VIZIO - 50" Class V-Series LED 4K UHD SmartCast TV

This is m in this third V-Series Vizio going back to 2008. For the affordable price you get an exceptional TV picture. I made the switch from a cable box to 100% streaming, The connection to the homes wifi was seamless and stable. The processor in this TV has not failed me. Connection to You-Tube TV is very clear and since a lot of channels are in 1080p You get the real life type picture. The amount of apps is you have access is amazing. Plus you can download the Vizio app and have the remote on the phone with access to apps. Refresh rate is adequate in live sports and video game playing. Highly recommend this TV for the price.

so far so good! I have this tv hanging on the wall in my bedroom and mainly watch netflix/Hulu on it, but the picture is awesome. Its really user friendly and comes with a surprising amount of free content. Super easy to cast from your phone (I have an android) on apps like youtube and Spotify. My only issue is that I get some glare on this TV if I watch during the day, but as you can see in my picture my curtains are basically sheer lol. In the vivid picture mode, its very bright at night, but not as bright as i would sometimes want it when i watch during the day. Overall, this is a great tv for streaming shows and movies, and the occasional video game (that's all I've used it for). The picture is very clear and the sound actually isn't terrible like a lot of tvs are now. We also have an M series in our house hung in one of the bedrooms that gets daily use of casual watching, video games, and sports. If you're stuck between these two and not sure which to purchase because of the price difference like I was, I'd say get this tv. Now I'm not a tv expert or anything, but if you're buying on a budget, i find this tvs picture to compete pretty well with the pricier M series. The M definitely gets brighter than this one, but the sound quality is the same and this tv can do pretty much everything the M can. First photo is in the evening with the light on, second is lights off at night, third is afternoon.

The tv is amazing. The prices we paid for this tv is great. The brand is wonderful. The unboxing was super easy and putting it together was as simple as 4 screws. The tv is very light weight. The picture is beautiful. It the perfect tv at the perfect price.

I have had nothing but Samsung TV's for about 7 years now. Last week my 2 year old Samsung LED got these black blob-ish vertical stripes. I was pretty disappointed considered my Samsung plasmas are about 7 years old and still look great. Looked it up online and found that it's a very widespread and common problem with Samsung LEDs so thought I'd try a different brand. Did a ton of research and read a ton of review and ultimately decided on the Vizio V505 H-19. A bunch of places said it was comparable to the Samsungs and good for gaming. Got it yesterday and hooked it up. Initially liked it while doing the setup, liked the remote, etc. Once I got everything going I had to mess with the picture settings quite a bit to get it to my liking. I tested it out with live TV, a movie, some Netflix, Hulu, etc. It didn't look as good as my Samsungs but after messing with the picture settings I though I had everything looking to where I could live with and enjoy it. I did notice occasionally there would be a commercial or a certain scene in something where it would get pretty washed out looking. I also noticed the text on sports scores/tickers and such wasn't near as crisp and "in focus" as all my Samsungs. I'm a graphic designer for a living so look at detail and color all day for a living. I would notice if I had a half millimeter dead spot on my tv. My wife is the opposite. One of our Samsung plasmas has a thing where on white or light backgrounds you see this kind of flicker of purple. It's 8 years old so it's probably the gas going out or something. I notice it, she does not. She doesn't notice any of that kind of stuff. She came in the room to check out the new Vizio. I put on some college football game replay from last weekend. I asked her if she felt the text just didn't look that crisp or "in focus". She said absolutely. But her next comment is what really got me. She said "put it on a game that was more recent instead of this old one". I told her it was from last weekend. She said the picture looked like I was watching some old 80's or 90's classic game. That was the strike one. The other thing that drove me insane was when I hooked up my PS4 with HDMI cable, it looked darkish and not sharp so I tried to go adjust the settings and the majority of them were greyed out and I couldn't adjust them. I called Vizio, they said it was PS4 issue, I called Playstation support, they said it was a Vizio issue. Also called Geek Squad and they were great but didn't really know as they hadn't really run into this before. No matter what HDMI port I used or what I did those picture settings were always greyed out. Strike 2. Strike 3 was overall I just felt like it wasn't near as vibrant, crisp or sharp as my Samsungs. The picture just overall seemed washed out, darkish and not crisp (no matter how much I cranked the sharpness or color) and was inconsistent from scene to scene, channel to channel, commercials, etc. Some stuff would look good but the next scene or different channel/show wouldn't. Also the sound was pretty bad compared to the Samsungs although I have to say that the simulated surround sound was actually pretty good. Decided to return it today and get another Samsung (got the SU 7000) but got the 5 year protection plan so if there is this widespread "black blob" problem with Samsung LEDs at least I'm covered for 5 years. Got the Samsung home and hooked up and it's literally like night and day. Picture is so vibrant and crisp, sound is great but my favorite thing is with the PS4/HDMI. The Samsung has a gaming mode that you can set to auto, on or off. When you set up the TV the first time I'm pretty sure it defaults to auto. But even in auto you can still adjust the most important picture setting even though "picture mode" is greyed out. All you have to do is go and turn the gaming mode to off and you then have all the other picture modes available and more settings open up. So, clearly the PS4/picture settings greyed out issue with the Vizio is a Vizio issue and not a PS4 issue. If you don't really care that much about this detailed stuff and just need a TV to watch and want to save a few bucks, go for the Vizio. It's not awful or anything, just not what I was used to after having only Samsungs for so long. It did have some cool features with the interface and SmartCast. If you do care about this detailed stuff...I just don't think you can beat the Samsungs (especially the picture) for the $300-$500 range TVs. I would just recommend if you buy a Samsung LED you get that 5 year protection plan just to be covered in case you get the dreaded "black blob" problem after 2 years like I did.

It’s a nice tv, great quality only issue I’ve had was I had set up my antenna it was connected the first day went to switch to the antenna the next and it was gone, I had to literally restart the entire process from the beginning to get it back

So I only purchased this TV because I could use the Airplay feature with my Iphone which I really need. The first tV was fine for like 3 days and then the Airplay would begin acting up and playing the same commerical over and over. Also, some of the "free" Tv shows I watched would also have the same issue. So I contacted BEst Buy online and they sent me another TV and after one day, the Airplay is doing the EXACT same thing as the other TV. They need to recall this television or offer and software update because it does not work well with Apps and that is the purpose of buying the TV to stream. I will be contacting Best Buy yet again to return this TV and find another brand. I can only imagine the problems I will have in a month. Oddly enough, the first TV I bought the default picture quality was HORRIBLE and I tried my best to adjust the settings to something managable. But this second TV, I have not had to adjust the picture quality AT ALL. Vizio needs to re-evaulate this product they brought to market.

I got it for my dad and he seems to really enjoy it. He's had it for a couple of weeks and I haven't heard a complaint, and from him, that means it's doing its job well.

I bought this as a secondary TV to stream multiple nets at once. I was surprised it does not have a single sports streaming app that are widely used. It does not have ESPN (which is common on pretty much every other brand) or Fox Sports. I just assumed they would be on there. I went with Vizio because the did have Peacock while other brands did not. Picture quality is good, but not as good as Samsung. Not sure I’d buy another Vizio unless the add more streaming partners (apps).