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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
Verified purchase Verified purchase: This reviewer bought the product. Incentivized Incentivized review: The reviewer received a benefit for sharing feedback.RyanS August 9, 2024Review source: BestbuyAwesome. Excellent product, for a great price. Would recommend to anyone
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Bestbuy and their products are hands down the best
Verified purchase Verified purchase: This reviewer bought the product. Incentivized Incentivized review: The reviewer received a benefit for sharing feedback.Zman August 9, 2024Review source: BestbuyI have purchased numerous Sony Organic LED TV’s a long with most recent purchase of the Sony 50in Bravia 3 from Bestbuy and Bestbuy and Sony are hands down the Best. Bestbuy is the best go to for all of your Electronics.
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Best Buy is Great – Sony TV is Good!
Verified purchase Verified purchase: This reviewer bought the product. Incentivized Incentivized review: The reviewer received a benefit for sharing feedback.Tajerose August 9, 2024Review source: BestbuyThe Best Buy sales person was extremely helpful. It’s a great place to compare and purchase products- especially TVs. We bought a Sony because it was replacing a Sony tv and our universal remote was already set up for Sony in a limited use situation. The tv’s picture is good, but it’s expensive for A 50” LED. Also, it uses an android operating system which is slow and annoying. We set it up so goes directly to our Roku stick and therefore we avoid the android system annoyance. In all, it serves our purposes (not our main tv) but I would recommend Samsung or LG over Sony TVs.
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Sony TV
Verified purchase Verified purchase: This reviewer bought the product. Incentivized Incentivized review: The reviewer received a benefit for sharing feedback.MikeR August 9, 2024Review source: BestbuyGreat selection and pricing, picked it up same day.
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Good quality tv
Verified purchase Verified purchase: This reviewer bought the product. Incentivized Incentivized review: The reviewer received a benefit for sharing feedback.JamesP August 9, 2024Review source: BestbuyGreat picture quality. Easy to navigate in apps Looks great in our office
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Excellent tv.
Verified purchase Verified purchase: This reviewer bought the product. Incentivized Incentivized review: The reviewer received a benefit for sharing feedback.Bestproduct August 9, 2024Review source: BestbuyVery happy with this product. Love the quality of picture.
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Follow instructions!
Verified purchase Verified purchase: This reviewer bought the product. Incentivized Incentivized review: The reviewer received a benefit for sharing feedback.JuanmanuelH August 9, 2024Review source: BestbuyAbsolutely love this, but make sure you pick it up like it says because it will break
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Sony Bravia 3
Verified purchase Verified purchase: This reviewer bought the product. Incentivized Incentivized review: The reviewer received a benefit for sharing feedback.BewareTheseAreScammer August 9, 2024Review source: BestbuySony Bravia 3’s ethernet connection is not compatible with CAT 6 ethernet connection. I had to find that out the hard way. It will always max out at 100 Mbps. No faster. The good news is although the Bravia 3 advertising doesn’t mention it having Wifi capabilities, it does come with built in Wifi. The picture is acceptable. The built in speakers are anemic at best.
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Sony beavia 3 t
Verified purchase Verified purchase: This reviewer bought the product. Incentivized Incentivized review: The reviewer received a benefit for sharing feedback.LynnC August 9, 2024Review source: BestbuyGreat picture. Awesome price. Easy to buy online and pick up in store.
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Super streaming
Verified purchase Verified purchase: This reviewer bought the product. Incentivized Incentivized review: The reviewer received a benefit for sharing feedback.RicL August 9, 2024Review source: BestbuyExcellent value and impressive performance.
I bought it because of the blue USB3 port (unique to Sony). With a USB3/Gbit adapter, I now have a wired Gbit ethernet connection that fully utilizes my 600 Mbps Internet service. The regular ethernet port, standard on all current TVs, is only good for 100 Mbps. Super streaming!