VIZIO - 55" Class - LED - E-Series - 2160p - Smart - Home Theater Display with HDR

I bought this 4K UHD TV to replace my vizio 42 inch that wasn't a "smart TV". I shopped around for over a month and finally decided on this set due to price and features. I plugged it in hooked everything up and turned it on. It was surprising at how easy it was to set up. It asks you a few questions, then you sing into your modem and your done. The picture is a LOT better than the HD TV I had. Now I did find a few things I didn't like about the picture quality. On some of the "Broadcast" channels the picture quality isn't all that great however I do understand why. An UHD TV will "upgrade" lower quality channels to as close to UHD as it can manage and still look good. Some of those lower quality channels don't translate well but it isn't all that bad. It seems that only the darker background scenes (like its night time or a pitch black room) the LEDs have a difficult time making it a single color so you will see these light shades of a very dim white grayish color pixel-ate through out the black areas. Luckily this TV has back lighting. for just this problem. Turn up the back light and most of it goes away. Chrome cast and smart cast are EXTREMELY easy to use. If you have smart cast app on your phone or tablet then your pretty much set to use either to control the TV. There are buttons on the back of the TV that will allow you to scroll through the different HDMI hookups and to smart-cast as well as the volume and on/off buttons if you loose the remote but if you have smart cast then you it really doesn't matter where the remote is. This TV does have Bluetooth however the only thing I have found that it will work with is a Bluetooth enabled device such as your phone tablet or an amazon echo dot or Alexa but it will NOT connect to a sound bar via Bluetooth. At least if it does I have not found the way to do it yet and I have been searching EVERYWHERE for instructions on how to do it even the "how-to videos" that are included in the smart cast support section on the TV menu screens. I am REALLY good with electronics and figuring them out but this one feature of Bluetooth I believe does not exist between the sound bar and Bluetooth connections. It does have an HDMI ARC port however which is better than a Bluetooth connection because arc will allow you to control the sound bars volume with the TVs remote. So make sure the sound bar you buy has an HDMI ARC out connection on it before you buy it. I went through the TVs spec list and found something I do not like. In the description of this TV it says it has a refresh rate of 120 HTz but the specs say its 60 Htz NOT 120 HTz. This is important because of something called motion blurring. Fast objects will look fuzzy or out of focus for a few seconds. The descriptions says nothing about it being 60 HTz with software that makes it appear to be 120 HTz it states flat out its 120 HTz with Clear Action 360 enhancements. Well the TVs specs itself says its 60 HTz so MAKE SURE YOU SEE 120 HTz on the TV your buying if its important to you. I have noticed a few images on this TV that have blurred when in fast motion but it doesn't do it always. Car chases or fight scenes I haven't noticed it but if someone is putting on a TEE Shirt or something that is done extremely fast and extremely quick small movement such as that it definitely blurs and it is noticeable hopefully in time I will not notice is as much but only time will tell. Sound is another issue with this TV. They do NOT match the picture quality of this TV. They are bad in my opinion. they sound high pitched with out any depth or bass to them at all. Its a very auditorium kind of sound with out the echo. Really bad speaker quality. I was extremely surprised when I heard the very 1st sound come out of them. It is almost like the sound system was an after thought when they put this thing together. I mean one of those "OMG, We forgot the speakers and we don't have any more room for good quality sounding speakers" kind of thing BUT that can be easily changed by buying a Sound bar or 5.1 or 7.1 surround sound system. Who knows that might have been what they meant all along. Other than those few things I don't have any more issues with this TV. UHD Movies are UNBELIEVABLE if you are upgrading from a 1080P or 1080I picture then YOU WILL love this picture. I love being able to stream movies and even 1080P and I movies look great as well. It is a very crisp picture quality. This TV does automatically detect and even increases the picture quality as it downloads the movie. I mean if the movie is 4K but you download or streaming speed is only 5 mb/sec then you streaming speed determines what picture quality you will get. If its slow it can be as low as 720p if its fast it change the quality to 2160 or 4K UHD and it does this seamlessly. I cant really tell when changes from one to the other. The Apps are already on the this TV under the smart cast input and sorry but you can not download any apps and install them on the TV. You can download them to your smart device and then display the movie your watching or music your listening to on the smart device on the TV via Chrome-cast and it is very simple to use. just touch the mirroring tile at the top of the app your using and select the tv when the option comes up on your phone and sit back and watch it on the big screen. A child can literally use this TV and will be able to find every single option, app, support video etc..on this TV and be a pro at using with in a few hours. An Adult that isn't tech savvy well it might take you a bit longer maybe a day. lol Okay I have literally said to much so I hope you get some info from my review and I hope it helps you make an informed decision when buying this Tv. .

