VIZIO's 2010 LCD lineup is LED from top to bottom
By Richard Lawler 
posted January 8th 2010 12:08AM
posted January 8th 2010 12:08AM
posted January 8th 2010 12:08AM
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The new Sony Bravia will revolutionize the LCD tv industry on a global scale just like iPhone did. Pretty soon u will see all tv manufacturers starting to clone new bravia design n body style. Just a matter of time.
A 42 or 52 inch remote sounds inconvenient.
@7o9
but how else do you expect to fit the QWERTY keyboard?...
Vizio has really come a long way, and they're continuing to push out great sets. I'd like to see one of these in action.
I continue to dislike the marketing of "LED" as if it's the display technology. The panel is LCD; it is an LCD TV. An LED TV would have a panel made up of tricolor LEDs.
@macserv As right as you are, the press release itself says "LED Backlit", not "LED TV".
@Nitesh But Samsung, LG and some of the others continue to falsely call their units "LED TVs"
@macserv
The worst part is hearing people try and talk about them. Most people are still wrapping their heads around "LCD." Just wait until OLEDs and AMOLED's become ubiquitous.
"I want wanna those ammo-leads tele-visions. I hear they got internets and the 3D on 'em.."
They should make the LED smaller and multicolor, and in lines and rows, and individually addressable, and remove the LCD ;)
They are offering a 42" 240Hz LED backlit LCD for only $1200. The street price will probably be around $1000. That's amazing.
@FitFan
I agree.
I'll wait till at least next year though to buy a television. By then probably every set will be locally lit rather than edge lit, and everyone will have figured out the 3D stuff.
@tuaamin13
You're probably right. The pace of progress is impressive. It was just a year ago that the 42" CFC backlit LCDs were in this price range.
@FitFan It's not progress driving the prices down, it's the shitty market conditions.
@glocksout
I don't think shitty market conditions have caused manufacturers to switch from CF to LED. That switch makes their televisions more expensive and less likely to be purchased in a tough economy.
So, is VIZIO actually making quality products, or is it just the same "cheapest biggest" it was, but with better marketing?
@(Unverified) Last year's XVT got pretty decent reviews. Seems like better technology is trickling down into their range all the time.
LED from top to bottom?
Lies! That one pixel halfway up the right side isn't LED. It's photoshopped!
@Eternal Density
ah yes, i see what you mean... I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time...
This marketing BS has to stop - as macserv says these are LCD TVs with LED backlights. The major name for the product ought to describe the picture element technology. As for "TruLED" what are these idiots going to name actual LED display technology like the OLEDs under developmen when they want to market thoset!!!!
truLED is going too far. when will the lies in this deceitful industry stop
so the led that are currently available are false?
And VIZIO is as expensive as the top tier manufacturers now... Oh well...
@Tony C
LOL, if you think $3500 for a 72" 3D-capable 480hz backlit-LED set with local dimming is "as expensive as the top tier manufacturers" then you are certifiably crazy.
@Tony C
No problem, here's an in-stock REFURBED Sony 70" on the Sony website. Feel free to spend $17999 and get 2 fewer inches on the diagonal.
http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10551&storeId=10151&langId=-1&productId=8198552921665090499
@Tony C
You are [almost] right. Ever since Vizio came to life the boutique players have either gotten out, refocused their products to the larger cheaper households, or simply channeled products where you are not seeing them.
Bur the notion of spending >$2K on a display, even a plasma I'd love, is simply insane. If I'm going to spend that much I'd be focusing on the critical viewing environment first. What good is a fantastic display if the room renders it to the worse current display offering?
Why are they not putting out a 60 something inch model? Why the jump from 55 to 72? Makes no sense. Also is their 480hz and 240hz models truely that or is it using some trickery like their current models use?
Still way to little info about these to even start getting excited yet.
@MrMichael
Does it even matter? The difference between "true" 480hz and feigned 480hz (that utilized some kind of backlight scanning) would most likely be undetectable to the human eye.
@MrMichael it actually doesn't matter whether you use the backlight strobe trick to get 240hz/480hz or not because the reason why it's done is to reduce ghosting.
Your source video obviously doesn't have 240 frames of video per second, here it's either 24, 30, or 60fps, all of which divide cleanly into 120Hz. The higher LCD refresh rates are only meant to further reduce ghosting, and whether you do that by completely refreshing the screen at 240Hz or using the backlight trick it'll do the job.
The only real downside is that since you're turning the backlight off half the time the brightness drops, although a properly calibrated set would likely still use less than the brightness a flickering backlight can output. And obviously they can just use brighter backlight units to get around this, or have it fire at a slightly higher intensity when it's on so that the drop in brightness isn't as bad.
But practically speaking they both achieve the goal of lowering ghosting. And I honestly think this 480Hz stuff is total overkill that they basically insisted on doing just so the nonsensical plasma marketing (where they use subfield drive numbers) doesn't win the marketing war lol.
Seems nice to me, I dont see where all this hate is coming from. So maybe the marketing is abit off, who cares as long as the product is good for the pricing.
http://www.jeffsguidetocheaptv.com/general/vizios-2010-lineup/
im not that so sure of vizio tvs thyre pretty cheaply made sometimes but for a high quality entertainment system id rather stay with a japanese brand or korean one but average watching i would