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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. |
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| 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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Worth the money.
Verified purchase Verified purchase: This reviewer bought the product.Johnny T. January 25, 2025Review source: AmazonI’ve had it for 3 months and it works great. Picture resolution was great, very thin and elegant display in the living room. After all, it’s a SONY, can not be disappointed.
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SONY Bravia TV
Verified purchase Verified purchase: This reviewer bought the product. Incentivized Incentivized review: The reviewer received a benefit for sharing feedback.MarciaS January 25, 2025Review source: BestbuyGreat picture and sound quality. It’s also the perfect size.
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Sony Never Disappoints
Verified purchase Verified purchase: This reviewer bought the product. Incentivized Incentivized review: The reviewer received a benefit for sharing feedback.PaulH January 24, 2025Review source: BestbuyWow, Sony never disappoints. I replaced my 10+ yo Plasma TV as the picture was fading in my very sunlit living room. The picture and sound are incredible. I bought the 50″, it fits the room I have a condo. I used to have to close my blinds to watch the plasma tv but not with this one. It is bright and the quality is fantastic. The setup can be a little tricky if you’re easily frustrated by that, just have Best Buy do the setup if you’re not computer savvy, it will be worth it. I’m over 60 so once I realized the remote didn’t have batteries installed it wasn’t too bad but I like these kinds of challenges.
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Miss
Verified purchase Verified purchase: This reviewer bought the product. Incentivized Incentivized review: The reviewer received a benefit for sharing feedback.LauraU January 24, 2025Review source: BestbuyGreat picture and lots of free streaming. Could be a little better on sound but overall an excellent choice
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Perfect
Verified purchase Verified purchase: This reviewer bought the product. Incentivized Incentivized review: The reviewer received a benefit for sharing feedback.Smarttvreview January 24, 2025Review source: BestbuyExcellent picture and screen size for where we are using the tv.
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Bravia 55 – We were outsmarted by this Smart TV – returned it yesterday.
Verified purchase Verified purchase: This reviewer bought the product.Barbara / Tennessee January 24, 2025Review source: AmazonSet-up via g-mail was very complicated – we never could facilitate successful log-in with g-mail account (to enable connection / Google streaming, etc so we were dead in water. We realized later that “somehow” an old (defunct) email address that appeared (from old Amazon email account?) – BUT we could not override it with the new dedicated Gmail address…after many attempts. OY! Sony tech support NOT helpful – he sounded like he was also helping someone else simultaneously so he merely walked us thru the steps we’d already tried to no avail. This happened twice – no help whatsoever from Sony. And as usual these days, both tech support people were hard to understand, so it was a no-go. We tried several times…and because we did not have a smart phone (we were linking to new gmail acct thru our iMac close by) but that didn’t work. : (: (So maybe – it’s best not to buy a “smart” WiFi TV if you don’t have smart phone or tablet?
On upside – image gorgeous (as is our current smaller Sony Bravia). Good Luck “Y’all” from Memphis. -
Forget low Sony
Verified purchase Verified purchase: This reviewer bought the product. Incentivized Incentivized review: The reviewer received a benefit for sharing feedback.RobertH January 24, 2025Review source: BestbuyNot what salesman promised in picture quality. Sony lacking
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Sony bravia
Verified purchase Verified purchase: This reviewer bought the product. Incentivized Incentivized review: The reviewer received a benefit for sharing feedback.DorisL January 24, 2025Review source: BestbuyI love it it’s exactly what I was looking for.
It’s just perfect color sound price
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Replaced my 25 year old SONY!
Verified purchase Verified purchase: This reviewer bought the product. Incentivized Incentivized review: The reviewer received a benefit for sharing feedback.George January 24, 2025Review source: BestbuyPicture is amazing! Easy setup to my existing sound system.
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Great TV
Verified purchase Verified purchase: This reviewer bought the product. Incentivized Incentivized review: The reviewer received a benefit for sharing feedback.Geebee January 24, 2025Review source: BestbuyVery clear picture and colors are great.
Great TV.