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

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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. Nice 43” tv

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    DeanK February 21, 2025
    Review source: Bestbuy

    The Sony 43” Bravia is a very nice tv. The picture that Sony always produces is fantastic. The speakers also produce a sound for built in speakers. Sony’s cost more but they live up to extra cost.

  2. Sony Bravia 3 review

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    BobS February 21, 2025
    Review source: Bestbuy

    Tv is generally good. Power on / off through the remote is a little wonky. Print hard to read on the remote. Some buttons are easily activated by mistake. Color is good. Haven’t figured out yet how to co-ordinate the remote with the Spectrum remote.

  3. Worth the price

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    Jak97 February 21, 2025
    Review source: Bestbuy

    At the price, this was an easy decision to make. This is my second Sony TV and the picture is terrific, the sound is impeccable, and the Google OS is easy to navigate, once you get used to it.
    This display is impressive without breaking the bamk. I didnt necessarily need all the bleeding edge tech features, just a tv that would be immersive. This fit the bill perfectly

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    user733468 February 21, 2025
    Review source: Bestbuy

    We love our new Sony Bravia 55”
    We also have Sony Bravia 50”
    and 42”

  5. Sony’s are best.

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    TruckerRich February 21, 2025
    Review source: Bestbuy

    Love Sony TV’s and this on doesn’t disappoint. Easy setup. Good price and Quality.

  6. Simple and beautiful

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    George February 21, 2025
    Review source: Bestbuy

    Beautiful and easy to use. Appreciate Apple TV plus and other apps already present.

  7. Incredible natural color and picture detail

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    GaryP February 20, 2025
    Review source: Bestbuy

    Took a while to get used to the menu and settings and still trying to figure out how to easily change the OTA channels. A number pad would help. Sound Bar and Internet were very easy to setup.

    I prefer a TV with natural color and don’t want to spend a lot of time making adjustments trying to get it just right. After reading many reviews for a 43 inch TV, the Bravia 3 had several comments about out of the box color being very good.

    Not only is the color amazingly good, the picture quality is superb. Fast action is smooth. All images and videos are lifelike and have incredible detail. I left it on Standard Mode and Cool temperature. I am very happy with this purchase. It was an open box, but it was just like brand new. GaryP

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  8. Great value & quality

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    Keesh February 20, 2025
    Review source: Bestbuy

    Great picture quality. Easy to setup and use. Surprising good sound but sound at worth extra investment.

  9. Great Tv for the money

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    YvonneO February 19, 2025
    Review source: Bestbuy

    The quality and sharpness of the screen is amazing. I enjoy watching the tv because of the quality of the picture is very good.

  10. Freezes up once or more per day! DON'T BUY!!!

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    Lamont L. February 19, 2025
    Review source: Amazon

    Always own Sony Televisions. Worst one I have ever had with issues. Freezes up all the time. Did research and a lot of complaints over same issue. Stated Sony has known about this issue and keeps selling product and trying to come with a patch in program to correct this. Have done updates hoping they have come up with something. Still haven’t!!!!

    Don’t buy this TV unless you read they have corrected this issue

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