![]() (Can you tell that baseball season just started?) With HD content, the VM60P consistently hits for extra bases. Standard definition programs can be like wicked curve balls. ![]() O.K., we'll stop with the sports metaphors. Perhaps VIZIO's self admonition that they print on their box says it best, "This VIZIO TV is optimized for HDTV, without an HD source, it's just an ordinary TV." And at five feet, it can reveal that ordinariness in a grand manner. Now, I've received emails chastising me for not holding VIZIO's feet to the fire and demanding that they make a TV that does a great job of displaying SD material. From my viewpoint, I admire VIZIO for their candor. If they touted their HDTVs as great handlers of SD material and didn't deliver, then it would be my duty to kindle a blaze. ![]() With that said, this plasma does not do a bad job with SD. But occasionally, it looks like chopped liver. HD material, on the other hand, can look great and in glorious 60". Though don't expect the fine detailed sharpness that a 1080p TV can provide. This Maximus was the first TV that really tested the limits of the two of us lifting it out of the box and maneuvering it onto its table. At 179 pounds, this HDTV demands at least a couple of strong backs and a sturdy resting place. If you are planning to hang it on a wall, make sure your mount is firmly attached to stout studs. With the VM60P, VIZIO has departed from its usual palette of a black bezel and silver speakers. This plasma sports a brushed copper bezel. To maintain a svelte profile, VIZIO enclosed the pair of 20W speakers inside the bezel below the screen. Since they point downward, a snap-on translucent sound reflector is included, which directs the sound out to the audience. The control buttons are inset on the left side. The only adornment on the front is an illuminated VIZIO that changes from yellow to white when the TV is turned on. The other way that you can tell this TV is switched on is by the noise it makes when this colossus is running. It's not loud or distracting, but you do get the impression that there's some heavy lifting going on inside to present a 60" image. Once again, the connectors are located on the back of the TV facing downward. Now we have complained about this ad nauseum and with smaller TVs, the location has been more of an annoyance. With this unit, it is definitely an obstacle. If you place your TV on a stand near the wall, with a lighter model, it is fairly easy for one person to maneuver it so you can reach around back and attach a cable. With a 180 pound monster, swiveling is not a one person task. ![]() Even if you do turn it at an angle, reaching around a five foot screen is a job for the limber and long armed.Īt least, once you traverse back there, you are greeted with the most HDMI connectors (4) that we have seen on a TV. Adding to the mix are a stereo pair of Audio inputs, (which are linked to the HDMIs), two Component inputs (YPbPr) with matching stereo Audio Ins, two Composite (with Audio), two S-Video (with Audio), one VGA (15 pin D-Sub) with a stereo Audio In mini-plug, and a Service port.Īlso on the panel is a stereo pair of analog Audio Outs, which is unamplified. So you would connect them to your home theater receiver and not directly to a set of external speakers. In addition, an SPDIF (optical) digital Audio Out is provided and is active when you are receiving digital audio from programs from the tuner input (see below). If you are bypassing the TV's speakers, you can turn them off in the Audio Settings menu.
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