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Nihao I'm Noah from TechnoBuffalo it's all of our Chinese speaking friends out there I open and mangle that too badly what is going on everybody this video is going to serve two purposes one it's a review of this here TV set su it's kicking off my series on connected TV the future of TV watching what is T duh so a lot of the Netflix apps for set-top boxes you can't search and pick new content you have to manage your queue somewhere else but the the app here on the vizio set actually lets you go through and pick new stuff to watch which is really pretty cool so if I wanted to watch let's say the office which I'm not even this might actually be in my queue although we already watched whoops I hit the button twice and wrong oh well could we go back one let's go back one what's retrieving some is we'll just let it play so I'll charge up the center ok there we go so this is not on my instant queue right now as we've already seen the whole BBC show but you can just go through and add things right to your queue which is very cool I think and you can go through and pick which episode you want to watch and again not all the Netflix app Netflix apps let you do that so plus 100 thongs up for vizio on this functionality now the problem that I've had with the Netflix app is that not on it's not on all of the content but on some of the content there have been lip sync issues I've had lip sync issues watching shows via Netflix streaming on this TV and then I'll go and watch the exact same show or the exact same movie on my Tivo HD box / Netflix streaming and not have the lip sync issues on the TiVo so I'm not quite sure what the deal is but sometimes it happens on here sometimes it doesn't there's what we've been watching Veronica Mars which look man some of the teen shows I like Veronica Mars not the best show ever but it's addicting and that just been consistent all the episodes no matter how many times I start and stop there have been problems with that yeah you can see Ricky Gervais is yeah his mouth and his voice are a little off sync and it's not just because the clown knows definitely some issues going on with the lip-sync here which is too bad because the rest of the functionality is really nice the scanning forward and back works very well three speeds the remotes responsive the retrieval time generally pretty good you know again my network about 15 megabits per second sound now the lip-sync looks to be a little bit better so and the app very very nice so that's one of the things with Netflix you know the app itself great the UI terrific I've had some issues though with lip syncing being a little bit off a TV Guide I mentioned you've got Amazon video on demand you get a $5 free credit when you link up your TV with your account and Emmas I'm bidding on demand we're not going to go too in depth on what they offer and don't offer but one thing to mention about Netflix you do not get it's not free with the set the app is free but you have to have a Netflix account that supports streaming media if you need to watch instantly function if you want to use it on this set that you have to pay for separately eight bucks enough I believe is what it costs here's the Amazon video on demand let's go HD movie rentals see if you can watch a little preview here so I don't know assault can i what's going on here today's top offers hit the button and i watch the preview yeah watch the preview so 5 bucks for an HD 24-hour rental SD is 4 bucks buy the movie for $15 watch the trail HD 5.1 the TV will do 5.1 surround sounds pass through it's got an optical audio port in the back if you want to do that so some of the streaming services support it some don't obviously with Amazon the HD videos look like they do or at least some of them so here you can see I've got a full connection the quality is good you know the quality looks solid for streaming media it was pretty quick to come through again it's going to depend on the speed of your home network and your internet connection so pretty good stuff the other app that I found really interesting is the Vudu app I'm kind of new to using Vudu but so far from what I've seen really really good really compelling service again you know it's video on-demand they offer full 1080p video streaming video it'll do it on this set but the 1080p is kind of you know a little bit lost on a saw on a screen this big so I think you know if you've got a larger set up a whole home theater set up to 1080p they call it HDX very interesting let's see we'll do let's do the same movie why not compare apples to apples as they say we'll watch the trailer free preview so it's actually nice trailer so again five dollars HD four dollars and SD fifteen dollars to own but then the HDX the Full 1080p is six bucks one of those things about voodoo is they pull in the Rotten Tomatoes rating as well as their own community rating which is cool and you get a five dollar nine cent account credit came with the TV which was also kind of nice not a reason to buy a TV set but you know kind of nice so I actually did this before I don't know why it's saying the first time but I did have enough bandwidth for the HDX so let's watch two minutes in the movie and see what happens so this is downloading the full or streaming I should say the full 1080p experience color looks good image quality is pretty good a little bit of pixelation up real close it's a compressed 1080p you know so this isn't a trailer this is actually a