Side by Side Comparison of: Philips vs VIZIO

I received two of these monitors this morning, and am writing this review after just one work-day with them.I jumped into 4k a little over a year ago with 3 Samsung U28D590D, 28" displays. They are wonderful, but I knew pretty quickly that 28" was not enough, as I had to use Windows Scaling to be able to read. I drug my feet on most of the 34 inch displays because of cost.When I saw this display I researched it extensively and read reviews and decided to take the plunge.Setup and install was simple, but there is no easy auto-run on the CD, so use Device Manager, find your monitor, then tell it to update the driver and point it at the CD.Be sure to change the monitor's Display Port setting from 1.1 to 2.0 if you want to get 60hz (toggle-button right, then down about 7 times).For a while the first display kept going black, saying there was no input, then coming back to life at only 30hz. I researched this and found many others having this issue. Eventually I replaced the [old] DP cable from my previous monitor with the one included with this, and the problem went away.-----I'm a programmer, so I want lots of real-estate for my dev tools, VMs and research materials. I can't tell you how perfect these monitors are for that: everything is crystal clear with no Windows scaling.Color is vibrant and full, response times great. I tried some gaming to verify that there was no screen-tearing at 4k and found none (AMD R9 280x).-----The only down sides are:1) They're so big, my desk can only accomodate 2 :-)2) Beware of maximizing a window; it jumps SO large it will startle you :-)I highly recommend this display.I generally write reviews soon after purchase, but will update if I find any issues.---UPDATE 2/23/2016After having these monitors a while, the only [very minor] issue I've found is that either they--or my graphics card--cause the displays to flash off and back on a couple times when I wake from sleep. Not a real problem, but as it didn't occur with my previous 4k monitors, I'm betting it's the displays and wanted to mention it.I've now done a little bit of everything with these, and found them perfect for all of it. My workflow has changed in many of the tools I use because of the vastly expanded screen space and my productivity has improved as a result.I highly recommend Toms Hardware's review on these displays, particularly if you have banding or visual artifacts; proper adjustment is important for good performance.

As a programmer, I'll second (and third, and fourth) that making the switch to 4K is something you'll do and you'll never go back.The visuals/brightness/colors are just fine on this monitor for programming. No bad pixels, and supports the full 60 Hz 4:4:4 (with sufficient graphics card) which would be my only concern along those lines.One thing worthy of note: At first I assumed I'd be using this monitor for programming by placing many application windows on the screen at the same time - kind of like 'FOUR 1920x1080 monitors in one'. I even tested different window manager programs, and went with WinDivvy (it's great - simple, and works so that with a single key combination you can pop any window to any size / position).However, quickly I shifted into my current mode of work: With the 4K, I now use the monitor in PORTRAIT mode, and only have ONE application window showing at a time, filling the entire screen. Yes, that means that I still have as many Alt + Tabs as I did with my 1920 x 1080, but you can fit an INCREDIBLE amount of vertical text on the screen with a 38040 x 2160 in PORTRAIT mode. Just a few Page Up/Page Downs can navigate through an entire thousands-of-lines source code file.Seeing so much code on the screen at one time makes the mental effort SO much easier. I recommend this monitor in PORTRAIT mode for programmers.You'll need a good monitor arm mount to make any real use of this monitor, so be prepared. Here's the one that works great: http://amzn.com/B00GN4DCR0... and here's my review for the above monitor arm: http://www.amazon.com/review/R1FHPPX0ARTT1C/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B00GN4DCR0&channel=detail-glance&nodeID=541966&store=pc&tag=storiwrittbyl-20

Read the reviews and they will help with the set up. I purchased this 3 days ago and I have worked 8 hours a day all 3 days on it. I have windows 10 installed on my Surface Pro 3. I have been running 2 27 in monitors and wanted a bigger screen to better take advantage of Windows Snap for putting mulitple programs on your monitor more easily. This is essentially like have 4 20 inch monitors. Totally awesome. No dead pixels or other issues people have mentioned. This thing is beautiful. I was worried that it would look monstrous on my desk but it really seems fine. 40 inches is the perfect size for 4k monitors. I am a CPA and primarily use it for spreadsheets and such. Snap makes it easy to snap 2 spreadsheets side by side and work way better than having 2 monitors. This is about as perfect as it gets. I highly recommend it.

This is literally the ULTIMATE monitor for computer professionals (I have software engineering in mind as that is my profession, but this applies equally to anyone else who uses computers extensively in the office). I have never enjoyed a monitor for work more than this.I have two Dell U3014 30" 1600p monitors at work, and am seriously considering buying one of these to replace them. It's an incredible deal, if you think about it. Each Dell U3014 costs ~$1100, making two of them ~$2200. For just $800 for the Phillips, you get more pixels, more screen surface area, and overall a much better experience since it's just one continuous panel, and fills your field of view more naturally.In terms of display quality, I have absolutely no complaints. I understand that generally good IPS screens can have better color quality, but I honestly don't notice anything worse. In fact, the VA panel of this monitor actually looks better overall to me, since IPS screens have a notorious inability to display deep blacks (they look a dark gray glow instead). That makes this monitor also excellent for movies and video games.

Finally, a worthy replacement for my venerable old Dell 30 incher.As noted in some of the reviews here, the default video setting was a bit washed-out, but there are plenty of calibration tools and helpful websites to get it looking truly incredible. The box came with a lot of cabling, but (oddly enough) not the two cables I needed. Okay, I guess I can see including an HDMI cable, but a VGA cable? How retro. Audio cables were included, but unless you hate your ears I trust you will have a decent sound system and/or headset already. The two items that were not in the box were a DisplayPort cable and a USB 3 cable to run from your computer to the monitor's USB 3 hub. Not a deal-breaker since I had a spare DisplayPort cable and a quick run to Radio Shack and 7 bucks got me a USB 3 cable, but a strange omission to leave out the ideal connector.After getting calibration done, setting the monitor to DisplayPort 1.2 input mode, and changing the refresh rate to 60hz in the nVidia driver (after a moment of panic before I realized I had to scroll down to the PC section of the list and choose 'native' since the only option at the top of the list was 29hz) I fired up some games that would tax the system. Happily my GTX 980 has handled everything I currently play just fine.As long as you're aware that you may need to shell out for some cabling and there may be some tweaks needed, this beast does not disappoint. It's not worth knocking half a star off because this monitor absolutely delivers where it counts.

