Bravia (brand)
television brand of Sony
Bravia (stylized as BRAVIA) is a brand of televisions currently produced by Bravia Inc. based in Ōsaki, Tokyo, Japan, a joint venture between TCL Electronics and Sony Corporation. The brand name is owned by Sony, which has produced flat-panel LCD televisions using the brand since 2005. Bravia products have been produced under the joint venture since 2026, with Sony continuing to be responsible for design and technologies while TCL does manufacturing and distribution.
The Bravia name is a backronym for "Best Resolution Audio Visual Integrated Architecture". Outside of LCD and OLED televisions, the brand has also been used on mobile phones in some markets, mainly Japan, as of 2007.
History
Bravia replaced the "LCD WEGA" brand that Sony used for their LCD TVs until summer 2005 (and early promotional photos of the first Bravia TVs still carried the WEGA moniker). The WEGA name was still associated with bulky tube TVs (dating back to the FD Trinitron) so Sony decided to have a fresh start. The Bravia moniker was unveiled in September 2005. It was part of an effort to revive Sony's TV making business which had been struggling in the growing market of flat-panels in the face of Sharp Aquos and a growing Samsung.
“Bravia (brand)” enters the record as television brand of Sony. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bravia, brand and television can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q796924. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2005, 2026 and 2007.
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