Saturday, May 10, 2014

Vizio M-Series review:

The Good The Vizio M-Series M1d-A2R is an excellent value with great design and a snappy picture; it has excellent shadow detail, fairly deep black levels, and excellent processing; and its Smart TV access has been improved.
The Bad It doesn't have as deep a black level as a plasma; it suffers from a slight red push; it has a reflective screen; Yahoo apps aren't very slick; and the remote sensor isn't very responsive.
The Bottom Line The Vizio M-Series offers a potent combination of excellent design, decent picture quality, and a pocket-friendly price.
Vizio has been around a while now, and though it started as a budget brand it has been making some small steps toward improving its image, and with the new M-Series the improvement is literal. The M-Series is inarguably the best-looking TV the company has produced, with a barely there bezel and subtle design elements.
The picture the TV can produce is also impressive for its price, with excellent shadow detail and fairly deep blacks, and is worth the extra money over Vizio's entry-level E-Series for more-natural image quality. Local dimming for the price of a nondimming set is nothing to scoff at. Meanwhile, color performance offers up a little bit too much red, but otherwise the Vizio displays a full, rich color palette. As an LED-backlit TV it certainly performs well for the money, but it's worth repeating that it doesn't hold a candle to our value kings, thePanasonic ST60 series of plasmas.
With its new M-Series, Vizio has shown that it is determined to deliver a good-looking TV with unexpected performance for the price. If you need a large screen with design and picture smarts, the Vizio M551d-A2R and M501d-A2R offer compelling combinations.
Series information:I performed a hands-on evaluation of the M551d-A2R, but this review also applies to the 50-inch screen size in the series. Not all sizes in the M-Series have identical specs, but according to the manufacturer these two models should provide very similar picture quality.
Design
For the last few years, Vizio's television designs have lagged behind its competitors, whether looking simply fuddy-duddy, or at their worst, quite cheap. But the company has amended that this year with both the E- and M-Series looking up-to-the-minute and much more expensive than they really are. The M551d-A2R is particularly striking, with a bezel as thin as a smartphone. The ends are finished in a brushed-aluminum cap and the effect is very tasty -- it rivals LG's designs at a fraction of the price. I particularly like the subtle Vizio logo tab on the right side; it looks like it's straight out of your browser's window.

The computer comparisons continue; with its monitorlike, nonswiveling stand, this television looks more like a computer than one of the company's own all-in-one PCs . This design focus could be the make-or-break point for the TVs given that living-room or home theater PCs never took off; do people want a TV that reminds them of a PC?

The TV comes with an updated remote control, which now features backlighting. However, the only way to activate this is to press any button, blindly, in the dark -- there is no dedicated "light" button. In addition, I found the remote sensor to be slow and highly directional as well; you have to point it directly at the sensor for it to work. If you end up mashing the keys several times in frustration after it freezes for a few seconds, you could find that it then completes all the commands with unexpected results.

If you ever used the Yahoo apps on previous Vizio TVs, you'll know what the company is going for with its new menu system with its drop-down boxes and smartphonelike notifications. The TV now offers some helpful wizards, but they are confined to a left-hand window in most cases and often feature very small text. You should probably keep your glasses handy during setup.
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Key TV features
Display technologyLCDLED backlightEdge-lit with local dimming
Screen finishGlossyRemoteStandard
Smart TVYesInternet connectionBuilt-in Wi-Fi
3D technologyPassive3D glasses includedEight pairs
Refresh rate(s)240HzDejudder (smooth) processingYes
DLNA-compliantPhoto/Music/VideoUSBPhoto/Music/Video
Other:None
Features
The M551d-A2R is an affordable TV and it dispenses with many of the features (read: gimmicks) that you'll find its competitors sporting. There are no cameras or MHL ports, and most of the functions are in the service of the picture. The television has an edge-lit LED backlight with local dimming (16 zones). It features a passive 3D system, and includes eight pairs of passive 3D glasses in the box.
Vizio says its remote will gain wireless connectivity and learning functions with a forthcoming firmware update that will let users program their devices into the remote through an onscreen wizard.
Smart TV:Vizio has made some tweaks to its Smart TV platform, now named Vizio Internet Apps Plus. Most notably, you can now see more apps on the screen at once; the ribbon that appears at the bottom when you tap the V button now holds seven apps instead of four. Tap it a second time and you now get the new All Apps view. The company has also added a swath of new apps to its "store" -- mostly local news stations, but most notably it now includes Crackle video, 3D video-streaming service 3DGo, and music-streaming app iHeartRadio.

