- It's here.
The Vizio P Series Quantum X 2021, has finally arrived.
This is the TV that enthusiasts are expecting
to leave budget competitors like TCL and Hisense in the dust
while even punching up-market, against the premium sets
from brands like Samsung and Sony.
It's got full featured HDMI 2.1 ports.
Yes, my friends, 48 gigabit per second.
2,800 nit peak brightness HDR.
I'm expecting to be basically blinded
if I get too close to it.
And all kinds of great inbuilt features like,
Chromecast, for example.
But can the real world experience hold up to all of that?
Can't or can it?
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I wanna start, like I always do, at the back.
- Oh my God.
- All things considered, for a full array local dimming set,
it's not that thick.
- Hmm.
You can also see where they cut corners
to make their aggressive $3,000 price point.
- Plastic chassis. How many zones is it though?
- This is the 75 inch version, 480 zones.
- That's not bad. - $2,000.
The 86 inch version, which is new this year,
$3,000, 792 zones.
- That's crazy.
- And that one's brighter. That one actually is 3,000 nits.
And oddly enough, the 65 inch is also 3,000 nits.
It's only this 75 inch that is 2,800.
- 200 nits short. Darn it Vizio.
- I don't know why.
- We got power over here
and then way the smack over on the other side,
we got everything else.
Your ethernet, your antenna, left and right audio.
Okay, HDMI times four.
So, only two of them are 4K 120 Hz, that's HDMI 2.1.
Still got that composite input,
optical and one USB port only.
Can we just take a moment to marvel though,
that a 75 inch HDR TV is two grand?
It depends on if the HDR is actually,
I'm expecting it to be good, 480 zones.
Can we jump right into that?
Hold on a second, before we do that,
I need to make a little comment here.
This, this thing, this is getting out of control.
I get it, there's money to be made for Vizio
that helps to subsidize the cost of the TV,
but I don't need a Netflix, Vudu, Prime Video,
Redbox, Hulu, Xumo, I mean, what's next?
(beep) button? (cymbal clangs)
Are these reconfigurable at least?
- Usually, you'd have to get another app,
but there's not even an app store on here.
So, I think you're probably SOL.
- That means (beep) out of luck.
- I love the OSD on this thing. It's so highly configurable.
It is for enthusiasts.
- I really like this 'cause it's like,
if you're ever wondering like, is my shiz working?
The answer is, well,
as long as your shiz is Stereo PCM, then, yes.
Picture mode, bright, calibrate, oh.
- So, calibrate, we shouldn't make too many comments
about the color because this is an early engineering sample.
And they said that one of the things that was early about it
was how calibrated it would be.
- Got it, okay.
Did they recommend bright? Is that why we're using that one?
- [James] I think that's just the default.
- Yeah. We're not gonna use the ambient light sensor.
That's gonna be a little unfair.
- Some of the advanced options are really sweet.
You can actually get down to judder reduction,
what I wanna try with you in a minute,
but you can also just totally calibrate it.
Go all the way down.
Color calibration.
- Color tuner.
Hey, there you go. - Thank you.
- Why doesn't everybody just do this?
All right, input.
What's WatchFree?
Okay. Now I have to know.
It's on my remote.
It's the second thing in the input menu.
- [James] I think that's like-
- Ooh, lame.
Nothing region locked
should be having a dedicated button on the remote.
- What do you think of that remote?
- It's okay. I like the soft-touch feel.
The weighting is kinda weird,
like, if I ever actually used the buttons,
it's really top-heavy.
Yeah, it's not that ergonomic, but realistically,
I don't use my TV remote that much, so, it's fine.
- [James] How about the tactility?
- I'd say the D-pad is very good,
but the other buttons are like, I'd say, okay.
Ah, that's not bad.
So, where you don't have that really, really sharp line
between your bright object, like the moon
and your black object, like the night sky.
It's not too shabby.
- [James] I notice a lot of judder on the rotating earth.
- Yeah.
