It's here. The Vizio P series QuantumX
2020 1 has finally arrived. This is the
TV that enthusiasts are expecting to leave budget competitors like TCL and
Highense in the dust while even punching up market against premium sets from
brands like Samsung and Sony. It's got fullfeatured HDMI 2.1 ports. Yes, my
friends. 48 Gbit per second, 2800 nit
peak brightness HDR. I'm expecting to be basically blinded if I get too close to
it. And all kinds of great inbuilt features like chcast, for
example. But can the real world experience hold up to all of that?
Can't. Or can it?
I want to start like I always do at the
back. Oh my god. All things considered,
for a full array local dimming set, it's not that thick.
You can also see where they cut corners to make their aggressive $3,000 price
point. Plastic chassis. How many zones is it though? This is the 75 in version.
480 zones. That's not bad. $2,000. The
86 in this version, which is new this year, $3,000, 792 zones. That's crazy.
And that one's brighter. That one actually is 3,000 nits. And oddly
enough, the 65 in is also 3,000 nits. It's only the 75 in that is 2,800. 200
nits short. Darn it, Vizio. I don't know
why. We got powering over here. And then way the smack over on the other side, we
got everything else. Your Ethernet, your antenna, uh, left and right audio. Okay.
HDMI X 4. So only two of them are 4K 120
Hz. That's HDMI 2.1. Still got that
composite input, optical, and one USB port only. Can we just take a moment to
marvel though that a 75 in HDR TV is 2
grand? I mean, it depends on if the HDR is actually I'm expecting it to be good.
480 zones. Can we jump right into that? Hold on a second. Before we do that, I
need to make a little comment here. This this thing this is getting out of
control. I get it. You know, there's money to be made for Vizio that helps to
subsidize the cost of the TV, but I don't need a Netflix, Voodoo, Prime
Video, Redbox, Hulu, Zumo. I mean, what's what's next? Hub button. Are
these reconfigurable at least? Usually, you'd have to get another app, but
there's not even an app store on here. So, I think you're probably So, that
means out of luck. I love the OSD on this thing. It's so highly configurable.
It is for enthusiasts. I really like this cuz it's like if you're ever
wondering like is my shiz working the answer is well as long as your shiz is
stereo PCM then yes picture mode right
calibrate oh so calibrated we shouldn't make too many comments about the color
because this is an early engineering sample and they said that one of the
things that was early about it was how calibrated it would be. Got it. Okay.
Did they recommend bright? Is that why we're using that one? I think that's just the default. Uh yeah, we're not
going to use the ambient light sensor. That's going to be a little unfair. Some of the advanced options are really
sweet. You can actually get down to jutdder reduction, which I want to try
with you in a minute. But you can also just totally calibrate it. Go all the
way down. Color calibration.
Color to Hey, there you go. Thank you. Why doesn't everybody just do this? All
right. Input. What's watch free? Okay, now I
have to know. It's on my remote. It's on It's the second thing in the input menu.
I think it's like a Oh, lame. Nothing
Nothing region locked should be having a
dedicated button on the remote. What do you think of that remote? It's okay. I
like the soft touch feel. The waiting is kind of weird. Like if I ever actually
use the buttons, it's really topheavy. Kind of not. Yeah, it's not that
ergonomic. But realistically, I don't use my TV remote that much. So, how
about the tactility? I'd say the D-pad is very good, but the other buttons are
like I'd say okay. Uh, that's not bad.
So, where you don't have that really really sharp line between your bright
object like the moon and your black object like the night sky, it's not too
shabby. I noticed a lot of jutdder on the rotating Earth. Yeah. Oh, wow. That
is a lot. Uh, we can adjust the jutdder
setting. Okay. So, jutter reduction. Jutter reduction is probably going to
make the picture darker because it's probably black frame insertion. Like
just strobing black in between. It's better. That looks a lot better. So,
this is midway. This is at five. There
is still some jutter, but it's not like sickening like it was. No, it's like
cinematic now. It's not like disgusting and it looks like a mistake. It just
looks more filmic. I'm totally okay with it the way that it is now. I can't say
that I'm blown away by the brightness. Now, that 2800 nit spec is only on a 10%
patch of the screen. It can't even do that on a whole screen flash, as far as
I know. It's more like 800 or something like that. Well, sustained brightness
across the whole thing is 800, which which is fine. Still leaves an OLED in
the dust. So, one of the main issues on the PQX last year was banding. And one
of the famous examples online that someone used was this red background and
the smoke scene of the Last Jedi. This
actually looks really smooth. Now, I'm
getting a little bit of halo effect around his hand here with the light
reflecting off of it, but it's not distracting in any way from the image.
And I really don't see anything that
stands out to me as a problem here. As far as banding, you mean? Yeah.
Whoa. I tend to be a little more forgiving of these halo effects around
text cuz that's not it's not the content. I find it distracting and
annoying, but I try to put it out of my mind because you don't buy a TV to read
the news on it. You know, there's your full array local dimming. Oh, and I can
see it's not just the fact that there's a big halo around this small object. Can
you see that, Linus? Around the ball, there's this little dirty It looks like
a comet. It looks like there's like a an outer orbit, like an outer ice kind of
thing. Wait till the ball gets bigger. Like there's like a blue discoloration,
then there's like a brown discoloration. See that right there? Okay. When it's
moving slowly. Yeah. It's almost less useful when it
moves. This white edge is fine when it's moving slowly. But once this picks up in
speed, you'll see that the leading edge will kind of brownify. See that? It's
like a brown moon. But like, come on.
