Vizio Introduces M-Series 4K TVs Starting At $599; Reference Lineup Includes Dolby Vision

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Must say, I didn't expect 4k to make that much of a difference, but I just picked up a 50" 4k Vizio 502-bu(?) and the picture is exquisite. I also own a 55" 820 series Sony 55". Makes me want to get a 65 or 70" for living room now...but I can wait. I am surprised to see how quickly 4k sets are coming down in price.
 
I am really excited to see 4K displays coming down in price. I have not had a traditional 'TV' in the house for nearly 8 years now (we have PCs with what was once considered 'large' 28" monitors), but am really interested in picking up UHD (not 4K) displays for both of the house computers in the next year or two. In all likelihood it will just run as UHD for desktop and movies, and 1080p for anything graphically intensive for the next few years as GPUs play catchup, but a 45-55" UHD TV would make a rather excellent monitor.
It will be curious to see if UHD displays will be easier to dumb down into a 'dumb display' mode rather than constantly trying to alter the input... also curious to see if win10 will play nicer with displays like TVs with more contrast than traditional monitors.

Oh... and to the author: It is Wireless ac, or 802.11ac, not a/c. 802.11a is no longer used anywhere, and 802.11c was never really 'a thing' in the consumer space.
 
I was in Best Buy the other day and saw (i think LG) OLED 4K TV, that was something else. Honestly it puts regular 4K to shame.

Geez you have to give these companies some credit, they keep innovating.
 
Must say, I didn't expect 4k to make that much of a difference, but I just picked up a 50" 4k Vizio 502-bu(?) and the picture is exquisite. I also own a 55" 820 series Sony 55". Makes me want to get a 65 or 70" for living room now...but I can wait. I am surprised to see how quickly 4k sets are coming down in price.
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Agreed. I thought that 4K/UHD was going to be the bread and butter maker for panel makers for the next 5-10 years, but the price is dropping so quickly that I don't see how they are going to keep their margins up for very long. When the first real products were introduced a mere 18 months ago a UHD display cost some $25,000, and now you can find some really nice displays in the $1-2,000 range, and decent budget panels well under $1,000. I thought I was not going to be able to afford one for a good 5 years after release, but now I am looking at picking up my first panel as soon as I finish being a full-time student and land a real job this fall. It is mind-blowing just how quickly UHD has caught on... I wonder just how much UHD BluRay discs are going to cost when they are released this fall. Will they be super expensive? Or will they drop in price just as quickly as the displays have?
 
I'm just excited that Vizio got rid of the God awful design of the logo tumor growing off the lower right hand side of the set. That was just plain stupid.
 
I was in Best Buy the other day and saw (i think LG) OLED 4K TV, that was something else. Honestly it puts regular 4K to shame.

Geez you have to give these companies some credit, they keep innovating.
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After like a decade of doing virtually nothing to innovate on top of being guilty of LCD price fixing yeah let's give them credit.

These should still be closer to $400's for a reasonable entry 4k 60Hz quality 40-45" display. It's say to say 4K being x4 1080p resolution should be reasonably cheaper to manufacturer than x4 separate 1080p displays so they should still come down in price a bit. I'm not jumping on the bandwagon just yet especially as GPU's need to play some catch up anyway in terms of relative performance at 4K.
 
"Rtings" did a review on these sets a little while ago. It does have great performance in many regards, and does indeed have hdmi 2.0. However, it does not have full 4:4:4 chroma support, and it does not handle motion all that well(Motion trails as they call it).
 
I wonder just how much UHD BluRay discs are going to cost when they are released this fall. Will they be super expensive? Or will they drop in price just as quickly as the displays have?
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I don't think they are going to be much more expensive than 3D Blu-Rays are. If they break the $39 barrier long term, they might as well kiss adoption goodbye. Besides, from what I hear upscaling from Blu-Ray 1080P to 4K is quite spectacular to begin with, so overpricing native 4K content would be a pretty big mistake.

Plus 4K workflow has existed for most of FHD Blu-Ray's life at production houses, so the tech to produce them has already been in place for a few years.
 
If i am buying a 4K TV it is Sony, Panasonic or Sharp. I have worked around TVs for years and those brands are light years ahead of the rest. I know they cost more, but they look far better and last longer than Samsung LG and Vizio
 
WOW!! For those of you wondering whether or not these TVs have HDMI 2.0.... They do! I just checked the Vizio website and their 55" P552ui-B2 model has one HDMI 2.0 port (Port 5) and four HDMI 1.4b ports (Ports 1 through 4):

http://www.vizio.com/p552uib2.html

I'm assuming that all of the other models have at least one HDMI 2.0 port. This is important because HDMI 2.0 can support 4K @ 60Hz refresh rate, whereas HDMI 1.4b is limited to 4K @ 30Hz. The bad news is that there isn't a DisplayPort at all. Not even a DisplayPort 1.2, let along 1.3 🙁
 
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