VIZIO E3D470VX Great tv for the price.
dollar for dollar this tv is hands down the best. hundreds less than base model 3d's from other brands with less features. the internet apps are pretty awesome and really easy to use. hd picture is a little less than "name brand" tvs, but hardly noticeable unless you put them literally side by side. the 3d is surprisingly nice. looks good from practically any angle, except if you're higher than the screen looking down.
It has a butt load of inputs, built in wifi is super easy to setup, and the remote with a full qwerty keyboard is super easy to use. I use a Logitech Harmony universal remote because i have 3 other things to control, but when I'm just using the tv, like with the internet apps like hulu, its fast and easy.
overall I give it a 9/10. but i like it more and more every day.
Friday, June 29, 2012
Sunday, June 24, 2012
VIZIO E3D470VX Terrific Picture.
VIZIO E3D470VX Terrific Picture.
Great picture...I cannot say anything but superlatives about it...the 3D was new to me--it is pretty neat, a bit of a novelty...I think our grandkids will enjoy it for some things.
Some say Vizio has bad audio, but it was pretty good before I hooked up our receiver to it with surround sound.
Price was low for what we got--about $800 from Amazon
Great picture...I cannot say anything but superlatives about it...the 3D was new to me--it is pretty neat, a bit of a novelty...I think our grandkids will enjoy it for some things.
Some say Vizio has bad audio, but it was pretty good before I hooked up our receiver to it with surround sound.
Price was low for what we got--about $800 from Amazon
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
VIZIO E3D470VX Love It!!
VIZIO E3D470VX Love It!!
I think this TV is fantastic! I didn't buy it for the 3D but that is just a added bonus! Easy to operate with wifi apps. Nice picture/ sound is so/so. I will probably get some type of surround sound system anyway.Price was about the same at Wal Mart. But with no tax and free delivery ($3.99 actually) It was a much better deal!! Overnight shipment- fedex brought into my entryway for me! Great service! My son can't wait to play call of duty in 3d!! I Love it! Cant wait to watch lots of great movies on it!
I think this TV is fantastic! I didn't buy it for the 3D but that is just a added bonus! Easy to operate with wifi apps. Nice picture/ sound is so/so. I will probably get some type of surround sound system anyway.Price was about the same at Wal Mart. But with no tax and free delivery ($3.99 actually) It was a much better deal!! Overnight shipment- fedex brought into my entryway for me! Great service! My son can't wait to play call of duty in 3d!! I Love it! Cant wait to watch lots of great movies on it!
Friday, June 15, 2012
VIZIO E3D470VX BEST BUY, Fantastic.
VIZIO E3D470VX BEST BUY, Fantastic.
I would just like to start by saying I LOVE THIS TV, I went from a 32" Vizio to the 47"3D Vizio. It took a bit to get it from wherever it came from in amazon land....but when it got here today I couldn't be happier. I set it up fairly easily by myself, hooked it up to my wifi network very easily, found the 3D functions easily, and found the channels available in my area,(5 channels), how cool is 3D I love this stuff!!!! checked out espn 3D and wow the football game was awsome; watched some x-games and felt like the water drops from the motorcycles got me wet; (felt like anyway), found a Pandora app and love the music it plays from the tv. Can there be a better tv for this price? I HIGHLY DOUBT IT (unless it came from a Black Friday sale)...awsome buy from amazon.com. I highly recomend buying this tv, and one more thing BIGGER is definitly BETTER...LOL
I would just like to start by saying I LOVE THIS TV, I went from a 32" Vizio to the 47"3D Vizio. It took a bit to get it from wherever it came from in amazon land....but when it got here today I couldn't be happier. I set it up fairly easily by myself, hooked it up to my wifi network very easily, found the 3D functions easily, and found the channels available in my area,(5 channels), how cool is 3D I love this stuff!!!! checked out espn 3D and wow the football game was awsome; watched some x-games and felt like the water drops from the motorcycles got me wet; (felt like anyway), found a Pandora app and love the music it plays from the tv. Can there be a better tv for this price? I HIGHLY DOUBT IT (unless it came from a Black Friday sale)...awsome buy from amazon.com. I highly recomend buying this tv, and one more thing BIGGER is definitly BETTER...LOL
Monday, June 11, 2012
VIZIO E3D470VX BEST PRICE, Great value!
VIZIO E3D470VX BEST PRICE, Great value!
I decided to buy the Vizio E3D470VX passive 3D rather than buy active glasses and adapter for my Mitsu 73". I'm extremely happy with the decision so far. For the cost of 8 glasses and the adapter I've replace my 12 year old 32" tube with a TV that is outstanding so far. I've watched some broadcast 3D and streaming and have been very impressed with both. The standard 2D picture is outstanding as well. The sound isn't good but expected from a TV. A sound bar and wireless sub should help with that. I also considered an LG model but I don't have much interest in 2D to 3D conversion and couldn't justify the additional $200 price.
The whole family is loving it and the wife is even happy we bought it!
