VIZIO - 65" Class OLED 4K UHD SmartCast TV

WOW!!!! Were the first words out of my mouth when I opened the box and took my first look at this tv. This is the slimmest, aside from the bottom half of the tv, I have ever seen. So, to be honest I was never a big fan of Vizio Tv’s. I had always seen great deals on their products but nothing ever attracted to the brand, until today. Today I received my first VIZIO OLED TV and boy was I wrong. The colors, the blacks, the design, and the sound, vizio has won my heart with their OLED series TVs. So, lets go over some of the features of this tv and what it has to offer. Unboxing and Setup- ***BE VERY CAREFUL WHEN YOU UNBOX THIS TV, IT IS SUPER THIN SO BE VERY CAREFUL WITH IT*** I would definitely two or more people to do the unboxing and setup. The top half of this tv is just glass, and the bottom half potion is the housing for the speakers, motherboard, inputs and the power. The back has two removable panels where you run all your cabling and cover them back up for a nice clean look. The tv also comes with a solid metal stand. The stand alone weighs about 10lbs. I ended up mounting my tv on the wall but all accessories are provided for mounting the tv, except for the mount, or using the stand. Once the tv was properly mounted on the wall, the setup process began for the tv. The setup is fairly simple, select your location, connect to WIFI, search for local channels, connect to either Alexa or Google home and your done. Your tv is ready to go. Colors, Blacks and Screen Resolution- The colors and blacks are really amazing on this tv. The colors are vibrant, bright and really pop out, kind of giving you that feeling of actually being there and the blacks are deep blacks, as if the pixels in the area turn off. This tv really has sensational contrast, colors and blacks and really give some well-known brand name TVs a run for their money. The TV supports 4K (2160p), HDR, HRD 10, HDR 10+, and Dolby vision. Unfortunately, I was unable to experience the full pro gaming engine of this tv due to the fact that ps4 pro does not support free sync therefore unable to use the variable refresh rate. Overall, still a solid gaming experience in 4K. Sound Quality- Vizio didn’t leave anything out when it came to this tv. This tv supports DTS Virtual: X sound technology. DTS Virtual X, for those who don’t know, is a new audio technology that provides a 3D surround sound experience without the need for surround sound speakers, moving sound around you as it would in real life giving you a more immersive experience. Smartcast and Apps- Now this part I was not very impressed with and was a lit lacking, although the tv comes preloaded with a plethora of different apps you can use for entertainment and the option of casting your iphone or android to the tv, but that is pretty much it. Unlike other manufactures that have their own app stores to allow to download and use like the internet browser or download games, this tv does not support that. Features- 4 HDMI ports 2 USB ports 1 Digital optical audio 1 Analog Audio RF antenna input Composite input WIFI / Ethernet VESA 300mm x 200mm mount Apple HomeKit, Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri 30 watt speaker output 120Hz Refresh rate 71lbs with stand / 61lb without stand Apple TV+, Disney+, Hulu, Netflix, Peacock, Prime Video, Redbox, Tubi, XUMO, YouTube In conclusion, this is an awesome tv for the price, and I would highly recommend anyone looking for a tv to checkout this unit in person, because pictures don’t do this tv justice.