I'm not a big fan of the platform that Vizio's smart TV service is built on: Yahoo Apps. It squashes most of the information into a small rectangle on the side and still has the "widget" smell about it. As such, this makes a lot of apps, such as 3DGo, look and behave in a homogenized fashion, and it's not as intuitive as using native apps like Netflix.

Interestingly, the HDTV settings and USB player are also available as apps, which means you don't have to press the menu button (though this is easier in the case of settings).
Picture settings:In the past, Vizio targeted its TV products toward sports enthusiasts, with pictures of Nascar drivers on its merchandising and sports-specific picture modes. But with the M-Series the focus has shifted, and nowhere is that more evident than in the new picture settings. Instead of a dozen different modes, there are now only six, and none of them are sports-themed. Instead you now get two Calibrated modes for the AV enthusiasts as well as a dedicated Game mode.
However, despite the TV now being Vizio's top-of-the-line series, there is still very little advanced tweaking available, offering only a two-point grayscale under Color Temperature, with zero advanced color calibration.
Connectivity:The Vizio has four HDMI ports plus two USB inputs for external disks and keyboards. You also get a component/composite port, an Ethernet port, and a digital optical output. While this television may look like an all-in-one PC, there's actually no RGB input; most computers come with HDMI now anyway.
Picture quality
While the picture doesn't pop as much as the cheaper E-Series', the M-Series' is much more accurate. The new E-Series firmware (review forthcoming) has a tendency to crush shadow detail in return for darker blacks, but the M-Series is able to retrieve most of that missing detail. Thanks to the local-dimming system, the M551d-A2R is able to provide a happy compromise between deep black and shadow detail. The downside is that dark scenes with white highlights don't have as much pop as on a plasma like the Panasonic TC-P50S60 or nondimming TVs. Colors are bright and saturated, possibly a little too saturated but better than the sickly-looking flesh tones of the E-Series.
Click the image at the right to see the picture settings used in the review and to read more about how this TV's picture controls worked during calibration.
Black level:The smart dimming of the M551d-A2R may not have the absolute blacks of the cheaper E-Series -- which has just had a firmware update -- but the M-Series' picture is much more natural. The Vizio E500i-A1 has an etched look to the edges between the boundaries of light areas and dark -- and this is not evident on the M551d-A2R. Shadow areas also have more gradations on the M-Series than on the E-Series, where the smart dimming can obscure some low-level detail.
At 45:54 in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2," the M551d did a better job of displaying the very dark mountaintop sequence with more consistency from a dark scene to a light one. The E500i, in comparison, kept the mountain too dark and then the backlight ramped up obviously once the processor decided there was enough white detail to activate the backlight. But the M551d wasn't entirely fault-free; there was some of this ramping-up "iris" effect on it as well, which could be distracting compared with the other TVs in the lineup, which all lacked the aggressive smart dimming of the Vizios.
On the "Watchmen" disc, the E500 actually did a better job of getting both dark and light areas in the Manhattan skyline right (12:24). The M551d blotted out some of the windows on the brightly lit Empire State Building and was the worst at this particular scene for its ability to convey white detail. The poorest performer overall, though, was the Toshiba, which crushed the scene completely, making the buildings look flat and two-dimensional.
As with the earlier Vizio M3D550Kd TV, the M551d has a problem with blooming around white or lighter areas on a black background. This was particularly evident with single images in the middle of the screen, and it was something the E500 didn't do. For example, at 20:38 during "The Tree of Life," the entire midsection of the TV bloomed when there was a single red image in the middle of the screen, but none of the other TVs did this.
Color accuracy:Color is very saturated on the M551d in comparison with all of the other TVs in the test, including the very colorful S60. Skin tones are just a little too pink in the already warm tones of the superheroes' faces ("Watchmen," 1:10) as they recover from their comeuppance against a horde of ambushing gang members. In comparison, the E500 looks undersaturated and the Silk Spectre looks sickly, even more spectral than should be normal.
While red is on the too-colorful side, the other two colors that make up the RGB specification are well-handled. Switching back to "The Tree of Life" (37:18) you see the mother lying on the grass, and while her hair is a little too red, the turquoise of her dress is identical to that produced by the Panasonic S60, and the grass behind her looks green and lush.
Video processing:The Vizio M551d passed 24p successfully with smooth movement overall and just the right amount of judder in the flags on the deck of the ship during our "I Am Legend" test. In comparison, the image from the E500 was very jerky and unstable. When presented with the 1080i deinterlacing test, the M551d had an excellent hold on moving bars -- and equaled the other best in the lineup (Panasonic S60) in quality. Meanwhile the next scene of a slow pan of a sporting arena did exhibit some moire in the stands; the E500 did much better here.
If you play games, you'll be pleased to know that the M551d performs very well in Game mode with a score of 38ms. This should translate to an almost undetectable amount of lag when playing online games, but beware if you play games in calibrated mode, as the lag shoots up to a very noticeable 130.9ms.
Uniformity:While the consistency of the backlight was very good in most scenes -- with no backlight clouding -- it was blooming that was the biggest problem here (as noted above). When viewed off-axis, the blooming was even more evident, and compared with the E500 it had a much more muted, dark image.
Bright lighting:The M-Series is quite reflective, so you will see some reflection of yourself in a lit room, and of the lineup the only one more reflective was the Toshiba. Otherwise, the M551d's blacks were deep when viewed in the light with only an occasional blue tint but decent amounts of shadow detail. If you're worried about reflections, you can opt for the cheaper E-Series, but its slightly worse dark-room picture is the trade-off.
Sound quality:For a television with such a small bezel, its competent audio performance was surprising. Vocals were clear, with Ving Rhames' subsonic mumbling still intelligible and less nasal than on the E500, but the compromise was that the E500 had better bass and enabled more action movie bombast. While both handle treble well, the E500 had a darker, more closed sound overall. During the music test, the M551d passed with clear distinction between Nick Cave's voice and the bass guitar, but the E500 failed miserably here, with loud distortion of the singer's voice. If you're looking for better bass response than these two TVs give, then the Sharp is the TV to consider.
3D:What's more distracting to you? Interlacing artifacts or ghosting in 3D? If it's the latter, then a passive system like the M551d is excellent with 3D as good as I've seen -- it exhibited no crosstalk, with good color, and a solidity to images that active TVs can't muster. There was little additional interlacing on moving edges during the chase scenes of "Hugo," either, but of course the whole image demonstrated an interlaced image due to the nature of passive 3D TV.
Black luminance (0%)0.001Good
Avg. gamma (10-100%)2.09Average
Avg. grayscale error (10-100%)1.500Good
Near-black error (5%)0.34Good
Dark gray error (20%)1.481Good
Bright gray error (70%)2.64Good
Avg. color error1.645Good
Red error2.603Good
Green error1.244Good
Blue error2.729Good
Cyan error1.15Good
Magenta error0.786Good
Yellow error1.358Good
1080p/24 Cadence (IAL)PassGood
1080i deinterlacing (film)PassGood
Motion resolution (max)850Average
Motion resolution (dejudder off)320Poor
Input lag (Game mode)38Good