I will tell you right now, that if you are looking for a high end 4k experience. You will not get it here. This TV is excellent for the price and I would definitely buy it again, but if you are a A/V enthusiast you will be disappointed. For the vast majority of consumers, this TV will fit your needs well for every day use. Pros: - The TV does a great job of upscaling lower than 4k video inputs. I was a bit worried it would be grainy, but it is not the case. - Response Time. I like to play first person shooters and have returned TV's in the past because they lag behind just enough where if you are playing a fast paced game, you will notice. This TV does not have that problem. - Built in Chromecast. It took me a little bit to get set up (turns out if you have a dual band router, do not try setting it up with your 5.8ghz connection because it seems to freeze when trying to set up. 2.4 works perfectly. If you don't know what any of this means, I wouldn't worry about it because 2.4 is pretty much the standard). - Aesthetically pleasing. I really like the way the TV looks and actually really like the small feet that it uses as a stand. I have not mounted it to the wall yet. Cons: - Lack of color calibration. This TV does not have a menu like most TV's where you can go and individually adjust the brightness, saturation, hue, etc... Instead it has 6 or so preset that you get to choose. I don't think any of them is perfect as the colors are almost always too washed out or too saturated. - Vizio's Smartcast App is garbage. Once you use this app to set up the TV, you will never ever use it again. It is not intuitive and seems pretty clunky. Thankfully, you don't need to use it when casting youtube, Netflix, or other castable apps. (Tip: You can use the Google Home app to cast exactly what is your screen to make any app work). - No TV Turner which basically means there is no place to connect a Coax cable to the TV. This really shouldn't affect anyone as most cable and dish connections use a separate digital box that is then connected to the TV via HDMI. (not really a con, just a heads up.) Overall, great TV for the money. Just don't go into purchasing it expecting a $600 TV to compete side by side to a $1200 TV.

This TV is largely available in a big retail warehouse chain. So when someone of their stores closed, I bought this one on discounted price. So I should be happy to get this cheap but I feel that it was a mistake! I'll tell you my experience and I am surprised some people here have rated this highly. I have used Samsung and LG 4K TVs in the past and I understand this TV is 1/4 of their price. But my review is based on the fact that things do not work as the manufacture claims. The TV is all about streaming. You need to install Smartcast App and it can serve as a TV remote as well. The option to use remote control does exist, however app offers easy access for many things. The problem is that the app is not stable. I am not able to connect the App to the TV when I start the app. I have to restart it couple of times. My Internet speed is very high and I do have stable connection to the phone. Here are my other comments issues 1. The TV picture is not as good as other 4K TVs as I compare to Samsung and LG and Sony. These is significant difference. Is this because this is entry level 4K? The screen is highly reflective. 2. The picture settings defaults are horrible. For 'standard' and 'Calibrated' setting, the blacklight is 100%. You can change it but then it affects you contrast and brightness. I spent a lot of time tuning the picture and still I am not happy. 3. There are several streaming features that look so strong on paper but poorly implemented. For example, when I stream thru Youtube, TV just fail to identify it first time. After couple of times, it works. I use iOS app and it is so irritating to remove/restart the app to stream when the TV is suppose tobe streaming friendly. Even the in built Chromecast does not work smoothly at times. 4. Roku identified display as part of their setup. It says 30 FPS. Why does the TV box say 60 FPS? 5. Audio quality is not so good, but again I am willing to let go as this is a low budget TV. 6. The placement of HDMI ports in the back is unfriendly. There is no way to put an Roku or Fire Stick but there is a bump in few inches which prevents attaching all four HDMI wires. 7. The Roku picture for Youtube and some other channels is not looking good. I don't understand this. This may be a Roku compatibility issue with this TV? 8. The android box attached to this needs picture resizing. I am not sure why because on my other TVS, it resizes automatically. 9. There is no TV tuner but that is what you should know before buying it so it is acceptable. 10. There are small issues while navigation and other functionalities - the manufacture should have tuned the general user experience better e.g. The input button on remote is so fast, the input is chosen while I am changing it. The fonts are so small for the TV size. It is OK to go for this for tight budget but I recommend to look something else if you can spend some more on a better TV and better picture.

