VIZIO - 65" Class OLED 4K UHD SmartCast TV

I ungraded my main TV to this 65" unit. The screen is really thin and the base is fairly easy to put together. Quick start guide is actually useful. Before I hooked up an input, I powered it on to set date, time, get updates, etc. The menu's don't seem the be in 4K which was a little worrying at first seeing the text not displayed "crisply". Some of the features in the 'Advanced Picture' menu are also not accessible. I hooked in my Xbox One X and after fiddling around with the picture settings on both the One X and the TV, the thing looks amazing. It's a HUGE upgrade from the 65" 1080 Samasung I had. Couple of things though. My receiver is old enough to not have ARC or eARC. in order to get sound to my receiver, I hooked in an optical cable from the TV to the receiver. The TV only outputs a stereo signal from the TV. I was forced to wire the optical cable straight from the Xbox to the receiver in order to use my 5.1 surround. This also means if I want to cast to the TV, I had to run RCA cables (remember those) from the TV to an analog input on my receiver in order to get sound. Not a deal breaker because I use my Xbox for everything anyway. If you're asking why I didn't wire the HDMI to the receiver then the TV, the reason is the receiver won't pass a 4k signal through. I tested it and it will only pass a 1080p signal. Like I said, it's an older receiver and that kind of defeats the purpose of the TV. Call of Duty MW, Halo 5, and Rocket League all look amazing. That being said, for some reason, the TV REALLY freaks out when you try and launch Destiny 2. Here is a youtube link of what I'm talking about. That is the only game it does that with. https://youtu.be/8fDkUwH_YaY I even reinstalled Destiny 2 and it still has that problem. The pictures don't really do the TV's image quality justice. Hope this helps people.

My title highlights the top things I like about this TV. I came from an 8 year old Vizio 54 inch and it was time to update from 1080p. This is my first OLED TV and I knew it was using an LG panel and there was a cost savings getting another Vizio. I must say the 4K on this with dolby vision is unreal, the sound is okay and I will likely update my broken Vizio soundbar to the M series, once it goes lower in price. This will let me experience dolby audio eventually. The blacks are very nice and I haven't really experienced any blooming or judder yet. I will say I've exchanged the TV once because of vertical banding, but Best Buy made the process painless with delivery pick up and drop off. My current one is looking awesome and uniform. I didn't have a smart TV before and was using a Chromecast. The Smartcast OS on this TV is fluid and has all my apps I need and no need to cast from my phone. Having booth Airplay and Google Cast is very convenient. I recommend this if you're looking for an LG OLED that's bright and want great value and savings with Vizio!

I'm not a big gamer .. And I don't use a micscope to eye ball the screen!! With that being Said My PS 4 looks totally fantastic!!! Netflix and Amazon are very impressive!!! I own 2 other 65 inch Vizio TV's a M Series and the 1st vizio quantum (F1) Both which have giving fantastic service and Superior picture !!! Good luck if you're seeking total perfection from anything!!

This is by far the best TV I’ve ever owned trust me you want this tv.It has all the latest gaming features some of the best HDR in the business with an elegant design to go with it.

Let me start by saying I upgraded from a 2017 model LG OLED to this Vizio because of the HDMI 2.1 features for the coming gaming consoles from Sony and Microsoft. The care in packaging and build quality from Vizio was impressive. Set up was a breeze. I was greeted with a firmware update and after a few minutes had the tv up and running. The picture quality is stunning with 4K HDR coming from the built in Youtube app and from my OPPO 4K UHD Blu-ray player. Even my cable(Fios) looked better than on my previous television. Currently, for gaming I own an Xbox One X and PS4(non-pro). I had a difficult time with the Xbox One X because VRR is not working yet. Once you disable it on the console and tv, games work fine. The PS4 had no issues. The picture and gaming was fantastic once the issues were sorted out. Anyone that has owned or researched purchasing an OLED knows screen uniformity can be an issue. I can happily report my panel has excellent uniformity. No banding and very minor tinting. Now, let me go over some issues. 1. When this tv receives an RGB signal it disables a lot of settings in the picture menu. Not the biggest deal but I would like the option to adjust settings. Might be done by design to cut down on game lag? 2. Glowing blacks. When the tv is sent a 0% black signal the panel should be completely black, however the screen glows. OLED is advertised as having perfect blacks. Every pixel can be turned off individually. This is not happening here. Not sure if Vizio has done this by design but it's certainly not correct. If you watch in a pitch black room like I do, you are more likely to notice it. It's not a deal breaker and most people won't care but OLED attracts a different kind of customer, videophiles! 3. Other than Youtube app, I can not get any internal apps to play videos. Netflix, Amazon Prime, Movies Anywhere, Fandango Now all get the same video playback error? My internet connection is fine. I run ethernet directly to the tv. 4. HDMI handshake issues. I've had to reboot the tv twice because of handshake issues. I run all my components through my Denon AVR4300H receiver which has 4K - 60 pass through. The only thing I changed in my set up was the TV. Everything worked flawlessly prior. It's frustrating when you have company over and your shiny new tv you've been bragging about has issues playing 4K Blu-rays. I'm waiting on new 48gbps hdmi cables from Monoprice to rule out any cable issues. With the right content this TV puts out a glorious picture but there are issues that need to be addressed. Some of these issues are nitpicking issues but all seem to be software related which can and should be fixed by Vizio with firmware updates, Despite some of the issues I'm happy with my purchase and recommend this tv. Now Vizio needs to get to work. lol

