Summary
- Sony is updating Bravia TVs to Android TV 14, enhancing performance and energy-saving modes.
- Some eligible models on Android TV 10 are getting a significant jump in OS upgrades.
- Initial rollout includes mid-range and entry-level Sony TVs, with potential for updates on newer models later.
Android 14 is probably a name you haven’t heard in a long time, but with Google officially skipping Android 15 on TVs, it will jump straight from 14 to 16 when the time comes. In the meantime, 14 is still rolling out to many models, and now, Android TV 14 is landing on a bunch of Sony TV models.
Sony has started to update a selection of its Bravia TVs to Android TV 14. The rollout, first identified by a user on Reddit who discovered updated support documents, appears to be targeting specific models equipped with Realtek chipsets in its initial phase. As a reminder, Android TV 14 introduces enhanced performance and energy-saving modes, allowing users to choose between prioritizing processing power or efficiency. It also has new options for color correction and enhanced text formatting to improve readability. It’s a bit of an “old” update by now, with Android TV 16 supposed to roll around sometime soon, but it’s better late than never. It’s a huge update for some, since some of the models that are eligible for this update are on Android TV 10—so they’re basically jumping a bunch of major OS upgrades at once.
As a matter of fact, Android TV 10 was the very first update to support the Google TV interface. So some of these TVs were way overdue for an upgrade.
The first wave of the rollout includes a wide range of Sony’s mid-range and entry-level models from recent years. These include the Bravia 2, X77L, X75L, X75K, X74L, X74K, X70L, X64L, W880K, W835, W830L, W830K, W825, and W820K. Owners of newer or higher-end Sony televisions, particularly those with MediaTek processors or those running the more recent Google TV interface, are not included in this initial wave, but it’s very likely that the update will land for these models as well.
The update itself has seen a series of setbacks on other devices. Both Google’s own Chromecast with Google TV and Walmart’s popular Onn streaming devices experienced significant issues during their attempted rollouts earlier this year, leading to bugs and instability that forced the companies to halt the updates. Hopefully, Google’s Android TV 16 rollout isn’t as complicated and turbulent. But Android TV 14 is still good, especially so if you haven’t updated your TV for years or it’s in a really old software update. A lot of people go years without even thinking to update their TVs, but they, too, need it occasionally, especially when it comes to security updates.
Source: AFTVnews