WEBVTT 00:00:00.880 --> 00:00:10.160 It's here. The Vizio P series QuantumX 00:00:05.000 --> 00:00:12.639 2020 1 has finally arrived. This is the 00:00:10.160 --> 00:00:17.840 TV that enthusiasts are expecting to leave budget competitors like TCL and 00:00:15.360 --> 00:00:22.960 Highense in the dust while even punching up market against premium sets from 00:00:20.320 --> 00:00:30.400 brands like Samsung and Sony. It's got fullfeatured HDMI 2.1 ports. Yes, my 00:00:26.000 --> 00:00:32.960 friends. 48 Gbit per second, 2800 nit 00:00:30.400 --> 00:00:36.880 peak brightness HDR. I'm expecting to be basically blinded if I get too close to 00:00:34.880 --> 00:00:42.160 it. And all kinds of great inbuilt features like chcast, for 00:00:39.960 --> 00:00:49.239 example. But can the real world experience hold up to all of that? 00:00:44.760 --> 00:00:49.239 Can't. Or can it? 00:00:56.160 --> 00:01:02.559 I want to start like I always do at the 00:00:59.520 --> 00:01:05.199 back. Oh my god. All things considered, 00:01:02.559 --> 00:01:09.439 for a full array local dimming set, it's not that thick. 00:01:07.920 --> 00:01:14.640 You can also see where they cut corners to make their aggressive $3,000 price 00:01:11.840 --> 00:01:20.240 point. Plastic chassis. How many zones is it though? This is the 75 in version. 00:01:17.040 --> 00:01:22.000 480 zones. That's not bad. $2,000. The 00:01:20.240 --> 00:01:28.000 86 in this version, which is new this year, $3,000, 792 zones. That's crazy. 00:01:26.479 --> 00:01:32.720 And that one's brighter. That one actually is 3,000 nits. And oddly 00:01:29.759 --> 00:01:38.960 enough, the 65 in is also 3,000 nits. It's only the 75 in that is 2,800. 200 00:01:35.520 --> 00:01:41.520 nits short. Darn it, Vizio. I don't know 00:01:38.960 --> 00:01:45.680 why. We got powering over here. And then way the smack over on the other side, we 00:01:43.600 --> 00:01:54.000 got everything else. Your Ethernet, your antenna, uh, left and right audio. Okay. 00:01:49.320 --> 00:01:57.040 HDMI X 4. So only two of them are 4K 120 00:01:54.000 --> 00:01:59.840 Hz. That's HDMI 2.1. Still got that 00:01:57.040 --> 00:02:05.759 composite input, optical, and one USB port only. Can we just take a moment to 00:02:01.520 --> 00:02:07.920 marvel though that a 75 in HDR TV is 2 00:02:05.759 --> 00:02:11.599 grand? I mean, it depends on if the HDR is actually I'm expecting it to be good. 00:02:09.679 --> 00:02:16.000 480 zones. Can we jump right into that? Hold on a second. Before we do that, I 00:02:13.520 --> 00:02:19.520 need to make a little comment here. This this thing this is getting out of 00:02:17.680 --> 00:02:24.800 control. I get it. You know, there's money to be made for Vizio that helps to 00:02:22.239 --> 00:02:29.040 subsidize the cost of the TV, but I don't need a Netflix, Voodoo, Prime 00:02:26.800 --> 00:02:33.200 Video, Redbox, Hulu, Zumo. I mean, what's what's next? Hub button. Are 00:02:31.520 --> 00:02:36.800 these reconfigurable at least? Usually, you'd have to get another app, but 00:02:34.800 --> 00:02:41.040 there's not even an app store on here. So, I think you're probably So, that 00:02:38.640 --> 00:02:45.360 means out of luck. I love the OSD on this thing. It's so highly configurable. 00:02:42.879 --> 00:02:49.360 It is for enthusiasts. I really like this cuz it's like if you're ever 00:02:46.720 --> 00:02:55.280 wondering like is my shiz working the answer is well as long as your shiz is 00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:57.680 stereo PCM then yes picture mode right 00:02:55.280 --> 00:03:02.640 calibrate oh so calibrated we shouldn't make too many comments about the color 00:03:00.160 --> 00:03:06.239 because this is an early engineering sample and they said that one of the 00:03:04.080 --> 00:03:10.239 things that was early about it was how calibrated it would be. Got it. Okay. 00:03:08.800 --> 00:03:14.159 Did they recommend bright? Is that why we're using that one? I think that's just the default. Uh yeah, we're not 00:03:12.959 --> 00:03:18.879 going to use the ambient light sensor. That's going to be a little unfair. Some of the advanced options are really 00:03:17.280 --> 00:03:22.000 sweet. You can actually get down to jutdder reduction, which I want to try 00:03:20.319 --> 00:03:25.239 with you in a minute. But you can also just totally calibrate it. Go all the 00:03:24.239 --> 00:03:30.959 way down. Color calibration. 