I’ve never owned a Vizio tv and was very excited about getting this model after reading about it. I actually went to the warehouse to pick it up on the first day it was available for purchase and pickup. Unfortunately despite delivering an amazing picture hence the three star rating I had several problems. From the onset I would get black screen when changing inputs, or when turning the tv on or off in a short period of time. After a few soft resets, and reboots I was finally forced to do a factory reboot which didn’t resolve my issues. Coupled with the problems I mentioned earlier the transition from the Home Screen to live tv lagged terribly, and when changing channels in some instances it took as long as 10 seconds for a channel to populate on the black screen. What I noticed was if you are on the Home Screen or using an app when changing the input from Smartcast to live television the information bar across the top of screen would flash twice. The first time showing that you were going into Smart Cast and then flash a second time showing the channel number before showing the picture. I contacted customer support and based on our conversation and his recommendation I returned the tv and exchanged it for another one. When I retired the tv the sales person brought to my attention I had the wrong cord and that the tv required a polarized cord. I explained that the cord he had was the cord that came with the television. After giving it some thought I realized that the cord could have been the source of some of the recurring symptoms. When I received the second television and before set up I checked the power cord. The cord was not only a different cord than the the first, but also not a polarized cord. I contacted Vizio support and explained the situation. I told him that not once but twice I have received the wrong cord and the importance of having one if it was required. He said he understood and said they would send me a proper cord. In the interim I used the polarized power cord from my Vizio sound bar from another television to set up the television. While it fits a better cord would be a right angle or 90 degree polarized cord. Needless to say while a few things were better the processor lag was worse when moving from apps to live tv or toggling through movie choices on Netflix. Despite numerous factory resets the problems continued and I finally gave up when watching a local tv and trying to raise or lower the sound the delay was so bad I decided to return it. The symptoms where the same with Smart Cast apps and while a factory rest corrected the problem the others did not go away. Imagine toggling your remote to raise or lower the sound and nothing happens and then seconds later without doing anything the sound goes up or down as many times as you had tried on the remote. I video taped the problems to show Best Buy when I return it. In the end I think it could be a great product but there are clearly some quality control issues and during my first conversation with customer support the tech told me the tv was too new and he didn’t know much about. He did assure me that the things I experienced were firmware issues and that he would pass the info on and they would be fixed in time. For the record I only watch local television, Netflix, and YouTube videos. In addition, I’m not a gamer, I don’t own a DVD player, and I didn’t have anything connected to the either tv other than an Ethernet cable (150mps), and a coax cable for an antenna which is mounted in my attic in lieu of outside.

This is an excellent OLED, as are all OLED TVs. The assembly process is a little cumbersome with 12 screws needed. Major cons: 1): If you watch the TV in a completely dark room, you can see that pure black content is not actually completely dark. There is still some luminance coming through those pixels. This kind of defeats the whole purpose of having an OLED. 2): VRR isn't working correctly out of the box and FreeSync isn't available. They shouldn't release things with advertised features and not deliver on them. There will be no FreeSync Premium. 3): I couldn't get 4k120 to work on a PC using a 48 Gbps HDMI 2.1 cable over the HDMI 2.1 ports 3/4. 4): SmartCast 4.0 isn't available yet. This again goes back to advertising things that aren't actually ready. SmartCast occasionally won't load correctly. 5): The menu interface has blurry text and typos. The internal test patterns are all glitched. This just gives me a very unprofessional impression about how much care Vizio is actually putting into their products. Pros: 1): Competitively priced against the LG. For the value, it's a great product and should please most non-videophiles. 2): Support for HDR10+, HLG, and Dolby Vision. Black levels appear great aside from the persistent luminance at pure black. 3): Cool idea to have the accompanying Elevate soundbar attach to the TV for space saving.

