Vizio E701i-A3 Owners Thread - Page 21

Based mine on Derricks. Just tweaked them slightly.
Picture mode - movie
Backlight 74
Brightness 62
Contrast 77
Color 48
Tint 0
Sharpness 4
Color temp normal
Red gain 109
Green gain 118
Blue gain 118
Red offset 128
Green ofset 128
Blue offset 128
Smooth motion off
Noise reduc off
Color enhancement normal
Adaptive off
Film auto
Backlight control off
Ambient light off

Serial number srarts with Lftrnxap0304
Edited by poop-dog - 2/2/13 at 2:29pm

If you want to see how good this TV is watch the ESPN X games. The colors and movement

Sorry. It was post 572. Also I've spent several hours today using dozens of different combinations and have another setting for anybody to try that wants to. I'll post it in a few minutes. I like it a bit better because it makes the indoor scenes on regular TV shows a bit brighter. Especially shows like Elementary and CSI:NY (lots of scenes inside the lab) and Blue Bloods (lots of scenes inside the Chiefs office).

Seems everyone has there settings for Backlight and Brightness set far past 50 ..... I myself am not a fan of the overly bright screen ... just washes out the colors and it doesn't look good IMHO.

I keep mine below 50 (still tweaking but I like backlight at 40 and brightness at 49 right now) ... I think I have been playing around with the 40-50 range for both settings (backlight being less then brightness).

Users seems to stay in 60's and 70's ... CNet has there's in the 50-60 range which is not to bad.

I like Derrecks settings (which are mostly based on CNets settings) ... but those two settings (backlight/brightness) had to be dropped a lot to make it better.

Hep Poop Dog ... noticed you are missing the Blue Gain ... also saw you had the Green Gain higher then most everyone else ... gonna have to see how that looks as well.

FYI again: My serial is LFTRNXAN51

Lets all keep in mind I think different settings for different TV's react and look different. From what I read one guy can have the same settings as another but have different issues and problems with the PQ. I think different serials comes down to how different the panels are manufactured when they come out of the factory and just tend to have reactions to certain settings that others may not have.

Overall I think we should just start with the CNet settings and tweak them to what the users have tried and come to our own conclusion.

I am really relying on other for the Red/Blue/Green settings ... the CNET ones looks damn good to me so far ... I just don't know where exactly to tweak these for a more natural and true to life color and look (they may be perfect right now with CNet I'm just not sure).

LOL ... how in the world did I miss that?!?!

I'll give them a try ... I see your RBG settings are far different then others ... will give em' a try.

I am not a fan of any other advanced settings as of late ... I keep all of mine off.

Love all these settings to try ... keep em' coming.

I played with the HD709 disc again today. I had some non optimal settings on the PS3 that was causing clipping of white and black

Two settings that are definite for me are

Brightness 50
Contrast 74

I like to adjust the back-light based on the room so I'll have two modes that are the same accept for backlight.

My Disney WOW disc should be here Monday. For kicks I made a blue filter with water and blue food coloring. I adjusted tint and color based on this. I'll see how close it compares to an actual blue filter that comes with my disk.

My liquid blue filter resulted in:
color 51
tint -1

RG 104
GG 124
BG 116

RO 128
GO 128
BO 128

The sharpness pattern allowed me to go up to 3 without artifact. I seem to like the backlight around 60.

I've noticed flashlighting has started to develop in the corners the more I use the set. On the 100% white pattern I can see some non uniformity on the screen. There is a 5" band just to the left of center that runs from almost top to bottom. There also appears to be a region in the middle of the screen that has a slightly different color than the rest of the panel. It's barely noticeable on the white screen. Not enough to take it back to Costco, but i wanted to let everyone know that my 3rd set is not perfect (serial 50).

I'll be looking forward to trying Dpiantino's final settings after calibration with the WOW disc. Of all the adjustments I've tried it seems like two make a obvious difference in PQ. I suggest that when you try any mode change these two settings around and see what you think. The settings are "Color Temp", and Adaptive Lumina". The last gives a more subtle but noticeable change

Mode Movie
Back 61
Brt 60
Cont 62
Col +35
Tint -4
Sharp +8
Color Temp Cool
All Gain & All Offset 128
Advanced Pic
SME High
RCM Precision
NR High
MPEG NR High
CE Off
Advanced Lumina Strong
Film Mode Auto
BC Off
ALS Off

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Hep Poop Dog ... noticed you are missing the Blue Gain ... also saw you had the Green Gain higher then most everyone else ... gonna have to see how that looks as well.).[/quote]

Added it to my post.

Is anybody happy with motion? Especially close ups of faces. As soon as they move sideways the skin texture blurs It's especially bad with a guy with a beard. I've tried every combination possible with motion enhancement from off to high.

Reset does not solve the problem. Clearing the memory doesn't solve the problem. I understand why everyone thinks its the magic cure but in this case it is not.

I'm quoting myself so everyone can see the before and after. The above is with the HD709 and a blue filter made with water and blue food color. Below is with the Disney WOW disk.

I'm a bit disappointed by the fact that unless you have a meter to measure gray value and color there is only so much that you can do as far as "knowing" you have it right.

Mainly: brightness, contrast, color, and tint.

The WOW disc does offer some nice still images to dial in the RGB gain to your liking. Messing with the RGB offsets proved to be pointless. It messed up my blacklevel settings. If you dial down the RGB offset, you have to increase the brightness to get proper black level back. I thought I was on to something when I dialed in a 2.2 gamma using the disk with the RGB offset. The I found out i was really just making everything darker. Too dark

Nice tutorials, and disney movie clips that look fantastic.

