Customer Reviews
Great TV! 
2008-02-10
Purchased for $599 @ Circuit City and the set was on sell the next day for $569. I took my receipt to my local store and received 110% of the savings, Circuit City has come a long way in customer service.
The TV does need to be tuned/adjusted to the environment you plan on using it. The manual and a few minutes of playing with the menu's solved the issue.
The first thing you will notice is the poor quality of standard def TV, the signal we have all grown up with. HD is definately the future of TV! I can't believe I lived without it for so long. This TV looks great in the 720 HD mode and performs as expected. When I watch TV now I scan to see what is on the Direct TV HD channels before the standard def ones. Upgrading to HD on Direct TV also provided a noticable inprovement in the quality of sound coming from my stereo and standard DVD's appeared crisper.
All said, I will be looking at Vizio in the future when I upgarde my remaing TV's.
Get an extended warranty 
2008-02-09
Unless you think 600 bucks is basically a good price for a one year subscription to a TV set, the standard warranty, I'd get an extended warranty. Had this TV for exactly 1 year and two weeks and it suddenly stopped working. No brownouts, spikes or surges. Tech support was polite and unhelpful--which, I suppose, is better than rude and unhelpful. And, yes, the sound is awful with digital broadcasts. Hope everyone else has better luck with this one.
Excellent TV 
2008-01-31
Very good HD and analog picture. Good off-axis viewing. Quite acceptable sound. Lots of inputs and outputs. Good on-screen menu for making picture/sound/other adjustments. Very good automatic circuitry for mantaining picture quality between channels - picture adjustments never required (after initial set-up) when switching channels. Great zoom features. Only negative is the need to go through a full (set-up) channel scan to add a new TV channel. Great value.
Cant Handle Normal Listening Volumes - Overpriced on Amazon! 
2007-12-30
First off I am stunned that Amazon is charging so much for this set. Its available for hundreds less at Walmart. That being said, many people are buying this tv because of its price. They arent stopping to notice (I have for days now returning to the store to test it for hours) that the volume on this set is awful. When you increase the volume, its gets tinny, isnt loud enough and worse, has gaps in level where nothing happens except the level/number onscreen increases without a concurrent increase in sound. Its also got very low ratios and, for the life of me, I cannot understand why people are in such a rush to buy this inferior set. Lets hope that as 2008 proceeds and we rush closer to Feburary 2009 (when analog signals will be a challenge to pull out of the air) that someone else, maybe even Vizio, will produce a better tv set for us all.
This one is NOT it, sorry.
Great TV! 2007-12-30
Ok Ok, there are alot of people out there trying to find the perfect T.V for themselves and it could be pretty hard with all of these mixed customer reviews. Some are good and some are bad...how can you really tell whats good to help you make up your mind? But I own this TV and I must say, its pretty damn good. I seriously wouldn't recommend getting it if you don't have some sort of HD service. Whether is yor cable service or even your DVD's. I don't have a HD service with my cable yet but I plan on getting it soon, but the picture does look better, but it makes everyone look a little fat and blown-up...just a little bit though. Like you won't see freakin Dave Chappell who is like 150lbs looking like he's 300lbs, it just makes them look a little bit fat and that's with every TV not just with this one...so don't think im talkig bad about this TV because its a great tv. I do have a couple of HD channels (the TV found it for me on its own, I don't knw how but it did) and they look noticably clearer and much sharper than the regular channels.I do own a Playstation 3 though and the Blu-Rays look great on this TV. Regular DVD's SUCK!! I seriouly can't watch regular DVD's anymore..they look so low quality and horrible. I brought "300" before I had this TV and on my regular TV it looked pretty good. But when I got this TV and played a Blu-ray DVD on it, I was like "WOW, That looks F*&%#@ good" and then I played 300 again to see how it would look, and I was like "What the f...is this a bootleg! This is crazy! So now I have to sell my regular version and cop the Blu-Ray version. Games also look amazing. The sound quality is really good too. Has real loud and clear sound and that's wihtout having to actually BLAST the TV, I put mines on about 25-30 volume level and its freaking loud and I think the TV can go up to about 60 in volume level, in not too sure because I didn't need to put it that high. I don't have a HDMI cable either, but I have the HD components for my 360 and i have the monster cables for my PS3 and their graphic detail on the TV is really good. I was really blown away playing Halo 3, Heavenly Sword and Call Of Duty 4. Its only a 720p/1080i TV, but the pitcure still looks great if you tweak it a little in the menu. The TV has 2 HDMI components in the back, but seriously, I don't think that it will actually make a noticable difference with a 1080i TV. You may just need to upgrade to a 42" 1080p TV if you want to noticable see a difference. But i went with the 32" because I thought the 37" or 42" would be too big for my room ,but now i wish i went with the 37" but I don't really think it would have made a difference in my satisfaction because it will just increase the screen size, not the resolution (like 1080i to 1080p) but the 32" is a good size for small to medium size rooms and the picture is great. Bottom line, im glad i brought this tv because its great, cheap and worth buying if your on,a budget. I really don't see how you can be unsatisfied with this TV unless your looking to buy a 1080p TV. I Love it and I think you would too!
