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David Katz Meyer from CNET I'm standing next to vizio 60-inch e61 ia3 that mouthful denotes a 60-inch LED TV with Smart TV now given those specs how much you think it costs if you guess a thousand dollars your rice TV is the least expensive 60-inch LED TV we've ever seen and @s Smart TV it's also pretty darn good let's get to the design on the set around the edge of the screen you'll note a very thin bezel it's about 7/8 of an inch thick on the top and sides the bottom is a little bit thicker of course the slim design the set makes it look like it's pretty much all picture when seen from the front and from the side it's an LED TV obviously because it's pretty sliver thin especially for such a large screen that Smart TV feature is the headliner on this set aside from the screen size Vizio is via app suite has an excellent selection of content including Netflix Hulu Plus Amazon Instant and pretty much no missing streaming video services plenty of good audio - including Pandora and Rhapsody on the downside the design of the interface is not quite as intuitive as a lot of the other competitors out there but again for this inexpensive we'll scroll around a little bit on the bottom in the trade-off for having such good content TV does have built-in Wi-Fi of course you can connect wirelessly without having to run an Ethernet cable at the back of the television other connections are ample there's four HDMI one component video two USB as well as a PC input so there's really nothing missing from the back panel another cool feature on this vizio nothing you'd expect at this price point is a flipper remote so it's got a normal remote on one side when you turn it over the back side has a QWERTY keyboard that enables you to enter searches and passwords and stuff used in smart TV a lot easier than those virtual on-screen keyboards the downside is that there's no backlighting and you do have to keep the keyboard aimed at the screen because it uses IR instead of Bluetooth but still pretty cool to have a QWERTY at this price point vizio offers umpteen picture presets named after sports they really don't improve the look of sports but it's nice to have those extra slots anyway advanced adjustments include two-point grayscale and ability to adjust the smoothing D judder on this hundred twenty Hertz TV moving on to picture quality the Vizio rated a six or good overall on our review which means that it's pretty darn good or better than a lot of the other LED TVs out there but really not the best especially compared to some of the other more expensive models main weakness on this video picture wise the inability to Bruce a very deep shade of black and dark scenes you can see the image is a little bit more washed out than some of the other LED tvs we also saw some uniformity issues which are some brighter spots especially in dark scenes in near the corners and sides on the flip side the color on this TV is very accurate especially in brighter areas darker areas did tend a little bit towards blue we also appreciated the big matte screen did a great job of controlling ambient light so if you have a very bright room this video is definitely going to be better than a similarly priced large screen plasma on the other hand some of those large green clouds will definitely produce a better picture in this vizio in dark rooms so they're going to be the choice for video files that's a quick look at the vizio e1i a3 series available in 60 and 70 inches for one in two thousand dollars respectively the best values among big screen LED TVs we've tested this year I'm David cat smart from Cena