Great picture, performs well. Fixed stand might have been a bit of a problem, but I've got it mounted on a flexible wall mount. The USB 3.0 cable was a bit short, replaced it with a longer one.BTW, these do all have speakers, but they are very poor. I don't THINK anybody buys these for the speakers, but be advised that you're going to disable them as soon as you install the device.

This is a very nice tv with an amazing picture. The 4k video quality will blow you away, especially if this is your first 4k tv like it was mine. You do have to configure it some but I just followed a couple of the reviews and then tweaked it further to my liking. I was watching a 1080p movie and was amazed at the different. The quality was so nice that I had to check back and make sure that it was not a 4k video. Even tv shows using plex or chromecast look waaay better on this tv than my other two previous 1080p tvs. No matter what people say about it being a cheaper tv, this is a very NICE tv all in all. The build quality is excellent and the smart features are nice. That said the software does lack as it does not have the Google Play store so you do not have a large number of apps but add in a $35 chromecast and you will be good to go. Now their app store does have the essentials like plex, youtube, facebook(ugh), flicker, hulu plus, crackle, iheart radio, etc. but you will not have as many choices in apps as you would with an external device.

I have had this tv for 4 days now and every time I watch something on it, I am reamazed by the quality of the picture.

I bought the M80-C3 80 inch 4K Vizio TV. Its an upgrade from my previous 65 inch 1080p vizio, which i was very happy with, and is now in my bedroom!

I mounted this vizio on the wall where my 65 used to be. I havent watched any 4K content on it yet, because 4K content is still a little hard to find, but I will try that out very soon. So far, this TV is fantastic even watching 1080p content.

Vizio makes one of the least expensive 4K tv's on the market, but I think the picture is awesome so far. For the price, I dont think theres a better TV on the market. I have a huge room, so 80 was the perfect size.

Upgrading from a 2009 Samsung LCD 32inch 720p TV to this.

Purchased December 21st 2015 and got it December 23th 2015
Over the years, I have watched Samsung up their prices, and Vizio keep their prices affordable while still producing the same quality. Sure, there are some technical aspects that separate the two brands, but these are usually for those looking for a specific use TV (like gaming only or for a computer only).

This TV is easy to set up. The smart features are great, but limited however, being able to cast your android device to the TV WITHOUT a casting device like Chromecast is brilliant. It was one of the selling points for me. Simply download the chromecast app, and cast your content to your TV. No need to set ANYTHING up on this TV!

The amount of HDMI ports was another selling point. Having 5 of them plus a USB port is great. My old Samsung only had two and it was frustrating switching between components being that the cable box consumes one HDMI port. HDMI ports on here are realitivly easy to get to.

After setting this TV up, I went straight to Netflix (one push of a button on the remote brings Netflix, Amazon and iHeart Radio apps up, regardless what else is going on on the TV) and watched a 4K video. I recommend the Oceans 4k movie. Being able to see every drop of water as the wave hits the rock in stunning REAL 4k is brilliant. FYI - you have to upgrade your Netflix subscription to see this... however, the upscale in this TV will take a 1080p move from Netflix and upscale it to 4k. Another FYI - most cable companies (comcast) only broadcast in 720p. Still, the upscale works great.

Second selling point was the 120hz... real 120hz. I have seen TV's that try to produce 120 or even 240 and high pace action sceens tend to display that blur. For example, watching a football game, the football, when thrown, will have a tracer attached to it as the TV is having a hard time keeping up with this. For this very reason, avoid simulated 120 or 240hz. For those that are curious, (and still reading this), watching football on this TV is a pure orgasmic joy... again, coming from and old LCD 32" TV.

Other things I have seen people concerned about, the glare on the TV... this has none. It has a really good anti glare cover.

My ONLY concerns for this TV is the clouding of the direct backlighting. What this means, when you have a pure white image on the screen, you will see some dark cloud like areas. These are shadows created by not enough active zone LED backlights. This is why it has become such a marketable thing for manufactures. The more active zone LED backlights, the less clouding. Unfortunately for us, you pay almost $200 and up for double amount of active zones. Again, this only shows up on a very white screen, and is only noticeable to someone looking for it. All other colors do not have this issue... that I can see.

Another issue that I have ran into is using a hard drive to play movies. Generally, actually, 90% of the times, I have no issues using my Toshiba 2TB 3.0 usb hard drive plugged into this TV to play movies. The issue I have is some folders just simply do not like to open. What happens instead is when you access a certain folder (it is fairly consistent with which folders cause this error to happen), it simply turns the hard drive off, and changes the input to whatever you had it on previously. I am logically guessing that there might be a power to hard drive issue or, more likely, a hard drive reading issue where the TV's software that sends a request to the hard drive and the hard drive tells the TV that it is stuck. I have not tried other hard drives.

My only wish list, aside from MORE apps, is to have a power button on the top or side. I like to turn the tv off via button on the TV (seems to turn things off quicker I suppose) as opposed to the remote.

If you have any questions, please let me know!

Picture and video taken by my HTC One m8 1080p video.

My first flat screen TV was a Vizio, a 32 inch one I bought 8 years ago. My wife and I had an agreement that when it died, I could buy a new one. One time a few years ago it had a line of pixels flaking out, and I thought for sure my time was coming but sure enough it corrected itself shortly thereafter. I was beginning to think it would never die.

It still hasn't but I managed to convince my wife to upgrade and after a lot of internal debate between a 4K tv and a larger plain HD one, I settled on the 50 inch 4k. I was going to stick with Vizio because even if I didn't like that it was immortal, my last TV had done right by me.

Setup was a breeze and I quickly mounted it and without touching it, it looks great. Keep in mind I have the eyes of an 80 year old, and I'm not the type to go in and fine tune anything or talk seriously about black levels. I care about taking something out of the box and it just looking great and this TV does.

The only thing I could possibly ding it on is the remote. Compared to my old TV remote, this one just feels chintzy. The plastic feels light and thin and it's far from ergonomic like the old style Vizio ones. Granted this one has a keyboard on it's back, but it's just a giant rectangular block of plastic.

