VIZIO - 55" Class - LED - P-Series - 2160p - Smart - 4K UHD TV with HDR

This is a great 4K tv with all necessities: 120hz panel, various hdr standards, local dimming and wide color gamut. Pros: Brightness. It can reach up to 1000 nits which is insane for a tv at this price. Hdr really pops as intended. If a tv is no brighter than 600 peak, the hdr will only feels washed out. Color calibration. Out of the box the color is accurate and needs minimum tweaking. This is a huge plus for average customers. Local dimming. With it, this tv can reach some awesome bright dark contrast. Although it only has 56 zones (mine is 55 inch), they really work great without obvious blooming. Build quality: not flimsy, panel quality is solid as well. Slight Vignette on corners but unifomity is great. Cons: Laggy OS. The tv OS is sometimes slow to respond. If you have a console or a tv sticker, you are fine. Viewing angle. This tv including all other tvs with VA panel have this problem. Color will shift slightly if not directly in front of the tv but in real world it’s not that scary. Sound quality. The speaker of this tv is bland and mushy. A basic 2.0 sound bar is recommended. **for the people struggling with this tv and TCL 6 series: TCL has better brightness and more dimming zone in paper. I compared with them side by side only found that thanks to Vizios better color calibration and better dimming algorithms, tcl does not feel as pop as vizio. Plus, you don’t risk playing panel lottery with TCL at least for this year or before they upped their game in QA. Overall, this tv ticks all the boxes for a real 4K HDR experience.

First off the software is horrible and clunky. Just skip it. The legs are very spread apart and wide making a huge stand necessary. The image when utilizing local dimming really messes some things up. Especially text. All of my on screen guides look like crap around the text. Especially those on gray backgrounds. The color is not uniform what so ever. Last of the bad is the VERY loud siren alarm sound that happens once in awhile. Now the good. The design of the TV, material, fit n finish are all very nice and upscale. The colors are amazing. The picture is very good. Sound is adequate. My Samsung UN55MU6290 broke after 16 months. I picked up this Vizio for really cheap. On paper the Vizio blows the Samsung out of the water. In real life this is not the case. This TV is worth the discounted price it is now selling for.

Love it, got what I wast looking for, cool color and super bright! Now sounds quality is to low!

After reading a few reviews on a few different models and brands I decided to settle on the Vizio P series 55" model. The picture is fantastic. It has deep blacks, has local dimming, a native 120hz panel. The picture looks great out of the box but once you calibrate it the picture is even better! I have not noticed much more than some very minor blooming or and have not noticed any screen effect watching NHL. While the picture is fantastic this TV does have some drawbacks. First the sound is bad and I mean really bad. Most modern 4K TVs have poor sound quality but this set is extremely poor so I recommend a sound bar. The second issue is the operating system and apps. Both are very sluggish and some are outdated and there is no way for you to download more but you can use Google Chromecast. The preinstalled apps don't support everything the TV does. For example the Vudu app will play Dolby Vison HDR format but display the image in 1080p rather than 4k. I would recommend getting a streaming device like Roku. One other issue is gaming. I had some issues with the HDMI ports and the PS4 Pro and Xbox One X both getting black flickering screens, especially in HDMI 2, which I believe states it is the best port. I was able to get everything connected without any flickering by changing the settings on both the PS4 pro and swapping HDMI ports which was initially annoying. I will say it has a low input lag and haven't noticed any lagging while gaming. I think the issue had to do with the PS4 Pros signal output and the TV. Also while the Xbox one x states it will play Dolby vision content it thinks the TV supports an older version so don't count on anything other than HDR 10 from the system. Besides the minor issues I mentioned the TV is worth the money. I lucked out by having won a panel lottery as I have no vertical banding or DSE. Note that with all FALD panels the corners of the tv will appear a little darker but mine is very minor and hardly ever notice it unless I look for it intentionally. I included an image of standard 1080p image from VIOS after the tv being calibrated for reference.

I have only ever bought 3 TVs in my life and this one is honestly the best one. Not only do I love the different settings of the TV mode, but I connected it with my Google Home and it is amazing. P Series for the win!

I am coming from the M Series (M50-C1 - 2015) and was so happy with it that when came to upgrade, I decided to go for the more expensive and feature rich P Series (P55-F1 2018). I use this Vizio primarily with my laptop for work, to play games and watch movies. The P-Series shows a bad pixel pattern, which is pretty annoying. I didn't expect this behavior upgrading to a better series. The M series did not have this issue at all, it showed perfectly smooth colors, not the P series, I am afraid (Photos attached for comparison). For movies this is really not noticeable, but working on the desktop, it is! I am wondering if this is a defect or if anybody else is observing this behavior. I am using this Vizio with my MSI (GS63 STEALTH-010) Laptop I purchased from BestBuy a couple months ago. I tried all HDMI Ports with several different computer, the behavior is the same.

The tv has blacklight issues after only 5 months. There is a large black spot that shows up on light backgrounds. And Vizio customer service is terrible. After 90 days they only replace them with refurbished TVs even though under the year warranty. Already contacted them three times and to get the replacement you have to agree to a refurbished one, it is the only way they will service it. Never buying Vizio again.

Watching 4K content and playing games on this tv the picture looks great , that being said it doesn’t do a very good job at upscaling in my opinion my Sony does a much better job in that area, also the tv tuner seems to be weak at picking up good signals , I might try a different antenna but I’ve seen that complaint in other reviews. Other than that I am satisfied with this tv the comparable Sony tv with better upscaling was about 400 dollars more at the time I purchased it. The 4K pictures on the two were similar in my opinion and I think saving 400 bucks for a spare tv in the sunroom was worth it.