two-minute preview of the movie Oh see I went past the two-minute park so it's not gonna let me all right so there you go kind of a quick look but the Vudu app very nice and we can hit similar and it gives me you know a lot of a lot of options for other movies that can buy or rent Julian PO I've never heard of Julian PO mysterious Wanderers y'all Christian Slater interesting some of the other apps the web video is a little bit limited it's it's a little there's no YouTube app which is the one big thing missing here you've got its got like rev three it's got it's got some of the network's like Showtime but the no Showtime shows it's just you know just kind of behind the scenes stuff and trailers and that kind of thing you know Fox WB similar kind of stuff a lot of online video you've got Vimeo you've got Reb 3 I went through this before I didn't watch that much because there wasn't all that much that was compelling Howcast you know so this is really kind of more hit or miss I don't think it's a reason to get this set but if you watch you know a lot of web TV then you might find some stuff in there of interest to you and then the Yahoo widgets framework will also potentially open up to you know other you know I don't want to say hacking the TV set but possibly some other other avenues for getting online content via media will let you play things through the USB port it's got the blockbuster app now it's got Hulu Plus and so there you go one other thing I wanted to show and then it's got the Twitter app which again you know for reading your stream is one thing for I don't even know if I signed into the Twitter app yeah I did okay so here no I didn't so here's the public timeline you know so you can read tweets but I can't imagine that you're really going to want to do a lot of updating your stream punching through the virtual keyboard you know with the remote so again you know you're gonna have to punch through everything and then we'll look real quick at Hulu Plus again this is more content that you're gonna have to pay to actually watch the content but having the app on the device you know built in is definitely pretty nice so here we go we're gonna hit know you got a referral code but doesn't really help you get a one a free one-week trial and we'll hit Family Guy we'll just watch a little bit of this just to show the the UI and the process here of course you get at so you're paying 8 bucks a month and you have to watch ads which it is what it is I'm not a big fan of that so I've only got SD options on this clip but anyway there you go so overall you know my experience with the set I think the the software they've got going here is really nice again the the lip sync issues with Netflix I found to be a big pain because of the you know three things I really wanted to watch there were lip sync issues on two of them one of them I just watched anyway cuz like I said I was sick in bed and so I just I watched the characters eyes instead of their mouths when when they were talking and you know that made it bearable the other one you know I was able to watch it fine so it's on some content not others but the UI for Netflix is awesome it's one of the best Netflix streaming experiences that I've ever used off of a computer the other functionality looks great Hulu Plus is new to the new update Vudu I think is a very cool service the 1080p again is a little bit lost on a set this size for your streaming medium that kind of thing the flipside of the 1080p is that you can use this as a computer monitor with you know pretty good resolution so if you're in a dorm room or a bedroom or an office or some of that that you can kind of have the dual functionality which is cool then again if you're using this as a computer monitor do you really need the apps baked in because you could just run them off your computer so you know it is what it is I guess you could if you're using the computer up close but then you know you have a couch or your bed or something and you want to like kick back and just use the remote to watch a video content so there you go all in all with the set you know I think for $200 the speakers are a big issue otherwise picture quality is really quite good and perform well for watching other stuff just as issues with the straining but off sale more like 270 $300 for a 22 inch set you know that's kind of small the Senate replaced in here was actually 23 inches and I noticed the difference so and that set also had better speakers so I don't know for that much money you could look into getting a LCD set that maybe wasn't 1080p didn't have the apps built in for under 200 bucks and then you could get a separate box with it I don't know the convenience is nice though if you can fire for $200 you know I just be aware that Netflix lip syncing issue because that's kind of an if you watch a lot of Netflix like I do there you go it's the vizio razor series 22 inch LCD LED edge backlit 1080p TV set with the via built-in Internet apps overall it's a reserved thumbs up with some you know some issues like I just described getting a thumbs down and it's also the beginning of TechnoBuffalo series on the future of TV all the different ways you can watch TV at home on the go over the Internet you know etc etc much much more here on the channel on YouTube youtube.com slash John for Lakers guys the way YouTube does partner accounts you can switch the name and on the site of course TechnoBuffalo comm my name is Noah 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