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David Katz Meyer here I'm sitting next to videos II four to zero I a 1 this is one of the companies eseries televisions there's a few of the screen sizes in this series including a 39 a 47 and a 50-inch this review will apply to all of them the e series comprises Vizio 's mid to entry-level TVs for 2013 this set right here does have Smart TV along with built in Wi-Fi one of the things you'll notice right off the bat though is it's pretty sleek styling along the edge of the screen there's a nice thin frame here that makes it look similar to a lot of the other Samsung and LG TVs out there turn it to the side though you can see it's a direct LED TV meaning that it's a lot thicker than the edge of the LED TVs we've seen before just think of this TV is a standard LCD you don't worry about the LED backlight because it really doesn't bring much to the table in terms of picture quality Vizio Smart TV suite brings an excellent selection of content including Amazon Netflix Vudu and a host of other lesser services there's also quite a few audio services including Pandora and Rhapsody as well as Skype if you buy the optional camera vizio also throws in built-in Wi-Fi of course you can also connect an ethernet cable usually do get better performance if you do decide to run the cable unlike a lot of the other vizio smart tvs however this one does not include a flip side QWERTY keyboard on the remote control vizio throws and plenty of picture presets a lot of them named after sports all of this set doesn't have quite the selection of advanced picture modes such as gamma control and color management systems seen on some of its competitors in the settings menu you will find something called smart dimming which controls this TVs local dimming functionality and I don't get too excited as I was when I first heard this TVs local dimming when I tested in the lab that didn't work all that well in fact made the picture too dark a crushed a lot of this shadow detail so I ended up turning it off another disappointment on the TV is its builds a 120 Hertz set but if you go into the menu you won't find any controls for smoothing and the set does have the same motion resolution as a 60 Hertz television so all told I'm calling the 60 Hertz TV despite videos 120 Hertz claim so I from those issues that picture quality TV was pretty good for the price point black levels are relatively deep but color accuracy wasn't quite as good as some Vizio as we've seen but again pretty decent I also appreciated the picture uniformity on this set there aren't too many glaring bright spots and there's also pretty good performance for bright rooms thanks to that matte screen the e-series input selection is modest you get three HDMI in one component video there's no PC input however unless use an HDMI slot with a digital outlook from your computer it's a quick look at vizio z0i a one series I'm David Katz my Lucina