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101 of 106 found the following review helpful:
 Most excellent picture, sound, remote, setup & interface... Jan 13, 2009
By Matthew J. Molina Jr.
This is an excellent product in every way !!! Including a guarantee of "No Defective Bright Pixels" !!! -- The picture is outstanding from ANY angle ,,, truly no fade-out at the sides !!! I'm impressed.
The Wizard setup is a piece-of-cake ,,, Just click OK. The Menus are navigable and comprehensible i.e. If confused choose "standard".
The high quality REMOTE, which is stable when standing upright, feels comfortable in my hand, has a nice weight, a soft felt back and easy to reach and comprehend buttons. Remote response time is immediate [after initial channel download]. The angle of Remote Control to TV reception is near 90 degrees; if you can see the screen ,,, so can the remote :-)
The SOUND quality is MOST excellent. Not tinny or muffled !!! I have it set at 30, out of 100, and I can easily hear and understand as I walk throughout my home. A marked difference from other TV's I've owned where the audio becomes garbled, muffled and I can't understand at any volume.
The CONNECTORS are of ALL TYPES and are mounted on both the back and the side. They are clearly labeled for their function ,,, and correspond to the Remote Control buttons.
I just took delivery of my Vizio today. Before purchase I read criticisms on another website ,,, those criticisms ARE BOGUS in my view. This product is MOST EXCELLENT !!! In every way !!! Maybe all of the criticisms have been addressed by VISIO ??? This Model has been out since at least 2006, sale price at that time $1,000.00.
The setup took me 5 minutes out-of-the-box !!! --
Oh yeah ,,, there's another nice feature, a built-in remote mounted on the side for those who can't keep track of that "mobile" remote control :-)
32 of 32 found the following review helpful:
I love this TV Jun 06, 2009
By E. Paulson
I decided that it was finally time to do something about the 15-year old 19" CRT I've been using in the bedroom, and I spent weeks looking at every 32" LCD TV sold in the area (many trips to Best Buy, Sears, Target, Walmart, anywhere that carried TVs). I thought I had convinced myself that the Sony XBR6 or XBR9 was the right choice. However, last week Target had these on sale for $519, and I had another 10% off anything, so the final price was about $470 - 400 less than the Sony. The display Vizio looked decent, and I decided to take a chance. I could not be happier that I did.
The picture looks great. I thought that the refresh rate would be too slow and I'd be annoyed at motion artifacts, but on my test sequences I haven't noticed a thing. In fact, I've moved the Blu Ray player to be attached to this TV instead of my Philips CRT HDTV because the picture is considerably better - the text on the PS3 is finally actually readable.
I have no idea what the heck the "Java" in the name means, but it's not any sort of annoying software running on the TV getting in the way of just watching TV.
If I had one complaint, it's that analog cable looks terrible on this TV. Maybe I just didn't figure out the right settings for it and it would work fine, but in the end it didn't really matter - I needed a second HD set top box from my cable company for $5 a month to get the HD lineup anyway, and through box the SD channels look pretty good. As a bonus, this TV switches between HD and SD very fast, unlike my other HDTV.
Finally, I think this is about as close to an "American" TV as you can actually buy, though it's OEMed in Taiwan. For this price, I don't think you can go wrong. Maybe I would have liked the Sony a bit better, but I'm happier that I saved the $400 and have a TV I really like.
16 of 16 found the following review helpful:
 Pick another brand Jul 07, 2010
By RJ
I have this tv. I bought it Feb 2009 and the tv is now dead July 2010. I am a single person. Turned the tv on and off like anyone else. Didn't use it for games. Just regular normal use. For the price and lenght of life......don't bother. This tv comes with 1 yr warranty. I know we have become a throw away society, but come on. Really? 17 months is all ya get for $400? Do more research. Check Consumer Reports. Read more reviews on Amazon. Don't waste your hard earned money on this tv. By the way, Vizio was uninterested in my disappointment of this product.
15 of 15 found the following review helpful:
Vizio Ranked Above a Sony Bravia by Consumer Reports, I agree Sep 09, 2009
By DC Maxx
"Wood"
Got this TV to replace my old 35" Sony 2 Tuner (analog) PIP set that was 11 years old that died last weekend with a 'pop'. High Voltage transformer blw & TV shop said it wasn't worth repairing since I had analog tuners in it. Plus it was a beast sized TV, all 200 lbs of it. I had researched TV's online and pretty much convinced myself that getting a SONY 32XBR9 or getting a Sony Bravia L series 32" would be my best move. Until I wondered into a [...] store in the mall. I had seen the display at Best Buy but those TV's are all mounted on the wall. However the [...] display had them all lined up so you could touch them & operate the Volume controls at viewing level.
One thing I found out was, the Vizio picture was equal to ANYONE's picture. Despite what Sony had in the past, this TV is equally as capable with a High Definition signal or a Standard Definition signal (like from DBS satellite)I must admit I am normally biased to Sony, but Sony doesn't have a thing on this TV except Sony does make a better remote. Thats the only complaint I have about the TV ... the remote is bland, not lit and very lightweight. But since I do have SD Directv Satellite. I have already purchased a lighted remote for the Satellite & my Satellite Remote will work this Vizio, so I am good to go.
