people are always asking me why sandals
and to them i say why not i mean they're not the most stylish
things ever but they're convenient reasonably priced and they even have
pretty decent grip for when i have to walk my trash cans down my slippery
driveway and so it is with the px65 vizio's new
flagship p series quantum x tv for 2019
with a butt load of premium features for just 2200
this might just be the premium 65-inch
sandal of tvs and i absolutely love it
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don't be deceived by the px65 all plastic chassis tacky industrial design
or bargain feeling buttons because this puppy has all the features you'd expect
in a flagship display from a samsung or sony
and then some at a purported 3 000 nits
it doesn't just have the highest peak brightness of any display to reach our
studio it's actually one of the brightest if not the brightest set on
the market now it's hard for us to actually measure this because companies
often exaggerate these numbers and our testing equipment isn't sensitive beyond
1300 nits but what i can tell you guys is that when it's cranked it is really
bright like to the point where most people are probably going to leave it at
the default 50 now the purpose of all of those lumens of course is HDR and
thankfully the px65 is certified for both hdr10 and dolby vision so you get
nice bright peaks when you're looking into a light or a fire but also dark and
detailed blacks thanks to the px65 full
array local dimming across 384 zones or
actually 480 zones on the 75 inch model
in either case the zones are just over five inches square or about this big
now that still looks pretty big but thing is
in a side by side comparison with samsung's top of the line q9f that first
launched at 3 800 and an lg OLED the px65 obviously
couldn't reach OLED levels of black but it did achieve noticeably lower lows
than the more expensive samsung and that's really saying a lot out of the
box we did find the active full arrays default medium setting to be a little
intense leading to unpleasant halos around white objects on black
backgrounds but turning it down to low took the edge off quite nicely albeit at
the expense of some dynamic range i'm glad we're at least given the option
though but HDR is about more than just light
and dark you also need a wide color gamut and like last year vizio is again
offering some of the most affordable quantum dot displays around for the
uninitiated today's quantum dot displays use a thin film of particles to greatly
increase color accuracy and reproduction one thing to note about quantum dot or
any wide color gamut tv though is that unlike a monitor which can be used for
both content consumption and for professional work or content creation
tvs are designed only for content consumption and in particular have been
designed to display content that meets broadcast standards
so while a color accurate monitor can display a wide color gamut all the time
regardless of whether you're using photoshop or firefox a tv like this one
will only kick into wide color gamut mode when it receives an HDR signal
otherwise it'll use the narrower rec.709 color space because there is no wide
color gamut sdr content technical reasons for it aside we really enjoyed
our time with the px65 and that wasn't just limited to passive entertainment it
happens to be a great tv for gaming as well because it retains all the
capabilities that earned its predecessor a spot on displaylag.com's best gaming
tvs of 2018 list now in the standard
modes the input lag is actually pretty bad but you can cut it in half by
switching on game low latency then if
you specifically use HDMI port number five your signal will bypass all the
unnecessary processing having your input lag yet again now that sounds wicked at
first but there are some drawbacks while this
port does handle 4k resolution or even 1080p at a native 120 hertz refresh rate
it is not HDR compatible so console
gamers are gonna have to choose between minimizing their input lag and playing
games in HDR poop also if you have more than one
console well you're kind of screwed again because only HDMI number five is
low latency though if you're that into it a separate HDMI switch is an option
so then should you switch to this tv well it actually makes a pretty
compelling argument with a calibrated mode out of the box
built-in chromecast ultra and airplay 2 support for 4k streaming from your phone
and a motion blur reducing clear action mode that doesn't impact the screen
brightness as much as other tvs i mean the px65 is a bonafide flagship lcd
without an outrageous price tag with that said it is only a couple
hundred dollars less than an entry-level OLED of the same size
so then if straight up dark theatre room movie enjoyment is your bag i gotta give
the nod to the OLED but i also have to acknowledge that due to OLED's issues
with image retention and overall longevity if you're more into sports
watching or gaming this one is worth a serious look
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