While the viewing angle problem is worth noting, the TV's excellent processing, upscaling capabilities, and exceptional brightness levels more than compensate for this limitation in most viewing scenarios.

While the BRAVIA 7 is not a flagship model, it delivers nearly flagship-level performance at a significantly lower price. With its impressive brightness levels and effective local dimming due to the XR Backlight Master Drive, it provides an excellent viewing experience for both HDR and SDR content.

The Bravia 7 has Insanely great picture quality

The Sony Bravia 7 offers great performance for a mid-range Mini-LED at a surprising sticker price, and it competes admirably with similar models in its price range. Just a few missteps — like its limited selection of HDMI 2.1 ports and high input lag — keep it from greatness.

‍The Sony Bravia 7 delivers premium picture quality for a mid-range price, backed up by a tidy audio system and a healthy feature count that includes plenty of support for gamers as well as home cinema fans.

The Sony BRAVIA 7 is an impressive TV overall for most uses. It truly shines when watching movies or the latest shows in HDR in a completely dark room, thanks to its high contrast ratio and vibrant colors. Games look equally amazing, and it has a huge selection of gaming features. It's less well-suited to certain users when watching shows or sports in a well-lit room, as its narrow viewing angle means you really need to be sitting directly in front of the screen for the best image, and the anti-reflective coating doesn't reduce glare enough to use it in a really bright room.

This TV is quite remarkable for a variety of uses.

While the Bravia 7 uses the same Google TV OS as Hisense and TCL TVs, Sony’s version has an extra coat of paint over its menus – and it’s noticeable.

Sony’s BRAVIA 7 offers excellent contrast and brightness thanks to its Mini LED backlighting with advanced local dimming.

If you have enjoyed Sony’s TVs in the past, you’ll feel right at home on this new beautiful screen.

Sony faces some stiff competition at this price point, with the recently reviewed LG C4 OLED TV only costing marginally more and the Hisense U8N coming in cheaper but offering a fantastically bright image and easy-to-master user experience.

With the Bravia 7, Sony continues its legacy of excellent color accuracy, top-tier upscaling technology, and pure picture quality, and blends that with built-in PlayStation Remote Play and support for high-end gaming.

Excellent clarity and motion handling. Rich and natural quantum dot color reproduction. Punchy brightness in both HDR and SDR. Good contrast and black levels. Intuitive and generally responsive Google TV interface. Plenty of gaming features like VRR, ALLM, and PS5 optimization. Multiple stand options for versatile placement.

However, if you’re looking for the all-round best value across Sony’s current TV range, the Bravia 7 gets closer to the Bravia 9 on both the picture and sound fronts than you’ve any right to expect for such relatively little money.

The Bravia 7 gets much closer to the quality of Sony’s Bravia 9 flagship than expected and is, as a result, one of the best mid-range TVs available