Purchase Experience: fine, smooth and painless as always.
Product Comments:
Size: fantastic - super thin, and light, which enables keeping shoved toward the back of its surface to keep the kids' fingers away from the screen.
Picture: Excellent, very crisp (using HDMI cable). Easy enough to modify settings to get the right picture for your lighting conditions. My set is in a naturally-lit room and I have had no problem with the picture or colors as a result of the bright sunlight.
Sound: fine. If you just want to watch TV/movies, the built-in speakers are fine. They won't make you go ga-ga, but if that's what you want, you'll already have (or soon hereafter acquire) a speaker system.
Heat: Here's a really trick of the LED backlighting - it produces surprisingly little heat compared to a more traditional LCD. Most LCDs generate a fair amount of heat, but the LED LCD doesn't generate nearly as much.
Dust: For whatever reason, the bevel seems to attract more dust than other LCDs in the house (TV and computer screens). Dust doesn't collect so much on the screen as around it - odd, but easily dealt with and doesn't affect the picture.
Bottom Line: Great TV, especially for the price. VIZIO E260MV 26 Inch Class Edge Lit Razor LED LCD HDTV
I got pretty much what I expected with this tv. I was just getting something to put in the bedroom to replace our old hunk o' junk tube tv. The sound is horrible, but the picture is pretty good. The one other thing that sucks is if there's a way to adjust the angle of the tv on the included stand, I can't find it. It sorta leans back, so if you have it on a surface that is taller, the screen darkens because of the angle. It kinda makes for watching as you're laying in bed a bit of a strain. Outside of those things, it seems to be a decent little tv. Especially for the price.
This Tv is a mixed bag of good and bad. First the good. It has a nice picture. The picture has LED lighting and 1080p quality, which gives it a clear picture. It has has SRS TruSurround HD and SRS TruVolume, which would make external speakers sound great. The design is simple and clean. It doesn't get hot, like other TVs I own. The remote it small and comfortable in your hands and it has dvd buttons for compatible players.
Now the bad. The sound is absolutely terrible. The Tv can get loud without distortion, but the speakers are on the back of the unit and the quality is bad to begin with. Furthermore, it would not be a good idea to mount this TV to the wall unless you plan to buy external speakers. Problem two, getting external speakers. Vizio's current sound bar is 39 inches long, as are most sound bars. So if you mount this 26" Tv with the the 39" sound bar, it looks disproportionately awkward. And if you invest in a home theater system, it is unlikely your going to buy a 26 inch TV. Third, when you turn the Tv on and change channels, the screen turns blue for 1.5 seconds. This is normal for this TV. I don't know why, but this blue screen irritates me for some reason. Finally, although the remote is comfortable to handle, it seems really cheap.
My final thoughts, if you need a tv for kids or teenager 14 years or younger, this is a reasonable choice for the price. The picture will be great with a gaming system. For older teenagers and adults, I have to say to pass on it. Look at another 26 inch TV or invest another 50 dollars and get a nicer TV with decent sound.
Update:
After watching several movies and baseball games on this TV, I decided that I needed to get a sound bar because the sound quality is so bad. Vizio offers two soundbars, the VSB200 and the VSB205. I picked up the VSB205 because Vizio lists it as compatible and was the smaller of the two at 32 inches. I get it home and quickly figure out that it is not compatible. This Tv uses an optical audio out for Tv viewing. Both the sound bars offered by Vizio do no have an opitical audio input. When I called customer service, the gentlemen was surpirsed that these sound bars did not have optical audio inputs becuase most of Vizio's newer TVs offer an optical audio out, which has superior sound quality. He also admitted that it was an error that the sound bar was listed as being compatible. They still have not fixed this error on their website. If you decide to get external speakers, it will likely be a more expensive set up, which doesn't make sense for a 26 inch Tv. I returned both the TV and sound bar.
I have a nice tv in the family room with excellent quality for watching movies and football and such.. this tv is fine.. it isn't the best mms rate.. when you press pause (on my tivo) the pic is somewhat blurred, but watching the picture in hd is good quality as you'd expect, and it's less quality in digital. (once you go HD it's hard to go back)..
as for the comment about aspect ration from another person.. there is a setting that is standard on most tv's.. it allows for regular tv viewing (like our old crt tv's that were square), it has wide screen and it has what is called panaromic.. this feature keeps the center normal but stretches the pic to reach the edges.. these settings are normal for all tv's from what I see. When you are using HD on tv's in general, you don't use these features. But the tv does have the ability to change the pic size in these 3 settings.. The remote has a variety of ways to access it.. at the top of the remote is a criss-cross bar.. click the center of it and it will display all the settings you can adjust. just click the "wide screen" feature and from there you can change the size of the screen you are viewing (again this is for viewing in NON-HD format).
For the price this is a great tv for the ofc or the bedroom..
I recently purchased this model. The TV is stylish. It's a lightweight TV. It offers a decent amount of connecting features. It's wall mountable.
I think the picture quality is great. The sound is okay. I am one who believes in sound systems. Almost any receiver and a pair of speakers and sub woofer would enhances the TV's sound.
The remote is lacking. It's a basic remote. Batteries are included for the remote. The TV comes with a detailed user manual which is very handy with instructions that are easy to understand.'
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