75 inch, $4999 for an 85 inch, or $9999 for the 98 inch Mini-LED Bravia options. Meanwhile, the QD-OLED options will cost $4499 and $5499 for the 55 and 65 inch respectively.
New visual entertainment options wouldn’t be much without sound, and Sony will have some new entrants there, small as they are.
A single soundbar will arrive with a subwoofer in the 3.1.2 Bravia Theatre Bar 6 for $899, while a standard 5.1 surround bar and speaker system can be found in the Bravia Theatre System 6 for $1199. Sony will also offer two rear speakers with a 360 spatial sound mapping technology in the $699 Bravia Theatre Rear 8, a wireless left and right speaker designed to create three-dimensional sound, and can be paired with an optional $499 Sub 7 subwoofer.
While the TVs are largely focused on a May release date, Sony’s sound system additions will arrive a couple of months later, with July 2025 on the cards for those.
