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 Vizio HDTV May 10, 2010
A. Robert Bertrand Jr. (Vermont)
Personal purchase, very pleased with its appearance and performance. Purchased for the family and everyone likes it. Shipping was good and it was carefully packaged. Thanks.
32 in. 720P LCD Vizio HDTV May 23, 2010
K. Phillips
This is an excellent bargain for the price. It is great for bedrooms. It replaced a bulky 27 in. picture tube tv. Besides hooking it up to cable it is also hooked up to the computer so we can watch HDTV downloads without having to pay additional monthly fees for an HD cable box. So buy a VGA splitter cable as it is well worth it.
LOVE it! May 28, 2010
mathmom (Salem, UT)
I've had this for about one month now and have loved it. I was a little nervous about ordering a tv to be delivered rather than picking it up in a store, but it arrived in great condition. It's very easy to set up; only took about 5 minutes. The controller is easy to navigate. The picture is fantastic. One hint: when you go through the initial set-up, choose retail set up instead of home set up. I chose home set up first and it was a little dark for me (it's an energy saving feature.) I read online about choosing retail set up and tried it, and it looks wonderful. I have nothing negative to say about this porduct.
Great Tv for the price July 28, 2010
Sahira Fontana (Bronx NY)
I bought this LCD TV and its my first lcd and i love it,the picture quality is great the sound is ok,and the TV is lighter then it looks
 Good picture in store December 2, 2009
Richard H. Martin (Columbia, MO USA)
34 out of 36 found this review helpful
That title has two meanings. This bargain 720p HDTV can be made to display a very good picture, but not if you 'obey' Vizio's instruction manual. You will pay a big penalty if you fall for Vizio's green marketing baloney.
It appears that all TV manufacturers adjust their picture controls at the factory to make their displays stand out in a lineup on a shelf in the store. Often that creates a picture which at home is inaccurate, too bright, too contrasty, over sharpened, etc. Thus any new TV must be 'calibrated' to produce a picture that correctly reproduces the video signal it receives. Sure enough, Vizio does that with the VO320E too. But that makes it draw more current. So during the initial setup routine the manual advises you to select the "Home Mode" rather than "Retail Mode," to "give you the opportunity to save energy." It says nothing about any effect on picture quality. So, good (and penny-pinching) citizen that I am, I dutifully punched in Home Mode before proceeding, a few days later, with calibrating the set using the Digital Video Essentials (DVE) system. When I finished the picture indeed looked pretty good... at night in a very dimly lit room. But in daylight it was lousy--dim, dull, and washed out. An unpleasant surprise, since a review of inexpensive LCDs in the October, 2009 issue of Consumer Reports had graded the VO320E's picture as "excellent." By then I had forgotten about that "Home"/"Retail" toggle, which doesn't appear in the VO320E's regular picture-tuning menus. After considerable fussing with brightness, contrast, color and other controls, often in flagrant violation of what DVE advised, I was about ready to return the set--which I bought for our brightly illuminated kitchen--when I realized that, duh, a little more juice might make a difference. And it did--a big difference. But I wish that Visio would admit the dirty trick they used in order to put "ECO" in the VO320E's name.
So, set it up in the "Retail" mode and the VO320 (I presume that eliminates the "E") will indeed deliver an excellent picture. Not up to the quality of a 46" 1080p 120 or 240 Hz set, but fine for a second or third TV, and costing much less. It is light, easy to mount on a wall, and visually attractive--surprisingly unobtrusive for its size, and a thin strip of chrome along its bottom edge adds a neat touch of class. Vizio is to be commended for providing a printed 67-page manual that is all in (reasonably clear and non-geeky) English--although it does not manufacture the VO320E in the United States as another reviewer claims (at least my set says it was made in China). The 'calibration' process (Vizio calls it "fine tuning") is simple and straight forward, at least if you don't try to use DVE, and most of the controls' default settings proved to be nearly correct when checked with DVE's test patterns--I had to change "Color" from 50 to 45 to get a fair calibration using DVE's red, green and blue filters, and reduce "Sharpness" from 4 to 1 (but I subsequently decided that a tad more sharpening gave the picture a little more pizzazz, despite what DVE concluded).
I hesitate to gripe about sound quality in a TV as small and inexpensive as this, but since no other Amazon reviewer has as yet done so, here goes. Plan to hook the VO320E up to some other audio device if you possibly can (fortunately, we had an old Bose CD player on a table in the same corner of the kitchen). You can turn off the VO320E's tinny little speakers, and the "Analog Audio Out" control can be set to "Variable," allowing the TV volume and mute controls to regulate an external audio device (a convenience that my much fancier HDTV in the family room lacks). There is even an equalizer included among the audio controls--a welcome feature since the VO320E's audio amplifier distorts badly, apparently in an attempt to compensate for the shortcomings of its speakers.
For its price, this is a fine 32-inch HDTV. Were it not for Vizio's Eco-prevarication, and the tinny sound, both of which are easily overcome, I would give it five stars.
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