VIZIO VM230XVT 23Inch XVTSeries 23Inch 1080p LED LCD
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010 at
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VIZIO VM230XVT 23-Inch XVT-Series 23-Inch 1080p LED LCD HDTV List Price: Sale Price: $225.00 You save: $124.99 (36%)  |
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With a profile that tapers down to less than an inch, the 23-inch VIZIO VM230XVT Razor LED LCD HDTV offers full 1080p High Definition resolution for crystal clear images, brilliant color, rich detail and deep contrast, all in a sleek, razor-thin design...
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23″ 1080p Vizio LED HDTV
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
Nice appearance. I bought this as a combo monitor and TV, although right now all I’m doing is viewing Netflicks and TV internet. My HP laptop only has VGA out and so I use that connection to the monitor, which looks fabulous for computer work. It doesn’t look fabulous for Netflicks streaming over internet explorer although it is acceptable? Now I’m not a video guru, but this is really frustrating when my old 19″ Samsung LCD (4:3) looks better for Netflicks and isn’t 1080p. I have a HP tx1000 entertainment laptop which has a Nvidia GeForce Go 6150 graphics card and 3GB RAM on Vista so it shouldn’t be my computer. I’ll be trying it with Windows 7 soon.
Other issue so far is that the little “on” light on front and the Vizio brand name stays lit up after the other lights go out; this is annoying. Why have proximity sensors for some lights but not all? I also don’t understand why companies make shiney glary screens instead of a matte screen. The reflections are really annoying if you use during the day.
UPDATE May 18, 2010: the TV/monitor is really nice, but I guess that netflicks and online TV aren’t streaming at 1080, so maybe that is the problem with the picture as DVDs look great on it. I can get used to the lights that stay on, but I would prefer no lights on in the front when watching videos. The darks are really dark, which is a problem with the glossy screen. If there was a matte screen I would return this and get that. I know other monitors sold at Best Buy have the matte screens, but they aren’t as nice as this Vizio with LED backlighting and I like the environmental friendly factor of no mercury in this HDTV.
Perfect picture, excellent sound. Incredibly light and thin.
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Perfect picture, excellent sound. Incredibly light and thin. If your video card supports high definition, then this doubles as an excellent computer monitor. I hooked it up to my Macbook aluminum (about 2 years old) and I had 23″ of full 1080p glory. Perfect for multitasking or watching hulu. My favorite feature is that it can pause live TV if you plug a flash drive in the back. This timeshift feature works flawlessly if you have a fast flash drive. Not just any flash drive can be used with this; look at the transfer rate and find the fastest one you can. If you have a slow flash drive, playback will stutter. I did not have the problem that some other reviewers were having with the controls lighting up constantly on their own. My single complaint is that if a dvd player doesn’t take up the whole screen, you’d think that you can press “Auto” for screen-fitting, and it’ll expand, right? Not so. It will simply stretch it out, ignore the aspect ratio, and leave unnecessary black bars on the top and bottom. There should be a feature to make a picture take up as much of the screen as permitted by the aspect ratio. This TV lacks this feature. However, this does not matter with HD programming because it takes up the whole screen anyway.
Remote did not work, but I had a remote from a earlier Vizio that did, so I kept the unit.
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
Remote did not work, but I had a remote from a earlier Vizio that did, so I kept the unit. The TV gives a good picture but the 60hz is very unresponsive.
Great picture for the price
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I purchased the VIZIO VM230XVT 23-Inch XVT-Series 1080p LED LCD HDTV to replace an older set in my den (man cave). The picture looked so good I hooked my computer up to it as well. Shortly after that came the Xbox 360. Long-story-short this was an excellent addition to what became a media center. Two things though, the remote works better at a distance than 2 feet away and the sound was a little weak. You will need to turn up the bass so it sounds better. I’m probably going to spring for a sound bar, the T.V. is worth it. I’ve had good luck with Vizio’s in general – 47 inch in the livingroom, 42 in the bedroom. All work well. The LED – LCD is by far the best picture, spend the extra cash.