I'm not sure how Amazon relates reviews to products . Many of the reviews here have no relationship to my TV , the 70in 4kM model 240hz ultra hd LED TV . Reviews vary from 40 in 42in 50 in 120 hs , non 4k TV . Careful what you read .
Another caveat . Several reviews describe using this TVas a monitor for their computer or for gaming . I bought this for a home entertainment center. I suspect most others are looking for the same . So my review is for the M70 4k ultra hd smart LED hdtv 240 hs. For my stated purpose. If you want this for home entertainment my review is for you .
The picture is beyond expectations . Crisp , no blur , no judder or sputter . You can watch formula.1 racing or Jason Spieths fastest swing with no blur . The picture needs tweaking . This takes less than 5 min.. Flesh tones are spot on . Set up is simple . The stands are good and hold this monster stable . Viewing from any angle is great to awesome. No bad . The picture is far better than any movie theatre .in any mode , 4k or not , the picture is clear ,crisp and as I said awesome . The 4k from Netflex rivals Ansel Adams for clarity and detail . Nature documentaries put you in the scene. Though not 3d it feels like it . The depth of colors is natures own .
No one wishing a home theatre would expect the sound from ANY TV screen to be adequate. I have 7 speakers , a great receiver , a giant twin speaker ( heavy ) woofer from THX . Two rear speakers are imbedded in the ceiling . You are NOT buying this TV to be a sound system . You are buying a truly superb picture . It's senseless to comment on the sound quality. Quality sound is impossible in any flat screen. So , expect to spend whatever your budget can stand for sound .
So how do I rate this TV . I wish I could give 10 stars . You cannot do better for picture quality. I recommend a good audio sound specialist or a name brand system . Don't forget your theater chairs , popcorn machine , etc.. I could add tech talk . But , why! Enjoy . My puppy loves the picture.
One additional important point . Using Amazon prime the set arrived when promised . Two very nice men unboxed , set the screen on the stands , plugged it in and waited to be sure there was no damage or grey screen . Making sure we were pleased they then carried away the debris.

I did a LOT of research before purchasing this monitor, and I have been very satisfied with the selection. What I needed:- 3840 x 2160- 60hz refresh at full resolution- Multiple digital inputs - 2 DisplayPort or 1 DP/1 Mini-DP- A price that didn't look like a Range Rover monthly payment.I may play a game now and then, but this monitor is not primarily used for gaming, so I can't speak to its performance in that arena. No dead pixels, and no issues with setup. It's being driven by an ASUS STRIX Geforce GTX 980 TI.There are situations when some horizontal ghosting is apparent. The circumstances have to be just right, but if they ARE just right, you will see those horizontal lines. Now, I am VERY picky about things that have the possibility of visually annoying me, and was very concerned about this. However, it really hasn't been an issue.There is ZERO adjustment possible to the physical attributes - tilt, height, etc. The one annoyance I have is that there is a slight tilt back when mounted. I actually considered getting a VESA mount because of this, but decided that it's more trouble than it's worth.Summary: Some flaws, but no deal-breakers. Great value.Important note: Out of the box, the monitor is NOT set to use DisplayPort v1.2. You will only get 30hz refresh rate until you change that in the setup menu.

Having a 40" monitor is awesome and I like it much better than a 2 screen setup. If I were to get another 4K monitor I would go with an IPS panel though. PIP is great since I have a work and personal laptop so being able to peek at personal stuff without having to use remote desktop is great. I wish for 2 way mode they allowed the screens to take up the full horizontal or vertical portion, but it's basically like each computer only having one 20" 1080P screen instead of taking up. That said, no dead pixels and a great monitor for the price.Pros:4K2 HDMI, miniDP and DP hookups (and VGA)PIPMenu knob is odd to get used to at first, but actually really useful4 Port USB3 hubCons:Bad view angles (I know it's not IPS so can't expect too much)Because of this corners appear dark when viewing in the middle.Occasionally flickers when coming back from sleep

$800 for a massive and beautiful computer monitor? Why not?! That's already cheaper than Apple's 27" Thunderbolt display.Cables in the box: power cord, audio, HDMI, USB3, VGA, some sort of weird RS232 thingNotably missing: any kinds of DisplayPort cable, which you need if you want to go 60HzReally, 40"? Yup. The pixel density is roughly 109dpi, making it similar to many other computer monitors you may have owned. Side-by-side with my old Apple 27" Thunderbolt monitor, everything is about the same size, there's just more of it. This monitor is so big that there's no reason to ever mess with a dual-monitor setup again. It's everything you'll ever need, all in one place.Side-by-side with the Apple 27" Thunderbolt monitor, the Philips has a mild anti-glare coating on it, so you don't get the sharp reflections of the glossy Apple monitor. That's a big win. On the flip side, the Apple monitor is just loads brighter. You only really notice the difference when you have them side-by-side, but wow the Apple monitor is just very, very much brighter. The Apple monitor also has a bunch of things that are very appealing if you have an Apple laptop, like a Magsafe charger, built-in Ethernet, etc. All you get here is four-port USB3 hub and an analog audio jack. Paired with my MacPro desktop machine, this is no big deal.Complaints: I've got two. One that's easy to work around and the other that effectively precludes the use of this monitor with older versions of OS X.- I have a wood desk. I can see the reflection of that desk in the bottom few inches of the monitor. This reduces contrast / readability of text that's at the bottom of the screen. A non-solution would be to jack the monitor up higher with a VESA mount stand. It's already at a perfect height. I'm considering finding myself a square meter of black felt, which I'd put below the monitor, to reduce the reflections. If you're the sort of person who works in a dark cave, you'll love this. If you work in a bright white environment, you'll have complaints.- When you aren't using the computer for a while and it puts the monitor into power-saving mode, it doesn't wake up properly. You either need to yank the DisplayPort cable or power-cycle the monitor. Every. Time. There's a lot of discussion on this issue if you poke around the web. My observation was, with OS X 10.9, it didn't work. I just upgraded to OS X 10.11 ("El Capitan") and that seems to have solved the problem.Setup: After much dorking around with the settings, here's how to optimize things.- Sound through the HDMI or DisplayPort cable never seemed to work. Sound through the analog audio jack seems to work fine. I don't need high-fidelity in my office and the built-in speakers are "good enough" for videoconferencing and the odd YouTube video. I got a cheap Logitech webcam (Logitech HD Portable 1080p Webcam C615 with Autofocus), which perches nicely on top.- Turn on "pixel orbiting": this allegedly helps with screen burn-in issues (not that the manual actually says this anywhere). Also, make sure you've enabled "DisplayPort 1.2", so you can get 60Hz video.- Set your sharpness to "50" and leave brightness and contrast alone at 100 and 50, respectively. Likewise, turn off all the "smart" things. You just want this to be a big dumb monitor. The only "smart" thing you do want is "SmartUniformity". Somebody at the factory supposedly measures each and every one of these monitors and loads it with a just-for-you profile about where the screen is slightly brighter or dimmer; the "SmartUniformity" setting uses those measurements, dimming the brighter parts so it all comes out the same.- I wanted this monitor to look the same as a standard Mac monitor, which means calibrating it for a 6500K whitepoint. The native whitepoint is much higher (i.e., it's insanely blue). You can set this in the menus getting you close-but-no-cigar. I instead did a "manual" setting with R/G/B set to 100/100/100 (maximum brightness) then ran a color calibrator (XRite Colormunki Display) to get a proper D65 setting. What, you don't have a color calibrator? Here's an ICC file that you can load into your ~/Library/ColorSync/Profiles directory and then select in the "Displays" preferences. (http://www.cs.rice.edu/~dwallach/philips-bdm4065-d65.icc). Are you using a PC? Dunno, can't help you there.Summary: It's big, it's cheap, it's beautiful, it works. It could be brighter, and there are goofy issues with older versions of OS X, but for the price it's the right solution.

