Home audio & video forum: please specify (technical) reasons for the Vizio hate...

You said that you got the calibration number from CNET's website - where did you get them on here - I can't find them? Thanks

First I love the topic however, why did cnet not talk about how they are manufactured. If a cold solder joint Sony is made in the same factory as these no name brands or stamp brand ie(Westinghouse/GE/Vizio). Then I think we are dealing with the same TVs.

Whats the process of creating a no name brand TV do I just import them and pay some small design house to make some changes.

I was just wondering what manufactuer you work for? Years of trouble free service? how can you say that, even the best names in tech produce lemons now and then. good example: canon.wonderful name, high price on cameras, E18 issues ! processor issues! And canon DIDN'T stand behind thier e18 issue charging customers to repair, and I belive it would be the same from TV manufacturers, thats why the warranties are LIMITED.

go buy a vizio!!!

GO!

AND THEN ANOTHER!!

AND ANOTHER!!!


THOSE TV'S ARE GARBAGE AND WONT LAST OR IT WONT LOOK THE SAME IN 2 YEARS.


AND WHAT DO YOU KNOW HOW A TV SHOULD LOOK!! EVERY PERSON HAS THERE OWN SET OF EYES AND WHAT S/HE LIKES. IF I LIKE A LITTLE MORE RED ON MY TV, THEN THATS ME,NOT YOU!!!

MOST PEOPLE WHO COME INTO STORES TO CHECK TV'S ACTUALLY SET THE SETTINGS THEMSELVES TO WHAT THEY LIKE.

"to claim horrible picute period is just plain irresponsible reporting. the damn thing was probably plugged into an old single head vcr. do your research before making such huge, blanketing comments"

WHOSE THE MORON NOW!!

DO YOUR RESEARCH PEOPLE AND IF YOU WANT A NICE TV AT A GOOD PRICE GO SMALLER, DONT BUY A CRAPPY TV BECAUSE ITS CHEAPER!!

Go buy a Vizio. They are just as good as any Sony ever will be. beautiful color. When I chose it , I chose the one with the best color and picture. I chose it over Philips , Sony , Samsung , Sharp , etc. It had the best color and picture of all that were playing on display. I have had it for three years and the color and picture is just as good as the day I bought it. No problems what-so ever. And my next one will be a Vizio also.

I love , love , love Vizios.

Because I did check out the cabling and kept going back and forth checking out all the T.V.'s at Costco before I bought a Vizio 42" 1080p. It clearly stood out with great rendition, detail and color for the price and when you are at Costco, and you know items are discounted, you don't stop and think is this product going to last for this discounted price of $1099.00. I bought it anyway. I was very happy with it for the first 94 days until it died, on day 95, black screen, no menus, and no sound.

Costco has changed their return and exchange policy to 90 days as of this year so, have to go through Vizio's warranty repair.

Just over a week later after speaking with the repair person assigned from Vizio, who ordered repair parts without ever seeing the T.V. the warranty repair person came out and repaired my set by replacing the power supply module. The set is still dead. Now he is ordering a new logic board which is estimated to take "another week or so" to ship it to him. Where are they shipping it from and what method that it takes "another week or so" to get a simple logic board to the repair person?

One of the earlier posts pertained to Sony's extremely slow warranty service. I think you can add Vizio to that same list and add a second spot for extreme premature failure. No $1100.00 set should fail in 3 months.

Walmart demo sets are setup by 15yo that couldnt care less of what the pictre look like, and most store plug the TV to 20$ DVD players with the s-vhs cable.... Any tv will look bad in those conditons...

I have a Samsung 40inch LCD and a Sharp 1080p projector (paid 8500$), i think i know what a good picture look like, and all i have to say is that my budy 1000$ 42inch ILO plasma that he get at walmart is every bit as good looking as any 720p out there.

Walmart customer service can't be better, you don't like it, take it back, no questions ask.... it's broken? take it back!

I went in a lot of ''boutique'' vendors selling only top of the line products and most of them will only give you the company phone number and let you sort your problem by your own, ending up with no tv for 3 month and having to call zillion times to have the tv back...

I went out to buy a Vizio 42" plasma, and I WANTED to like it. I'm a big believer in getting the best bang for my bucks. I wanted to be able to gloat that I had paid hundreds less than someone else and got just as good a picture.

But no matter what I did, no matter what signal source I tried, no matter what adjustments I made, I could not get the picture on the Vizio to look acceptable. It wasn't as bad as the Maxent, but still, the colors were dim unless the tv was in full blaze mode, the picture was very soft, like an out of focus tube tv. The blacks were barely gray. There was little detail in dark parts of the screen.

In short, it just didn't have a picture that was acceptable at any price.

So I spent $200 more than the Vizio, (but still $300 less than a Panasonic and $800 less than a the Pioneer) and bought a Phillips that I have been extremely happy with. The picture rivals the Panasonic, but is not as good as the Pioneer. But it's not $800 worse than the Pioneer, so I feel I got the best bang possible for my dollars.

I also am a TV broadcast Chief engineer, and Sony far outweighs the Vizio

I bought a real cheap 32 inch LCD tv from niko off buy.com. And Ive been very impressed, so far going 6 months with no problem. Standard TV looks good, the HD looks INCREDIBLE -- My buddy has a 50 inch Sony Bravia and he said my pic looks just as good as his, only much smaller lol. Still waiting for a good deal on a 42 inch +. Niko only goes up to 37.

I think they may have a misprint. I have not heard of 1360 x 768, and it is not a natural multiple of anything else. I would suggest using the 1280x768, which is a good aspect ratio and they should not have to upsample.

I am quite surprised he told you this. Few drivers will produce this odd resolution and it is not listed in the MS or DirectX list for either required or expected resolution. It is unlikely you would get a driver mod that produces this.
This means that for RGB they are doing any conversion (scaling). Does your laptop produce other outputs like S-video or component? Some do. If not, you can get a converter cable which allows you to emit component from VGA. For example:
http://www.amazon.com/VGA-5-Component-Video-Cable-Brand/dp/B000LCZQ9W/sr=8-1/qid=1169847994/ref=sr_1_1/102-3661558-1182529?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden

There are many others that do this. I am assuming they will accept standard 780p, so this will work, but not the highest resolution possible.

According to the owner's manual from Vizio, when selecting the RGB input, the best (highest)resolution offered is 1360 x 768. When my wide screen HP laptop is connected to the RGB port, I can only get one resolution to work, and that is 1600 x 900, even though I see 1920 x 1080 offered in settings, when I try to select it, it justs goes back to 1600 x 900. The tech I spoke with said that it had to do with the difference between a computer signal and a TV signal, and that there was more of a problem with the 47" set than their 46" set in this regard. He said in order to get it to work properly I would have to get a different laptop, one that could display 1360 x 768 or a resolution that divides out to 1.77

OK, last night I tried again to connect my widescreen HP laptop to my new Vizio GV47L. This time it worked!! No distortion! I swear I did everything the same, except I rebooted the PC and the TV, when I selected RGB input on the TV, the screen stated "1360 x 768 resolution" for about 5 seconds then the picure came up, and it was perfect, NO distortion. The confusing part is that on the PC, the resolution states 1600 x 900, but I don't care as long as the Vizio picture is not distorted. This is great, now I can do slide shows at family get togethers and everyone can see! I think I may have initially "confused" the RGB input on the Vizio with the output from my older standard screen laptop, and when the widescreen laptop was connected it didn't reset. Thanks for the feedback from those that offered comments, CNET folks are great!

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