Were we expecting it to be an OLED? No. It's a fraction of the cost. The colors
look really good. And in fact, this actually will have better colors than an
OLED. It'll have brighter colors and a wider coverage of the gamut. Previously,
the last year's model had 85% coverage of the Rec 2020 color gamut uh due to
the quantum dot enhancement film that's in there. And OLAs do not have that. One
of the big use cases for this TV from my perspective though is gaming since it's
one of the first sets you can get your hands on that will have official support for 4K at 120 Hz to go with those shiny
new graphics cards that are right around the corner. So, but before we switch
over to the PC, I think we should take a moment to appreciate how much snappier
the OSD feels compared to their previous TVs. Like this is actually pretty
responsive. Yeah, it used to be really bad. Then there was a firmware update
that made it better, but I think the new model is even better than that. Oh god,
why? Why not?
Oh, you have to register. Okay, don't judge the banding on this background.
It's just a bad compressed background. Okay, this feels like I'm at 60 Hz right
now, though. I sure am. Okay, so I'm going to have to
probably drop down to 1440p because
unfortunately there aren't any HDMI 2.1 graphics cards yet. So, there are
adapters to go from DisplayPort 1.4 to HDMI 2.1. In fact, James has one right
there because we tried it. Unfortunately, we were not able to get
that working on our pre-production model because the HDMI 2.1 4K120 ports on this
unit right here aren't working right now because of firmware, but they'll work
for you. Just bear in mind if you do use one of these, you're going to need a
supporting graphics card that has display stream compression 1.2. Okay, so
that's RTX or AMD cards 2019 and newer.
Yeah. So, just like we talked about with the Samsung Odyssey
G9 counter terrorists going to win.
So, because this is a VA or vertical alignment LCD panel, what we're looking
for here is smearing particularly of black values. If you're in a dark area,
you move around quickly, uh things like the edges of walls and stuff, things
that are black can smear. or if they're not going to smear, it's because there's
going to be a lot of pixel overdrive. And in that case, you can get overshoot,
which is going to be like a white kind of corona, they call it. Not bad. I can
see it a little bit on these ones. Oh, yeah. There it is. Yeah. I would
describe the input lag as pretty darn good. Like I'm I'm gaming on this for
sure, boys. I obviously this is a terrible experience being this close to
it, but it's a wired keyboard and mouse, so this is interesting. Most of the
image quality evaluation that we've done has been with devices that are plugged
in via HDMI. But of course, there is an Ethernet jack on the TV. And you might
think plugging into a wired connection is going to give you well more reliable
service with something like Netflix. But go ahead and hit play on that, would
you, James? Well, let's try to load it up. So load times are quick. You might
say, "Oh, well that's fantastic." Except that if you look a even marginally
closer at this image, I would be surprised if this is higher than
equivalent to about 480p. It does not look good. And
surprisingly, we had this playing for as long as 3 minutes at a time and it never
snapped into 1080p. Or actually, I'm
subscribed to the 4K tier. That sure ain't 4K. You ever see this movie? Still
terrible. Yeah. How good is it? Oh, I didn't see uh Wait, no, I did see one.
Is it good enough to cover on Carpal Critics, our movie podcast?
Shameless. What I actually want to do is go back on Wi-Fi. We got only 3 megabit
per second on the wired connection and we're still getting 3 megabit per second
on the wireless connection. We were getting 10 times that when we used
NVIDIA Shield wired. So, it's not our internet here. No, we were getting 100
times that. This is only three. Oh god. It's really annoying because even LG's
OLEDs have chipsets that only cap out at
100 megabit per second. These are high-end TVs. They really should upgrade
them. This has been a problem for multiple generations now. Hopefully, that'll improve with the final hardware
and software. Look at this. Otherwise, you're going to have to factor in the
cost of something like a Shield or Roku or Fire Stick. Okay, so what's our
what's our bottom line here? You're saving some money on the display. I
mean, this is an incredible amount of technology packed into a 75 inch display
for $2,000. That's something that we really
can't forget here. But obviously, you are making some compromises. The good
news is that you can make up for some of them after the fact. Like, for example, you pair something like this with an
NVIDIA Shield where you don't have to rely on Vizio's upscaling or Vizio's
network connection and you can use NVIDIA's AI upscaling and their
networking connection. and like all of a sudden you're looking at, wow, that's a
that's a big old TV. Now, I wasn't a huge fan of the way that fastoving white
objects were not handled very well by the full array local dimming backlight,
but unless you want to pony up for an OLED, there's going to be some
compromises there. If this is your picture quality range and your price
range, then it's a good way to futureroof at least for probably 10
years your setup because when you get your new console, it's going to work.
It's going to be ready to go. 4K120. 4K120 PC. And this is one of the first
sets in North America to support all the major HDR standards. HLG, HDR10, HDR10
Plus, and Dolby Vision. So, you can find it down at the link in the video
description where I'm sure James will also embed the latest episode of Carpool
Critics cuz he's shameless like that. And you know what? I'm shameless about
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