LOTS OF GHOSTING AND MOVEMENT BLUR, EQUIVALENT TO A VERY POOR PANEL IN THAT REGARD.But if you can get past that, colors are phenomenal and having 4K over 40" is amazing for productivity, videos, gaming (except competitively due to blur). Nice OSD and very thin panel with slim bezel. I didn't like the included stand, this arm works great MX Desk Mount LCD Arm and gives you about 3.5" off the desk which puts your eye level at about 1/2 to 1/3 from the bottom of monitor. So I'm keeping it cause there's no 4K 40" panels available without issues (And I believe that's the sweet spot for 4K) but will probably replace it in 2 years when the kinks get worked out. If there's any interest in a demonstration of the ghosting I will upload a video.

I did lot of research before building my 4K PC machine. I have been building PC since last 4-5 years (built for lot of friends and 2 for myself). I started with 22" inch monitors then went way up to 24", 27" & finally was looking for 40" (Of course no point to use a 28" monitor with 4K resolution and ant sized icons)I was NOT planning to buy this monitor. I had ordered LG 4K SMART LED TV (UF7600) 55" Screen which I felt later on was too huge. Fortunately the screen cracked during shipment and I had to refuse the shipment. Next I ordered a Samsung 48" 4K UN48JU6500 (Which has low display lag as per displaylags.com). Again the screen cracked and I was quite disappointed. Then I came to Philips monitor which was shipped from Tennessee and the screen came out cracked and I was furious on Amazon (Note : Previous 2 TVs were not from Amazon). Amazon quickly sent me a replacement via 1-day shipping and this monitor is gorgeous. I simply love it.Coming to games, I am playing with i7-5820K @ 4.2GHz, AsRock Fatality Killer, 2400MHz DDR4 RAM, SSD on Windows 8.1 Pro. I have installed. Metro Last Light, Far Cry 3, Sleeping Dogs, Tomb Raider. I am able to run all of these games at HIGHEST level of settings @4K @ 60Hz (via Display Port @ 1.2, You got to set this from monitor's setting using the joystick at back) Turn on VSYNC @ 4K else screen tearing might come for some games. Once VSYNC is ON the games will run with smoothly giving you some kind of cinema experience.I play from around 3 feet and this screen is perfect. I had to use 125% DPI just to make fonts big and I have defaulted my Chrome to 125% zoom as well. I have kept task bar as small and desktop icons as medium. On the Windows Metro app screen I have defaulted the screen to small tiles.I did not see any mouse lag which few videos and forums have described. In fact I had to turn down the mouse pointer speed from Control Panel. I use Gigabyte USB Mouse (http://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-High-Definition-Optical-Tracking-GM-M6800/dp/B0083EZE4M/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1437376925&sr=8-1&keywords=Gigabyte+mouse&pebp=1437376938129&perid=0Z29HBG9RFTBND0KY9QE)NOTE : This Monitor does not have a display port cable. You will have to buy it separately. I am axing 1 star because the product description doesn't say anything and the box will not have it (At least US version doesn't come with Display Port cable). Also if you are planning to keep your PC Chassis on right side of monitor then get at least 3 feet version of display port cable. All display ports or on extreme left of monitor.Fun Fact : I am using Storm Trooper Case Full Tower with Corsair H100i GTX 240mm radiator. I play for 4-5 hours non-stop and my CPU temperatures do not go beyond 38 C (Idle is 27 degrees). GPU goes till 75 C degrees. I ma trying to correct some ventilation to balance out the heat. But overall I am quite satisfied with the build and gaming experience.----------I forgot to mention these monitors have speakers as well. Sound quality is pretty good. I have used Dell, Samsung and ASUS monitors in past and the sound is for name sake in them.

The first one I got have the following problems:1. It sometimes reset itself (i.e. turn into power saving mode and then turn on immediately) in 4k 60hz mode. This happens to me almost every day which is quite annoying.2. It occasionally loss all the settings and I have to readjust the brightness etc. This happens once a week and I can live with it.3. The holes on the base to put the screws is not aligned perfectly and the monitor shakes a little if I move it after installed. It doesn't really bother me at all.I had to exchange the first one I get and there are still some issues with the replacement which I decided to keep. 2 and 3 don't happen any more but I still sometimes get 1, though much less.Overall, even with the first one, I still think it is definitely worth the money as I suddenly have a much larger screen asset to use. Amazon's customer service is great as usual and I am quite satisfied with the second one so far!

This TV and likely all Smart TVs using Yahoo Connected TV (Yahoo! Smart TV) are already obsolete with respect to major apps and any hope of additional apps.

As of Feb 2016 Yahoo! announced plans to divest its Smart TV business as it eliminates legacy businesses.

Crackle does not work at all (video does not restart after a commercial) and Crackle Support claims to know about the problem and can only suggest alternative devices.

Hulu also fails after commercials, and now when it does, jumps back the beginning of the show. Not after every commercial but about 50%. Can fast forward back to after the commercial.

Hulu offers to help debug the issue. If they would give me the code for a Yahoo Connected TV I would take a run at it. I actually looked at becoming a Yahoo Connected TV developer.

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Also, the selection of Apps is tiny compared to say Roku and as far as I can tell nothing has ever been added.

So, at this point, if you are looking for a Smart TV with a comprehensive set of apps for streaming, look elsewhere, or plan on adding an additional streaming device. Other brands use Yahoo! Smart TV.

The set has another problem that Vizio did partially address. It will forget the channel skip settings on OTA broadcast channels. Sub channels set to be skipped will simply lose their skip setting. It was much worse, all would be lost in minutes, but after working with Vizio, and a software update, now it happens once a week on one channel. It might have something to do with signal drop out.

I have had the set for just about a year.

Otherwise a nice set, the app issues is a bit disappointing, means going back to a Roku box much sooner than I expected.