Sony KDL-55W900A review

The Good The Sony KDL-55W900A features some of the best colors available on an LCD; deep black levels with excellent shadow details and gamma; sleek design; solid features including four pairs of active 3D glasses; introduces very little input lag.
The Bad More expensive than an ST60 plasma; only available only in a 55-inch size; some strange artifacts in 3D.
The Bottom Line The Sony W900A is a fine high-end LED LCD television, with excellent color performance and deep black levels.
While many of Sony's marketing terms mean nothing in English (or sometimes even Japanese), there have been some memorable ones: Bravia, WEGA, XBR, et al. Here's another, less-catchy, less capitalized one to add to the list: Triluminos. It's Sony's term for a technology, also known as Quantum Dots, which theoretically enhances the number of colors an LCD can produce. CNET writer Geoffrey Morrison examines the dots in depth here , but in essence it's a film of microscopic crystals that glow green, red, or blue when stimulated by a light source.
The KDL-55W900A is the first production TV we know about to use Quantum Dots, and despite this tech's whiff of marketing gimmick, its color is superb. In addition, its overall picture quality is excellent for an LED-based LCD TV, thanks in part to deep black levels courtesy of Sony's local dimmingtechnology.
Among 2013 LED LCDs, and a list price of only $1,999, the Sony W900 has no picture quality equal we've reviewed so far. Its closest rival is the Samsung UNF8000, and while the two are very evenly matched, the Sony has a slightly better picture overall -- although it can't compete with the Samsung in design or features.
After starting at a list price of $3,299, the Sony has lost a whole $1,300 and this has improved its value significantly. If you want a 55-inch LED LCD and care foremost about the picture quality, the W900A is probably your best option in 2013.
Editors' note: In light of another price reduction -- after a $1,000 drop in July -- this review was modified on November 8, 2013, with a higher value rating (from 7 to 8) and a corresponding, manual increase in its overall rating to 4 stars (80).
Design



