The picture is fine, the sound is acceptable, but there's nothing smart about this TV. The YouTube app stutters and hiccups (despite a strong WiFi signal and a super-fast NBN connection), the ABC iView and Netflix apps frequently crash, and the media player can't play half the formats that I give it. Every press of the remote control incurs an annoying delay, and some features are virtually unusable due to their lagginess. Even basic channel changing can be incredibly frustrating due to the device's lack of responsiveness. My brother-in-law has a cheaper LG TV that is 3 years older than this and every interaction with it is instantaneous. How Sony gets away with releasing products built on such an obviously inferior and underpowered platform (both hardware and software) is beyond me.

I prefer to buy electronic products with Sony brand. However, this time, I bought a Bravia TV, KDL50W00B last 19 July 2014 and lasted only for 20 months and is now broken. The screen panel no longer shows pictures but vertical lines of different colours. Sony support referred me to SS Electrics P/L and confirm this problem who charged me $155 for the visit. I was wondering whether to have the TV repaired or just buy a new one. Despite of this experience, I still prefer to buy a Sony TV.

Tv is ok for gaming and movies but isn't good for sports at all I'm getting severe motion blur doesn't matter if I change the setting to cinema mode or impulse mode it doesn't get rid of it and it's driving me crazy! Picture quality isn't as good as I thought it would be, in fact it's not even close. The features aren't that good either, it lags quite a lot even when u turn the tv on you have to wait a few seconds just to turn the volume up and can't bring up the menu without a pop up saying please wait! And another thing I'm not happy about is the hdmi ports not the one on the side but the 3 that are located near the middle but underneath very awkward spot and find it very difficult when trying to plug a hdmi cable in without being able to actually see those 3 hdmi ports very hard to get access to! The only thing I really like about this tv is the design!