Vizio e601i-a3 temperature settings (very neutral picture with nice whites)

Good morning all, I just joined AVS forum after reading it for about a year and I have to say that everyone on here is very knowledgeable. I have a question, I just recently purchased a Vizio 60 LED e1i-a3, and have been messing with the temperature settings a little. Now before this TV I have been buying Panasonic plasmas, but I was unhappy with the shades of graduation on the lower end models. I am happy to say that the new Vizio is able to replicate shades of darkness much better, but I am curious about a few things.

Now I know that the Vizio LED is not able to replicate the intense sharp picture that the Panny plasma can, but I have to say after many hours of playing with the temperature settings and calibrating with the 709 calibration dvd for contrast and brightness, I have a very amazing picture for being a not top brand set. My question is does anyone else have this TV and have any better settings then I do?
The settings that follow provide a super deep picture with almost no bleed through of other colors. I noticed the main problem with this set is that it has an overwhelming blue hue that needed to be quenched before the blacks turned black.

Also if you have a Vizio 60" LED set please let me know your settings if you would be so kind and I will try them out to see if they look better then mine as well. Thank you all for your responses.



Backlight 100
Brightness 75
Contrast 70

Temperatures:
Red 100
Green 100
Blue 97
Edited by tehjackalobe - 11/13/12 at 8:52am

Not at all, I was actually amazed by it. I normally watch action blu rays and play video games with this TV and it is amazing. Everything is super fluid, to be honest, its better then the Panny plasma to my eyes. When you play a game with it it feels like it is running at 60 fps (haha, apart from any of game lag) and you get no feeling of that slow motion movie look. It truly is like a 60" computer monitor with TV capabilities.

I know I am going on quite a bit about this, but to give you an example, I am playing Dishonored right now. When you bring up the abilities and equipment wheel and rotate around the wheel, it blows my mind each time I do it with how fluid everything is.

Are you looking at buying this model?

Also on the side note, I have cinema smooth turned off (where it forces the 120 hz) but I have the motion smoother on high (it has two different options under the advanced settings). It does not affect the clarity of the picture but everything just runs so fluid with it on (as well as keeping the picture running at the speed it is supposed to). I would not recommend turning on the second option of the smoother where it forces the 120hz though because it does tend to degrade the picture slightly.

I need to make a correction. I recently got an update on my TV from Vizio. Now my "game mode" function works correctly on my TV and I have turned all the motion smoothers off. I contacted Vizio and they said that there is an issue with the motion smoother and the device that the TV is connected to. Originally I had said that I left the motion smoother on and the cinema smooth off and that worked great. But then every now and then when I would turn on the TV it would go all "soap opera" on me and I would have to turn off then on again the motion smoother. But after the update I have everything turned off except adaptive luma set to "low" and game mode is turned on. I found all the flickering is gone that was present with the motion smoother off, but you have to make sure to enable game mode.

I have to say the TV now, besides the 15 degree viewing angle, is absolutely one of the best deals you could get. There are still some uniformity issues still with really dark scenes like some light bleed through in the upper right hand corner, but for the price and the amazing color replication, this set is amazing.

I have noticed as well that this TV does wayyyyyyy better if you view it from below. By that I mean I have put the TV at a 15 degree upward slant and I have gained almost an extra 15 degrees in the side to side view. I have ordered a wall mount for this TV that should be in tomorrow so I am hoping that raising the TV up onto the wall to where we are looking up at it will create the same effect and maybe increase the viewing angle a little more.

These are my current PS3 settings in that format. As far as retina sear goes, I found with the color modifications and the ambient sensor on, the lower of the picture offsets the raise of the backlight. Sometimes I tend to turn on the Backlight control to OCR, but only if I have all the lights off and its a very bright show. I am not sure about the 70", but mine it is really hard to get those blues under control, they really wash out the blacks. This is somewhat of the deepest picture I have found.