If you want to read about the next gen tests, scroll below. Packaging/Unboxing Safely shipped in an enormous generic brown box to "conceal" the contents (thank you) with corner foam protecting the inner Retail Box. Once unboxing is done (hopefully you had the help of another person), this TV looks amazing and gives off a superb premium feel. Instructions on how to lift it and where to grab properly are clearly labeled everywhere from the instruction book to the labels all over the back of the TV. I choose not to wall mount due to reasons stated later. The center support is HEAVY in a good way and looks aesthetically pleasing. Back of the center support is plastic but the main part is metal. Setup Fairly straight forward and easy steps to follow. NOTE: The power cord is comes with is a NON POLARIZED ac cord (rounded on both sides of the end that plugs into the TV) but the connecter on the TV and the picture label is clearly POLARIZED (Square on one end and round on the other). After a phone call to Vizio's CS about this, they assured me that this doesn't matter and should work no matter which way it's plugged in (I didn't trust that so I used my own proper AC cords). Turning on the TV for the 1st time greets you with the power of the OLED - White Vizio logo surrounded by perfect black background. Startup for the 1st time is simple, connect to the internet for updates and the usual Language / Location preference. 4x HDMI - HDMI 1 is E/ARC, HDMI 2 and 3 are 4k 120 (not really yet) and HDMI 4 is standard 4k @ 60. A couple of USB-A ports and Digital and Analog audio inputs as well. Performance and Next Gen Gaming My personal picture settings: HDR10 - Calibrated Dark Ambient Light Sensor - Off Tone mapping - 17 Brightness to Tint - Default Sharpness - Varies - I change from 0 to 20 depending on content. Color Temp - NORMAL Advanced Picture - Game Mode ON - VRR - On/off (doesn't matter because is doesn't work except with Xbox One X 1080/120) I have attached pics of the PS5 and Xbox Series X as proof of the tests. I streamed YouTube directly to the TVs casting feature and play tested the Xbox One X, PS4 Pro, PS5 and Xbox Series X (also the switch but that's just 1080 and worked just fine). Streaming - YouTube content streamed perfectly. 1080/60 to 4k/30 (LTT Channel) displayed correctly and looked visually great. No artifacting of any kind at all. Played some movies I purchased from the play store I had in my library and blacks were spot on and colors did not looked washed or have that Aura Glow effect. PS4 Pro and Xbox One X - Both were immediately known by the TV and labeled the HDMI inputs as such (PlayStation 4 and Xbox). This was using HDMI 4 input. 4k @ 60 are preset and HDR was automatically enabled by both consoles. Gaming looked great as one would expect from this OLED. Played HZD on PS4 and Outer Worlds and CoD on the Xbox. Also took advantage and tried the 1080 @ 120 option the One X offered on HDMI 2. Worked and was buttery smooth. But again, limited to FHD gaming instead of UHD. Now the fun (actually not so fun) part of the new consoles. Plugging in the Series X or the PS5 into HDMI 2 OR 3 (the 4k 120 ports) gives you nothing but a black screen. The TV labels them properly (Playstation 5 etc) but there is NO picture. I tried disabling VRR because there is an issue with this TV NOT doing 4k @ 120 yet, nothing. The only way to get a picture was to go into the settings and change the 2.1 to 1.4 and you're stuck with "next gen" @ FHD (1080). What a let down. So using HDMI 1 or 4 will properly show the systems working but only @ 4k / 60. At least that is something. When gaming on the PS5 the games were stunning (played Godfall, fun game). Visually popped in every which way. WOW. Blacks were great. HDR was beautiful. Colors blew my eye sockets away. This ALMOST made me forget I was gaming at 60 instead of the supposedly 120. Frames did drop below slightly at some times, but was rarely noticed. I am hoping and praying this gets updated with a firmware update ASAP because you cannot label and sell this as 4k120 when it clearly does NOT work. This is backed up by multiple sites and vids proving this point as well. Sound - Decent at best when just hearing the TV speakers, but this should already be a known fact the TV speakers are never great. I used 3 different set ups. 1st was Digital Optical out into a shelf system (Sony) and hearing it on 2.1. Definitely a step up from standard TV speakers obviously. 2nd was my Samsung 850T sound bar. Atmos worked beautifully and the surround was great. Gaming and streaming alike was good. And lastly was the Denon/Bose/Klipsch 7.2.4 set up. No brainer here. Amazing sounds using eARC feature to the receiver. Issues Everyone is different and I guess I just got a bad apple. I have an ANNOYING line of dead pixels on the right half of the TV from top to bottom. Vizio is currently looking into this, so as of this review on 11/14/2020 I will not deduct stars was this should always be covered under warranty. 4k120 - Doesn't work. Plain and simple. Hopefully a future firmware fixes it. Sometimes when I turn on the TV, I get no sound from any inputs. I have to turn off the TV, unplug for about 5 secs and plug it back in and it works again. Conclusion If you are looking into this TV for next gen, wait. If you don't care about 120 then this TV is fantastic. Colors and picture quality are all expected out of this OLED. If you don't plan on getting next gen consoles anytime soon (not because of the supply shortage at the moment) and are content with just watching TV, Streaming, or the occasional game, then you are absolutely golden. Just make sure you don't have dead pixels like I did (pic attached) dead pixels do not show up in black content as with OLED the pixels turn off for true blacks.

