think you've seen the latest vizio m-series tv review
well think again you actually probably haven't but you're about to
welcome back everyone i'm caleb dennison and today we're going to
unbox setup and get basic impressions on the what is this again vizio m70q
you know what i can go on a rant about how terrible tv naming conventions are
uh another time but right now we need to talk about this tv where it came from
and what's going on now you may recall that not that long ago about six months i did a review of
a vizio m65 q7-h1 television it was labeled as a 2021 tv and i thought that was it but apparently
it's not in fact the m7 and m8 2021 tvs are now discontinued and this is the replacement this is
the new m series and whether it's a 2021 or 2022 tv doesn't even matter this is the m series that
you can buy now the new one anyway so we're gonna get into this and see what's different see if
there's been any performance improvements over the last vizio m series we checked out but before any
of that happens we need to unbox this thing before we get into it let me know am i the only one who's
like kind of surprised that vizio just came out with a new m-series tv seemingly out of nowhere
let me know about that down in the comments let's talk about it and while you're down there
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thing
and here's everything that comes in the box pretty simple uh everything except
for these two legs are in this box you've got a remote with some batteries for it a couple
of clips for cable management some screws and just a little bit of product literature
this is so simple i almost don't need to show you foot slot screwing
so here we go back of the tv shot and i gotta say setup is going super easy so far i really hope
i'm not jinxing myself by saying that one thing i want to point out is the build quality on this tv
is far better than what i've seen from vizio in the past i realized that it's probably just
stamped metal but it's decent quality and there's not a whole lot of flex or play going on here
i like that because it kind of sends a message that maybe the entire tv has been built a little
bit better the other thing i'm noticing is that all of the hdmi ports are on this
side here one of which is a surprisingly bright green that would be the e-arc port
the other thing i'm noticing is that none of them are labeled 4k 120 hertz or otherwise so
we'll have to see what's up with that a little bit later now let's flip this thing around
you know what this is a pretty smart looking tv um i'm honestly i'm impressed considering this is
vizio sort of like midline they're right the sign was correct uh no bezels here at all in fact the
uh the case of the tv just kind of wraps around from the back so there is no bezel interestingly
there is a little bit of a space between the top of the glass of the screen and the top border not
a big deal a nice broad sort of strip along the bottom i could do without the shiny vizio logo
maybe make that matte black in the future physio i don't know the legs though really great placement
right toward the center and yet we still have some good stability on the tv wobble that's normal but
it is a stable platform so this is going to work great on even small entertainment cabinets overall
i'm super impressed so far so we've powered the tv on and we've got to go through the usual vizio
smartcast tv setup deal tell it that it is a home setup instead of a store setup for example one of
the big differences here is that you actually have to pair the remote to the tv and that is because
it is a bluetooth remote that means that you don't have to have line of sight to control the tv
which i like but it's also another bluetooth device in your home so you got to deal with that
anyway connect it to your network whether that's wi-fi or ethernet as we're doing it here it's
going to need to do an update after it restarts it'll do an update check hopefully you are done
at that point and then comes the part where you have to accept all the terms and conditions about
handling over all of your personal information i'll say the same thing i do for every tv unboxing
do this at your own risk if you don't allow it to send information back which is supposed to
be kind of anonymous then you're not going to get very good suggestions for content and since it's
advertising to you all the time personally i'd rather it be targeted than just really random
but you make the call that you're comfortable with just understand what you're doing when you
start accepting all these terms and conditions and issuing permission for your personal data
to be transmitted and then we are at the home screen and man it's already cycling through
all kinds of stuff at the very top if i have to complain about smartcast that's really it
the very top of the screen really almost the entire top half is basically advertising to you
and it kind of flips through stuff i'm not a huge fan of that then you get yourself another row of
trending content again this is not really targeted at you it's just stuff that people are watching
third row finally you get to the apps which we'll dig into in just a moment first thing i need to
do is go into the settings menu we'll pull that up and we're going to go into system first why
because it's in eco mode so we go into the power mode and i'm going to choose quick start because
really this tv does take quite a bit of time to get started up now that eco mode actually doesn't
have anything to do with your picture quality or picture settings uh that's an entirely different
drill so we'll go into that by default it's set up as bright we also have options for vivid
sports game which is suspiciously dim that's weird calibrated dark calibrated which is probably where
we're going to land right back to bright if we go down a bit we'll notice that color temperature is
at normal that's typical for anything that you would consider a standard mode go into advanced
picture settings and you can see we have settings for active full array that's the full array local
dimming settings also local contrast that's going to try to enhance the contrast of the tv we'll
futz around with this stuff a little bit later gamma interestingly enough is set to 2.1 i suppose
that's about what you would expect for a bright or standard setting but i want to go back as you guys
know i'm going to go straight for what's going to be the most accurate and that would be calibrated
calibrated dark probably a little bit darker than i want considering i have studio lights going on
in here right now i like that the ambient light sensor is off for this particular setting and that
color temperature is set to warm as expected go into advanced picture settings and it looks like
local contrast is turned off so that kind of faked contrast is disabled by default for a calibrated
mode that's what i would expect active full array is at medium we'll leave it there but we want to
check out what kind of differences we see between low medium and high already i can tell you that
low is quite a bit dimmer than medium is now let's go into motion control clear action is turned off
which is great but what's weird is that this is the only setting under motion we've covered this
before this is basically black frame insertion and it will introduce flicker what i'm concerned
about is that i don't get to turn off motion interpolation so if motion smoothing is on for
24 frame per second content i'm gonna be upset uh if it makes 30 frames per second content look
more like 60 frames per second not gonna dig that either finally gamma it's set for 2.1 i'm
gonna leave it here but 2.2 is actually what you're gunning for if you want a more accurate
setup well that takes care of the home screen what happens if we pop into an app so i've popped into
netflix and i've started an sdr title i'll go into settings we've paused here so we don't get flagged
and we're in calibrated picture mode that's great so it looks like it's carried over
my picture settings from the home screen into apps that's great we'll double check that it's done
the same for hdmi inputs in a moment but since sdr looks to be all set let's check out dolby vision
we're now in a dolby vision title we'll click the settings menu go into picture
settings and we're in dolby vision calibrated mode there's also a calibrated dark available
adobe vision game sports vivid bright the usual so we'll stick with calibrated mode just double
check some other stuff here dolby's usually really good about setting standards and if we
go into motion control clear action still turned off gamma's still at 2.1 which is interesting
all right wow this really doesn't require a whole lot of setup at all which is great
because i really thought i'd jinx myself earlier so i'll click the input button and it looks
like it's already labeled our 4k blu-ray player we'll pop into that now what's cool is i didn't
even have to go turn on cec but it's automatically already controlling the blu-ray player so that's
great integration so we'll go ahead and pop into the picture settings and it looks like by default
it's in hdr 10 bright we'll move to calibrated here so it does look like you do need to go
into at least one of your hdmi inputs and select some picture settings there so we've
taken care of hdr in this case we would do the same for dolby vision and also the same for sdr
all right so first impressions they're pretty good and that was before i checked out the price
of this tv from 50 to 75 inches talk about competitive this is definitely way better
than the m series of last year that's a great start right off the bat i did notice a couple of
things though this tv does have an achilles heel i think so we're gonna have to dig into that but i
know enough now to say you are definitely going to want to check out the full review because i think
you're going to be shocked by what you hear thanks as always for watching everyone
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