I've had this TV for a few months now. It replaced a 10+ year old Sharp Acquos that was so old, it actually had a break out box where all the wires attached. So anything would pretty much be an upgrade for me. The picture is great. I paired this with Vizio's sound stand for better sound and the hook up was super easy (and the TV remote immediately worked with the sound stand).

Access to the apps is better than much more expensive TV's like Samsung which I think try way too hard with their app interfaces. Having the apps come up on the bottom while you're still watching your show makes for a seamless easy experience.

I will say that the viewing angle is a bit constrained. I live in a fairly small apartment so it's not a problem for me, but I notice that from the side the picture does get washed out quickly.

I haven't had any problems with the soap opera effect, but there have been at least 2 software upgrades since I got it (and incidentally these happen in the background so you don't have to do anything to get them).

The remote is also great. It's a bit old school, but having keys that really press and click a bit is actually great. And the keyboard on the back has changed my relationship with searching Netflix or Hulu.

You really can't beat this TV for the price.

This TV is Beautiful... When Calibrated Properly, as others have said. I don't profess to be an expert at Calibration, but having read countless articles on calibrating this TV, I do believe I have found semi-optimal settings for most users. I have attached screenshots of my settings menu.

An excellent purchase in almost every respect. The only downside is that it has a horribly slow boot time- never thought I would say that for a TV. Takes at least 30 seconds after you hit power to turn on, but a winner in every respect after that.

EDIT: The TV just died. We will see how customer service deals with this, and the review will be updated accordingly. Currently no picture, but sound does come through. Judging by what I am reading of the warranty it looks like I will be responsible for all the shipping expenses to send it out which will be high.

If the customer support impresses me this will be 5 stars. If they don't fix this, I will leave it at 1 star or worse. Middle support=middle review.

Update: Other than the time it took, Vizio handled this about as well as possible. It took 10 days, and they sent over a replacement TV through a delivery service that also took away the broken TV in the same box.

Had this a couple of months now so wanted to give a quick review. Overall, love the picture and ease of use. A couple of areas that could use improvement would be having all cables on one side of the TV. I have it wall mounted and have 3 HDMI cables and a TOSLINK optical connected on the input/output side but the power is all the way across the back of the TV from those so hiding the cable is a pain. The power cord is also too short to run behind the TV and have it in the small run down with the other cable. Small gripe, but still could have been thought out a little better. The reason I gave this 4 stars and not 5 is really more about its wifi. I think it mis-reports the connection speed. I'm on a 200Mbps connection with TWC and have used different routers (two N and one AC) and the fastest reported speed I've ever seen from the TV on a speed test is 26Mbps and it wildly fluctuates from as low as 10Mbps up to the 26Mbps. The router is literally 2 feet from the TV in a side cabinet so it's not a distance thing and I'm currently using the new Google OnHub router and that is the one that reported the 26Mbps(just seen that speed once). But I can stand next to the TV with my Nexus 5 or Galaxy Tablet and run Ookla's speed test and get 186Mbps or more from the same router that the TV is reporting 10Mbps. Utterly confusing. Granted it's not all that big of an issue now, but as more 4K content comes out, I'll need a sustained 20Mbps or so to get true 4K. As it is now, seems to vary from 1080 to 4K.Attaching a pic of the TV so you can see how close the Onhub is.

I received this Monitor today in the mail, just turned it on and start using it and after a couple of hours that strange bar appeared while I was editing video, it's hard to notice it watching videos and stuff, but once you see it, it's there all the time, you can't unsee that thing.Size and image quality are STUNNING, but that's a real issue.

I finally gave up and return it. The KBM lag is so bad that it is not functional at all. I have a VAIO Z Canvas with a display port emitting 3840 @ 60 Hz. I am not in gaming and the setup has no such problem with a Dell 30" 2560x1600. Hope there is improvements down the road to address this problem. The mentioning of the burn-in problem in the manual is troubling. There is a lot of times I left monitor on for > 20 minutes. I left my side and bottom menu bars there for years and no burn-in problem.

I love everything about it except I don't seem to be able to get the one screen set up in the high resolution mode.

Pros-1. Great blacks almost OLED level2. Colours looks great3. 4k at 40" is perfectCons-1. When viewing colours on a grey background I notice the colours are displayed in bars through out the screen2. Dark in corners but not distracting in anyway.3. Screen sometimes flickers green and goes crazy when pc is turning on (May just be my 970 and pc setup)AND THE BIGGEST PROBLEM !!My first monitor came with a cluster of dead pixels on the right side of the monitor and now my second monitor has a cluster of Stuck pixels on the left side of the monitor.Conclusion-It really is a great monitor and I don't know if I'm unlucky or what buy this is the only monitor out of the many I have owned that have had dead and stuck pixels. Philips you really need to step up you quality control, the fact that I have had two defective monitors in a row is very frustrating.Note- Monitors were purchased from Bestbuy.

I'm a programmer, and having all the space is nice, but the colors in this monitor are a joke. Every single time I see it next to another screen, part of me regrets this purchase.

It's nice, but it blanks out for a couple seconds then comes back 3-4 times a day (4K @ 60Hz on a GTX 980 Ti). It's annoying, but not nearly annoying as having my work spread across multiple monitors, so I'll probably keep it.

I've purchased this TV as "Condition: New - BRAND NEW" from a third party seller through Amazon for $580 but upon arrival I noticed it wasn't a new item at all. The box was already opened, the screen didn't have the typical protective film, the remote came without batteries and there were scratches and scuffs on the corner, top, feet etc (see photos). The reality is, there are probably no more NEW versions of this TV. This is a TV from 2015, anything you buy in 2016 is likely refurbished. I contacted the seller and asked for a refund and without any arguing they offered to refund $150, which is the difference between a new item and a refurbished item. The fact that I didn't had to argue shows they tried to sell a refurbished item as new. Besides the $150 refund (bringing the total to $430) I got 6 months extended warranty. That's what they wrote by mail, not sure how I actually 'receive' this extension.

But now about the TV itself. It's hard to judge the screen quality because I only watch streaming services like Netflix, Hulu and YouTube. The quality varies and highly depends on the quality of the stream, the throughput of your WiFi etc. Sometimes the image is too dark, sometimes too light... I almost have to adjust the image settings on an individual stream basis. Again, nothing to do with this actual screen, more with the streaming services that don't offer consistent quality.

Regarding sound, I am affected by a software bug which makes the sound go up and down. These sound fluctuation seems to be a known problem and the solution is to switch off surround sound (SRS) and set the equalizer to default (flat). Not the best solution... While setting up this TV I updated the firmware and apparently this bug was not resolved (and probably will never be resolved at this point). So, regarding sound, just like the image, I see myself adjusting it a lot on a per-stream basis. Sometimes it's way too quite, sometimes way too loud.

