Easily the most future-proofed tv in 2020. The brightness of this tv is absolutely unreal. The first time I put it on the wall, went to Netflix, and started "our planet" in Dolby vision, my jaw was on the floor for an hour. I had no idea a tv could be so immersive, and I'm coming from a 2017 4k hdr Samsung. If you haven't seen Dolby vision on this tv, you haven't lived. I'm a gamer. I got it for the next generation consoles. HDMI 2.1, 4k-120, freesync, earc, hdr10+ & Dolby vision. There's really no contest. Even gaming on the PS4 pro, which doesn't handle hdr that well, is a totally new experience. The tone mapping technology can adjust to get the most out of any hdr content. Gaming is more responsive than I've ever felt. Things actually happen right when I want them to. Great input lag. The HD upscaling is instant and it looks like 4k. Smartcast is fast and responsive, contrary to previous years. This tv has such pure blacks, which is something I was really interested in after my other Tv always having static artifacts in darker colors, and obviously the peak brightness is just insane. The movie watching experience is where this tv shines brightest. I would put it up against any Oled, and it certainly blows away the other 3 big US TV companies' products this year. Customer service for both best buy and Vizio have been quick, and able to answer any technical questions I had about setting up the TV to my sound system and setting up the smartcast app, since I did everything myself. The CEC on this tv recognizes everything right away and names it. Truly an amazing experience. I'm happy every time I turn it on, and the aluminum frame with basically no bezel, looks beautiful as well. I tried to add pictures, but all of them were over the picture limit, so only one went through.

I researched for weeks before finally purchasing... Once you get your settings right, picture is UNBELIEVABLE. HDR looks real, especially Dolby Vision. Settings will take time, however, so requires patience and probably an affection for home theater. Different devices will need their own unique settings to look their best (i.e. cable box, 4k blu ray player, streambox, HDR and SDR, etc, likely all need separate settings). No major issues at all, but a lot of little ones. Interphasing is a mess, so you must be comfortable doing deep dives into picture and control settings, or else be willing to learn. HDMI connections can be a little buggy -- ARC doesn't seem to talk to my preamp (5 years old) well, maybe it's just my equipment. Early reviewers in the past wrote about a "red tint" -- there is none on my TV. Perhaps newer ones are fixed or it's just panel lottery. For home theater enthusiasts who dont mind a bug or two, don't hesitate. The picture is superb, blacks are deep with minimal blurring, and it's brighter than all but newest and most expensive OLEDs. I haven't had mine professionally calibratred but I'm sure that could make it even better. If the best picture is what you care about and you don't mind working for it -- buy it. If you want a plug and play TV -- I'd buy a different one.

I was just walking around minding my own business. I wasn’t even looking for a new TV when I saw one of these on display. The color and brightness floored me. I pointed it out to my wife and she said “Buy it.” She was shocked when I said I still needed to do my research. (It’s a guy thing ladies). With it going into a very bright living room with lots of windows, my research said this was a great option due to a full array backlight and 3000 nits of brightness - they were not kidding. I went with the 75” and you will have to turn it down at night or your cones and rods will be all messed up. I LOVE this TV! It replaced a 55 inch Vizio that I was VERY happy with, but I always wanted a REAL “Big Screen”. The color REALLY POPS! You have to tweak the preset adjustments a little for your taste. If you really want to see what this TV can do, put in a 4K Blu ray or or go to You Tube and check out some 4K travel videos. Unbelievable!! I didn’t know that kind of color and clarity was possible. It has Dolby vision and Dolby Atmos audio as well. If you want a big premium screen TV at a reasonable price I would give this one a look.

The HDR does really well, it’s just ok at upscaling SDR content. Watched some YouTube videos and adjusted the settings based on various recommendations. It was on sale and think it was a good value for all the features. Smartcast seams smooth enough, they need to add HBO max though and I can get rid of my Roku, you can stream the HBO, but would be much better to have it as part of Smartcast. I used the mounting service from BestBuy and that was great.