This review is about the Vizo e-55-e5. Unboxing was simple there are 4 tabs to remove on the box allowing you to lift it off of the set. Setup could not be easier just attach the 2 legs using the supplied screws set on your stand attach your connections and go, from start to finish 15 minutes tops. Then things get tricky, unlike the more expensive sets from Vizo this Monitor and that's what it is a monitor for it has no built in tv tuner, uses what Vizo calls chromecast.. This app is downloaded onto either your tablet or phone, these have to be either an Apple product or Android no Windows products need to apply, You get it from either Google play or Apple store. Downloading was simple only took a minute or so. Now Vizo recommends that you "pair your device with your monitor via Bluetooth." I have Bluetooth on all 3 devices I tried to use. And not one was apparently the right "kind" of Bluetooth capable. It then said I must connect via my wi-fi. Ok it found that my provider was infinity by Comcast and asked if I had a Comcast account. I clicked yes at which point it asked for my account information ie: email and password. Each time I tried to enter this information it would kick me out, however, was finally able to get it completed. On to the next screen connecting to my wi-fi, having supplied my network password, it would attempt to connect and here is where it would fail. I could not get pass this screen. Having failed to connect with tablet number 1 on to tablet number 2 this one it could not tell that I had google locator services running and refused to work. Moving on to my phone same issues as before no connection to my network. This is not a big deal if 1. you don't care if you can access all the "smart" tv services or and this is the biggie want access to any of the "advanced controls" to the set which includes such things as color balance and brightness and contrast and sound. I have a soundbar and could not turn off the sets built in speakers. So buyer beware either try and see if you can get this app to work or be ready to contact customer service and see if they can walk you through the issue. As stated picture quality was ok I could find a preset setting that I could live with but the color balance was off a bit to the green side of things. On a side note, I ended up buying a LG product that did have a proper tuner and remote but I guess they feel we do not need or can not manage setting up basic settings because it too was preset only. which is odd since every computer monitor no matter how small or cheap has basic controls over the basic controls

Call it a dumb TV, but it's all you need. I'll explain... This TV isn't technically a TV, just a monitor, or 'home theater display' as they like to call it, but I'll call it a TV for this review because it's nearly the same. That's because it doesn't have an internal antenna. Which means you need to purchase a cable box to get any channels, which you would do anyway. No it's not the thinnest TV, and it doesn't come with all the 'Smart' features that everything else on the marked has, but it's the TV you need. The bells and whistles of other TVs are nice, but pointless. This VIZIO TV is just what you need. If you want to watch TV, you are going to most-likely have a cable box. Simply change to that input and you have your normal TV setup from your cable company. Want to watch a movie? There's a good chance you have it on your phone, or tablet, or laptop. Simply use the internal ChromeCast capabilities of the TV to cast your movie. No need for any extra remotes. I also use the TV for playing games, and the TV comes with 4 HDMI inputs that you can name on your TV. This way you can go to your Xbox input, or your PS4 input with the click of a button. Long story short, this TV is as dumb as it gets, but that's all you need. It's a perfect size (55in) display that can show beautiful 4K without charging you for extras. Its 4 HDMI ports and ChromeCast capabilities are awesome and very useful. A similar specced Smart TV will cost you at least $200 more. In my opinion, all you need is the display because your peripherals (Xbox, DVD player, cable box) cover everything else. The Smart TV duplicates a lot of this and is unnecessary. If you're in the market for a shiny new TV and don't want to spend a lot for something you won't use that much, this is a great TV. Hope this review helps!