Also if I may note, for my cable box, I have the settings a lot different then for the PS3. I completely understand of the picture being too bright for other devices like a DVD player or cable box. I will also post those settings too. I noticed that the high brightness for the PS3 is good, but I really had to tone it down for my cable box. You probably could tone the brightness down still a little more if its too bright, but I really like to try to get the most out of my picture for things such a dark dark shirts (to where you want to see the material, but its hard if you turn the brightness down too much). I did find that turning contrast down on the cable greatly helps prevent too much eye strain.

Hope this helps guys. Thanks for the replies.

PS3:

Picture settings menu---
Picture Mode: Standard
Backlight: 100
Brightness: 75
Contrast: 70
Color: 50
Tint: 0
Sharpness: 3
---Size & Position submenu---
[no change]
---Color Temperature submenu---
Colour temperature: Normal
Red Gain: 100
Green Gain: 100
Blue gain: 95
Red offset: 100
Green offset: 100
Blue offset: 95
--Advanced Picture submenu---
Smooth motion effect: Off
Real Cinema Mode: Smooth [grayed out]
Noise Reduction: Off
MPEG NR: Off
Color Enhancement: Off
Adaptive Luma: Strong
Film Mode: Off
Backlight Control: Off
Ambient Light sensor: High

Cable:

Picture settings menu---
Picture Mode: Standard
Backlight: 100
Brightness: 72
Contrast: 60
Color: 50
Tint: 0
Sharpness: 3
---Size & Position submenu---
[no change]
---Color Temperature submenu---
Colour temperature: Normal
Red Gain: 100
Green Gain: 100
Blue gain: 95
Red offset: 100
Green offset: 100
Blue offset: 95
--Advanced Picture submenu---
Smooth motion effect: Off
Real Cinema Mode: Smooth [grayed out]
Noise Reduction: Off
MPEG NR: Off
Color Enhancement: Off
Adaptive Luma: Medium
Film Mode: Off
Backlight Control: Off
Ambient Light sensor: High

Thats interesting, I will try those settings out. Thats funny that you got the P60U50 also, I had that right before this tv as well. The only problem I have found with this set is the uniformity. I really love this tv. Haha, I guess I am not being energy efficient with my settings. I really appreciate everyone commenting on this post, I wasn't sure if it was just me getting this tv.

Let me ask a question to you all, do you have a blueish tint to your picture with your settings? I have mine set on Normal picture, does turning it to movie turn the blueish tint down any for you? I just ask because I notice on your color settings you have the blue turned up.

Thank you all again.

Also I wanted to mention that I used the AVS HD download calibration dvd. I burned it as a AVCHD dvd

So far what I can tell is that when I don't have it enabled and the motion smoother is off I will get very bad ghosting on the screen. Then when I enable it it all goes away. I am guessing it forces the tv to run at 60hz with its lowest screen refresh time. I have it turned on for all my inputs and the smoother off. Hope this helps, I know it's not very scientific.

If anyone is interested, I scheduled BestBuy to come out and do their ISF TV calibration and I will post the settings for you all. (Don't worry, I didn't pay for it, it's a perk through their reward silver program)

I definitely will . He should be coming on Friday the 5th of January so I will give y'all a heads up once he has done his thing. Happy holidays to everyone and hope you have a great one.

Well everyone, the bestbuy guy came by today. Here are the numbers. My only criticism is that the picture I thought looked awfully warm. So, what I did is I thought that his brightness and contrast settings were spot on, and of course I can't help myself but mess about with the temperature settings. But here is what he did; feel free to mess with it to find your good picture settings.


Picture mode:
Custom
Backlight 80
Brightness 54
Contrast 65
Color 49
Tint 0
Sharpness 1

Color Temp:
Custom
Red Gain 104
Green Gain 128
Blue Gain 0
Red Offset 129
Green Offset 128
Blue Offset 134


Make sure to take these settings with a grain of salt. He hooked up his ISF machines and such and said it was measuring 6500K temperature perfectly, but it looked way to warm to me. So I fiddled about. Good luck everyone. Happy New Years.