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Instead I used their best default dark-room settings for my comparison and tweaked light output when appropriate to level the playing field and provide a better comparison with the other sets that I did calibrate.Īnd one more note: I did not perform a full side-by-side comparison against other brands with the 50-inch E-Series sample CNET purchased, but I did compare it directly to the original 65-inch E-Series to confirm its image quality similarity. Note that I did not perform a full calibration on the TCL 5 series, the Vizio E-Series or the TCL S405.
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The 5 series is technically brighter than the Vizio in accurate picture settings, but still not that bright overall, so between the two I'd still recommend the Vizio for bright rooms, too.Ĭlick the image at the right to see the picture settings used in the review. Spend a couple hundred more for an M-Series or the TCL 6 series and you'll see improvements, particularly with HDR, but at this price the E-Series stands above the rest.Ĭompared to the similarly priced TCL 5 series, which lacks local dimming, the Vizio delivered superior black levels and a more impressive image overall with both standard and HDR sources. In my side-by-side comparisons, the E-Series exhibited the best overall image quality at its price level. Like LG, TCL and Sony, Vizio supports both major types of HDR, HDR10 and Dolby Vision, in the E-Series.Ĭlick on the image above for picture settings and HDR notes. The E-Series lacks a setting to engage MEMC (motion estimation, motion compensation), aka the Soap Opera Effect, as found on the TCL 5 series and Vizio's own P series. So is Vizio's "Clear Action" spec, which it says is lower on the E-Series than the M series because "Thanks to the M-Series' greater panel brightness, the duty cycle can be lower, which offers greater motion clarity." Since you'll have to engage the dim, flicker-prone Clear Action setting to notice, however, that's not a big deal (see below for more). The E-Series has a 60Hz refresh rate panel - Vizio's claim of "120Hz effective" is fake news.
Just a few zones are better than none, however. The M-Series ranges from 32 to 48 zones depending on size, which helps explain its superior image quality.
The E-Series has 10 dimming zones on the 43-, 50- and 55-inch sizes, 12 on the 65- and 70-inch sizes, and 16 on the 75-incher. You can't remove or reorder apps, or in any way customize the Discover section, which occupies most of the screen with movies and shows you probably don't care about.
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Just 20 apps appear along the bottom, and while a few are heavy hitters (Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Vudu, YouTube, YouTube TV and Plex) the rest are minor, and it doesn't have plenty of other big apps like DirecTV Now, HBO, ESPN, CNN or Pandora.
The onscreen home page takes too long to load after you press the "V" button on the remote and once it does arrive, there's not much there.
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That's hardly a deal-breaker since you can always connect an external streamer like the Roku Streaming Stick Plus or, if you want Dolby Vision, an Apple TV 4K, but it's still a strike in the negative column compared to competitors like Roku TVs, Samsung and LG - all of which have better smart TV implementations than Vizio. Sarah Tew/CNET The second strike against it: Weak streamingĬord cutters on a budget are one potential E-Series audience, and they'll likely boo its lackluster built-in streaming options.
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