VIZIO E65-C3 65-Inch 1080p Smart LED HDTV
- EASY TO USE SMART TV. Instantly enjoy the latest hit movies, TV shows, music, and even more premium apps made for the big screen.
- FULL-ARRAY LED BACKLIGHT. Distributes LEDs across the entire screen’s backlight delivering superior light uniformity and picture performance
- CLEAR ACTION 480. Enhanced motion clarity with 240Hz effective refresh rate and powerful image processing for sharp detail in sports and fast action scenes.
The all-new 2015 E-Series 65” (64.5” diag.) Full-Array LED Smart TV has arrived. Featuring a new modern design, brilliant picture quality, and faster, easier-to-use smart TV experience, VIZIO’s 2015 E-Series brings you premium HD entertainment at an incredible value. Full-Array LED backlighting and 16 Active LED Zones produce deeper black levels and brighter colors1 that makes all your favorite shows more vibrant and beautiful. VIZIO E-Series: Incredible picture, unbeatable value.
List Price: $ 999.99
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Great set! Not perfect, but great!,
I purchased this set on tuesday and after a few days I am going to do a short review. I will update next week after I have had more time with the settings.
Overall it is a very good set. Picture is great, features are great and it looks awesome mounted on my wall. I like the minimal design, I like the minimal remote as well, even though most people seem to be upset there isn’t a keyboard. The only function button on the TV itself is a small power button on the rear of the set, near the HDMI ports, for turning it on and off. I am fine with that, as I have several remotes that program and I don’t plane on “Losing” the remote like some reviewers are worried about. (see: too lazy to look for it). here’s a couple of categories:
Design: 5/5
The bezel is thin, and sexy. The set itself not thick depth-wise, but not too thin either. It weighs about 55 pounds and is easy to move around. The Vizio badging is in the bottom right corner, and is very minimal and classy. I’m so glad they no longer do the lit up Vizio emblems.The screen itself has a matte finish, and hides glare definition, but no all the glare. If you have an open window directly across from it, it will show. But at least it only shows as a glare, not defined images. This should be expected, and the matte screen hels a lot.
Picture 5/5
The picture is outstanding. I’m talking overall picture here, not the clear motion and added bells and whistles, I’ll get to that later. As for the picture, each preset color/contrast setting is done very well. I primarily use the VIVID setting, as it is the brightest, and the colors just pop on the screen. HD content is phenomal. This is what 1080p was designed for. I’m talking true 1080p content. Not HD ota channels, and not netflix over Wifi, (i’ll explain in a minute.) I’m talking blu ray discs, or native 1080p video files direct on USB drives. It looks phenomenal. We watched Noah and Malifecent on the USB drive in 1080 format, and it was ultra realistic, and the colors were amazing. All the settings help each scene or movie type look better. Let’s understand one thing though, you cannot just run the complete factory settings on ANY TV. You have to adjust them for your living room, for your movies, and for your liking. This applies to all televisions. They are NOT iphones. They don’t set themselves up. They have basic general settings, and they look fine, but to get it to look as good as they do in the store or online, you need to make some adjustments. If you’re making a 1000+ dollar investment, you should learn how to use it. Not all the settings or features are for everybody. That brings me to the next topic
Picture add ons 3/5
Don’t get me wrong, I know somebody likes the clear motion stuff, I just don’t like it very much. That being said, I;m basing my score on it’s functionality on this set, not my preference. Clear motion works amazing with native 1080p content, at the proper frame rate. That means Blu ray, USB video files, Ps4 content (except for FPS games) it runs clear and looks good. I have my PS4 wired with an ethernet, and the non native 1090p streaming app videos look good too, but any streaming 1080 videos that rely on bandwidth for their resolution it just looks cheap like a soap opera and all the defects are put on larger display. While I understand this is an overall Wifi issue, it is more prevelant because of the clear motion, and it just isn’t there yet in terms of making the picture look better. If the processor somehow could detect settings and slow itself down, it’d be much better. As for video games, in 1080p at 30fps destiny looks amazing normally, but the clear motion caused so much clipping and dizziness it was unplayable. Do not expect to play high frame rate games at 1080p with clear motion. The jagging and clipping is brought out even more, because the processor thinks you are missing frames and adds frames where they aren’t there. Same thing goes with the black detailer and the noise reduction engine. Anytime the signal coming in is questionable (high framte rate, low bandwidth streaming on wifi) you will notice pixelation and blockiness. It’s not the TV, its the data and the technology. It’s trying to make up for missing information, and it just doesn’t work. I gave this a lower score as a result of the technology itself, still not being there. To be fair I haven’t seen it work properly across all platforms with ANY TV, even the hgih end sets. AS for the local dimming feature, I notice the blacks look very deep and dark, but I don’t have anything to compare them to as I came from a plasma set that had the same deep blacks as this set. The contrast on this set is phenomenal.
Video Games 5/5
Once I tweaked the settings, raised the framerate and changed the contrast settings, this TV actually makes my PS4 games look BETTER. The ms delay is unnoaticable. This is me coming from High end Samsung plasma with…
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Second though, was that upon selecting picture presets, the back of the TV(not the speakers) started to hum depending on the setting. After playing with it, it appears that the Auto Brightness Control setting is causing the hum to get louder or change tone. Only the Vivid and Computer setting would not hum, and the Auto Brightness Control is set to OFF in those settings, but in all of the others, it is set to low, med, or hi, and the hum becomes louder the higher you get. Turning ON the Auto Brightness Control on Vivid or Computer mode will cause it to start humming again, and weirdly, turning it OFF on the other presets causes it to hum the loudest, no rhyme or reason really. I want to get this issue fixed instead of just sticking with Vivid or Computer mode all of the time.
I got in touch with Vizio support, and they were very quick and helpful, I have scheduled an on-site swap, at which point I will update this review.
5/11/15 Update: Their contracted shipper came and swapped out the TV, they hung around a few minutes so I could plug it in and test it, there was no hum on this one at all, so it seems like the original one was just a dud.
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