Purchased this as an upgrade to an Aging Vizio M series that I'd owned for a few years. Big selling point was the size and cast ability through google home. The XLED engine is pretty solid at this price range, especially for some 4K youtube. Colors are flat than saturated, which I personally don't mind. Some people want the exaggerated colors but I like more natural colors. The TV provides plenty of color profiles though, from vivid, to calibrated dark. I have Cox cable so as far as that, the 4K upscaling seems to lack, but when scaling any other content it does a solid job. Viewing angles seem fine, But i Must say there's definitely a stronger glare on this set than on my M series. The size difference may lend to that, but I'm not sure. I'm a big gamer, I chose this over the comparable Samsung 6 series TV, Lag input seems on par with my Old M series, and that set had a Higher refresh rate. The Samsun is rated better for gaming but for an older xbox one, gaming is on par with my M series. I will say Certain games cause this weird motion blur, I assume thats because it's trying to scale up to 4K and that the TV is crossing pixels? It's only noticeable if you're really looking for it though. Otherwise it's solid. The ONLY downside to this TV are the speakers. I expected better speakers on it, Comparing it to my M series? The speakers are flat. They lack any type of depth, of course there's a good chance nobody is buying a TV without a sound bar, But the TV itself distorts at anything higher than a volume level of 35. Overall it's a solid set. It offers everything that's needed for 4K especially the Deep blacks of an OLED TV. I'd easily recommend it to anyone.

I have been very impressed with this 4K TV. The picture quality is great, colors look vibrant and pop, and the blacks are very dark. 4K videos from my Apple TV looks great. The sound quality was ok, however I paired the TV with my Vizio soundbar and it sounds excellent. Vizio has an app that easily allows your smart devices to connect and have full control over your TV which is super convenient. The tablet remote that is included is a little slow, and just adds another device for you to use which is a little unnecessary. However, you DON'T have to use this. Your regular Apple or Android device will work for this. The app and the TV set have both received frequent updates, to fix and bugs that have popped up. So I've been very happy with their customer service and tech support. They updated their streaming system on the TV and sent an updated remote with more features for quick launching these streaming apps. While this feature is nice, the TV also comes equipped with Chromecast, which makes the whole process even easier. As long as you are on the same wifi network as your TV, once you select something to watch on your device and press the Chromecast button (on Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, etc.) It will launch on the tv in a matter of seconds Overall I am very pleased with this device, it is a very affordable entry level 4K TV and a great bargain!

the reason I purchased this tv is because I was looking for a 4K tv for gaming and I also wanted a smart tv. This being my first smart tv I haven't used too many features other than the built in chrome cast which works perfectly. Now I can give my old chrome cast away. I've only had the tv for about a month and I don't have any gripes so far. For anyone reading this interested the smart portion is controlled only on the smart cast app on your phone. The pairing is simple and once it's completed your good to go. Picture quality is great, 4 hdmi ports, Ethernet port if you want a hardwire connection for internet. The easiest thing was finding a wall mount for this tv, the box as well as vizio's website give all the needed dimensions to find a proper wall mount. I'm very pleased with this tv and I would definitely recommend it over those really overpriced smart 4K tvs, lets all be honest they all do the same exact thing.