If it weren't for the different colored bases, you'd swear that the W802 and W900A were the same TV, and since one is exactly twice the price of the other, this almost seems a lazy design choice. Both models feature a very slim black bezel with a "Quartz-cut" edge that glows blue-green when it catches the light.



The W900A trades the brushed-aluminum base of the W802 for a chrome finish, making this TV look even more like it should be propping up a hipster at your local speakeasy. So far, so elegant, but then it gets strange with a tacked-on, nondetachable "box" bulging with Sony's logo.



The television comes with two remotes: one standard, medium-size infrared and the other smaller Bluetooth. The standard remote is compact and yet easy to use with dedicated SEN and Netflix buttons. The Bluetooth remote, which doesn't require line of sight to the TV, is quirky yet surprisingly ergonomic, with most of the buttons you'll need.



After six years of the XMB (Xross Media Bar) interface, Sony has decided it's time for a change. Instead of stretching from left to right, as with the original PS3 interface, Sony has opted for a traditional vertical menu. The menu is animated, which can make it a little slower than your traditional list, though.
Key TV features
Display technologyLCDLED backlightEdge-lit with local dimming
Screen finishGlossyRemoteStandard & Bluetooth remotes
Smart TVYesInternet connectionBuilt-in Wi-Fi
3D technologyActive3D glasses included4 pair, No
Refresh rate(s)240HzDejudder (smooth) processingYes, No
DLNA-compliantPhoto/Music/VideoUSBPhoto/Music/Video
Other:Bluetooth remote
Features
Along with the 4K XBR-X900 series , the W900A is Sony's "kitchen sink" television when it comes to picture enhancements. The standout, of course, is the "Triluminos" or "Color IQ" coating that enhances the picture's available colors by the application of a thin, multicolor-crystal film over the backlight. The company used the term a few years ago for its three-color LED system, but this is a different technology. The theory is that the TV is able to reproduce more of the colors that are in the source versus a standard LED, and Sony's representatives say it should be able to handle even wider color gamuts if -- big if -- they ever appear in the future. Interestingly, however, it still isn't wide enough to handle the color of Rec. 2020 .
If you love your picture to be buttery-smooth, you'll be happy to hear this is a Motion Flow XR960 system, but be aware that this translates in reality to a 240Hz panel . Another major step-up over the W802A is the employment of local dimming from the edge-lit LED backlight .
Sony keeps things simple with a bunch of cell-phone-friendly features like Miracast mirroring and MHL , and the second Bluetooth remote is also NFC-enabled. Beyond these minor additions, the TV's non-picture-affecting features are mostly unchanged from last year.



The TV includes four pairs of 3D active glasses, the TDG-BT500A, which retail for $50 each. New for this year, Sony's active 3D TVs finally comply with the full HD 3D standard , so it will work with third-party glasses like the these Samsungs ($20).
Smart TV:The interface has improved a little since last year -- no more scrolling lists or separate, competing interfaces -- and the Sony Entertainment Network (SEN) is now the default smart TV destination. It's available only from the SEN button on the remote control, though some apps are available under the Applications menu. All of the apps sit on one screen, and I found the layout preferable to scrolling through a seemingly endless vertical list via the XMB. Happily, the Home page allows for shortcuts to your most-used apps, which means you won't need to even load the slow SEN in most cases.
Unlike some competitors, Sony offers no app store, just a long list of preloaded apps which includes the inevitable litany of disposable games. There have so far been no new additions to last year's Smart TV content selection , and Yahoo Widgets and CinemaNow have both disappeared. Of course favorites like Netflix, Hulu, and Pandora are still available.



