drburke
Legendary Member
- Joined
- Nov 15, 2006
- Messages
- 1,275
- Status
- OWNER - I own a Hatteras Yacht
- Hatteras Model
- 52' CONVERTIBLE (1983 - 1990)
I bought a new Vizio P Series 4K 50" UHD TV for the boat, primarily because of the brightness and reasonable price. I compared the picture quality with my Samsung 60", a neighbors Sony 42", and my other older Samsung.
In the past I bought mostly Samsung TVs because they always rate high on Consumer Reports, along with Sony and Sharp. The Vizio is an experiment, bought based on price $779 for 4K, and brightness (highest tested at this site: http://www.rtings.com/reviews/tv/lcd-led/vizio/p-series
On website reported that 4K TVs are now 20% of new units sold, even though media is not yet available! It offered a justification that new-generation zone LEDs are much brighter, and the interpolation features will boost the definition of standard 1080.
The picture seems to be pretty good, but my bigger Samsung is maybe 5% subtly more refined in shading and overall quality--but cost much more when I got it. The brightness is great, and can be adjusted to ridiculous levels, but the online guide is missing. Samsung has a decent guide, but Sony is far better. The Smart TV access to Netflix, Amazon Prime, Roku, etc. may be slow according to the web, but I don't really watch much that way.
Below is an image from a full sun day here, with a sunbeam directly across the TV face! I had to pull the port curtain just so the camera would take the image, but the cockpit door and other windows are open--very bright and no problem with the wash of sunlight. The review measured actual 400 cd/m2 from the test unit.
If you need to fight sunlight, watch mostly from DVDs or a laptop, along with a few local channels, and can live without an online guide, I can recommend this TV. (The mount is a 110 lb one from Monoprice and "floats" the unit nicely, but will be latched while under way.)
DAN
In the past I bought mostly Samsung TVs because they always rate high on Consumer Reports, along with Sony and Sharp. The Vizio is an experiment, bought based on price $779 for 4K, and brightness (highest tested at this site: http://www.rtings.com/reviews/tv/lcd-led/vizio/p-series
On website reported that 4K TVs are now 20% of new units sold, even though media is not yet available! It offered a justification that new-generation zone LEDs are much brighter, and the interpolation features will boost the definition of standard 1080.
The picture seems to be pretty good, but my bigger Samsung is maybe 5% subtly more refined in shading and overall quality--but cost much more when I got it. The brightness is great, and can be adjusted to ridiculous levels, but the online guide is missing. Samsung has a decent guide, but Sony is far better. The Smart TV access to Netflix, Amazon Prime, Roku, etc. may be slow according to the web, but I don't really watch much that way.
Below is an image from a full sun day here, with a sunbeam directly across the TV face! I had to pull the port curtain just so the camera would take the image, but the cockpit door and other windows are open--very bright and no problem with the wash of sunlight. The review measured actual 400 cd/m2 from the test unit.
If you need to fight sunlight, watch mostly from DVDs or a laptop, along with a few local channels, and can live without an online guide, I can recommend this TV. (The mount is a 110 lb one from Monoprice and "floats" the unit nicely, but will be latched while under way.)
DAN