Oh, wow, that is a lot.
- [James] We can adjust the judder setting.
- Okay, so, judder reduction.
- Judder reduction's probably gonna make it picture darker
because it's probably black frame insertion,
like, just strobing black in between.
It's better. - That looks a lot better.
So, this is midway, this is at five.
- There is still some judder,
but it's not like sickening like it was.
- No, it's like cinematic now.
It's not like disgusting and looks like a mistake.
It just looks more filmic.
I'm totally okay with the way that it is now.
I can't say that I'm blown away by the brightness.
- Now, that 2,800 nit spec
is only on a 10% patch of the screen.
It can't even do that on a whole screen flash.
- Yeah, it wouldn't. - As far as I know.
- It's more like 800 or something like that.
- Well, sustained brightness across the whole thing is 800,
which is fine.
- Still leaves an OLED in the dust.
- So, one of the main issues on the PQX last year
was banding, and one of the famous examples online
that someone used was this red background
and the Snoke scene of "The Last Jedi".
- This actually looks really smooth.
Now, I'm getting a little bit of halo effect
around his hand here with the light reflecting off of it.
But it's not distracting in any way, from the image.
And I really don't see anything that stands out to me
as a problem here.
- As far as banding you mean? - Yeah.
Ooh. - Whoa.
- I tend to be a little more forgiving of these halo effects
around text 'cause that's not, it's not the content.
I find it distracting and annoying,
but I try to put it out of my mind
because you don't buy a TV to read the news on it, you know?
- There's your full array local dimming.
Oh, and I can see,
it's not just the fact that there's a big halo
around the small object.
Can you see that, Linus? - Yeah.
- Around the ball, there's this little dirty-
- [Linus] It looks like a comet.
It looks like there's like a-
- [James] An outer orbit.
- [Linus] Like an outer ice kind of thing.
- [James] Wait till the ball gets bigger.
- [Linus] Like there's like a blue discoloration
and there's like a brown discoloration.
- [James] See that? Right there, okay.
When it's moving slowly-
- [Linus] Yeah, it's almost less useful when-
- [James] This white edge is fine when it's moving slowly,
but once this picks up in speed,
you'll see that the leading edge will kind of brownify.
See that? - It's like a brown moon.
But like, come on. Were we expecting it to be an OLED?
- No. - It's a fraction of the cost.
- The colors look really good, and in fact,
this actually will have better colors than an OLED.
It'll have brighter colors
and a wider coverage of the gamut.
Previously, the last year's model had 85% coverage
of the Rec. 2020 color gamut
due to the quantum dot enhancement film that's in there.
And OLEDs do not have that.
- One of the big use cases for this TV,
from my perspective though, is gaming,
since it's one of the first sets you can get your hands on
that will have official support for 4K at 120 Hz
to go with those shiny, new graphics cards
that are right around the corner.
So, before we switch over to the PC,
I think we should take a moment to appreciate
how much snappier the OSD feels
compared to their previous TVs.
Like, this is actually pretty responsive.
- Yeah, it used to be really bad,
then there was a firmware update that made it better.
But I think the new model is even better than that.
Oh God, why?
(laughs loudly)
- Ooh, you have to register.
- Okay, don't judge the banding on this background,
it's just a badly compressed background.
- This feels like I'm at 60 Hz right now though.
I sure am.
Okay, so, I'm gonna have to probably drop down to 1440p
because unfortunately,
there aren't any HDMI 2.1 graphics cards yet.
So, there are adapters to go from DisplayPort 1.4
to HDMI 2.1, in fact, James has one right there
because we tried it.
Unfortunately, we were not able to get that working
on our pre-production model because.
- The HDMI 2.1 4K 120 ports on this unit right here,
aren't working right now because of firmware,
but they'll work for you.
Just bear in mind, if you do use one of these,
you're gonna need a supporting graphics card
that has display stream compression 1.2.
- Okay, so, that's RTX or AMD cards, 2019 and newer.