The Sony features a Web browser, but without a pointing device it becomes unbearably difficult to navigate. I don't anticipate many people will use this feature.
The company is currently offering 12 months of Hulu Plus and Netflix, and 30 days of Music Unlimited with the purchase of this TV. As usual, we recommend hooking the TV to a receiver or a decent sound bar to get the best out of Music Unlimited.
Picture settings:Despite being a more expensive TV, the W900A actually offers less tweaking than is available on the W802. There's no 10-point grayscale, although it does have a number of gamma selections and the usual array of picture presets. Unlike some competitors, Sony doesn't offer a color management system.
Connectivity:The standard physical connections include four HDMI (with one offering MHL), three USB ports, one component/composite, one standalone composite and Ethernet. MHL compatibility enables you to connect your smartphone via HDMI and stream content while you charge your phone, but for wireless convenience the onboard Wi-Fi direct is probably better. For a complete list of inputs and outputs, check out the Specs section of this review.
Picture settings: Sony W900A
Picture settings:
Sony W900A
Picture quality
When you're paying over two grand grand for a 55-inch TV, you'd like to think you're getting close to the best picture quality available. In the case of the Sony W900A, you are. The Samsung F8000 is slightly worse in terms of black level and color, but the two are very close (see that review for a full side-by-side comparison; the comparison below was written before we reviewed the Samsung). Neither one beats the best plasmas' pictures, but if you prefer LED LCD for some reason , the W900A is a great alternative.
The Sony's Triluminos system helps boost color performance, with hues that were the equal of the ST60 plasma. Of the LCDs we compared the W900A had the best colors, and the most saturated blues and skin tones in particular.
Despite local dimming, however, it isn't quite as good as last year's HX850 in the most important area: black levels. The W900's black areas were slightly lighter in some scenes, and the edges were prone to light leakage. Though gamma levels were more consistent from light to dark than the cheaper W802, it was a little more hesitant to show up shadow detail. Unsurprisingly, the fantastic Panasonic ST60 plasma was better in all areas, and at half the price of the Sony, too. Sure you can pay a lot extra for a picture that's almost as good as a plasma, but why should you?
Click the image at the right to see the picture settings used in the review and to read more about how this TV’s picture controls worked during calibration.
Black level:Although very good for a LED LCD, the Sony W900A wasn't able to beat the HX850's superior black levels. It performed in the middle of the pack when replaying dark scenes, for example an 80's-era Manhattan skyline from "Watchmen." With its local dimming the Sony could dredge up solid levels of pure black depending on the scene, but both the Sony HX850 and Panasonic ST60 were able to beat it in terms of consistent black levels, while the ES8000 was very similar in depth of black overall.
As the camera pulls out you can see west across the Empire State building, and the W900A was able to retrieve decent amounts of detail from the buildings, giving a sense of depth with very little crushing or overly green blacks. It was darker and less revealing than the ST60 and HX850, but looked noticeably better than the Sharp LE650 and trounced the Panasonic DT60, which looked flat and lifeless.
The final "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" movie is punishing for LCD TVs in particular, as most scenes are extremely dark with shades of black. At the start of Chapter 12, the camera swings about a cluster of dimly lit figures on a hill, and then zeroes in on Good King Noselessness. The W900A exhibited fairly good detail amid the gloom and didn't turn shadows green as we've seen with some other televisions. However, I found that once again, the older Sony and Panasonic were both darker and better at digging up unseen detail.
Color accuracy:The W900A had the most saturated colors of the collected LCDs -- especially blue-- and this is likely due to the work of the Triluminous crystals. The W900's color looked very close to that of the Panasonic ST60, particularly in its portrayals of Dr. Manhattan in "Watchmen." The character has brilliant blue skin and he casts a purple-blue light on others around him, and the only TVs that could convey this without resorting to banding or missing subtle variations in color were the W900A and the ST60. Given this excellent performance, perhaps there is some merit to Sony's claims of Quantum Dots' efficacy.
Switching to the languid "The Tree of Life" and its kaleidoscopic palette, the Sony W900A was able to convey just as much information as the ST60 with a well saturated image. At the beginning of Chapter 5 (37:18) Mother is lounging on the grass and the W900A is able to capture the scene well with well-saturated greens. The cyan of her clothing doesn't stray into blue territory as it does on the HX850, and her fair skin tone is portrayed naturally without too much ruddiness.