The interface (volume, settings, switch apps) looks a bit outdated (drop shadows, bevels) but is pretty simple to use. Unfortunately you can't add more apps then available so if you want to play Google Music for example, then you're out of luck.

The remote is well designed and pretty simple. Unfortunately it doesn't have back light, so when you operating it in the dark it's hard to use. The keyboard on the back does have back light, but it switches off super fast after every key stroke. The keyboard doesn't always work, because you really need to point directly at the TV which is not a natural position when you're typing. Additionally the keyboard is not well integrated with the apps and sometimes acts differently across apps. Lastly, the top and bottom of the remote is equal by design, so you end up using the remote upside down more than you expect.

Overall, it's an okay TV, for the price. I'll definitely hook it up to a Chromecast Ultra or Amazon TV stick, because the built-in apps are pretty limited.

There is a loose screw rolling around in side the TV, can't seem to get the the TV to stream 4k to the Roku 4, not sure if it is the Roku's fault or the TV's yet. The picture takes a lot of adjusting to get right as well. All and all a good buy if you can find it on sale. I am really worried about the loose screw however...

While the the screen is viewable from mild side angles, the color saturation, brightness and contrast shift dramatically from the side. Also, be aware that this TV does not allow for direct internet browsing and limits you to the pre-installed apps for internet content

Let me preface this review with the fact I have returned two of these TVs so far, the first with a shattered screen and the second with about a 5"x2" patch of very noticeable backlight bleed. The former was untestable(for obvious reasons), the latter I only messed around with long enough to verify the bleed wasn't in my head(spoilers: it wasn't).

Now, that out of the way, from the little I used the TV it seemed pretty good. I really liked that the remote had a built in keyboard for use with the built-in apps like Netflix. The picture was clear, and it looks like it has a lot of great features if you really want to tweak color and stuff. I only checked out Netflix on it for a few minutes though so your mileage may vary.

From a feature and picture standpoint I'd say it's worth a purchase, but I'm getting the impression the quality control leaves a lot to be desired or I just have the absolute worst luck.

Had to edit my review because I overreacted to some motion blur I noticed while gaming, while its not the best in handling some types of motion in games but I believe it is in the normal range for a LCD/LED display, What I was seeing was caused by the game I was playing and the clear motion feature was set on which made it look really strange, like triple/double images while panning or moving fast, with it off it looks better for certain games I have learned.

Now I'm going to keep the 3 stars cause I usually have curtains down while watching tv, but today had them open for first time with this tv and I noticed a couple scratches on the screen, at first thought was a smudge but couldn't get off with microfiber cloth, its really too bad cause I'm really liking this tv and don't want to have to exchange but will see if bothers me now that I know its there.

Overall its a great value for what you get imo, Most people probably won't notice the motion issue, wish the 50in was 120hz tho cause think that would make it better when it comes to certain games.

backlight became to unusably dark, the top part backlight is dead. waiting for a replacement

The quality of the screen is to far ahead of the software and hardware needed to run this. The screen itself, when it worked, was really quite beautiful. After countless hours of pixel peaking, it truly was a lot clearer and sharper without distortion than any other 1080 or 2650 screen i had in possession. But the Achilles heal was i could almost never get it to properly set at 60hz and somehow the internal software kept resetting itself the output at 30hz.For all the extra pixels, this type of performance killing problems is not worth it over a good 120hz 2560 screen with super clear FPS and smooth transitions colors. At 30hz this screen absolutely sucks. Even when watching bluray movies you can see it was just noticeably slower than on other screens running at 60hz or 120hz. I ultimately traded this in for the BenQ xl2730z. Which is significantly better for what i was looking for.

GOOD:I agree with the other reviews that the extra screen space is fantastic. I can view quite a bit of material at one time, allowing me to have all the key elements of my development environment visible at once, with minimal alt-tabing. It serves as both a monitor and a tv for me, as it is in my living room in my tiny apartment. For this, it does a really good job.BAD:If you've not yet purchased this monitor, search "BDM4065UC color banding" on youtube. You will see severe color banding problems that, once noticed, cannot be unseen. I'd read about others with this problem, but people are never very specific about their video card, drivers, which connection they were using or any other technical details that could have ruled out user error. After owning this monitor, It does not appear to be user error. I found the color banding to remain on DP, miniDP and HDMI connections driven by either a GTX 750 Ti, or a GTX 970. I ensured all drivers were completely up to date, and repeatedly tried the windows color calibration process to see if i could get any better results. I only tested on windows 7 and 10. I have read a few things suggesting the problem does not exist for linux users, which, if true, would still point to a driver issue that phillips should feel obligated to address.If you are looking for an extra large 4k display, especially if you do any image heavy work for artistic or analysis purposes, wait until a different model comes out, and it may be a good idea to avoid Phillips entirely. This monitor is not worth the ~$750 I paid for it, and I am disappointed that I only fully realized the magnitude of the problem a week after my return policy expired.

