Vizio M-Series Quantum (M65Q7-H1) Review | Still the best bang for your buck?

[Music] vizio has been a value king for years with the m series sort of being the value leader in its lineup but in a race that now includes tcl and hisense is the m series still in the lead [Music] welcome back everyone i'm caleb dennison and yes today we are finally going to review the vizio m series specifically the m7 there's also an m8 variant but i'll get back to that in a little bit now many of you in the comments section have noticed that it's been quite some time since we did the unboxing for this television sorry it's taken a little while to get to this review the first unit that we got i think got a little banged up in shipping definitely wasn't performing right this one is so there's good news there we got to explore how this tv is going to rank against this competition we could be looking at the tcl5 series or six series or maybe the hisense h8g it's definitely in the same price class but how's its performance let's find out before we get to it though y'all in the comment section leave me a comment right now and let me know if you're excited about what's coming out at ces 2021 for tvs i can tell you right now there's some pretty amazing stuff also while you're here like and hit that subscribe button because you're definitely going to want to see the new tv coverage that's coming out of the show all right let's go [Music] let's start out with design real quick it's very simple matte black bezel not particularly thick except for the bottom border there's also no sort of cable management for this tv so keep that in mind you're gonna have to take care of that yourself otherwise it's fine it's certainly not an unattractive tv which we do see at this price point sometimes next let's talk about the remote which is simple but that's totally fine by me i never found myself wishing i had more buttons in fact i really enjoy having the input button right on here as well as a menu button that takes me straight to the picture settings so that i don't have to go through the menu on screen it's been really handy while i've been working with this tv but i gotta say i'm really attached to voice remotes these days and unfortunately vizio doesn't offer that in any of its lineup there is a way that you can connect a smart speaker to the tv but it's really not the same as being able to press a button on the remote and basically speak what you want to find the rest of the user experience basically comes down to vizio smartcast system which as i've said before has seen some big improvements lately i really do appreciate the fact that it's chromecast enabled it's got apple home kit and airplay 2 support so there's a lot of wireless connectivity there but i got to say i definitely miss hbo max and sling tv not being on this particular television now there are worker rounds you can use chromecast or airplay 2 as i mentioned but i like having the apps on the tv for the best possible experience now they may come in the future but know for now they're not there now we need to talk about audio quality for a second which as you might expect is not especially great but i was actually surprised at how little bass this tv offers there's basically no low end so unless you're just watching the news i would highly recommend you get even vizio's most basic sound bar to accentuate the sound one pro tip however if you are going to use the tv speakers go into the audio settings and turn off the virtual surround sound it makes a huge difference now let's talk about everybody's favorite part and that would be the picture quality this tv does support hdr 10 and dolby vision so it needs to get to a certain brightness level and it does it gets up to about 600 nits for those peak specular highlights when i measured it using a 10 window using calman and a spectracal c6 meter it came in around 430 knits on average but when it's just handling those highlights it can really pull them off next i want to talk about stuff like the black levels the shadow detail and blooming around bright objects on a black background but first let me explain this is the m7 which has significantly fewer dimming zones and less peak brightness than the m8 series which is only available through one retailer so i didn't expect it to perform especially well there but it's actually surprising me now you're gonna run into some pitfalls like when you have subtitles in a letterbox bar down at the bottom of the screen you're going to see the blooming around that because there really aren't that many dimming zones in this tv but when i'm watching real world content i'm not seeing that play out as being a problem we have a few test clips here that have very bright objects against stark black backgrounds and i didn't notice a bunch of blooming when i was watching tv so overall i gotta say i'm kind of impressed by how well this tv is doing with so few local dimming zones now we get to color let's have a conversation about this for a second with the p series quantum x i noticed that there was sort of a pinkish magenta hue to the whites if you had a bunch of clouds you could definitely see it when i measured it sure enough there was way too much red in the mix i pulled it back and things got better but that's the kind of work that a calibrator normally does and isn't easily accessible to most folks which has me a little concerned the bad news is that the m series does the same thing but the good news is it doesn't do it to the same degree probably because it doesn't get quite as bright i think you're going to do fine with the out-of-box color in the calibrated dark or the calibrated mode i definitely like the full array local dimming setting to be about medium in either case but once the thing is adjusted it's amazing just how much color coverage it has and because it's got quantum dots inside it's doing a good job with color brightness as well now let's talk about processing i gotta say vizio has come a long way with its processing and this tv is definitely a good example of that i mentioned the high sense h8g earlier because it's kind of in the same ballpark in terms of price and the vizio m-series is definitely outperforming it in the processing zone i noticed that there's a little bit of stutter going on like i saw on the p series quantum x you can see that in this scene where the buildings are going from the top of the screen down but there's no more effect which is actually very impressive for a tv of this price motion in general is actually pretty good with this tv 24 frame per second content looks just fine there's a little bit of stutter and jutter on slow pans when you've got a lot of detail there's a little bit of a flashing or strobing effect but all in all i'm impressed considering it's a 60 hertz native panel on the topic of it having a 60hz panel let's talk about how gaming friendly this tv is to be clear it doesn't support all of the fancy new features but it does have an er port it does support auto low latency mode so it's going to go straight into gaming mode or vizio's gaming engine if you will and it also supports variable refresh rate which is amazing for a tv at this price now it's going to top out at about 4k 60 hertz resolution obviously because of the 60 hertz panel but i still think that's a really great gaming experience especially with the variable refresh rate as for picture quality with gaming it's actually quite good the shadow detail is respectable and the hdr presentation also very respectable not as good as we've seen with much more expensive tvs but then again they're more expensive tvs [Music] on that note i think it's really important to put the vizio m series into perspective here we spent the last couple of months reviewing some very expensive tvs some very high performance tvs so it's easy to have our perspective skewed a little bit but again i want to go back to some comparisons to tvs that are in relatively the same price range i kind of want to compare this tv to the tcl6 series but the tcl6 series is actually more expensive and as a result it performs a little bit better this tv is priced more like the tcl5 series but i think it performs better than the tcl5 series and as for the hisense h8g i take the vizio m series over that tv pretty much any day even though the high sense is quite a bit brighter so here's where i'm at with the vizio m series it offers pretty tremendous value indeed it pulls off this interesting balancing act where you get next-gen features along with premium picture quality all under 700 bucks for a 65-inch tv that's pretty great thanks as always for watching everyone very much appreciate your viewership don't forget leave that comment down below like subscribe and here's two other videos that i think you'll like

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Length: 8min 21sec (501 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 04 2021