So, 48 hours in and I can say this about the Vizio OLED H1: 1) The TV is stunning when displaying Dolby Vision content. I have had three LG OLEDs and a Sony OLED - this TV hands down processes Dolby Vision HDR content better than ALL of them. Like wow wow wow blown away wow. 2) SmartCast isn't as bad as everyone makes it out to be. Don't get me wrong - it's not fantastic (lol) - but it has almost all of the main apps folks use, and if you need more apps you can cast from your smartphone both via AirPlay and Chromecast. The overall TV software (including SmartCast) just needs an overhaul. Menus need a fresh coat of 4K HDR polish with HD icons, etc. Everything works currently - it needs a bit more “flare” if that makes sense. 3) Non HDR content looks fine and the TV upscales it beautifully. I sub to YouTube TV and have had no issues watching live TV streams on the TV at all. I also sub to Philo and it looks really good. 4) The new Chromecast with Google TV worked kind of like poop with this TV (I also hooked it up to my 4K LG UltraGear monitor and it was super judders so I don't think it was the TV's fault at all). On the TV it would bounce back and forth doing Dolby Vision or not, would stutter a bit, etc. - wasn't a fan and brought it back right away - perhaps I got a bad Chromecast. 5) The Apple TV 4K works brilliantly. Aside from having a little blip in the very beginning where Dolby Vision wouldn't kick on (only HDR 10 would unless I set the entire unit to Dolby Vision). After I set it to Dolby Vision for the entire OS, played a DV movie, got out of it, set it back to 4K SDR for the OS, and went back to the Dolby Vision film, everything worked. I thought it was just the Vizio, but when I hooked up my Apple TV 4K to my LG C7 in the bedroom it did the EXACT same thing. It's an Apple related bug and it has been reported :). 6) Gaming on this television is, simply put, BRILLIANT. We are a PS4 / Switch household and both work flawlessly. I have not had a single issue. I do wish it would have auto detected Game mode when I changed to the appropriate HDMI, but alas it did not and I had to set the PS4 and Switch input to game. The TV remembers so you only have to do it once. That said, the input lag we were experiencing on the Sony A9F is completely, absolutely, and utterly GONE on both systems. Ghosts of Tsushima looks incredible, and Final Fantasy VII: Remake’s visuals simply blew me away. 7) I was freaking out so hardcore before buying this because of all of the issues people have reported. I can say that so far, I have experienced three "bugs" - the first was when I set up the TV for the first time both AirPlay and Apple TV app didn't work. Overnight the TV must have done something because the next day it worked perfectly. The second issue was with the raised blacks that folks have talked about. I noticed it only when watching Ready Player One on Apple TV 4K in the TV app (bought on iTunes, 4K Dolby Vision, etc.). When we were watching The Haunting of Bly Manor on Netflix last night the raised blacks were not present (also Dolby Vision content). The last issue was when I tried to turn the TV back on and it simply would not turn on (regardless if with the remote or the button on the TV itself). I had to unplug the power cable and plug it back in. Then everything worked fine. This happened only once. These are all the bugs I have experienced and I am confident that Vizio is going to squash them with firmware updates (all that matters now for me is the raised blacks bug). In summary, if you are on the fence, don't freak or worry about this TV. Unless you are a professional calibrator, only hunt for absolute perfection, etc., this TV will FAR exceed your expectations. I can't speak for Xbox users, but PS4 and Switch owners will be super happy as it works perfectly fine. I went ahead and did buy a 4 year warranty just in case anything happens down the line. For now, I am going to enjoy the TV immensely. I am enjoying it so much, actually, that I am selling my 55 LG C7 in the bedroom and will be getting another one of the OLEDs for the bedroom :). Woot woot! One more weird thing - I have a Vizio 5.1 sound bar in the living room and I swear to you, the sound is BETTER than it was on my A9F. I can't explain why as nothing has changed, but honestly the rear speakers sound SO MUCH BETTER with this TV. It's like I got a new sound bar :). Enjoy all! ^_^