00:03:28.239 --> 00:03:34.360 Color to Hey, there you go. Thank you. Why doesn't everybody just do this? All 00:03:33.519 --> 00:03:40.159 right. Input. What's watch free? Okay, now I 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:46.480 have to know. It's on my remote. It's on It's the second thing in the input menu. 00:03:42.159 --> 00:03:49.599 I think it's like a Oh, lame. Nothing 00:03:46.480 --> 00:03:51.040 Nothing region locked should be having a 00:03:49.599 --> 00:03:54.959 dedicated button on the remote. What do you think of that remote? It's okay. I 00:03:52.640 --> 00:03:59.280 like the soft touch feel. The waiting is kind of weird. Like if I ever actually 00:03:56.560 --> 00:04:02.080 use the buttons, it's really topheavy. Kind of not. Yeah, it's not that 00:04:00.560 --> 00:04:06.720 ergonomic. But realistically, I don't use my TV remote that much. So, how 00:04:04.239 --> 00:04:14.000 about the tactility? I'd say the D-pad is very good, but the other buttons are 00:04:09.439 --> 00:04:16.239 like I'd say okay. Uh, that's not bad. 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:20.959 So, where you don't have that really really sharp line between your bright 00:04:19.280 --> 00:04:26.080 object like the moon and your black object like the night sky, it's not too 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:33.600 shabby. I noticed a lot of jutdder on the rotating Earth. Yeah. Oh, wow. That 00:04:29.840 --> 00:04:35.680 is a lot. Uh, we can adjust the jutdder 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:38.560 setting. Okay. So, jutter reduction. Jutter reduction is probably going to 00:04:36.880 --> 00:04:43.040 make the picture darker because it's probably black frame insertion. Like 00:04:40.800 --> 00:04:47.919 just strobing black in between. It's better. That looks a lot better. So, 00:04:44.880 --> 00:04:49.600 this is midway. This is at five. There 00:04:47.919 --> 00:04:53.759 is still some jutter, but it's not like sickening like it was. No, it's like 00:04:51.199 --> 00:04:58.160 cinematic now. It's not like disgusting and it looks like a mistake. It just 00:04:55.759 --> 00:05:02.320 looks more filmic. I'm totally okay with it the way that it is now. I can't say 00:04:59.919 --> 00:05:08.479 that I'm blown away by the brightness. Now, that 2800 nit spec is only on a 10% 00:05:05.840 --> 00:05:12.560 patch of the screen. It can't even do that on a whole screen flash, as far as 00:05:10.560 --> 00:05:16.560 I know. It's more like 800 or something like that. Well, sustained brightness 00:05:14.080 --> 00:05:19.919 across the whole thing is 800, which which is fine. Still leaves an OLED in 00:05:18.400 --> 00:05:24.080 the dust. So, one of the main issues on the PQX last year was banding. And one 00:05:22.479 --> 00:05:30.320 of the famous examples online that someone used was this red background and 00:05:27.120 --> 00:05:33.600 the smoke scene of the Last Jedi. This 00:05:30.320 --> 00:05:36.479 actually looks really smooth. Now, I'm 00:05:33.600 --> 00:05:41.759 getting a little bit of halo effect around his hand here with the light 00:05:38.880 --> 00:05:47.600 reflecting off of it, but it's not distracting in any way from the image. 00:05:44.600 --> 00:05:49.680 And I really don't see anything that 00:05:47.600 --> 00:05:54.800 stands out to me as a problem here. As far as banding, you mean? Yeah. 00:05:52.639 --> 00:05:59.919 Whoa. I tend to be a little more forgiving of these halo effects around 00:05:57.280 --> 00:06:03.680 text cuz that's not it's not the content. I find it distracting and 00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:07.680 annoying, but I try to put it out of my mind because you don't buy a TV to read 00:06:05.919 --> 00:06:12.000 the news on it. You know, there's your full array local dimming. Oh, and I can 00:06:10.240 --> 00:06:16.400 see it's not just the fact that there's a big halo around this small object. Can 00:06:14.639 --> 00:06:20.720 you see that, Linus? Around the ball, there's this little dirty It looks like 00:06:18.160 --> 00:06:25.440 a comet. It looks like there's like a an outer orbit, like an outer ice kind of 00:06:23.680 --> 00:06:28.560 thing. Wait till the ball gets bigger. Like there's like a blue discoloration, 00:06:26.960 --> 00:06:32.639 then there's like a brown discoloration. See that right there? Okay. When