I should note that this model has HDMI 2.1 ports-an earlier 2021 M-Series model came with HDMI 2.0 ports, but that's been remedied here. Watching darker shows like Stranger Things and The Mandolorian, I noticed that everything still manages to look crisp and clean, with just a touch of light bloom (where you get a halo around bright objects on dark backgrounds). Vizio’s expertise with the tech is fully on display with this new M-Series. Local dimming isn’t as good as with organic LED, or “OLED” technology, where each pixel is its own backlight, but it definitely still improves contrast quality. In super dark scenes, some of the 32 zones of the backlighting are able to hit different brightnesses, so you get less gray and something closer to black. The company's local dimming backlighting tech can turn off or dim based on the content that's playing. So you're not getting razor-thin looks here, but you do get Vizio’s excellent backlighting technology and iQ processing engine. That's not going to work in every living room.Īll of this is because Vizio’s entire business model is to take top-tier technology and put it into something affordable. It has legs out near the ends, rather than a center pedestal, which means you’ll need a stand that’s about as long as the TV itself. You’ll want to wall-mount this one unless you have a big TV stand.

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