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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. Great TV!

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    JoelSGA December 20, 2024
    Review source: Bestbuy

    TV is the perfect size for over our fireplace. The images are fantastic and is a great value.

  2. Color dull

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    NancyW December 20, 2024
    Review source: Bestbuy

    It is a nice TV however, the picture is not as crisp and vivid as my last Bravia television. It seems to have a yellowish orange tint. I would recommend this TV to others as it is a nice television for the money. No

  3. Sony is TV King

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    luislv December 20, 2024
    Review source: Bestbuy

    Image is crisp, sound is amazing. No need for soundbar.

    The TV remote is the weak part of the whole package. It stops working every once in a while

  4. Perfect size don't need huge. Sounds good at all a

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    Mlll December 19, 2024
    Review source: Bestbuy

    Perfect size for our TV room. Quality of picture is sharp and clear at night or with daylight. Sound is good didn’t need the sound bar. SONY everyday!!

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  5. Awesome picture horrible tv!

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    Phill December 19, 2024
    Review source: Bestbuy

    After 2 weeks started locking up would have sound but picture was black with white pixels on left of tv or the back light would be lit but a gray picture remote wouldn’t respond or would power on tv the only way to resolve issues was unplug power for 10 minutes and then would restart and be ok til the next time its happened on the 18th of December for the 5th time tv was bought on November 22

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  7. Would buy again

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    RudyM December 19, 2024
    Review source: Bestbuy

    Great TV for the price. Exactly what I needed. I stream TV. ” Hulu Netflix and peacock.

  8. Seems haunted

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    KendraD December 19, 2024
    Review source: Bestbuy

    I generally liked the TV, but it kept turning on and off randomly.

  9. Bravia Tv

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    RuthannP December 19, 2024
    Review source: Bestbuy

    I love my TV the color and picture quality are great. Salesperson John was very helpful in giving choices.

  10. Thanks best buy

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    AbdulS December 19, 2024
    Review source: Bestbuy

    Great service friendly customer service and easy shipping excellent quality

  11. Great tv

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    emoses December 18, 2024
    Review source: Bestbuy

    Excellent tv with pristine picture, very easy to use smart tv and easy to download apps