So, just like we talked about with the Samsung Odyssey G9.
Counter-Terrorist, gonna win.
(mimics gunshots)
- So, because this is a VA or Vertical Alignment LCD panel,
what we're looking for here is smearing,
particularly of black values.
If you're in a dark area and you move around quickly,
things like the edges of walls and stuff,
things that are black, can smear,
or if they're not gonna smear,
it's because there's gonna be a lot of pixel overdrive.
And in that case, you can get overshoot,
which is gonna be like a white kind of corona, they call it.
- [Linus] Not bad, I can see it a little bit on these ones.
- Oh yeah, there it is. - Yeah.
I would describe the input lag as, pretty darn good.
Like, I'm gaming on this for sure, boys.
Obviously, this is a terrible experience
being this close to it, but this a wired keyboard and mouse.
This is interesting.
Most of the image quality evaluation that we've done
has been with devices that are plugged in via HDMI.
But of course, there is an ethernet jack on the TV,
and you might think plugging into a wired connection
is going to give you, well,
more reliable service with something like Netflix,
but go ahead and hit play on that, would you, James?
- [James] Well, let's try to load it up.
- So, load times are quick, you might say,
"Oh well, that's fantastic."
Except that if you look even marginally closer at this image
I would be surprised
if this is higher than equivalent to about 480p.
It does not look good.
And surprisingly, we had this playing
for as long as three minutes at a time
and it never snapped into 1080p or actually,
I'm subscribed to the 4K tier.
That's sure ain't 4K.
- You ever see this movie? - Still terrible. Yeah.
- [James] How good is it?
- Oh, I didn't see, wait, no, I did see "Wonder Woman".
- Is it good enough to cover on Carpool Critics,
our movie podcast?
- Shameless.
What I actually wanna do is go back on wifi.
We got only three megabit per second on the wired connection
and we're still getting three megabit per second
on the wireless connection.
- We were getting 10 times that
when we used Nvidia Shield wired.
So, it's not our internet here.
- No, We were getting a hundred times that,
this is only three. - Oh God.
It's really annoying because even LG's OLEDs
have chipsets that only cap out at 100 megabit per second.
These are high-end TVs. They really should upgrade them.
This has been a problem for multiple generations now.
- Hopefully that'll improve
with the final hardware and software.
Look at this.
- Otherwise, you're gonna have to factor in the cost
of something like a Shield or Roku or Fire Stick.
- Okay, so, what's our bottom line here?
You're saving some money on the display.
I mean, this is an incredible amount of technology
packed into a 75 inch display for $2,000.
That's something that we really can't forget here,
but obviously, you are making some compromises.
The good news is that you can make up for some of 'em
after the fact.
Like for example, you pair something like this
with an Nvidia Shield
where you don't have to rely on Vizio's upscaling,
or Vizio's network connection,
and you can use Nvidia's AI upscaling,
and their networking connection and like all of a sudden,
you're looking at, wow, that's a big old TV.
Now, I wasn't a huge fan
of the way the fast moving white objects
were not handled very well
by the full array local dimming backlight,
but, (sighs) unless you wanna pony up for an OLED,
there's gonna be some compromises there.
- If this is your picture quality range and your price range
then it's a good way to future-proof,
at least for probably, 10 years, your setup.
Because when you get your new console, it's gonna work.
- It's gonna be ready to go.
- 4K 120. - 4K 120 PC.
- And this is one of the first sets in North America
to support all the major HDR standards;
HLG, HDR10, HDR10+ and Dolby Vision.
- So, you can find it
down at the link in the video description where I'm sure,
James will also embed the latest episode of Carpool Critics,
'cause he's shameless like that.
And you know what I'm shameless about?
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If you guys enjoyed this video, maybe you would enjoy
the one where we checked out some smaller budget TVs
that were more in like the 500, $600 price range, I think.
- [James] Canadian, they were like four.
- Super, super affordable TVs,
if this is still a little rich for your blood.
- Smaller though. - They are smaller though.
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