The Sony BRAVIA 9 is great for mixed usage. It really excels in reference conditions like a home theater due to its excellent black levels, impressive colors, solid accuracy, and HDR brightness capabilities. You also get top-tier image processing that makes DVDs, cable broadcasts, and compressed streams look good. This TV also performs very well in a bright room thanks to its superb SDR brightness, but it does struggle a bit with direct reflections. The TV is good for gaming, mostly due to its overall image quality, but it does struggle with displaying sharp motion, and its input lag is higher than similar models from other brands. Finally, it has a wide enough viewing angle for watching content with a couple of friends, but since the image degrades from more aggressive angles, it's not good for large seating arrangements.