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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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Tv review
Verified purchase Verified purchase: This reviewer bought the product. Incentivized Incentivized review: The reviewer received a benefit for sharing feedback.DarshiniP September 2, 2024Review source: BestbuyExcellent tv quality with great quality sound effects
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Caution
Verified purchase Verified purchase: This reviewer bought the product.Joe September 2, 2024Review source: AmazonSony TV K-43S30. Remote control is difficult to use to go from broadcast/cable to streaming functions. The manual that comes with it is all but nonexistent. The TV picture quality is unexceptional. This was purchased for an 80+ year old person. Spending the extra money for this Sony, has not been worth it. Very disappointing. Sony online manuals are not up to date or missing a great deal of helpful information. I have had to google for information elsewhere in order to place settings as they should be, which has been a waste of my time. Limited apps are available compared to a streaming stick. Would be hard pressed to purchased another.
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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.DavidC September 2, 2024Review source: BestbuyGreat contrast even in bright rooms despite not being OLED. I was concerned about the low refresh rate, but haven’t noticed any issues.
Sony uses a vanilla version of Google TV which is by far my preferred operating system. -
Bravo
Verified purchase Verified purchase: This reviewer bought the product. Incentivized Incentivized review: The reviewer received a benefit for sharing feedback.PatrickC September 1, 2024Review source: BestbuyThis Sony is a solid TV, we use them in our our offices and huddle spaces, sharp image very good refresh rate for the price point.
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The TV is Great but…….
Verified purchase Verified purchase: This reviewer bought the product.renaud September 1, 2024Review source: AmazonI love Sony for my PS5 and I have an LG tv hooked up to my PS5. My daughter needed a new TV and mind you she is 9 years old so I thought…. why not get her a small Sony TV (she had an older model LG). I set up the TV and everything was great except when trying to connect my phone to mirror screen. The privacy permissions this thing is asking for……. nope. Since the TV is for my daughter, it’s not a deal breaker but never buying a Sony TV for an adult. These companies are getting wayy to noisy. I read somewhere where it says they will have access to go through the device connected…basically whenever they want. SONY stop it, it’s just a TV. I will stick with LG. I can mirror screen and not worry someone is going through my stuff. It’s an invasion of privacy even if they are asking before they do it. Read carefully before you accept their terms and conditions. I gave two stars since the picture quality is great. It’s only when you try to use Airpaly you get the request to give your privacy rights away to Sony, then you have to unplug the TV to get back to the home screen without hitting “accept” button. Only way to bypass it is to unplug the TV and Turn it back on. Sorry for the long review. Have a good day.
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Great Value
Verified purchase Verified purchase: This reviewer bought the product. Incentivized Incentivized review: The reviewer received a benefit for sharing feedback.JoyceB September 1, 2024Review source: BestbuyIt’s a great TV for picture quality and easy setup. I had to return this TV for another as there seemed to be an issue with it. It would startup randomly so had to unplug it when leaving the house. It would switch stations when in the middle of watching. I have had a previous Bravia for over 7 years and love it very much too.
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TV
Verified purchase Verified purchase: This reviewer bought the product. Incentivized Incentivized review: The reviewer received a benefit for sharing feedback.Mike September 1, 2024Review source: BestbuyTV is great, the picture is very clear. Easy to use controller.
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Great ALL AROUND TV
Verified purchase Verified purchase: This reviewer bought the product. Incentivized Incentivized review: The reviewer received a benefit for sharing feedback.Get1 August 31, 2024Review source: BestbuyOriginally purchased for a gaming tv. But put it in the living room for all to enjoy and using the 8 year old sony for gaming. Might buy another for gaming still?
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Google TV Suck’s
Verified purchase Verified purchase: This reviewer bought the product.blackbear54 August 31, 2024Review source: AmazonGoogle software want’s to control all the aspects of the TV, stupid. Can’t work around it!
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43" SONY Bravia
Verified purchase Verified purchase: This reviewer bought the product. Incentivized Incentivized review: The reviewer received a benefit for sharing feedback.JayJay August 31, 2024Review source: BestbuyI like Sony Bravia products, and this TV does not disappoint. And the Best Buy Tech who helped us purchase was also great, very helpful.