Great price verses quality, October 20, 2010

I actually bought this TV at Sam’s club where the going price for it was 8. It was a real bargain at that price too. The other TV I was considering was an LED version that is also 42”. I just could not justify paying an extra 0 for the LED version when this is the same thing with only the regular backlighting, which is actually guaranteed to last longer.

I’m not actually using this for a TV, rather, it’s being used for a computer monitor. At first it was a little hard to configure but you have to make sure that your resolution is in one of the VESA formats like 1920 x 1080, 1360 x 768, 1024 x 768. You also need to make sure the picture mode is set to “game” so there is no hesitation between what has been done with the mouse and what happens on the screen. The game mode fixes any hesitation.

I looked on Newegg dot com for large format monitors at 42” and they were all well over 00. There really is no reason to buy one of them when you could just get one of these for so little, and have it do the same thing.

Another positive is that the picture is very sharp, brilliant, with plenty of contrast.

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Good Value for the Price, December 5, 2010

Picked this up at Sam’s Club on Black Friday for 8. Not talking about a door buster either as I strolled in at 2PM when the rush was long gone. Fantastic picture and the 120hz keeps all the action of football and movies very smooth.

So far so good after a few weeks in regards to problems. Very easy to get out of the box and set up. Oddities so far: commercial volumes are louder than programs…slight annoyance but have noticed that on other HD signals / TVs. Actual sound quality is very good.

Voice / sound and image can be slightly off. So you’ll hear speech but notice the speaker’s mouth isn’t quite in sync. Have seen this via non HD cable and on a DVD played on an upconvert DVD player via the HDMI input. Weird…

Remote inputs have a slight delay before the channel changes or something happens.

Small annoyances at worst so far. But again, for 0 bucks, pretty tough to beat!

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Overall a very good tv, January 7, 2011

I purchased this tv in early December of 2010 and have been very pleased with it, with an exception or two. When watching the tv, the volume would periodically get louder. I soon discovered that the tru-volume feature caused this. After turning that feature off, it works like a charm. The picture is very clear and crisp regardless of what I watch on it (sports, sitcoms, etc.)but getting 240hz would have been nice. This tv was definitely better than what i had expected for the price. I will definitely look at Vizio for any future tv’s that I may buy.

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