I came from a triple-head setup with a retina MacBook Pro 15" at the bottom, a 27" WQHD (2560x1440) display above, and a 24" WUXGA (1920x1200) display to the left. As a work-at-home dev-ops guy that does pretty much everything IT-related for my company, I'm tasked with way too much to keep track of, so having screen real estate was a must.When I saw this monitor, I was very intrigued.WUXGA @24" = 94 PPIWQHD @27" = 109 PPIUHD @40" = 110 PPISo it's all relatively close as far as PPI goes, right? So take the pixel density of my 27" and the resolution size of my 24"... and nearly QUADRUPLE it. What could go wrong? Well, quite a bit, apparently.1) Sub-pixel Rendering Gone WrongThe panel used in this Philips is a semi-rarer type that uses pixels that have their sub-pixel colors BACKWARDS, so it goes Blue->Green->Red, instead of the standard Red->Green->Blue. There are many sites that explain this problem, and you can Wikipedia "Subpixel rendering" to get a good overview of how it works, and what it affects. The end result is, when your OS tries to use anti-aliasing while expecting an RGB panel, you get very ugly text with rainbow-looking edges. My eyes were so sore after working with this monitor (from this, and the other problems combined) that I was sure I was going to have to send this thing back.However, not everything is lost. In Windows, you can use the ClearType Text Tuner to change your sub-pixel rendering options to an extent, and that greatly helps. Also, by scaling things the system to 125% or 150%, the edge-pixel-to-font-size ratio is significantly lower, yielding in less distortion even without changing ClearType. In OS X, you have to use command-line voodoo to alter a UI setting that Apple recently removed from the System Preferences, and just setting the antialiasing to work using grayscale (not optimum, but in Yosemite, that's as good as you can get).2) ClarityDespite having a similar PPI to my WQHD display, the clarity is anything but. There is significant color/light bleed between pixels (you can see "auras" around bright colors-on-white), and often times, dark backgrounds can create horizontal lines that go quite the distance across the screen. Reminds me of really cheap, budget panels used in those sub-$100 tablets, although not that severe. Just bad enough to make my eyes sore to work at native 100% resolution.At 150%, it's not noticeable anymore, but that simply takes a UHD display down to the effective resolution of WQHD, while giving me somewhat enhanced pixel density, minus some clarity. It's almost a zero-sum game here compared to the WQHD for productivity goes -- except that it leaves no room for my 24" on my desk, so I'm having to go without my 3rd monitor. I'm really having to ask myself if the compromise was worth the price I paid for it.3) Viewing angles, color/backlight uniformityCorners are 20-40% darker than the rest of the screen. What the heck. Can hardly read my clock in Windows sometimes. I have to move my head around to get optimum color.Colors are too blue and bright, and my mid-30's eyes can't take more than 15 minutes of it. Reducing brightness and customizing color to reduce the blue channel a bit have greatly helped with matching my MacBook's white levels.There are horizontal bands of dark regions that are noticeable on white backgrounds. Kinda expected this, given the panel type and the price bracket, so I can't really fault it, but it's something all prospective buyers should definitely be aware of. When scrolling black text on white background, there is definite ghosting of text that is often noticeable. Annoying, but doesn't really detract from anything... yet...4) DefectsMine has 14+ dead/gray pixels. At this pixel density, I figured that's only to be expected... and at 150% + distance, I can't really see them most of the time. But I'd have liked one that was flawless since it IS rather expensive still.When I wake up my MacBook on Mini-DP, or my desktop gaming computer on DP, it will often briefly start up, show garbled pixels for < 0.5sec, shut off, and repeat the process for 2-6 times before coming back on with a stable image. It happens consistently every time. I wonder if that's a defect, but so far, power-cycling it prevents it from happening, and I'm not sure I've seen it happen on my Xbox One on HDMI either, so that's something I'd have to experiment with to see what causes it.Overall, my expectations were shattered. In a bad way. My poor eyes just couldn't take it anymore and I was ready to box it up, but running it at 150% scaling, changing my antialias settings, and changing my brightness/color settings improved my experience enough that I've been able to tolerate it for the past 2 months. In retrospect, it would have probably been better to still return it and wait for a better panel to come out, because I'm not able to use it the way I intended it... but I let the return period go by without making a decision, so now I'm stuck with it.On the bright side, having a 40" UHD screen to play your favorite PC games is an absolute blast. The difference is amazing, whether it's FPS or MMO. I don't notice any ghosting when it's a game, and pixel clarity doesn't matter too much when you're looking at the whole 40". Sadly, a lot of modern games (especially MMOs) have to be set to Low to play smoothly at UHD on my GTX 970. But I kinda knew that, and I could always lower the resolution if I wanted quality... But playing on Low at UHD subjectively looks nicer to me, so I'm still content with it for now.Hopefully this helps people on the fence about this monitor.

Short version:4k makes these larger screen sizes great for productivity. My unit had build quality issues, so the time spent with it was unfortunately short. I'm returning it, and will probably hold out until the bigger names provide a higher quality alternative with the features I need. Once the 4k/40" euphoria wears off, you're left with a mediocre display, I think.Longer version:I'm a web designer and developer, so I do a bit of everything... code, Photoshop, spreadsheets, etc. I bought this to try it out as a replacement for dual 27" Apple Monitors at my office. I've been happy with the monitors I have, but wanted to try a larger, single display for more screen space. My laptop has Displayport 1.2, but no HDMI 2, so requiring Displayport reduces your choices in the > 34" space pretty quick.4k at a screen this size is very helpful when you want to view graphic work at full scale or larger without losing perspective. It's also pretty nice for writing code. You can allocate a lot of space for the code view, without sacrificing property and navigation panels or moving them to other screens and straining your neck. It does seem to provide a more cohesive experience on projects. Complex, large spreadsheets are amazing at this size! My boss wanted to get one this size for himself after I showed him some stuff in Excel.At a distance of 2-3 feet, I think I'd be a lot happier with a curved screen. This particular monitor has brightness and color fade when you look to the edges and corners. Not unexpected for a non-IPS display of this size from that distance. However, if that space is going to be truly usable, I don't want to have to shift my head to either side to counteract dimming or washout.The build quality (or quality assurance) was lacking for mine. the metal bracket that mounts the stand to the screen was slightly twisted, causing the screen to twist as well. The top right side of the monitor angled back about a 1/2" inch, when compared to the other side. Also, the stand would not sit flat when mounted to the screen. Lastly, the same metal bracket that was twisted was also angled back to the point it was annoying (there are no adjustments at all). Hopefully these are just small quality issues with a particular batch.So, yeah, I think I'm sold on the idea of a monitor this size and resolution, but just not this one. Once the shock/excitement of the jump in screen size wears off, you're left with a mediocre display, I think. If you don't need Displayport 1.2, you may have more options. If you do need a DP 1.2 capable monitor, I would wait until better options start showing up in this size.

ProsA lot of real estate as you all know, nice color, not heavyCons1. dead pixels shows up in a few days of use,2. the stand is flimsy (nothing compared to my Benq BL3200 that I planned to replace), no swivel, no height, no tilt adjustment,3. glare screen makes reading extremely hard4. makes one of my Gigabyte Brix mini PC (with win 81) lost video all the time, don't know the reason maybe a video sync issue

I would expect a TV I paid over $600 for would last at least two years. Not this one.

Unfortunately the picture locks up occasionally. The sound continues. Then I have to restart the television which it doesn't seem to want to do, it acts as if it is a frozen computer for about ten to twenty seconds, then turns off. It seems like I have this issue once a day. This happens with two different service providers, Brighthouse and now DirecTV, so I know it is the actual television. I had called Amazon customer assistance and the tech expert talked me through resetting the television and I had hoped that it was cured, but unfortunately it still does this. Too late for the return so I have to live with this issue for the life of this television. I also don't think it is as "smart' as it should be, not all apps are available.