There are two avenues to take with contrast. Allow nothing to show above true white, or follow the HD709 and allow visibility up to 244. The following settings don't show contrast above true white. If I allow the 244 whites to show, then the contrast has to be dialed back 3 points. I'll list my bright room and night settings. They aren't really different. I think LED is so damn bright, that you don't really suffer during the day.

Backlight: 58 night 35
Brightness: 51 ; 50
Contrast: 79 ; 80
Color: 51 ; 51
Tint: -1 ; -1
Sharpness: 3 ; 3 (1 shows no artifact on the patterns, 2 showed artifact on a fisheye pattern, 3 showed artifact on fisheye pattern, oddly 5 showed less artifact than a setting of 4 on the fisheye pattern, but both showed artifact on main sharpness pattern.
RG: 106
GG: 110
BG: 120
RO: 128
GO: 128
BO: 128

All enhancements are set to off

So far I like these settings alot. Text and graphics are significantly sharper. Bright, but not searing. Watching "House of Cards" streaming on Netflix now. Sharp and rich.

By these settings, I mean Poop-Dog's from the previous page.

No, not in demo mode. By chance are you using the digital out connection? I'm currently using the RCA audio outputs.

I'm HDMI and Optical.

I'll have to check the manual but I'm guessing it's the optical connection allowing it to stay OFF with a power cycle.

I checked the manual and it doesn't mention anything about the function returning to the "on" position. IMHO, I believe it should stay "off'' even with a power cycle. You should call Vizio support, they've been very helpful to me in the past.

Ok I am seeing a lot of setting. Which one would you'll say is the best?

Just took a look at this at best buy and the guy game me the remote to dink around, so I pulled out my phone , threw up a setting I found on here and it looked great!! Although none of the others were slightly calibrated, this looked much better than the quattron and Samsung 7100 next to it. Just seeing this in person and seeing that it can be tweaked quite well almost sold me on it.

Few questions tho. When best buy matches amazon do they charge you tax? Or is that not even negotiable? And is $1599 a good buy on this considering the E series is relatively new? Or will it continue to drop in price.

Despite being advertised for more, when I checked out with mine in store at Costco today, it rang up for 1920 -370, which is 1550!
Isn't that what the price was on Black Friday?

I feel awesome! Bwahaha.

I'll post about my successes/failures/opinions in a few weeks when we get our carpet put in and I can set the tv up.

Also how is this set for gaming? Just with fast motion , not having the greatest processor and being 120hz on a set so big?

Ive only been playing borderlands 2 and forza. Both look amazing and the only time I turn on the smoothing effects.

Been playing around with settings during the super bowl. Still partial to mine. The commercial for fast and furious 6 looked amazing.

While watching the super bowl I upped
Backlight to 75
Brightness to 63
Color to 50

I personally like a bright screen. I feel this is as bright and colorful i can get w/o things looking weird. Its pretty close to my Samsung plasma 50. Black and whites look nice with vivid color.
Edited by poop-dog - 2/3/13 at 5:37pm

Thanks man glad you said that about forza, cuz I just picked up horizon and am dying to see it on a set this big.

You must, cause Dang Thats Bright !!!!

I can't even the picture with it to bright like that ... just washes out the picture to me ... anything above 60 is just a no go really ... and for me really I barely touch 50 or so.

Maybe my panel looks different when it comes to brightness who knows.

Love all these other settings we are seeing though ... I will post mine once I feel it's Just Right!

Like Poop-Dog, I've played alot of Borderlands 2, Forza Horizon and more. I'm a big xbox gamer so the Vizio had to be good displaying games....and it is! Motion blur/Ghosting is not an issue with this TV. And at 70", the image is HUGE

How do you save settings for each input? Every time I change settings on one input, it changes them for all inputs. (I like to have different settings for each input)
Thanks in advance.

Screen went black (backlighting completely off) but sound continued while streaming a movie from Amazon on PS3 (hdmi to tv).
I was able to "wake" up the TV by turning the 'menu' on and off. It happened twice during the 2 hour movie and this is the first time I've streamed from Amazon.


Any ideas if this is a problem with the Amazon app on PS3 or is it most likely a sign that the TV has a problem?

I'm looking at getting a new TV here soon because my old Sony rear project SXRD KDL50a2020 seems to be going out on me. The colors are definitely going the way of the green side. Plus I've been wanting to get something bigger and join the whole flat panel crowd.

I've always liked Sony products and have been looking at the KDL60EX645, but I would be remissed if I didn't give this superb value of a 70" Vizio TV a decent shot. They are both priced roughly the same, but I just have never really considered a Vizio before. How is the PQ compared to the EX645? I've been looking over this forum and see a lot of positives and I've read both reviews other at Cnet. I mean 10 more inches is quite a bit more for the same amount of money. I'm literally right on the fence with the decision between the 2. Give up 10 inches and stay with Sony or try something new with Vizio? I am coming from 50" so both will be quite a difference to what I've been used to.

I decided to go with the Vizio even though my Sony 60A3000 is perfect. The Vizio's picture is better in every way and the size is wonderful. I toyed with going the 65" Panasonc route but didn't think moving up only 5 inches would give me the WOW factor I was looking for. I've had the Vizio for 4 days now and like it better every day. I don't know if this is possible but I almost think the electronics and the scree are seating in and the picture is getting better. As much as I've always liked Sony, I think the A2020 and the A3000 are the best TV's they've ever made and they've gone down hill ever since. Sony's top of the line are pretty good but IMO hardly a good bang for the buck.