![]() ![]() The P75-F1 reviewed here is one of the two largest displays in Vizio’s 2018 lineup, and, as a P-Series display, it’s second from the top in terms of performance. Nothing weird or unintuitive in terms of setup, calibration, operation, or performance. If you dabble at all in BYOTV systems integrations, you’re going to come face-to-face with one eventually. These are, after all, amongst the best-selling TVs out there at the moment, and with good reason. Because even if you’re not likely to sell Vizio displays, you’re going to treat a home at some point with a pre-existing Vizio condition. What just as quickly became clear from our conversation, though, is that there is some merit to reviewing one of Vizio’s latest offerings for an audience of integrators, if only to bust some widely held misconceptions. ![]() Okay, to be fair, a couple of these things were sort of halfway true for a hot minute back in 2016, but that failed experiment in radical TV reinvention thankfully passed quickly. “And somebody told me you can’t integrate them with an automation system because they have their own proprietary tablet for control and no discrete codes!” “Like, I heard there aren’t even onscreen menus!” “I don’t think you can even calibrate those things!” When Vizio initially contacted me about reviewing their new 75-inch P-Series 4K HDR SmartCast TV for Residential Systems, I mentioned the offer to an industry colleague (who may or may not write for these pages), and the conversation that followed was, to say the least, interesting. And although its legs look stylish, they don’t provide anything in the way of cable management. The IR remote sensor is also inconveniently placed at the extreme left corner of the display. IP control with Control4 also requires a third-party driver, and there’s no provision for RS-232 control. Kudos: Vizio’s P75-F1 SmartCast TV is a great display overall, with great color and grayscale performance, no noticeable backlight blooming, and a simple design that should blend well with virtually any interior.Ĭoncerns: While the image is beautiful overall, you’ll occasionally notice some vertical stripes or dark streaks in very bright images or images with fast horizontal pans. ![]()
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