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native cats Meyer from CNN I'm standing with the 70 inch vizio yi 71 ia3 this is a relatively inexpensive 70 inch LED TV right around 2 grand right now and we consider it probably the best value among large screen LED TVs there's also a 60 inch version I deal with that in another review but it's a equally excellent value this vizio TV delivers all the features you'd expect including smart TV it also has pretty slick styling and of course the picture quality really decent so we'll get to all that in a little bit let's start with the design though the framer on the edge of this TV is really thin so when you have it in a room it looks almost all picture and that's pretty much a good thing with the TV this large it tries to be as understated as possible the bezel here is a little bit thicker along the bottom the stand is not swivel the TV of course seen from the side is extremely thin as you'd expect from an LED TV so all told pretty discreet for a 70 inch shirt we mentioned Smart TV Vizio suite has excellent content that includes Amazon Instant Hulu Plus Netflix all the big players are there and there's also plenty of audio including Rhapsody and Pandora so really one of the best content selections out there among smart TV Suites the interface itself does seem a little dated it pops up along the bottom you can only see four at a time so it's a lot of scrolling if you have a lot of apps installed another nice thing about the vizio is if you flip the remote over you get a QWERTY keyboard that allows you to easily enter two searches and other information to the smart TV and really eases instead of using those on-screen keyboards found on most other Smart TV Suites the downside of the QWERTY is that you have to keep it aimed straight at the TV because it doesn't use bluetooth it uses infrared instead around back there's plenty of inputs there's four HDMI is a PC input and a component video input as well as a pair of USB so nothing really missing picture settings on the vizio not quite as extensive as some of the other TVs out there though you do get a massive number of picture presets based on sports the advanced settings only include a two point grayscale there's no gamma or color management system but on the flip side the TV is pretty darn accurate out of the box as long as you select the movie picture mode the picture quality on the video compares well with a lot of your LED TVs out there although it's not among the best one of its weaknesses is a relatively light black level so you don't get those deep inky blacks we've seen on some of the large screen plasmas and some of the very best LED TVs on the flip side it does a very accurate color so we really appreciated that the color does fall apart a little bit in the dark areas but all told it's really nice off angle performance again not a huge benefit to this television it does wash out significantly when seen from off angles but of course the larger size does help ameliorate that a little bit if you sit back TV also has a nice matte screen so again with a large screen you like to have matte to kind of get rid of some of those really bright reflections in a room so all told in a bright room this video will perform very well of course you can't spend a couple hundred more at 65 and 70 inches to get a lot better picture quality but if you're fine with the decent picture and you really like the videos styling and smart TV it's a superb value that's a quick look at Vizio 70 inch e71 ia3 I'm David Katz car proceeded