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. Sony – 50" Class BRAVIA 3 LED 4K UHD Smart Google

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    Dave August 10, 2024
    Review source: Bestbuy

    Sony – 50″ Class BRAVIA 3 LED 4K UHD Smart Google TV (2024) is a reasonably priced TV. It is easy to set-up, has lots of built-in Applications, like UTUBE and NETFLIX.

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  2. Happy consumers!!

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    Ibex August 10, 2024
    Review source: Bestbuy

    It’s big, and the quality of color in the picture wonderful! We love it!!!

  3. Expect to be happy

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    MikeC August 10, 2024
    Review source: Bestbuy

    Haven’t actually set this one up because I need more help to mount it. Should have just had Best Buy do it but expect it to be the same as the other two I bought.

  4. Happy with it.

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    MikeC August 10, 2024
    Review source: Bestbuy

    Recommended by salesperson in the store over Samsung. So far it’s fine. The apps seem easy to use.

  5. Happy with it

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    MikeC August 10, 2024
    Review source: Bestbuy

    Easy to set up with two people. Good picture quality. Easy to use apps.

  6. Great everyday TV for streaming

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    PhilipP August 10, 2024
    Review source: Bestbuy

    TV picture is great. I have always enjoyed Sony’s Bravia series TVs. The setup was easy and the apps that are preloaded are easy to get to for my kids to watch TV.

  7. Review

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    HeatherW August 10, 2024
    Review source: Bestbuy

    Nice size tv, but the picture quality isn’t the best. It’s definitely not the picture quality of the tv they showed me in the store. The sound quality is ok.

  8. Nice TV

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    babbs August 9, 2024
    Review source: Bestbuy

    Seems a little complicated to go from cable to streaming. Sometimes inconsistent steps.

  9. New Sony 55" TV

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    Anonymous August 9, 2024
    Review source: Bestbuy

    Beautiful, it is like sitting in a movie theater.

  10. 50 inch Sony TV

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    Barb August 9, 2024
    Review source: Bestbuy

    Great TV. Great picture, sound and easy to operate.

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