If I could go back, I would not purchase this TV. While it has a nice picture (at times), the one I received suffers greatly from the "dirty screen effect" (Google it). I called Vizio to see if this was normal and they said to take a picture of it and then they could submit a warranty claim. However, this is next to impossible for this kind of issue since this problem only occurs when things are moving rapidly on the screen and taking a picture of this does not show anything. Other than this issue, it's a nice product, but this is a deal breaker with me. Never will buy a Vizio again.

this tv crashes when streaming netflix and amazon prime video about every hour. There is a loud clicking sound that comes through the speakers every minute or so as well. I assume I have a defective unit.

On a first glance I was really happy with the TV, but soon started to notice issues. Whenever I was watching something with a large, solid color background (sports, for example) I noticed that the TV has faint dark vertical lines across the screen. Several of them, some darker than others. Soon it started to really annoy me, and for a brand new TV worth almost a thousand dollars you'd expect to have a perfect screen.

I contacted Vizio online support and they asked me to do some sort of reset, which of course didn't help. Then they asked me to send photos and call them. On the phone they said they call that a panel issue and they would do an on-site swap, however the replacement product would be a refurbished model, a returned model, basically god knows what.

It took pretty long before their third party contractor brought the replacement model. The guys looked sketchy, they were dragging the replacement box on the ground, swapped the TV's and dropped my old TV in the box before dragging it away. The replacement TV is even worse than my first one. It has the same panel issue but with this one it's worse. I also noticed there's a bright round spot, about the size of a fingertip in the middle of the screen. The guys who brought it said that's how Vizio TVs are and recommended me getting Samsung because their panels are better.

I contacted Vizio again, was asked to do a reset again, send photos again and call them again. On the phone they reviewed my photos, agreed that it's a faulty panel and told they'd send me a replacement unit, again. I'm waiting for that now.

I give it two stars because 90% of the time you can't notice the panel issue, but that 10% bugs you so much after buying a brand new TV. Also replacing my TV with something that's even worse isn't acceptable, feels like they're giving me B-grade leftovers. Customer support is alright despite being a little inconvenient with all the calling and picture sending (I showed them pictures in the online chat but was still required to separately send them using their own uploading system). Waiting for my 3rd TV now, hoping it won't have the same problem.

Had no clue that this display was a poorly supported monitor for Apple Macintosh. No drivers at all. I got it to work on my fully loaded Apple iMac 5K machine, but it flickers to get going and often fails to connect, which follows by a reboot. When it does work, I have zero adjustments because there are no drivers for the Mac.Aside from that. The corners vignette really bad and the resolution is subpar. Keep in mind, I'm comparing to Apple's 5K 27" display that is native to the iMac.

*UPDATE* Well after a month and a half of use, the monitor is showing some defects. Monitor is flickering and takes a while to activate when computer resumes from sleep. Very sad and frustrated. Hopefully it's covered under warranty...Monitor works great and a plethora of cables are included, accept for a mini display port cable, which is confusing since the monitor on the back has a mini display port hookup. I uses this with a Windows 10 laptop so I had to have one. Luckily I had a spare in my closet. Otherwise no complaints, this is a superb monitor.To enable 4K at 60hz over Display Port, reach around the back right of the monitor to the little square button. Tap it to the right, then tap down 7 times. Set Display Port to 1.2. Reboot your computer and it should work.The only reason it is not 5 stars is because of a small cluster of dead pixels near the bottom left of the monitor.

s***ty quality control.Got huge bright line at top of the screen (covering like 50% of width and around 10-19px height) - it made it impossible to work especially when screen is black. Also non-tintable display puts your head in very uncomfortable position. I followed review of a person saying it's great for development purposes, but it didn't work for me and I replaced it with ASUS PA328Q, which is more expensive but you get what you pay for.

When I have a GUI window open on the screen I see streaks of color discoloration around it. The streaks move with the window if I drag it around the screen. This doesn't prevent me from using it, but I feel disappointed in this purchase every time I see the discoloration.

bezel top center was bent up. bent bezel allowed back light/ edgelight to shine directly at the user. Returned item.

I was really looking forward to receiving this monitor. Unfortunately it arrived DOA. I tried everything including turning the switch on and off, pressing and moving the joystick in all directions, changing power chords and electrical outlet, turning the computer on, etc. Nothing worked. The LED light in the front never came on and the monitor itself did not turn on. Also the display port cable was missing from the box.

We bought this tv in August of 2015 and two years later the screen is not working. It has lightened in color and has lines running through it. The Amazon replacement period has passed and Vizio will do nothing for us. They are saying since we didn't buy a warranty they can't help us. A television should last longer than two years. We have many other brands that have so from now on we will avoid buying Vizio.

Received this product from Beat Deals INC and plugged it in. It was broken and could see that the inside layer of glass was shattered. TV was not worth buying refurbished, buy new. Bought the newer version of this TV for a different vendor, and looks great. Very clear and sharp. Still waiting for vendor to issue refund.

The TV features and functionality is outstanding. But, the software and/or electronics are so glitchy that it needs to be unplugged in order to get it back up and running.

Simply changing the channel can cause the HDMI to freak out and lock up the TV. Changing HDMI inputs will lock up the TV.

It will randomly disconnect from the network while watching content from the built in Apps (Netflix, VUDU, etc).

But wow.. the picture quality is superb... The sound is loud, and ultra clear. The mounting feet are a bit weird, but workable.

Both a 5 star and a 1 star review. The 1 star review wins since I can't actually the TV without having to get up and unplug it about 3 times a day to reset it.

After less than three months of normal use, the TV developed a thin vertical black line about four inches from the right edge of the TV. After a while, a big round black blob started to develop on the bottom of the line, growing bigger every day. I am told that this is a defect that cannot be fixed, so I will try to get this TV replaced. Wish me luck.

First let me say to be fair I have always bought vizios, so when it was time to upgrade this seemed like a good deal on amazon. When we received the tv and hooked it up it looked great. Within a day it started to make a loud snap when going to a commercial and the picture would go out and come right back on. Called vizio and they said they would replace it( sounded great). Receive a new tv and within one day tv did the same thing. Called vizio and said they would send out a tech, which they did and replaced a board in the tv. Same day as the tech left started doing the same thing. Called vizio again(starting to see a pattern?) This time very unfriendly and said it had to be something on our end and common sense said it is probably our cable box. Replaced cable box and same problem. I have read on line that other people are having same problem with this model. Will try one more time to work with vizio but I am losing confidience with the tech service which is now treating me like it is my fault that I bought a model they are having trouble with. Stay tuned and I will let you know how it turns out. uwe v.