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Sony 55 Inch A9G

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provostkaypark
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Sony 55 Inch A9G

I have been a 'Sony man' for more years than I care to mention.  I am  disppointed with them over the last 6/7 months.  I bought a AF8 being the latest in about July - first class, and a couple of months later they brought out the AF9.  Firstly the price of the AF8 plummeted and I can now buy one for some £700 less than I paid and secondly it is superceded with an upgraded model and this week they announce an allsinging and dancing  A9G!!!!!  I was about to purchase an AF9 next week but will wait to find out more details re availability/prices for this new model.  It never ends and you never seem to be up to date with the latest.  Very infuriating indeed.  Anyone any info on the A9G?

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LightFoot
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@provostkaypark wrote:

I have been a 'Sony man' for more years than I care to mention.  I am  disppointed with them over the last 6/7 months.  I bought a AF8 being the latest in about July - first class, and a couple of months later they brought out the AF9.  Firstly the price of the AF8 plummeted and I can now buy one for some £700 less than I paid and secondly it is superceded with an upgraded model and this week they announce an allsinging and dancing  A9G!!!!!  I was about to purchase an AF9 next week but will wait to find out more details re availability/prices for this new model.  It never ends and you never seem to be up to date with the latest.  Very infuriating indeed.  Anyone any info on the A9G?


Hi @provostkaypark

 

Assuming you mean the AG9 https://www.sony.co.uk/electronics/televisions/ag9-series

 

Also some information on YouTube.

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royabrown2
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You have hit the double whammy of a new range coming out, above the previous flagship that you bought, 8 to 9, followed by the model year upgrade, F to G. So more frequent, to your perception, than the normal yearly update pattern.

 

To muddy the waters even further, or maybe to clarify them, I don’t know, you now have this to consider, the AG8.

 

Though if you want the greatest, nothing less than the AG9 will do. And you have to ask yourself - if you had been considering the AF8 and the AF9 after the AF9 had come out, would that £700 drop have been enough to sway you from the AF9? My guess is it wouldn’t.

 

And indeed, if you are looking to migrate to the G sets, you now have that choice again, between 8 and 9.

 

Sony are showing here that the AF9 wasn’t intended to supersede the AF8, or there would not be an AG8 offered alongside the AG9. Just that either way, you can buy the latest, but buying the greatest means jumping up the model range.

 

TVs have now got like first computers, and then smartphones, got; if you waited, there would have been a better one along soon - but if you waited, you wouldn’t have one to use now.

 

But both those markets have now matured, and change is small and incremental, so when you buy matters much less in those fields.

 

But TV, which was a mature market for years with consumers generally replacing their TVs on a 5-year cycle, has now become one of constant change and improvement again, and will be for a few years to come, until it all settles down again. So chasing the latest and greatest will be an expensive process, involving frequent change and paying top-of-the-range premium prices.

 

My 2015 TV isn’t significantly showing its age, but my 2016 soundbar is, and my 2017 UHD player is no longer the south-of-£400 bargain it seemed at the time.

 

OTOH, I’ve just unpacked our 2012 32in Smart TV set, relegated to the loft because it couldn’t do Netflix, and it is every bit as good as our later 32in sets (all untroubled by HDR, HDMI 2.whatever, Dolby Atmos and so on), and given a whole new lease of Smarts by a couple of sticks. I didn’t think that would happen for it....


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provostkaypark
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Many thanks for your comprehensive reply.  I agree totally with what you say.  The conundrum is do I pay the top price for the incoming A9G/A8G or do what my son tells me to do - just by another AF8 or the AF9 which I think the former and presumably the latter is outstanding and forget about new models. Would anyone notice the difference between the AF8, AF9 and A9G if they wwre side by side?  I don't think so and I would still have money in my pocket!!  Why when I think about it does Sony produce 2 new models almost identical - A9G and A8G??

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royabrown2
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Same reason LG do - different people have different price points they are prepared to go to, so LG offer B, C and E variants of its 55-65in OLEDs to maximise the number of customers they can pull in, and to maximise the revenue from each in the £1200 (B, 55”) - £2800 (E, 65”) range.

Plus a few even higher end sets for those with money to burn....

 

Sony are doing the same thing with the AG9 and lower spec AG8.

 


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LUCABG
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I’ll buy it !! I love this series! When will we can buy it?

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kerava18
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If AG9 is better quality what suffers on AG8 - is it sound quality or what - surely it can’t be the picture on this new OLED model ?
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LightFoot
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Hi @kerava18   I can’t see much difference in the specifications, apart from the graphics processors and speakers.

https://www.displayspecifications.com/en/comparison/4b30b2d2b

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royabrown2
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https://hdtvtest.co.uk/n/Sonys-AG9-and-AG8-OLED-TVs-Now-Shipping-to-the-UK


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