Very happy with this HDTV
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I purchased this HDTV for a bedroom. The picture quality is outstanding but you need to adjust it to fit your needs. Whites are too bright and cause picture washout with factory settings but going into the menu screen allows you to compensate. The instruction book is excellent.
I am using this with Verison FIOS and using the FIOS remote to control most functions. The reason I only gave it 4 stars is the remote. Buttons don’t always work and it has no sleep timer button. You must go into the menu to set the sleep timer. They put all these other buttons for changing from tv to hdmi to pc, which most people will rarely use but NO SLEEP TIMER button.
Sound is acceptable and clear. If you want better sound plug in a set of mid-range computer speakers & you’ll be surprised with the change. I don’t consider this a negative when you look at the size of the installed speakers. Remember you can’t 10# of ____ in a 5# bag. If high quality sound is that important, add external speakers.
This is my second Vizio HDTV and will buy again. Great product, poor remote.
OK secondary tv
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
This is my first VISIO product so I didn’t know what to expect. The picture is ok, compared to my Samsung which I consider wonderful. The remote just plain sucks. I measured and it does not work beyond 9 feet with new batteries. I couldn’t believe it, so I changed batteries from the original just after unboxing it…and then changed again with batteries that I just purchased. I might as well get up and touch the cool interactive buttons. It is a skinny unit that fits nicely under my kitchen cupboards, and fortunately hides the ugly power adapter that takes 2 outlets.
Mostly Awesome!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
After going over all of the reviews, I decided to try one of these TV’s out for our coach. It replaced a 13″ tube TV. It is mounted in the bedroom on an articulating mount and it was surprisingly large feeling for the space due to it’s sleek design and awesome picture. It just gives itself a bit of an overwhelming and commanding presence. This is not a bad thing!
We’ve had the proximity sensor issue 1 time out of the 2 dozen or so times I’ve walked by it and used the front panel touch buttons. Folks, clean your greasy finger prints off the thing! Yup, after it gets smudged up a certain way, it does seem to get a little over sensitive. I cleaned it with a very soft, dry cloth like you’d use to clean your fine eye wear with, problem solved.
We’ve also seen the remote aiming issue. No magic fix for this (other than maybe using a universal), you just have to point it to the left side of the screen somewhat to get it to work. We use it from bed generally, so that gives us a remote operating distance of about 15 feet away. Further back doesn’t seem to help much, closer does narrow down where it likes having you shoot the remote at it.
The sound is great. It’s very room filling and to us was startling loud when we first turned it on. Once you set-up the sound options, and find the listening range you like which we’ve found to be at the lower end of the volume scale, we’ve had no listening difficulties at all.
The picture is just outstanding. With the dynamic contrast helping out the black levels and the pure LED back lighting, this TV to date is the best I’ve owned even compared to our other, larger TVs (we have plasmas and other LCDs) in our home.
great little tv
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I have had this tv for about a week and a half now and I am very satisfied. However I did have to return the first tv that was shipped to me because it had a red dot on the upper left conner. nonetheless once the replacement got to me (about a day after I reported and submitted my return claim) I promptly set it up with my PS3 and the picture and sound blew me away. the only gripe I have is that the picture format is pretty much set in stone for this set. unlike my other flat screens I cannot change the format of the screen i.e. I can’t change it from 16:9 to 4:3 aspect ratio. Which becomes an issue when you’re watching channels that are not in widescreen format.
VIZIO 23″
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
Poor sound, in back of tv ruins this attractive HDTV. You’ll need a sound system or use your computer speakers with the right adapter.
Picture is 3 out of 5, yes, Avatar looked extraordinary.
returned it!
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
maybe a pixel problem? picture was terrible – i sent it back the next day. amazon ROCKS – they paid for return and refunded me within days! you don’t get better service!