Sony BRAVIA 3

Sony

BRAVIA 3 | 43", 50", 55", 65", 75", 85"

Sony BRAVIA 3
Sony BRAVIA 3
Sony BRAVIA 3
Sony BRAVIA 3
Sony BRAVIA 3
Sony BRAVIA 3
Sony BRAVIA 3
Sony BRAVIA 3
Sony BRAVIA 3
Sony BRAVIA 3

Customer Media

Highlights

Intelligent 4K Processing Powered by the 4K HDR Processor X1, this TV intelligently enhances every scene in real-time, boosting color, contrast, and clarity to deliver a lifelike 4K HDR picture.
Vivid Real-World Colors With Triluminos Pro technology, the BRAVIA 3 reproduces over a billion accurate colors with enhanced saturation and hue, ensuring natural shades and vibrant picture quality.
Smart Entertainment with Google TV Access over 700,000 movies and TV episodes across your favorite streaming services in one place, featuring hands-free voice control with Google Assistant and support for Apple AirPlay 2.
Immersive Cinematic Sound Experience clear, natural sound and powerful bass with the uniquely shaped X-Balanced Speaker, complemented by Dolby Atmos support for a truly atmospheric audio experience.
Optimized for PlayStation 5 Enhance your gaming with exclusive features like Auto HDR Tone Mapping and Auto Genre Picture Mode, which automatically optimize picture quality for both gaming and streaming on your PS5.

Pros & Cons

Pros

  • Exceptional Picture Quality: Users consistently praise the sharp 4K resolution, vibrant yet natural colors, and the ability of the X1 processor to upscale older, lower-resolution content with impressive clarity.
  • Strong Value for Money: Many reviewers highlight that this model provides the premium build quality and performance expected from the brand at a much more affordable price than high-end OLED models.
  • Intuitive Google TV Interface: The smart TV platform is frequently described as snappy and easy to navigate, offering seamless integration with popular streaming apps and effective voice control via Google Assistant.

Cons

  • Frequent Software Freezing: A recurring issue among users is the TV's tendency to freeze or become unresponsive, often requiring the unit to be physically unplugged and restarted to restore functionality.
  • Poor Remote Control Design: The included remote is widely criticized for being too small, lacking a numeric keypad for direct channel entry, and having no backlighting for visibility in dark rooms.
  • Unreliable Wi-Fi Connectivity: Multiple customers reported that the TV frequently drops its wireless connection or fails to find networks entirely, necessitating frequent network resets or hard reboots.

Customer Fit

  • Primary audience: People using this model as the main living room TV praise the large screen sizes (65–85"), theater-like feel, strong color, and clear dialogue for sports, movies, and everyday shows from across the room.
  • Secondary audience: Many buyers explicitly installed the 50–65" sizes in bedrooms and liked that it’s easy to mount, sounds good without a soundbar, and is quick to get streaming.
  • Ideal scenarios: Reviewers say PS5 gameplay “looks great” and input lag feels low for casual gaming, but competitive players wanting 120Hz/VRR or simultaneous 4K+HDR may be disappointed.

Customer Reviews

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  1. Good tv

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    Aklesh December 21, 2025
    Review source: Bestbuy

    I love the TV; it is very easy to use and navigate, with good picture quality. The sound is also good.

  2. The TV that smooths out the super loud explosions and noise!

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    Daly Young December 21, 2025
    Review source: Amazon

    This is our dream TV! Perfect, clear, superior sound! We love how we can set it to a normal volume and hear both the quiet scenes and loud scenes clearly and without discomfort or frustration. All previous TVs made us increase the volume a quite bit to hear soft/quiet scenes clearly, but then the loud scenes would be much too loud while we scrambled to get the remote and turn it down again. With this Sony Bravia 3, we can hear most things with a volume setting of only 5 (out of a possible 100!) if we have others in the house studying or sleeping. We have never had to elevate the sound above 25 even if there is other competing noise in the house or outside. The picture quality is wonderful, too. We no longer have to close the drapes to watch because the TV is crystal clear in spite of any glare from outside. Scenes that show space and stars are like looking up into a dark sky on a clear night. Now we are getting a 55-inch for the bedroom!

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  3. Great SONY TV

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    Desto1070 December 21, 2025
    Review source: Bestbuy

    Great Sony TV! Happy with this purchase. Great display and sound. Easy set up. I highly recommend it.

  4. Great tv

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    Alejodoor December 20, 2025
    Review source: Bestbuy

    Perfect tv , performance , and brightness , for my ps5 is great

  5. Registered nurse

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    GinaB December 20, 2025
    Review source: Bestbuy

    Excelent tv I love it!!! Our family love it!! I will recommend to everybody

  6. No TV over Christmas

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    Jason December 20, 2025
    Review source: Amazon

    I have no review for the product because when I took it out of the box the screen was messed up. There was no damage to speak of on the box, but upon removing the protective cardboard on the screen, it had a spider web crack like it had been hit with something pointy. I may buy the same TV, but in-person this time, instead of having it shipped. What sucks is, I donated my used tv to a group home prior to discovering the damage. Now I have no TV over the Holidays.

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  7. Sharp picture.

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    Patricia J Suter December 20, 2025
    Review source: Amazon

    Easy to set up. Great clear sharp picture. This was a replacement for a 20year old Sony, which still was working, but down to only 1 working HDMI port. I would recommend this TV.

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  8. Affordable option for 4K and a a reliable brand

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    GALib December 20, 2025
    Review source: Bestbuy

    We have purchased some movies in UHD and they look great on the Sony Bravia 3. We have another tv that is not 4K and UHD looks really weird on it. Definitely nice to have a tv that keeps up with higher resolution, and less expensive than many models. Didn’t have to pay $1,000 or even twice that for all the features we wanted. Google TV Home is very convenient.

  9. Sony 50” TV

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    DorothyG December 20, 2025
    Review source: Bestbuy

    Happy with product. Good quality. Customer service was excellent!

  10. Great TV!

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    DennisP December 20, 2025
    Review source: Bestbuy

    Great TV, love Sony TVs I have had several in the past.