I decided to buy the Vizio E3D470VX passive 3D rather than buy active glasses and adapter for my Mitsu 73". I'm extremely happy with the decision so far. For the cost of 8 glasses and the adapter I've replace my 12 year old 32" tube with a TV that is outstanding so far. I've watched some broadcast 3D and streaming and have been very impressed with both. The standard 2D picture is outstanding as well. The sound isn't good but expected from a TV. A sound bar and wireless sub should help with that. I also considered an LG model but I don't have much interest in 2D to 3D conversion and couldn't justify the additional $200 price.
The whole family is loving it and the wife is even happy we bought it!
Friday, June 8, 2012
VIZIO E3D470VX WOW! AMAZING!
VIZIO E3D470VX WOW! AMAZING!
Can't begin to say how amazing this TV is! The 3d is breathtaking, the web apps are very simple, the picture is amazing! The price was almost unbelievable, the shipping was extremely fast. The only thing that was not perfect with this tv was the sound it was below average, but it was all solved with a vizio soundbar. Overall very pleased!!
Can't begin to say how amazing this TV is! The 3d is breathtaking, the web apps are very simple, the picture is amazing! The price was almost unbelievable, the shipping was extremely fast. The only thing that was not perfect with this tv was the sound it was below average, but it was all solved with a vizio soundbar. Overall very pleased!!
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
VIZIO E3D470VX Great, bargain 3D TV - Great for the price, Really Good in comparison to what's out there.
VIZIO E3D470VX Great, bargain 3D TV - Great for the price, Really Good in comparison to what's out there.
I bought this TV back in April, so I've had it a little over six months now. It was an upgrade from a 32" HD (non-3D). I chose it because it had a great picture in the store, uses passive glasses, and it was a steal. I have not once regretted my purchase, although there are some flaws. So let's skip the pros for now and get right to the cons:
1) The remote is pretty bad. Lots of little buttons all scrunched up together with no intuitive layout and you have to press them pretty firmly to get a response. I do like that there's a full qwerty keyboard on the flip side of the remote. I don't use it that often, but it's convenient when I need it. A non-essential but very cool gizmo feature. If I were rating the remote by itself, I'd give it 1 star, 2 tops. But I only need that remote occasionally (to access Netflix, for instance.) Otherwise, I just volley between the Comcast universal remote and the PS3 remote. This isn't a dealbreaker, by any means.
2) SD picture is not great for sports (but fine for just about everything else). I get a ton of sports channels that aren't offered in HD yet (at least not on Comcast in my area), and the SD picture on sports with fast action leaves quite a bit to be desired - significant motion blur, indistinct images, poor resolution. Some of it may be the signal coming through these channels in the first place - but not all of it. I've gotten good pictures on these channels from other TVs. To me, this is kind of a biggie because that's what separates the good HDTVs from the great ones - how well they can play NON-HD stations. It would've cost the rating more than one star except that this makes up such a small percentage of my watching - and the rest of my experience has been excellent - that it was only worth knocking off one star for me. For some, though, it might be worth more.
That's really all the bad I can say. Yeah, the sound's not fantastic, but I knew going into it that I'd be buying a sound bar eventually. I still haven't bought that sound bar yet, and the TV's sound is still acceptable. Not great, but you can't expect to shake the house with a TV's built-in speakers. It just doesn't happen. I'm ok with it.
Other than those few things, though, I truly enjoy this purchase.
1) It plays 3D extremely well, both through Bluray on my PS3 as well as through the 3D channels Comcast offers. (Football in 3D still leaves a heckuva lot to be desired, by the way. Woof.) The picture is crystal clear,and the 3D images are just that. 3D. Never had a problem with it - aside from when I picked the wrong setting to watch 3D, and that was user error. You're best off, by the way, letting the TV tell you when it gets a 3D signal, rather than trying to select the 3D signal from the TV's settings before the signal actually comes through. You're liable to get it wrong, but the TV picks the right setting every time. Just let it do its thing.
2) I really like the fact that it uses passive 3D glasses. I have a ton of them lying around, and they all work fine. I've had 8 people watching in 3D at once before, and active shutter glasses would've cost me $500 minimum to allow that (and probably more). I do see a bit of a difference between active and passive (to my eyes, active seems to jump out at you a little more while passive seems to have more depth to it), but personally I like the way the passive looks better. I wasn't super keen on the active sets I looked at and thought they would probably give me a headache after watching them a while. I've never had any issues with watching through these passive glasses.
3) WiFi enabled out of the box. Set up was easy, signal is strong, nary a problem here. One of the instances where the qwerty keyboard was nice, typing in my wpa key.
4) I've played around with a couple of the pre-installed internet applications (and there are lots more you can download), but I've really only dug into Netflix. No problems here either. The only times a show's ever stopped to buffer have been when either Netflix or my Internet connection was having problems (as verified by the fact that the issues followed me to other Netflix-connected devices in the house.) Streaming's been great - no concerns.