Geat value & product !! 2008-05-01
Purchased this VIZIO 32" LCD/HDTV from an independent dealer on March 19, 2008,and was blown away. Setup was quick and simple. Less than quality picture on regular analog sdtv, but viewable. Looking forward to upgrading to HD cable. Once I hooked it to my pS2 and toshiba HD DVD player on the 1080i setting,the picture and sound was totally awesome. Receive a few on the air HD channels;reception great! My regular DVD videos are crisp and clear. Absolutely recommend to anyone who's in the market for an lcd hdtv of this magnitude: great new name,product and value. Will defintely buy VIZIO again!
Great TV for the Price 2008-03-16
I have owned this TV for about 9 months now and it is great. Very nice picture with Digital Cable and the HD channels looks amazing. I bought this from costco and paid around 650 for last thanksgiving. My parents have a high end Panasonic plazma and this was considerably cheaper but the picture and quality is only a little less, very good value. I would buy again from Vizio.
Amazing for the price but still is a good TV. 2008-02-28
I work at Sears as a TV salesmen and im a college student. So I know a few things about televisions. I am one of the better part time salesmen in our store but anyways.
Being a college student, I didn't have alot of money to throw around. Im 18 years old and wanted an HDTV to play my Xbox 360 on. All I have to say is I made the right decision.
Being around TVs for 6 to 8 hours straight can get annoying but it does give you alot of time to look at each set and see the differences in quality and price.
The best two looking television in the 32 range LCD are obviously the Sony Bravia KDL-32S3000 32" 720p LCD HDTV sets or the Samsungs. Yes they do look better but they by no means look $400 better than the Vizio. So weighing out all my options and wanted to stay under the $700 range it was either the Vizio, Sylvania, or the Olevia. This was the no brainer of the year. The Vizio looks so much better than both these sets and the worst thing is the Vizio is cheaper than the Sylvania.
I also got a great deal on it. For one the signing manager was told to put the old display Vizio on closeout and a new one in its place. I was like I wanna buy this TV tonite so he put the new one outta the box on closeout and left the old one there. So I got a 629 dollar Tv for about 500 plus my associate discount.
Once I brought the TV home I was immediatly satisfied. Going from a 13 inch SDTV (although it was LCD) to a 32 inch HD TV was incredible. After tweakings of the settings my 360 games looked just as good as they do on my uncles Samsung. This shows that if you are technically able you can spend far less on a TV and with some setting adjustments make it look like a 1000 dollar set.
There are some reasons I gave this TV a four though. For one the sound isn't very good. I use a surround sound system by Yamaha that was about the smae price of the TV haha. If you don't have a surround sound I do suggest you turn off the Simulated surround sound in the menu. It waill make the TV sound a little better. The only other negative with hte television are in dark movie scenes they tend to look a little muddy. Not horrible but not as good as they should.
All in all at 599-629 (500 with tax for me ;) ) dollars this is a great Televison set. I do suggest if yuou buy this at least buy the 300 dollar Yamaha home theatre system with an included reciever. Yamaha YHT-380BL Home Theater in a Box (Black).
Great TV for the Price 2008-02-23
PROS:
A Great looking TV for a first time HDTV buyer who is looking for a reasonably priced TV but doesn't want the quality of the TV to suffer. The picture quality rivals that of more expensive brands of TVs such as Sony, Samsung, etc. Easy to navigate menus don't scare away the buyer who isn't familiar with tuning their TV. Easy to read hookups in the back eliminate any confusion when setting up your tv. This TV is also a great computer monitor as it supports a HDMI to DVI hookup.
CONS:
The sound quality and level of this TV is the largest setback to it. You'll find yourself consatnly fighting with the volume level of the TV to find the best sound for whatever it is that your watching. This can be remedied by purchasing yourself a hometheater system if you have the extra cash.
Great HDTV 2008-02-23
I have had this TV for just over one year now and I love it. I wanted to check out HDTV and not spend over $1,000 and this set was was what I went with after researching my options on the net. I have been very pleased with my purchase and the over the air HDTV is fantastic, especially for sports. My only regret is not getting a bigger set, but I plan to in the future. You have to teak the color settings and the sound (turn the bass up to 85 or 90 and the treble jsut below it) but I think this set was a great way to experience HDTV with out breaking the bank especially since you can pick up one of these sets for $100 more or less than I paid. However if want something for your living room go with the 42 or 50 inch version. Trust me you will love it.