This TV has been a colossal improvement in visual entertainment quality for me. It has turned my living room into what feels practically like a movie theater experience combined with the quality and image fidelity that only OLED TV’s of this caliber can offer. Vizio has truly knocked it out of the park with this TV. The unboxing: The unboxing process with two people was incredibly explained and intuitive to follow, set up was easy considering the side and cumbrance of this TV! There were even labels like ‘grab here’ ‘don’t grab here’ etc. The unboxing and initial assembly steps were easily accomplished between just my friend, myself, and one phillips head screwdriver. The set up: This TV was as I expected given the price range it falls in. Everything was plug and play. I plugged in my Dolby Atmos sound bar via the labeled eARC HDMI port, my ethernet cable into the ethernet port, my Playstation 4 HDMI cable into one of the HDMI 2.1 ports and everything turned on a performed just as expected with no hassle. The soundbar in particular was automatically detected and I am even able to control the volume of the soundbar via the remote the TV came with! Smooth. This TV also offers next level cable management. The picture I took was poor with my flash, but the cable channels in the back of the TV perfectly and smoothly stow away all of your cables and route the down and out the back of the base, really enhancing the professional and high-end look of this TV! The user interference (UI): In reading about this TV before I received it, one of the most common complaints I ascertained was that people felt the UI was choppy, laggy, or not very high quality given the caliber and price of this TV. The TV updated its firmware when I first booted it up and connected to the internet. With the update completed, I feel that Vizio has addressed the concerns of many of the early reviewers. I felt the UI—while lower quality than that of my previous LG TV—was sufficiently easy to navigate and did not seem choppy or laggy at all in my view! The only thing that I saw is that the icons on the Home menu where you can navigate between apps did not look very polished, so perhaps that is what is confusing people. The remote: Thankfully, this is a relatively small knock given the whole of how awesome this TV is, but I just can’t stand the remote. The ergonomics of it feel wrong and it lacks the excellence and advanced features of other companies remotes like the Magic Remote from LG. I also tried the Vizio smartcast remote app on my iPhone and found, much to my irritation, that to utilize the full features of it you have to do monthly payments or pay a one-time lifetime payment to utilize it! I was not happy here. A quarter of a million dollar Lamborghini should not have a crappy steering wheel—a TV of this caliber and price should not have a remote worthy of a TV 10% of the cost! The sound: As I mentioned earlier, plugging in my HDMI eARC sound bar was easy as could be and the TV automatically connected, utilized, and even controlled it with the remote! This is good, because boy do you really need an external audio device with this TV. The built-in speakers vibrate terribly at certain volumes and have little to no base. For example, the TV vibrates with the Stranger Things theme above volume 60. Alas, in this era of making TV’s thinner and thinner, there has to be comprises somewhere, and I feel that the speakers probably drew the short straw. Accordingly, though, I think that most people expect or want to buy soundbars, so this is not the worst thing. The picture quality: As advertised, the blacks are truly so deep and rich as to be expected with an OLED device. To further enhance the image quality, I recommend going into the picture settings in the menu and changing the picture mode to ‘Sports’. This yielded the best contrast and brightness settings I felt. I will be awaiting Tom’s guide or someone else to be coming out with specific calibration settings, but I feel the ‘sports’ setting is sufficient to my needs for now! I have owned 4K TV’s for a few years now, and this one just does seem to blow all the previous LED and nanocell technology TV’s out of the water with this gorgeous OLED panel! Altogether, I highly recommend this TV. Vizio has delivered an incredible OLED TV here that is ready for the new gaming consoles coming out at a truly, crazily competitive price in this OLED high-performance TV space. This TV has transformed my living room into a gaming and TV watching haven and I am sure it will do the same for you!

The Vizio OLED excels in some areas but is a complete disaster in others. If you are seeking a new TV for next gen consoles, look elsewhere. When viewing content in 4k at or above 60Hz with VRR enabled, expect your screen to randomly black out, screen tearing, and washed out colors. At one point it only supported 1080p 120Hz and nothing else. There is also the issue that this TV was once listed as having AMD FreeSynch support but that is no longer the case. I also experienced random audio drops. I contacted Vizio Support and they said all will be fixed in an upcoming update, but I dont have faith that they will. Spending $900-$2000 for features that dont work at the moment seems like a poor decision to me. As for the good, this TV displays 4K movies/shows phenomenally! Colors were nicely saturated and HDR performed really well. This is one of a few TVs that support all HDR formats which is appreciated. Judder is noticeable at lower frame content but just increase judder reduction in the settings and it will go away. It doesn't effect the viewing of content but the interface is visually disappointing. For the price, I dont want fuzzy looking menus and text. Overall if you are buying this tv just to view movies and shows you will be very pleased. On the other hand stay away if you intend to use this with a next gen console.

Great TV. Vizio definitely stepping their game up tapping into the OLED market. Has bugs since it’s a first model but Vizio addresses them with their updates. Amazing picture. Worth getting for next gen gaming. 4K 120/HDMI 2.1/ 48GBS/12 bit color.

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.

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.

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!!