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hi everybody I'm David Katz Maya from CNET and next to me is physios 2014 M series this is their mid-range TV for this year it's a 60-inch model right next to me but the series goes from 32 all the way up to 80 inches this year so it's a nice large range of sizes this TVs a little bit different from the step-down eseries that we looked at recently one of the biggest differences is the styling the set has a sort of silver look around the edge there's also a matching silver stand slightly cooler styling than on the e series which is all black if you actually like that silver look another big step up is the remote control it's a lot better than on the E series the button arrangement on the top side is really nice but when you flip it over is the real story it's got a full QWERTY keyboard on the bottom so you can actually turn that remote over and type in passwords and searches and things like that and it works really well a couple of great things about that keyboard a it's backlit and B it actually works with Netflix so you can search Netflix something that some keyboards don't actually work with all apps this one doesn't work with everyone but at least worth with Netflix the TV does have a lot of smart TV functionality it's just like the e series you can click on the Smart TV button and get a little line of apps along the bottom you can customize and rearrange that line of apps it doesn't really interfere with what you're watching select any app from there you can also double click on videos app button and will bring up a full screen interface it gives you a lot more space to navigate and find different apps that you want to and again customize that little strip that pops up all told it's an excellent selection of content you don't get HBO GO but then again that's not found on any other TV except for Samsung you do get Amazon and it actually it's the new updated Amazon app which is a little bit of again an improvement over the e series around back there's ample connectivity between four HDMI inputs as a single USB port for photo video and music there's also single component video input and of course an Ethernet jack of course you can also connect this TV via Wi-Fi to the internet speaking the internet one of the things this set doesn't have as a built-in web browser found on a lot of other TVs at this level flipside I'm not really a fan of those built in web browsers usually you're get a lot better results using your phone or a tablet in conjunction with the TV vizio does promote the improved picture quality of the M series compared to the e but when we took it in the lab the two were very similar the m and the are both excellent performers this set can get extremely deep black levels and it also gets a slightly brighter area and highlights compared to the E Series that's probably thanks to its additional local dimming zones although you don't get really all that much improvement so again even the M very similar in terms of picture quality one a little advantage on the M series is we did get slightly better color out of this TV but again it's really difficult to see the difference unless you're looking at it side by side the M series does have improved motion specs but again in the lab you really could only get that improved motion if you turn on soap-opera effect of course the flip side of that is that everything kind of looks like a so proper and looks really smooth so if you want to get the best film like picture out of this TV you're gonna have to turn all that off and deal with slightly lower motion resolution than found on some of the competitors picture quality also features excellent bright room capability and very good picture uniformity so all told one of the better LCD performers we expect to see this year that's a quick look at Vizio m-series TV mid-range price excellent picture quality and pretty good styling again one of the better TVs we reviewed this year for 2014 I'm David Katz my casino