If you are looking for the full review of this product you can find it here: (https://youtu.be/2XpnE37EkjI) PERFORMANCE: What’s great about this TV is that it supports all the HDR formats including Dolby Vision, HDR10, HDR10+, and HLG which few TVs do. This next part is going to come at no surprise, but things looked the best on physical media through a Dolby Vision capable 4K Blu-Ray Player with 4K Discs. Second place went to gaming either on PC or console. Third went to 4K HDR streamed media. Fourth 4K non HDR media. Fifth 1080p SDR media. Sixth 720p and lower media. Which is consistent with A. the technology as bitrate will constantly go down with all of that which means you have less data to work with and increased compression. B. once you switch off HDR media you go from 1.07 billion colors and up to 4,000 nits of brightness to 16.7 million colors up to 100 – 300 nits of brightness with older content having worse mastering due to the limited tech available back then. Dolby Vision also looked better than HDR10/HDR10+, which looked better than Standard Def. Why am I mentioning all of this? Because this guy is a freaking monster and looks spectacular and will blow your socks off. Seriously, I walk around sockless now because my TV blew them all away. The picture gets incredibly bright with near OLED level blacks sporting insane contrast with minimal blooming. Pictures are sharp with vibrant accurate colors. I did not notice any crushed blacks, washed out whites, banding, haloing, etc. unless it was a defect in the recording/mastering. As you can immediately, and I mean immediately notice any scenes that use lower quality cameras, do not have as good of mastering, have low bitrate, or have a defect in it. With this TV being so large everything is massive which means that fuzzy spot in the bottom left of the screen. Yeah, you can see it and it is distracting. Which I noticed more and more the lower quality the content got. Which can make this TV look horrible when paired with horrible source material as it makes it stick out like a sore thumb. At first, I thought this was because maybe this TV wasn’t so great. But upon looking closer at the aberrant behavior I found that it wasn’t due to the TV but a defect or poorly mastered source material as I could reproduce the same things on other screens. I just noticed them easier on this guy because it’s 75 inches with top of the line tech. There were a few times that I noticed the Full Array Lighting being a bit too aggressive which created a mild amount of blooming. Overall, I rarely found Vizio’s algorithm to be overly aggressive. But it did happen here and there. I do think most of the issues that people were having early on are now either fixed due to firmware updates or because they thought the screen looked terrible when it was actually the opposite and was the original source material looking bad. As for the upscaling. I can’t say as I didn’t really notice it. I want to spend a bit of time talking about gaming on this guy. I tried it both on my gaming PC and my PS4. As I haven’t been able to snag a RTX 3080 or Playstation 5 yet to try out the 2.1 HDMI Spec of 4K at 120 Hz with 4.4.4. Which left me at either 4K HDR at 60 Hz or 1080p HDR at 120 Hz which is what I went with. As 1440p is currently not officially supported. Hopefully, it will be after a firmware update. I found overall latency to be great with only a mild difference between it and my Asus PG279Q. On Humanbenchmark I was getting 200 ms on the TV and 170 – 180 ms on my PG279q on average. I think that difference for most users will be negligible. As I was still able to play through Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War on Veteran as well as play through Spider-Man and the TaskMaster Challenges while getting Ultimate Scores without issues. Both of which require fast reaction times and high amounts of precision and the TV didn’t hold me back at all. Overall picture was phenomenal and often left me sitting there in awe. As colors were accurate and dynamic. Contrast whether it be a very dark scene, a very bright scene, or both had a bunch of detail and texture. And getting massive amounts of brightness was awesome. I didn’t notice any issues at all with motion and kept all motion settings off except for Game Mode. I think this is a perfect match for the PS5 and Xbox Series X. If you are a hardcore competitive gamer you’ll have to decide if having increased colors (1.07 billion vs 16.7 million), exceedingly better contrast (15,000 vs 1,000), and 800 – 2800 nits vs 300 – 500 nits will be worth that 30 milliseconds of input latency you are giving up. Other users have complained of issues with VRR. I didn’t experience any issues with it on the PC or PS4 and had that setting ON when I should have had it OFF. Since I use a Nvidia GPU it doesn’t support FreeSync and the PS4 doesn’t support VRR. The PS5 supports HDMI VRR but not Freesync. The Xbox One supports VRR and Freesync with the Xbox One Series X supporting Freesync ranges between 30 – 120 Hz. The Freesync range on this TV is 48 Hz – 120 Hz. Moving onto viewing angles. It’s a VA panel so you’ve got the typical defects of that type of panel not having as good of viewing angles when going off axis. A lot of other written reviews mention blooming. The fine print states that the Full Array Local Dimming is only active during video. Which is why menus look so awful. Menus are also usually done with low quality images which only exacerbates the whole thing as you can see horrible banding. I did find this to be the case on my set. But once I went into any type of video that was immediately resolved. There were occasions where the Fully Array backlight was being a bit too aggressive which is when I would turn it down to medium and it would do fine. For some bad standard def material I had to go to low on the Full Array backlight for it to look good. But that was few and far between. I’d experience issues on a sliding scale with the high-quality content it almost never happened and if it did was from a poor-quality scene to relatively often with poor SDR content. Especially poor SDR content that was old. Blacks look tremendous on this TV no matter what type of content you are watching. They aren’t OLED level blacks, but they are getting closer. The brightness of this TV is fantastic. There were a lot of times I would get blinded by it changing from a very dark scene to a bright scene. As blacks are black and whites are white and can get freaking bright. The onboard speakers are average across the board. Which I’m okay with as I don’t want to pay a premium for great speakers that no matter what you do will sound terrible. This TV is best paired with a quality sound system. As it supports Dolby Atmos Pass through via the eARC (Enhanced Audio Return channel). ISSUES: Some issues that I read in other reviews were that the audio didn’t follow through to another input. I didn’t find that to be the case but was also using the optical port for everything which could be why I didn’t notice it. Users reported that VRR wasn’t working. However, this has since been fixed with the most recent firmware update. I haven’t noticed any software bugs with CEC. The bugs I did see were from my own user error. I did not notice any issues with the local dimming so that also appears to have been fixed. I did notice that early on it sometimes it wouldn’t pickup that I had a source plugged in and turned on. Which made me have to switch to another source and then back to get it to work correctly. But that has since resolved. At one point SmartCast and Airplay wasn’t working correctly where it would load everything just not play any videos. Unplugging and plugging the TV back in fixed this. In this same vein. This TV takes a long time to turn on. It also had extremely dark blacks when it first turns on before it registers a source which makes it appear off. So, I think often times I was powering it on and due to the screen still looking off I would then power it off. So a quick fix for that is to be patient and look at the LED indicator on the far left of the TV to see if it is on/off. The infrared for this guy is also a bit hit and miss which can be frustrating. But also appears to be getting better the longer I own the TV for. CONCLUSION: The picture quality on this TV is phenomenal and most of the issues that plagued it on launch are resolved. It still has some issues that need to be ironed out. But in general, it does a brilliant job at gaming and media watching making it an all-around hit. The remote kind of sucks as do the speakers. But for that extremely competitive price tag I can’t complain too much.