it's 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:36.080 moving slowly. Yeah. It's almost less useful when it 00:06:34.319 --> 00:06:39.199 moves. This white edge is fine when it's moving slowly. But once this picks up in 00:06:37.840 --> 00:06:44.400 speed, you'll see that the leading edge will kind of brownify. See that? It's 00:06:41.199 --> 00:06:47.120 like a brown moon. But like, come on. 00:06:44.400 --> 00:06:51.199 Were we expecting it to be an OLED? No. It's a fraction of the cost. The colors 00:06:49.440 --> 00:06:55.120 look really good. And in fact, this actually will have better colors than an 00:06:52.960 --> 00:07:00.319 OLED. It'll have brighter colors and a wider coverage of the gamut. Previously, 00:06:57.759 --> 00:07:04.560 the last year's model had 85% coverage of the Rec 2020 color gamut uh due to 00:07:02.720 --> 00:07:08.960 the quantum dot enhancement film that's in there. And OLAs do not have that. One 00:07:06.960 --> 00:07:12.639 of the big use cases for this TV from my perspective though is gaming since it's 00:07:11.280 --> 00:07:20.080 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 00:07:18.319 --> 00:07:24.479 new graphics cards that are right around the corner. So, but before we switch 00:07:22.400 --> 00:07:30.479 over to the PC, I think we should take a moment to appreciate how much snappier 00:07:27.599 --> 00:07:34.319 the OSD feels compared to their previous TVs. Like this is actually pretty 00:07:32.400 --> 00:07:38.080 responsive. Yeah, it used to be really bad. Then there was a firmware update 00:07:36.240 --> 00:07:43.680 that made it better, but I think the new model is even better than that. Oh god, 00:07:40.160 --> 00:07:46.400 why? Why not? 00:07:43.680 --> 00:07:49.280 Oh, you have to register. Okay, don't judge the banding on this background. 00:07:47.759 --> 00:07:52.759 It's just a bad compressed background. Okay, this feels like I'm at 60 Hz right 00:07:50.880 --> 00:07:58.240 now, though. I sure am. Okay, so I'm going to have to 00:07:54.879 --> 00:08:01.039 probably drop down to 1440p because 00:07:58.240 --> 00:08:06.240 unfortunately there aren't any HDMI 2.1 graphics cards yet. So, there are 00:08:03.919 --> 00:08:10.560 adapters to go from DisplayPort 1.4 to HDMI 2.1. In fact, James has one right 00:08:08.879 --> 00:08:13.840 there because we tried it. Unfortunately, we were not able to get 00:08:12.160 --> 00:08:19.759 that working on our pre-production model because the HDMI 2.1 4K120 ports on this 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:23.919 unit right here aren't working right now because of firmware, but they'll work 00:08:21.440 --> 00:08:27.440 for you. Just bear in mind if you do use one of these, you're going to need a 00:08:25.520 --> 00:08:34.719 supporting graphics card that has display stream compression 1.2. Okay, so 00:08:30.319 --> 00:08:36.320 that's RTX or AMD cards 2019 and newer. 00:08:34.719 --> 00:08:42.800 Yeah. So, just like we talked about with the Samsung Odyssey 00:08:38.599 --> 00:08:44.959 G9 counter terrorists going to win. 00:08:42.800 --> 00:08:48.800 So, because this is a VA or vertical alignment LCD panel, what we're looking 00:08:46.640 --> 00:08:54.320 for here is smearing particularly of black values. If you're in a dark area, 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:57.680 you move around quickly, uh things like the edges of walls and stuff, things 00:08:55.760 --> 00:09:00.720 that are black can smear. or if they're not going to smear, it's because there's 00:08:58.880 --> 00:09:04.240 going to be a lot of pixel overdrive. And in that case, you can get overshoot, 00:09:02.880 --> 00:09:08.399 which is going to be like a white kind of corona, they call it. Not bad. I can 00:09:06.880 --> 00:09:12.640 see it a little bit on these ones. Oh, yeah. There it is. Yeah. I would 00:09:10.320 --> 00:09:17.120 describe the input lag as pretty darn good. Like I'm I'm gaming on this for 00:09:14.640 --> 00:09:20.480 sure, boys. I obviously this is a terrible experience being this close to 00:09:18.640 --> 00:09:24.800 it, but it's a wired keyboard and mouse, so this is interesting. Most of the 00:09:22.959 --> 00:09:28.640 image quality evaluation that we've done has been with devices that are plugged 00:09:26.480 --> 00:09:33.839 in via HDMI. But of course, there is an Ethernet jack on the TV. And you might 