The E65 is outfitted with a pair of watt speakers, which offer passable volume levels, but they may not get as loud as you expect when you turn the set up. In a climactic fight scene from Spider-Man: Homecoming, the mix of dialogue, sound effects and soundtrack music came through clearly. With no subwoofer, the E65 doesn't produce much bass. On Daft Punk's "Around the World," the pronounced, bass-heavy beat lacked the heavy thumping quality it should have had.
For fuller, richer sound, we'd definitely recommend pairing the E65 with a soundbar to add volume and bass. Vizio's SmartCast operating system is a blend of great features and limited capabilities. As smart TV platforms go, SmartCast has an extremely limited number of locally installed apps, with only 22 available.
However, there are a lot more apps and pieces of content you can access via the TV's built-in Chromecast functionality. The WatchFree app repackages streaming channels from Pluto TV, giving you several channels of movies, news and indie content presented linearly; you'll get what's on when it's on, and you won't be able to fast-forward, rewind or skip ads.
The biggest problem with the app is simply that it pulls all of its content straight from Pluto TV, which is already installed on the TV. The one feature that we wish the E-Series TV had is voice interaction. When you see sets from LG and Samsung, and even TCL's Roku sets, offering voice search and control, the lack of that functionality on the Vizio feels like an omission. As with the use of Chromecast to provide broader app support, you can still get voice control by pairing the TV with a Google Home or an Amazon Echo.
The E65 is compatible with both. Vizio's remote control is comfortable to hold thanks to a curved profile, and it does a decent job of letting you navigate through both smart TV menus and live TV channels with its square directional pad and standard channel controls. However, the design mounts the buttons flush with the body of the remote and has no backlighting to make it easier to use in darkened environments. It's not the most exciting design around, but it gets the job done.
The new M-Series line is a continuation of the flagship, but with some 'lightweight' characteristics, so these TVs stand on the second step of the Vizio. M-Series release offers a combination of excellent image, excellent processing of dynamic scenes, improved features of Smart TV.
Stream from thousands of entertainment apps with Chromecast built-in, all this at an uncompromised value. And one more note: I did not perform a full side-by-side comparison against other brands with the inch E-Series sample CNET purchased, but I did compare it directly to the original inch E-Series to confirm its image quality similarity. I also added some measurements I took of the incher, where appropriate, and a few other details. Dim lighting: Thanks to local dimming, the E-Series was a very solid performer in dark areas, despite its paltry number of dimming zones.
Watching the Nigeria jungle fight from Chapter 2 of Black Panther , for example, the black of its letterbox bars, shadows and other dark areas looked and measured a pleasingly dark shade, trouncing the washed-out look of the TCL 5 series and S Black levels on the E were slightly worse lighter than on the Sony, the Vizio M and especially the TCL 6 series, but all of those sets are also more expensive.
Shadow detail, for example in the folds of the rebels' uniforms and the depths of the underbrush, was full and realistic, especially compared to the lighter TCLs. The Vizio did show some minor blooming in some areas, for example around the logo of my Blu-ray player's screensaver, but it was rare in normal video and definitely a worthwhile tradeoff for superior black levels and contrast.
Makes sense: it costs money to add brightness to an LCD. Tweaking the Vizio's settings by increasing local dimming to Medium bumps it up to , but the TCL is still brighter in the accurate settings I'd recommend. The inch E had similar numbers as the inch, albeit slightly dimmer. Color accuracy: I didn't calibrate my E-Series review samples, but both still measured very well in the best settings. For the inch size that's Calibrated Dark in a dark room and Calibrated in a brighter room.
For the inch size, Calibrated is actually the best default picture mode no matter the brightness of the room. That's because Calibrated Dark was too dark at only 51 nits compared to a healthier in Calibrated although still well short of my target of Gamma in Calibrated was closer to my dark-room target, and color measured better too.
The Vizio E delivered accurate color in program material, too. Natural areas, like the mountains, rivers and plains of Wakanda, looked pleasingly realistic, with more of a sunlit, dynamic look compared to the TCL. The Vizio E also showed a slight advantage in the warm African skin tones of Black Panther's crew, which looked a bit closer to the color reference Sony than the TCL delivered.
All of the sets were quite accurate and color differences would be tough to spot outside of a side-by-side comparison. As usual the Clear Action setting improved motion resolution at the expense of reducing brightness and causing flicker, so I left it turned off.
Unless you're really sensitive to blurring, you should too. Input lag for gaming was minimal, measuring about Uniformity: The screen of the E-Series was admirably free of bands and bright spots in test patterns, a marked improvement over the TCL 5 series.
If the Firmware in the TV is up-to-date, nothing further takes place. The Firmware Update will then go back into the queue until the TV is powered off at which point it will start the Firmware Update process over.
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