5) It seems nearly infinitely adjustable. A ton of settings to tweak to your heart's desire. You may need to play around a little to get the picture just the way YOU want it (because many of the customizations are really for personal preference), but it looked great right out of the box, and my tweaking made minor changes at best. Nevertheless, it's nice to be ABLE to tweak. In fact, the only tweak I really NEEDED to make was turning off the Smooth Motion motion compensation. It created a noticeable "soap opera effect", which was distracting when watching regular shows, and I really only need it, want it, and turn it back on when watching sports.
6) Great price. I got it on special at the time for a little less than $800. Looks like it's about $800 now, so there you go. Still a great price now.
So there you have it. Really great set for the price. Not perfect but perfectly enjoyable. Are there better 3DHDTVs out there? Yeah probably. But would you pay a ton more money for them? Definitely.
I bought this TV back in April, so I've had it a little over six months now. It was an upgrade from a 32" HD (non-3D). I chose it because it had a great picture in the store, uses passive glasses, and it was a steal. I have not once regretted my purchase, although there are some flaws. So let's skip the pros for now and get right to the cons:
1) The remote is pretty bad. Lots of little buttons all scrunched up together with no intuitive layout and you have to press them pretty firmly to get a response. I do like that there's a full qwerty keyboard on the flip side of the remote. I don't use it that often, but it's convenient when I need it. A non-essential but very cool gizmo feature. If I were rating the remote by itself, I'd give it 1 star, 2 tops. But I only need that remote occasionally (to access Netflix, for instance.) Otherwise, I just volley between the Comcast universal remote and the PS3 remote. This isn't a dealbreaker, by any means.
2) SD picture is not great for sports (but fine for just about everything else). I get a ton of sports channels that aren't offered in HD yet (at least not on Comcast in my area), and the SD picture on sports with fast action leaves quite a bit to be desired - significant motion blur, indistinct images, poor resolution. Some of it may be the signal coming through these channels in the first place - but not all of it. I've gotten good pictures on these channels from other TVs. To me, this is kind of a biggie because that's what separates the good HDTVs from the great ones - how well they can play NON-HD stations. It would've cost the rating more than one star except that this makes up such a small percentage of my watching - and the rest of my experience has been excellent - that it was only worth knocking off one star for me. For some, though, it might be worth more.
That's really all the bad I can say. Yeah, the sound's not fantastic, but I knew going into it that I'd be buying a sound bar eventually. I still haven't bought that sound bar yet, and the TV's sound is still acceptable. Not great, but you can't expect to shake the house with a TV's built-in speakers. It just doesn't happen. I'm ok with it.
Other than those few things, though, I truly enjoy this purchase.
1) It plays 3D extremely well, both through Bluray on my PS3 as well as through the 3D channels Comcast offers. (Football in 3D still leaves a heckuva lot to be desired, by the way. Woof.) The picture is crystal clear,and the 3D images are just that. 3D. Never had a problem with it - aside from when I picked the wrong setting to watch 3D, and that was user error. You're best off, by the way, letting the TV tell you when it gets a 3D signal, rather than trying to select the 3D signal from the TV's settings before the signal actually comes through. You're liable to get it wrong, but the TV picks the right setting every time. Just let it do its thing.
2) I really like the fact that it uses passive 3D glasses. I have a ton of them lying around, and they all work fine. I've had 8 people watching in 3D at once before, and active shutter glasses would've cost me $500 minimum to allow that (and probably more). I do see a bit of a difference between active and passive (to my eyes, active seems to jump out at you a little more while passive seems to have more depth to it), but personally I like the way the passive looks better. I wasn't super keen on the active sets I looked at and thought they would probably give me a headache after watching them a while. I've never had any issues with watching through these passive glasses.
3) WiFi enabled out of the box. Set up was easy, signal is strong, nary a problem here. One of the instances where the qwerty keyboard was nice, typing in my wpa key.
4) I've played around with a couple of the pre-installed internet applications (and there are lots more you can download), but I've really only dug into Netflix. No problems here either. The only times a show's ever stopped to buffer have been when either Netflix or my Internet connection was having problems (as verified by the fact that the issues followed me to other Netflix-connected devices in the house.) Streaming's been great - no concerns.
5) It seems nearly infinitely adjustable. A ton of settings to tweak to your heart's desire. You may need to play around a little to get the picture just the way YOU want it (because many of the customizations are really for personal preference), but it looked great right out of the box, and my tweaking made minor changes at best. Nevertheless, it's nice to be ABLE to tweak. In fact, the only tweak I really NEEDED to make was turning off the Smooth Motion motion compensation. It created a noticeable "soap opera effect", which was distracting when watching regular shows, and I really only need it, want it, and turn it back on when watching sports.
6) Great price. I got it on special at the time for a little less than $800. Looks like it's about $800 now, so there you go. Still a great price now.
So there you have it. Really great set for the price. Not perfect but perfectly enjoyable. Are there better 3DHDTVs out there? Yeah probably. But would you pay a ton more money for them? Definitely.
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