The Vizio ran me 499 but it is ONSale for [...] members right now until 9/30/09 in the store <50> off. The projected cost for the Sony Bravia of the same specs is 649. and the cost of a Sony XBR9 32" was to be 999 at Best Buy. I bought the Vizio after checking the ON screen menu which is in a very readable orange color; the volume levels of the TV were checked too (the Vizio is louder then the Sharp 32" or a Panasonic 32" , volume seems the same as the Sony models) I must say that the thing that impressed me somewhat and made me take a second look at the Vizio is that Consumer Reports October 2009 issue had a LAB TEST where they rated the Vizio 32" the best . Seeing is believing!! I must agree the rear hookups connection capabilities, Vizio even has a jack for headphones, the Sony models do not. But the Sony models all have significantly higher prices... Sony.. you cant rest on your past laurels; you got to show me where its worth the extra money... times are tight.
Regarding Motionflow technology... That's something you can't see unless you have a TV screen that is 40" or above.. so it wasn't a factor for a 32" TV. Vizio doesn't mention whether it is 60Hz or what speed it is. But I couldn't notice any blurring in its picture even when viewing a tennis match.
Got to agree with Consumer Reports, this is the best Value for the money.
27 of 30 found the following review helpful:
Excellent HDTV at a price that's easy on the budget Apr 14, 2009
By terpfan1980
"Barry"
Vizio has advertised for a while now (ESPN Radio and other places) that they make top quality HDTV equipment at affordable prices and they are not kidding or just boasting in making those claims.
When I originally jumped into the HDTV world I did so on a budget. Having committed a considerable portion of my entertainment budget to get an Xbox 360 back when those boxes were being introduced to the market, I didn't have a lot of money to spend buying a large HDTV to play my games on. Given the budget constraints and also some space constraints, I settled on a 26" CRT, yes, that's right, I said CRT, widescreen HDTV that I got from a big box store that some folks would say fairly well resembles the Buy More stores shown on the excellent TV series Chuck each week ;-) I knew it wasn't the best TV and knew that I'd want to replace it later, but it was HD, it was widescreen, and it easily blew away the picture quality of the old 27" 4:3 standard TV that it replaced.
A couple of years and tax refunds later it was time to revisit the HDTV I played my games on, and I started shopping around to see what I might be able to attain at the price that I wanted to aim for. I found a couple of Vizio models in my price range, including a few that might, just might, be in stock at one of the big retail stores in my area. Unfortunately there was no guarantee that the models that I saw online were going to be in stock in the brick and mortar stores, so I continued researching things on the web until I found the Vizio VO32LF HDTV at Amazon partner TigerDirect.com. Yes, I know that's not exactly the same model as the one listed where I'm entering this review (the VOJ320F1A), but it is, for all intents and purposes, the same model TV with a different colored bezel (face) around the front of the TV's screen. As it turns out Vizio has a couple of 32" models and a couple of 37" model TVs that are basically the same TV but each with a slightly different model number that denotes a different bezel or other relatively cosmetic difference between them.
The VO32LF TV that I purchased was one that TigerDirect offered as a refurbished unit. The price was outstanding, though the refurbished label did raise my concern a little. Why exactly was the unit refurbished and/or recertified? There could be several reasons, and a buyer is never going to know for certain what the real story is. What the buyer does know is that the manufacturer has made the unit available via a retailer with the refurbished/recertified notation and the manufacturer is still guaranteeing the unit for a reasonable period of time upon purchase.
Given the price and feature set, I thought over the potential purchase, researched other comparable models only to find that there were few, if any, that even came close to being as fully featured in the same price ranges, and decided that one of these TVs was going to be mine. Order placed, and sure enough, approx. 5 days later the TV was in my hands.
Knowing the unit that I got was a refurbished/recertified unit, I was somewhat eager to open the box and see if I could determine why the unit might have been sold that way. Quite honestly, unless the problem was a very minor scuff like mark on the bezel that may very well just be a shadow/reflection from the lamp light in my 'den' area, I couldn't tell you what the issue was. The only thing I did find out of the ordinary was that the unit didn't come with a power cord. It was supposed to have, but I didn't find one in the box. No problem though as the TV uses a standard computer or computer monitor power cord and I tend to have spares of those on hand.
Once set up, I was and remain quite pleased with my purchase. The picture quality is excellent and the sound (volume range) is quite sufficient for my video gaming, movie and TV watching needs. Having 3 HDMI ports available means not having to juggle connections or settle for a component connection when I'd rather use HDMI. There's also the full 1080p resolution, which even on the 32" screen size (which is not really supposed to be noticable at that size) offers the best resolution possible for video gaming or Blu-ray disc play back.
Having bought one of these great TVs, I look forward to buying at least one more in a much larger size in the future. Eventually my living room will sport something in the 42"+ size, and I expect Vizio's offerings will be highly considered.
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