Vizio E601-A3 Owners Thread - Page 62

Originally Posted by montecore 

Was anything wrong with your 46? I have a 46 from Costco as well? It has been running like a champ since 1/7/13. I hate to box this up and haul it back to Costco since the TV has been perfect from day one.[/quote

you dont have to box it up, when i took mine back, i took it off the wall and threw it in the back of the van...pulled right up to the front of the store and had one of the guys help me with it....5 minutes later i was standing in line with a new one....

Originally Posted by wb5dx 

Well, it did seem to help! All of the variations have exhibited pretty good detail - except in the shadows. I wonder what "football" has that "custom" or "movie" does not, even when the other settings are the same. Although a new quirk occurred; while experimenting with the various settings on different channels, the screen went blank and then the tv just shut off.

I did look at a couple of video reviews and they showed the shadows as almost completely black as well.

I will keep experimenting. Any further suggestions would be appreciated.

Originally Posted by korkster 

I picked one up this past weekend at Costco. It's at home, still in the box as I had to leave on a business trip later that afternoon. I saw earlier that Costco had sent a bunch of them back to Vizio, but the highest serial number i could find was 45, and they had a large stack of them out on the floor, so this store hasn't sent them back. I guess I'll have to wait and see how this one does. I am appreciative of those of you who have posted your good experiences. The negative talk can sometimes be overwhelming and make a person paranoid.

Originally Posted by terrible_buddhis 

The version I came up with was 2.31.447?

Originally Posted by thrustbucket 

I forgot to mention that my new 04 serial number set came preinstalled with 1.15, which makes me think it was manufactured in like the last 2 weeks.

Originally Posted by elkabong16 

I have a 45 also, but everything seems to be going great even though I've only had it running for a bit over a month. It does have those flashlight issues on the lower right/left corners, but it isn't a deal breaker. It seems to be a universal issue, but isn't distracting. In fact, I really don't notice them unless it is white screen or solid light color. Overall, the uniformity of illumination is surprisingly good for a screen of this size.

Originally Posted by korkster 

Don't know if this is the right place to ask, but I'm gonna put this thing on a wall. Is there any consensus on a good flat screen mount? Are those advertised on Amazon sufficient? The price is right.

Originally Posted by thrustbucket 

I forgot to mention that my new 04 serial number set came preinstalled with 1.15, which makes me think it was manufactured in like the last 2 weeks.

Originally Posted by Internet2 

Does seem you have one of the newest ones out.

Just asking did all the serial numbers match?

The TV has it in the menu as you know, plus on outside of box, small label on rear of TV and the small box for the remote even has it.

Originally Posted by korkster 

Don't know if this is the right place to ask, but I'm gonna put this thing on a wall. Is there any consensus on a good flat screen mount? Are those advertised on Amazon sufficient? The price is right.

Originally Posted by korkster 

Thanks. Hopefully you have continued success and mine follows suit. I'm looking forward to getting this set up.

Originally Posted by iautotron 

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Vizio just called me to let me know they had received the Best Buy receipt I faxed them last Friday (just to get it in their files and have it on record in the event of any issues down the road - I also faxed one to Square Trade).

Anyway, during the course of conversation I found out two things (perhaps what many of you already know):

1) The Serial Number sequence (e.g. SN49, SN50, SN51) represents the week it was built last year 2012 (49th week, 50th week, etc).

So, thrustbucket, whom I quoted in my last post with a SN04, that set was built the last week of January 2012., while mine with SN50 was built in week 50, or the second week of December 2012.

2) According to the rep I spoke with, of all the Vizio E601-A3s "out there", there is a failure rate of "less than 3%")...ergo, 97 of 100 built have no technical issues.

Interesting stuff!

Gene

Originally Posted by iautotron 

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Vizio just called me to let me know they had received the Best Buy receipt I faxed them last Friday (just to get it in their files and have it on record in the event of any issues down the road - I also faxed one to Square Trade).

Anyway, during the course of conversation I found out two things (perhaps what many of you already know):

1) The Serial Number sequence (e.g. SN49, SN50, SN51) represents the week it was built last year 2012 (49th week, 50th week, etc).

So, thrustbucket, whom I quoted in my last post with a SN04, that set was built the last week of January 2012., while mine with SN50 was built in week 50, or the second week of December 2012.

2) According to the rep I spoke with, of all the Vizio E601-A3s "out there", there is a failure rate of "less than 3%")...ergo, 97 of 100 built have no technical issues.

Interesting stuff!

Gene

Originally Posted by korkster 

Don't know if this is the right place to ask, but I'm gonna put this thing on a wall. Is there any consensus on a good flat screen mount? Are those advertised on Amazon sufficient? The price is right.

Originally Posted by Internet2 

So in other words the sn 04 is the newest one out. Built last week of January 2013.

Originally Posted by Steve6611 

I bought the Cheetah mount from Amazon and couldn't be more pleased. For $27, you get a mount that is less than an inch and a half thich, but is very sturdy--the E601-A3 looks like a picture frame once mounted on the wall! Not only that, but they throw in a 10 foot braided HDMI cable and a level to boot! Hard to beat for that price!

Originally Posted by iautotron 
So, thrustbucket, whom I quoted in my last post with a SN04, that set was built the last week of January 2012., while mine with SN50 was built in week 50, or the second week of December 2012.

Originally Posted by iautotron 

Going by my conversation with Vizio this morning, I believe that would be the case.

Which would also answer my question in an earlier post today as to whether the SNs were "starting over".

In effect the answer is "yes" they would apparently begin with SN01 for the first week of January this year, 2013.

In other words, there won't be an SN53. (if someone says they have an SN53, then I'll really be perplexed

Gene

Originally Posted by Internet2 

gene..thanks for giving us all here that info you got from Vizio..explains a lot.

Did you happen to ask the tech at Vizio why the change in the letters? Another poster asked this here..I was thinking it meant change of the year.

Its WAN for most here and the poster who asked about the difference of them said his is a WAP..I was thinking the WAN with the n meaning year 2012 and WAP with p meaning 2013..just a guess. No use of the letter "O" I suppose because it will also look like a number so they skipped it maybe.

Could be where they are made too...have slightest idea so never replied to the poster who asked.

Originally Posted by thrustbucket 

I have the 04 and it is prefaced with WAP. I would really like to know what it means as well. All the 04's on the pile at costco were WAP while all the 49's were WAN.

Originally Posted by montecore 

Was anything wrong with your 46? I have a 46 from Costco as well? It has been running like a champ since 1/7/13. I hate to box this up and haul it back to Costco since the TV has been perfect from day one.