VIZIO VOJ320F was designed to buck the trend of traditional black accents most commonly portrayed in consumer electronics today. The VIZIO "Java" colorization blends a more modern hue that is suitable for any decor. While impressing with overall design characteristics, VIZIO packs the VOJ320F with technology including full high definition 1080p processing power, 3x HDMI inputs and over 16 million colors to impress.Customer Review: I love this TV
I decided that it was finally time to do something about the 15-year old 19" CRT I've been using in the bedroom, and I spent weeks looking at every 32" LCD TV sold in the area (many trips to Best Buy, Sears, Target, Walmart, anywhere that carried TVs). I thought I had convinced myself that the Sony XBR6 or XBR9 was the right choice. However, last week Target had these on sale for $519, and I had another 10% off anything, so the final price was about $470 - 400 less than the Sony. The display Vizio looked decent, and I decided to take a chance. I could not be happier that I did. The picture looks great. I thought that the refresh rate would be too slow and I'd be annoyed at motion artifacts, but on my test sequences I haven't noticed a thing. In fact, I've moved the Blu Ray player to be attached to this TV instead of my Philips CRT HDTV because the picture is considerably better - the text on the PS3 is finally actually readable. I have no idea what the heck the "Java" in the name means, but it's not any sort of annoying software running on the TV getting in the way of just watching TV. If I had one complaint, it's that analog cable looks terrible on this TV. Maybe I just didn't figure out the right settings for it and it would work fine, but in the end it didn't really matter - I needed a second HD set top box from my cable company for $5 a month to get the HD lineup anyway, and through box the SD channels look pretty good. As a bonus, this TV switches between HD and SD very fast, unlike my other HDTV. Finally, I think this is about as close to an "American" TV as you can actually buy, though it's OEMed in Taiwan. For this price, I don't think you can go wrong. Maybe I would have liked the Sony a bit better, but I'm happier that I saved the $400 and have a TV I really like.
Customer Review: Excellent HDTV at a price that's easy on the budget
Vizio has advertised for a while now (ESPN Radio and other places) that they make top quality HDTV equipment at affordable prices and they are not kidding or just boasting in making those claims. When I originally jumped into the HDTV world I did so on a budget. Having committed a considerable portion of my entertainment budget to get an Xbox 360 back when those boxes were being introduced to the market, I didn't have a lot of money to spend buying a large HDTV to play my games on. Given the budget constraints and also some space constraints, I settled on a 26" CRT, yes, that's right, I said CRT, widescreen HDTV that I got from a big box store that some folks would say fairly well resembles the Buy More stores shown on the excellent TV series Chuck each week ;-) I knew it wasn't the best TV and knew that I'd want to replace it later, but it was HD, it was widescreen, and it easily blew away the picture quality of the old 27" 4:3 standard TV that it replaced. A couple of years and tax refunds later it was time to revisit the HDTV I played my games on, and I started shopping around to see what I might be able to attain at the price that I wanted to aim for. I found a couple of Vizio models in my price range, including a few that might, just might, be in stock at one of the big retail stores in my area. Unfortunately there was no guarantee that the models that I saw online were going to be in stock in the brick and mortar stores, so I continued researching things on the web until I found the Vizio VO32LF HDTV at Amazon partner TigerDirect.com. Yes, I know that's not exactly the same model as the one listed where I'm entering this review (the VOJ320F1A), but it is, for all intents and purposes, the same model TV with a different colored bezel (face) around the front of the TV's screen. As it turns out Vizio has a couple of 32" models and a couple of 37" model TVs that are basically the same TV but each with a slightly different model number that denotes a different bezel or other relatively cosmetic difference between them. The VO32LF TV that I purchased was one that TigerDirect offered as a refurbished unit. The price was outstanding, though the refurbished label did raise my concern a little. Why exactly was the unit refurbished and/or recertified? There could be several reasons, and a buyer is never going to know for certain what the real story is. What the buyer does know is that the manufacturer has made the unit available via a retailer with the refurbished/recertified notation and the manufacturer is still guaranteeing the unit for a reasonable period of time upon purchase. Given the price and feature set, I thought over the potential purchase, researched other comparable models only to find that there were few, if any, that even came close to being as fully featured in the same price ranges, and decided that one of these TVs was going to be mine. Order placed, and sure enough, approx. 5 days later the TV was in my hands. Knowing the unit that I got was a refurbished/recertified unit, I was somewhat eager to open the box and see if I could determine why the unit might have been sold that way. Quite honestly, unless the problem was a very minor scuff like mark on the bezel that may very well just be a shadow/reflection from the lamp light in my 'den' area, I couldn't tell you what the issue was. The only thing I did find out of the ordinary was that the unit didn't come with a power cord. It was supposed to have, but I didn't find one in the box. No problem though as the TV uses a standard computer or computer monitor power cord and I tend to have spares of those on hand. Once set up, I was and remain quite pleased with my purchase. The picture quality is excellent and the sound (volume range) is quite sufficient for my video gaming, movie and TV watching needs. Having 3 HDMI ports available means not having to juggle connections or settle for a component connection when I'd rather use HDMI. There's also the full 1080p resolution, which even on the 32" screen size (which is not really supposed to be noticable at that size) offers the best resolution possible for video gaming or Blu-ray disc play back. Having bought one of these great TVs, I look forward to buying at least one more in a much larger size in the future. Eventually my living room will sport something in the 42"+ size, and I expect Vizio's offerings will be highly considered.
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