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. Nice!

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    Sandy September 27, 2024
    Review source: Bestbuy

    This television is amazing. The set turns on quickly, picture is clear and the sound is great!!

  2. New Sony TV

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    NancyM September 27, 2024
    Review source: Bestbuy

    Excellent service. We are very happy with this TV.

  3. Geek squad employees are awesome

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    SteveB September 27, 2024
    Review source: Bestbuy

    The geek squad that delivered the two TVs and set everything up also with the sound bar were absolutely unbelievable their customer service was way beyond excellent they knew everything as far as questions whenever I would ask him they were kind and courteous I would recommend the two gentlemen any time to set up any type of electronic equipment for your customers. Once again they were beyond outstanding they were excellent. STEVEb

  4. Shopper

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    ThomasaS September 27, 2024
    Review source: Bestbuy

    Great TV. Just what you would expect from Sony.
    Would recommend this TV.

  5. GOOGLE DATA COLLECTION DEVICE

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    Placeholder September 27, 2024
    Review source: Amazon

    I decided to go with a Sony because my last Samsung lasted less than 3 years. It was nearly twice as much $ as a similar size Samsung. Set up was pretty easy, picture good, sound no better worse than other TVs. The remote is TERRIBLE, and the TV won’t pair up with my Bose system remotes. The guide (if you could see it) is USELESS, it seldom populates the listings of what’s on. What good is that? If you page through the channels to quickly, it gets stuck on the last channel’s audio so you need to restart the TV to clear it. During set up you have to sign several authorizations to use all the functions. The agreements are 100s of pages long so you can’t read them all. So you basically give GOOGLE free access to listen to / watch what goes on in your household. If I knew about the google stuff I would never have bought this tv.

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  6. Sony – 43" Class Bravia 3 led 4K UHD Smart TV

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    BudD September 27, 2024
    Review source: Bestbuy

    This is an excellent TV for the price. The picture is better than I had hoped for. This is the 2nd. Sony Bravia that I have bought from Best Buy. I have been extremely pleased with both of them and with their service. Give one a try and you can’t go wrong.

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  7. It’s a must have!

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    GlenH September 27, 2024
    Review source: Bestbuy

    Love this tv..resolution at it’s finest. My damily loves it

  8. ms

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    petty September 27, 2024
    Review source: Bestbuy

    works great just like a sony should easy to set up

  9. Not a happy SONY customer

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    NotHappy September 27, 2024
    Review source: Bestbuy

    Not happy with this purchase. Remote control is very small with the buttons so close together that 90% of the time you make the wrong choice in the menu. The screen is chockfull of apps and information that you don’t need and which is overwhelming. When you try to turn off the set 2 choices appear. One says Re-start and the other one says Close and it takes several tries before you can actually turn off the set.

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  10. Not what I expected from Sony.

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    AnthonyD September 27, 2024
    Review source: Bestbuy

    Great picture, easy set up. But the Wi-Fi keeps dropping. The only way to fix it is to unplug the TV and plug it back in. I have bought several smart TVs. I have not had this issue with any other one. I also have a Sony TV that I purchased several years ago and no issues. There must be something wrong with this TV or it’s a design issue. There’s no reason for it to keep, losing the Internet.

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