Sony Finally Has a Cheap Enough OLED to Fight Samsung and LG
The Bravia 6 is the company's first OLED with four HDMI 2.1 ports, in five sizes from 48 to 83 inches.
After appearing unannounced on a wall-mounting compatibility chart on Sony's own site in June, the Bravia 6 OLED is now official.
It sits below the Bravia 8 and 8 II OLEDs and the Bravia 9 II and 7 II RGB LED sets, and comes in five sizes from 48 to 83 inches — priced to compete with the LG C6 OLED and Samsung S90H QD-OLED.
The specification
A 120Hz panel, Google TV with Gemini, Dolby Vision, Dolby Atmos and DTS:X, and — for the first time on a Sony OLED — four HDMI 2.1 inputs.
That last item is the meaningful one. Sony's premium OLEDs have shipped with two full-bandwidth ports, forcing owners with a console, a PC and a soundbar to choose. Four removes the compromise on the cheaper model, which is an unusual direction for a feature to travel.
The port count may indicate the set uses MediaTek's Pentonic 800 SoC, one of the requirements for Dolby Vision 2 support. Sony would not confirm it.
The remote
The Bravia 6 gets a redesign rather than the premium remote: streaming service buttons moved to the top instead of the bottom, a larger and more central directional pad ringed by home, settings and back, with volume and channel toggles below.
Small, but remotes are the part of a television anyone actually touches, and Sony's placement of streaming buttons has been a standing complaint.
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