[jazzmik]

Hi,

Just bought a Vizio VF551XVT.

The picture looks great...however, certain scenes look 3D/Fake (like in front of green screen b4 final editing of release)... I can't deal with that, driving me crazy.
Also there are instances where things look sped up... also driving me crazy.

I have the Smooth Motion on and whatever other settings that should help this.

Is this something that is a flaw in the TV that I can do nothing about?

I only have a few days left to return if I can't get resolved... which I don't want to do... got this for a ridiculous price!!!!

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

[Phil A]

Welcome to the forum. I actually got mine in a week ago in the bedroom system (pic below). I mainly use it for sleep timer at night and I have not watch much on it (piece of one Blu-Ray - Star Trek and some scenes from a standard DVD - The 5th Element Superbit version after I calibrated the TV). I'm not sure what you are watching on it. The TV is pretty new so I'm sure tons of people don't have it yet. I looked and my smooth motion setting was in the middle. There are a bunch of different settings also - standard (what mine is set on), vivid, basketball and a bunch of others. I can tell you the color saturation out of the box is not close with the player I'm using (I have a Samsung 2500 for Blu-Ray. I have mine as follows (keep in mind I used both a colorimeter and two test discs), My picture is standard, backlight on 80, brightness 82, color 69 and tint -2. Under advanced video my color enhancement is off and color temp is normal. On the HDMI 1 input, I changed the red, green and blue values (it may be different for your player but I'd bet there is over saturation) under color enhancement from 128, 102 and 112 out of the box to 20, 50 and 20 (I like the Spears and Munsil disc I got with my Oppo BDP-83 - they sell it at oppodigital.com too - the disc can really show the limitations of a display - I could only do so much with my lower end 720p projector in the basement - of course for the amount of time I use that system it is not a big deal). I got mine at Costco for $1,599.99 ( I think that price is good until Feb. 7 - tomorrow the $300 instant rebate ends) and you have 90 days to return it and a 2 yr. warranty. It was a royal pain to get it on the Simplicity swivel out wall mount (mine sits about 2 feet off the wall).

[Phil A]

One - pic

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[gundyrat]

THis review might explain some of your issues with blooming and Local dimming
CNET

[Phil A]

Actually CNET's settings at AVS (there's actually an Excel speadsheet of setting of several users and what they used to calibrate - e.g. DVE disc) and other places have been fairly universally blasted as inaccurate. I only have mine a week and I'm still in process of doing things and will be using the colorimeter and doing more viewing tests. I only got to spend less than an hour with it very late a week ago Sunday and want to do more.

When Vizio released the TV they hired an ISF technician - noted here:


http://blog.ultimate...ultimate_vizio/

“To Vizio's considerable credit, the company had hired veteran ISF tech Kevin Miller to perform a full calibration of each set so they could be compared while looking their best. When mounting such a comparison, most companies use the out-of-box condition and claim it to be a fair test, but I disagree completely—Vizio got this one right.”

His website with some of the settings are here:

http://www.tweaktv.c...vf551xvt-3.html

[Phil A]

Attached is the file they had over at AVS

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[Phil A]

I went over mine with the Spears and Munsil disc that came with the Oppo Blu-Ray. On the HDMI input as noted, I had to adjust the colors (red, green and blue) for over saturation. For regular TV, I have the following settings:

Picture Mode - Standard (I have a dark room)
Backlight - 65
Brightness - 86
Contrast - 70
Color - 59
Tint - 0
Sharpness - 4

Noise Reduction - Off
MPEG NR - Off
Color Enhancement - Off
Advanced Adaptive Luma - Med
Smart Dimming - On
Color Temperature - Normal
Smooth Motion - High