From adjusting your picture settings to perfectly setting the ambiance for a movie night to enabling game mode for smoother gameplay, each one is meant to improve your home entertainment system. Today, we're looking at the seven basic settings and features you can tweak to improve the picture, sound quality, and overall performance of your TV. From the right kind of adjustments to bring your favorite digital worlds to life, you'll enjoy the minimum latency and breathtaking visuals.

Laggy response times and lackluster visuals can quickly ruin your entertainment experience, but fortunately, Vizio's solutions are easy to implement and effective. It’s a very good TV that at least one of my friends is quite happy with.Just as people have various reasons to turn on the TV, whether for community building, a break from reality, or just to pass the time, there are Vizio Smart TV features to meet your viewing needs and preferences. There are a few interface and file-support shortcomings, but nothing of consequence to the average user. In a nutshell, the M65-C1 delivers as good an overall picture as anything in its price range, and it compares well with units costing as much as $500 more. If your content comes via Apple TV, Roku, or Amazon Fire TV, then this a TV you should consider. Smooth as a baby’s behind and no motion artifacts that I could discern. On the other hand, the Vizio came up aces when displaying content input to the TV via HDMI. If you like to download stuff onto a hard drive and play it back on your TV, this not the product for you. The major photo and music types, such as JPEG and MP3 are supported, but there are similar omissions among the less well-known. The H.264 files on my USB SSD, however, would not play, nor would 60-frames-per-second h.265 files, any DivX, or any QuickTime files. It’s difficult to know which codec a streaming service is using, so I’ll take Vizio’s word that when h.264 is streamed, the M65-C1 will play it. My main gripe about the M65-C1, however, is its limited CODEC support when playing files from a USB storage device. Indeed, one of my first assignments in 8086 machine language way, way back in the day was to develop a scrolling list. PeccadilloesĪll that said, there are a few minor interface annoyances, such as having to page-left and -right through file lists rather than simply scroll as does nearly every other interface in existence. There are also web browsers, note-taking apps, etc. The M-series interface may not have the cachet of Android, webOS, or Firefox, but by and large it’s just about as easy to use (with some minor exceptions), and nearly all the big streaming services-including Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, et al-are represented in the apps selection. The M65-C1 strobes its LED (only 32 in this case) backlights to eliminate motion artifacts in fast action sequences. Now I’m not telling you won’t do better with a sound bar and subwoofer, but I wouldn’t say it’s strictly necessary either. I didn’t have any real issues with it other than it sounding just a tad muffled. The sound emanating from the M65-C1 is better than many TVs-there’s some actual low frequencies present. It fails as badly as every other LED-array TV if you feed it the wrong test pattern, but I saw zero issues with real content where it contributed greatly to the better-than-average (for the price) contrast. It’s one of the better implementations I’ve seen. The M65-C1 uses a 32-zone backlight array with local dimming. I pretty much set it on vivid and left it there. Contrast is good if not great, and there are tweaks for the image up the wazoo, including a calibration grid if you want to go whole hog. The screen uniformity (no dark or bright areas) exceeds that of any TV in TechHIve’s recent roundup outside of the much smaller 50-inch class Samsung UF-9500. Beyond that, the picture is very, very good. That’s no knock on Vizio, it’s simply what the technology delivers. With no quantum dots, OLEDs, or other color-enhancing tricks in play, the M65-C1 has the slightly cold color palette that accompanies a straight LED backlighting system. My only other extremely minor issue was spotting the rather tiny input button the first time out. Kind of the reason we have standards, you know? Other than the disappointing keyboard, the remote is nicely designed. It’s annoying when things are non-standard. For instance, hitting the Enter key on the remote selects the character under the on-screen cursor rather than issuing a carriage return. I had high expectations for said keyboard, but apparently the implementation varies from app to app, and I did not like the way it interacted with the on-screen keyboard. The M65 remote functions well as such, but our high hopes for the keyboard found on back were doused by an uneven and illogical implementation.

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