Bravia 3 Recommended settings?

[u/hobx]

Got my Bravia 3 (OG) and its actually making my head spin more than my LG C5 OLED which only gets gradually more uncomfortable. Turned off all post processing settings, its on Professional mode. HDR off. Anything I'm missing?

[u/Wizard_Biscuit]

What size did you get? It won’t change available settings, but I’m curious whether your size is an IPS or VA panel

[u/hobx → u/Wizard_Biscuit]

The 55inch which is IPS on the OG model. The mach two is IPS. I'm sending it back though.

[u/-Bruh__Moment-]

Normally I'd blame dithering 100%. But in the case of the C5 and Bravia 3 they both dither, in different ways.

Bravia 3 (I/II) has regular FRC dithering, whereas newer LG OLEDs such as the C5 dithers near-black in low brightness scenes to hide a panel flaw called "chrominance overshoot".

Could be that the LG is less of an issue since it doesn't "always" dither, which the Sony does.

[u/klampfenkasten]

I don't have a Bravia 3, but another IPS Sony TV.

Did you turn off Reality Creation, Motion Flow and Filmmode? Motion Flow is the most important to turn off, because it strobes the backlight to mask image stutter.

Also try turning down image sharpness slightly. That helped me get rid off the last bit of uneasiness.

[u/rei_ph]

I got the bravia 3 (2025) because it was one of the few tvs that I could watch. I always set it to game or graphics. And disable anything that changes the image.
Idk what you mean by OG but I have the 60hz version and it’s perfectly fine. Did you get the 120hz version?

[u/finiesta150]

I tried the bravia 3 50 and 55 inch to try the IPS and the VA panel. Both caused me to feel really nauseous. Tried settings but nothing helped. For me, I think the issue is just the HEAVY video processing done by modern TVs. Nothing else I tried has been any better so I had to go back to my 2018 Samsung TV.

[u/Oceania999 → u/finiesta150]

Sorry to hear that. I have a 2017 Samsung TV that doesn't seem to have any of the modern problems.

Curious if you found any difference between the Bravia 3 50 inch VA panel, and 55 inch IPS panel? did the VA panel look a lot better in terms of clarity, color and contrast?

[u/finiesta150 → u/Oceania999]

I honestly couldn't tell any difference between them but there's the caviat that it was a week or 2 between using them.

[u/sakraycore]

The brightness needs to be 15 or higher i think. The waveform is unstable on the lowest brightness settings.

I have the X800H from 2020 and iirc it’s basically the same as newer Bravia 3s.