The Surprise Champion for 4K HDR Gaming - Sony Inzone M9 Review

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00:00 - Intro, Specs, Design
05:12 - Response Times and Overdrive Settings
09:32 - Response Time Performance Comparisons
13:10 - Color Performance
15:55 - Brightness, Contrast, Uniformity
17:11 - HDR Performance
24:36 - HUB Essentials Checklist
25:48 - Final Thoughts

The Surprise Champion for 4K HDR Gaming - Sony Inzone M9 Review

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[wile]

The alien ware QD-OLED has put the max price on the market for monitors. Anything less than that monitor has to be cheaper so I'm glad 4K monitor pricing is getting its act together

[skitballesnorapa]

In the sea of "influencer" YouTubers that are "testing" monitors it is stellar to get a real walktrough by HUB. Never loose your integrity and continue the awesome work. I test monitors on a very amateurish level and I really understand the grunt work that goes into all the testing you guys are doing and it is many, many hours of work. Thank you for the great work! Also, I have subscribed to Monitors Unboxed asap

[NN]

8:03 YES, i always wanted you drawing on these charts.
Please do these for other important moments it helps following the narration.

[SupremeDP]

The lines drawn on the graphs to emphasize parts of them are super useful and a great adition! Really helps to orient you on the dense graphs.

[WereCatf]

2:50 I like the looks of the display. It's a nice, clean display with good use of contrast between the black and white, instead of the gaudy "gamer" monitors that proliferate the market. Sony has a good design there, I hope they continue in the same line in the future.

[nambreadnam]

This is exactly the sort of display I've been waiting for; decent HDR performance on a 27" gaming monitor. I hope other companies now try to compete with this over the next 12 months, driving down the price and allowing me to finally buy one.

[MrLutijen]

HDMI 2.1 at 40 Gbps ports are curious case. Tim mentioned enabling firmware for 4K/144, but it seems more complex. 40 Gbps of bandwidth over HDMI 2.1 can support up to 4K/120Hz 10-bit RGB/444 signal. For 4K/144Hz 10-bit RGB/444 signal, full speed of 48 Gbps is necessary, unless the display chipset has DSC enabled over HDMI 2.1 FRL protocol to compress 4K/144Hz 10-bit RGB image from GPU into 40 Gbps pipeline using the smallest compression ratio 1.25:1. Please investigate this with Sony.

If the monitor does not support DSC over 40 Gbps HDMI 2.1 ports, no firmware would ever help receive any image beyond 4K/120 10-bit RGB as there is not enough bandwidth for 4K/144Hz 10-bit RGB image. Only full speed ports with 48 Gbps can do this without DSC. For uncompressed images, jump from 4K/120 to 4K/144 requires additional 8 Gbps.

[fakename]

Finally, a reasonably sized 4k with good ppi! I'm so sick of the industry trying to sell me jumbo screens like I want to be in the front row of a theater or something.

[clster]

It would be nice if you could visualize the size of the individual dimming zones.

[Brian.M]

Pretty cool. The monitor market moves pretty slow, but hey, at least it's moving.

[SPARTAN-KD]

What going to matter if this is a good HDR non-OLED display is if the LD algorithm is worth a damn, something Sony is known for being king in the TV space. So if Sony is brining that same tech to this monitor this will still beat out other monitors if not compete directly against them that have more dimming zones because the amount of dimming zones does not always equal a better FALD display.

[GuyFromJupiter]

I bought an Odyssey Neo G9 when it was on sale last year, and after seeing the HDR capability of it I could never go back to an SDR monitor. I'm glad to see a similar experience is finally available for people not willing to part with an obnoxious amount of money for the privilege. Let's hope the rest of the market follows suit and game developers start making HDR more of a priority as well.

[fanofentropy]

32" and an option to buy it without the stand and I'm sold. So close!

Disclaimer: Huge Sony fan here. Still rocking a 19" Trinitron on a slot 1 Pentium 3 retro gaming system.

[franksun]

I think one of the strong suits of this monitor is its type c port. People who want to hook up their MacBook dongle free for work but don’t want to have a second set up for gaming like my self would be very satisfied. Very rare do I see other gaming monitors do this. And the KVM switch with 3 USB port is a very nice feature as well.

[konga]

A monitor that's accurate in DCI-P3 mode *should* have accurate sRGB performance while using SDR apps in Windows' HDR mode, which may be why Sony decided not to include a proper sRGB mode. I still think that's a mistake though since Windows' HDR mode can come with its own annoyances (though it's a lot better now than it used to be)

[sammy]

96 is not much yes. But sony still used ~60 to 90 zones on last years X95J top of the line LED TV. And that low zone count competed with Samsungs ~500 zone QN90A. Sony's processing can make low zone count good.

Sony just went to a higher zone count this year with the X95K with backlight master drive.

[TheJubess]

excellent review of the monitor as always! it's head and shoulders above the competition

[althaz]

Loving that Sony got their monitor into HBU's hands in time for us to see a review at the same time they have announced it! That's *AWESOME*. Nice work Sony and HBU!

[AndrewH]

Nice review glad Sony reached out to you to review their product that is a good sign.

[vintatsh]

32“ and this monitor would be perfect. 
Good to see Sony bringing their expertise to consumer monitors.