Video processing:Both the W802 and W900A passed the "I Am Legend" test of the fly-by of an aircraft carrier, showing correct film cadence. There was a bit of halting judder when I looked very closely, but not enough to be considered a "fail."
However, in the synthetic 1080i playback test there was significant strobing in the moving image -- you may lose some very fine detail when replaying film-based 1080i sources. On the motion resolution test, the TV displayed 330 lines when I disabled the smoothing dejudder mode, and as usual engaging Motion Flow enabled the TV to go to 1000 lines. Unusually, the pattern displayed heavy artifacts between 350 and 400 lines. Otherwise the performance is what I expect from a 240Hz TV.
Uniformity:Compared directly against last year's HX850, the W900A does suffer some uniformity issues -- particularly with light leakage at the sides leading to a blue-black haze on a dark scene. However, it does perform better than all of the other LCDs in the lineup; random splodges appeared on the Sharp, Sony, and Panasonic LED televisions.
Off-axis performance of the Sony was much more impressive than the W800, with retained contrast and colors. The correspondingly wider viewing angle meant there is less of a sweet spot, so two or more people could watch this TV comfortably.
Remember how dead pixels were a thing a few years ago? Monitor companies such as Asus had obtuse dead policies where you could return a screen if it had stuck pixels in a certain percentile of the the screen. That all went away as LCD yields improved, but as of this TV I have seen my first stuck pixel in a mainstream television. On the lower right, the W900A had a red/green pixel on all the time and it was particularly noticeable on a black screen. As rare as this is, if this should happen to you, contact Sony.
Bright lighting:Of the two 2013 Sony TVs in the lineup, the W900A was the least reflective but it also had clearer reflections -- I could make out more details of my own face and so on. But less reflective is still better, and both TVs were less distracting than the very shiny DT60. Moving on, in a lit room blacks were black rather than blue, and uniformity wasn't an issue.
Sound qualityThe W900A has a very warm sound which is suited to dialogue and the THWACK! of action movies. Our "Mission: Impossible III" sound test was delivered clearly, but without the high-end tinkle of some of the other sets we've heard. We'd still say that if you want to watch movies and expect serious sound, get a separate speaker system.
Furthermore, I don't think there has ever been a time when you could buy a TV for music though there are certainly models that have tried -- the Mark-Levinson-tuned Scarlet most Bang and Olufsens , theSony X900A -- but the Sony W900A is not the go-to here. While it has more of a midrange openness to it on our "Red Right Hand" test track, it is lacking in high-frequency presence compared with the HX850.
3D:Though the W802 and W900A come out of the same stable, they are the result of very different husbandry, and this is most evident when it comes to 3D playback. The W802 is a passive design, which in this case meant a brighter image overall at the expense of interlacing artifacts; meanwhile the W900A has an active design. It showed good 3D picture quality overall, but there were some issues.
Despite the added dimming effect of the shutter glasses, the opening scenes in "Hugo" were bright but still susceptible to blue blacks -- we don't calibrate these TVs specifically for 3D. Fast-forward to Hugo's hand against a darker back ground at 4 minutes, 44 seconds in and there were no traces of white-on-black crosstalk, but strangely Hugo's hand had become part of the desk, almost inverted. This artifact didn't occur on the ES8000 with his hand remaining solid, but there was a more significant amount of white crosstalk -- the Samsung's more solid images were preferable. Moving on, after the unsuccessful "heist," Hugo is chased through the train station and the W900's motion was relatively solid throughout -- some active 3D systems such as the ST60 can make action look blurry and inconsequential.
On the other hand, we did notice minor flicker when we turned off the MotionFlow processing; it disappeared when we engaged the processing, although as usual leaving it on also introduced smoothness. We preferred the Standard setting for 3D, which removed the flicker and kept smoothness relatively low.
Input lag:Unusually, the Sony would not display any signal from our lag tester, so we couldn't measure its input lag Update: Subsequent attempts allowed us to finally take a measurement of input lag. It was excellent in Game mode (see below).
GEEK BOX: TestResultScore
Black luminance (0%)0.003Good
Avg. gamma (10-100%)2.22Good
Avg. grayscale error (10-100%)1.4Good
Near-black error (5%)0.706Good
Dark gray error (20%)1.998Good
Bright gray error (70%)1.623Good
Avg. color error1.68583333333333Good
Red error1.723Good
Green error1.695Good
Blue error2.965Good
Cyan error0.443Good
Magenta error1.386Good
Yellow error1.903Good
1080p/24 Cadence (IAL)PassGood
1080i Deinterlacing (film)PassGood
Motion resolution (max)1000Good
Motion resolution (dejudder off)330Poor
Input lag (Game mode)19.7Good