00:09:31.040 --> 00:09:38.720 think plugging into a wired connection is going to give you well more reliable 00:09:36.800 --> 00:09:41.440 service with something like Netflix. But go ahead and hit play on that, would 00:09:39.920 --> 00:09:46.640 you, James? Well, let's try to load it up. So load times are quick. You might 00:09:44.320 --> 00:09:51.760 say, "Oh, well that's fantastic." Except that if you look a even marginally 00:09:49.279 --> 00:09:55.000 closer at this image, I would be surprised if this is higher than 00:09:53.360 --> 00:10:02.720 equivalent to about 480p. It does not look good. And 00:09:59.959 --> 00:10:09.519 surprisingly, we had this playing for as long as 3 minutes at a time and it never 00:10:06.000 --> 00:10:11.680 snapped into 1080p. Or actually, I'm 00:10:09.519 --> 00:10:16.399 subscribed to the 4K tier. That sure ain't 4K. You ever see this movie? Still 00:10:14.399 --> 00:10:19.279 terrible. Yeah. How good is it? Oh, I didn't see uh Wait, no, I did see one. 00:10:18.079 --> 00:10:26.079 Is it good enough to cover on Carpal Critics, our movie podcast? 00:10:23.200 --> 00:10:30.720 Shameless. What I actually want to do is go back on Wi-Fi. We got only 3 megabit 00:10:28.800 --> 00:10:33.920 per second on the wired connection and we're still getting 3 megabit per second 00:10:32.160 --> 00:10:37.839 on the wireless connection. We were getting 10 times that when we used 00:10:35.519 --> 00:10:42.560 NVIDIA Shield wired. So, it's not our internet here. No, we were getting 100 00:10:40.240 --> 00:10:48.320 times that. This is only three. Oh god. It's really annoying because even LG's 00:10:44.959 --> 00:10:50.079 OLEDs have chipsets that only cap out at 00:10:48.320 --> 00:10:53.040 100 megabit per second. These are high-end TVs. They really should upgrade 00:10:51.839 --> 00:10:58.560 them. This has been a problem for multiple generations now. Hopefully, that'll improve with the final hardware 00:10:56.240 --> 00:11:01.600 and software. Look at this. Otherwise, you're going to have to factor in the 00:10:59.680 --> 00:11:05.120 cost of something like a Shield or Roku or Fire Stick. Okay, so what's our 00:11:03.600 --> 00:11:08.880 what's our bottom line here? You're saving some money on the display. I 00:11:06.959 --> 00:11:12.760 mean, this is an incredible amount of technology packed into a 75 inch display 00:11:11.680 --> 00:11:17.200 for $2,000. That's something that we really 00:11:14.880 --> 00:11:20.640 can't forget here. But obviously, you are making some compromises. The good 00:11:19.120 --> 00:11:25.360 news is that you can make up for some of them after the fact. Like, for example, you pair something like this with an 00:11:23.760 --> 00:11:30.399 NVIDIA Shield where you don't have to rely on Vizio's upscaling or Vizio's 00:11:28.720 --> 00:11:33.920 network connection and you can use NVIDIA's AI upscaling and their 00:11:32.240 --> 00:11:38.959 networking connection. and like all of a sudden you're looking at, wow, that's a 00:11:36.079 --> 00:11:44.000 that's a big old TV. Now, I wasn't a huge fan of the way that fastoving white 00:11:41.519 --> 00:11:49.200 objects were not handled very well by the full array local dimming backlight, 00:11:46.920 --> 00:11:52.480 but unless you want to pony up for an OLED, there's going to be some 00:11:50.880 --> 00:11:55.640 compromises there. If this is your picture quality range and your price 00:11:53.920 --> 00:12:00.800 range, then it's a good way to futureroof at least for probably 10 00:11:58.399 --> 00:12:03.920 years your setup because when you get your new console, it's going to work. 00:12:02.320 --> 00:12:09.360 It's going to be ready to go. 4K120. 4K120 PC. And this is one of the first 00:12:07.360 --> 00:12:15.839 sets in North America to support all the major HDR standards. HLG, HDR10, HDR10 00:12:13.760 --> 00:12:18.639 Plus, and Dolby Vision. So, you can find it down at the link in the video 00:12:17.120 --> 00:12:22.480 description where I'm sure James will also embed the latest episode of Carpool 00:12:20.720 --> 00:12:27.360 Critics cuz he's shameless like that. And you know what? I'm shameless about 00:12:24.959 --> 00:12:31.839 segueing to our sponsors. What's in your online security toolkit? Adding a VPN 00:12:29.839 --> 00:12:36.000 lets you mask your IP and encrypt traffic to and from your devices. 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