HDTV and Home Theater Podcast - Podcast #440: Vizio XVT553SV LCD HDTV Review

Started by arad • Aug 27, 2010 • 2 posts

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#1 Aug 27, 2010 at 6:22 am

With football season just around the corner you may be in the market for a new HDTV to watch your favorite team try and make it to the Superbowl. We’ve seen a few technologies come and go and each of them try to produce a picture that’s as good as plasma. The latest is LED. The Vizio XVT553SV will run you about $1900 for the 55 inch version and its loaded with all kinds of goodies that we can finally say that Plasma may have finally met its match.

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#2 Aug 16, 2011 at 7:36 pm

We just purchased this tv a week ago with the HD receiver from DirectTv just installed today. I am tweaking the picture settings per your recommendations but one thing I am unable to tweak at all is the Real Cinema Mode setting under Advanced Picture...will not let me choose this setting at all. Am I missing something? Thank you for the great review and great callibration settings (I like them better than CNet's already even with the Real Cinema Mode still set to "smooth"...more colorful).