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The VIZIO M-Series is a great 4K TV for watching movies. It performs decently for HDR content, particularly in dark environments. It also has fairly low motion blur, which makes it great for action-filled films or sports.
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Pros
Pro Good for watching sports
The VIZIO M-series is one of the best TVs in its price range for watching sports because of the TV’s good motion blur handling capabilities, decent color uniformity, and excellent picture quality.
The TV handles its motion blur well because of its relatively fast pixel response time of 18.3 ms, which means that it takes less than 1/50th of a second for the TV’s pixels to change their colors; as a result, the fast-moving objects might leave only very short, almost unnoticeable trails.
The TV’s decent color uniformity combined with excellent image quality makes sports fields look great, making the VIZIO M-series an excellent choice for watching sports like football, ice hockey, soccer, and golf.
Pro Great picture quality
The M-Series looks great with vivid colors.
Dark scenes look amazing with great details, thanks to the panel’s contrast ratio of roughly 5500:1, which means it’s capable of producing blacks that are 5500 times darker than the brightest white pixel the screen can produce. This can be pushed slightly further to about 5800 with local dimming, which results in a slight increase in overall picture quality.
The colors are quite lifelike and accurate even without any calibration. They will look vibrant even in bright scenes because of the panel's high peak brightness levels of ~300 nits for SDR & ~400 nits for HDR.
Even in a decently-lit environment, the picture quality of the M-Series won't deteriorate by much. The panel is good at handling reflections and it can get adequately bright to fight off glare.
Pro Great for HDR content
The M-Series is the best pick for HDR content in this price bracket. Compared to its direct competitors, it offers the best HDR experience because it has all the essentials for true HDR playback that its competitors lack: local dimming, fairly high peak brightness level, and a wide color gamut.
Its deep black levels are further improved with local dimming, which can make parts of the screen darker when the image calls for it. This results in a slight increase in overall picture quality - the black levels become deeper by a small margin, so highlights will stand out further.
Colors look vibrant in both dark and bright scenes, and the panel can reproduce the wide range of colors required for true HDR playback. In addition, it can also get bright enough to light up these colors sufficiently for HDR details to stand out, thanks to the peak brightness level of ~400 nits.
Cons
Con Can’t fight judder from 60 Hz sources
The VIZIO M-series can't detect 24p judder from 60p sources, meaning that the 24p content sourced from a satellite or cable box, or Apple TV will look inconsistent as some frames will be displayed for longer periods than some other ones. Such artificial effect is called '2:3 judder'.
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Pro Compatible with all current-gen consoles
This 4K60 TV is perfectly compatible with all the current generation consoles, including the Xbox One X, PS4 Pro, and Wii U. Even though the TV’s input lag is almost 40ms, it’s still a decent choice for non-competitive gaming. Additionally, as the VIZIO M-series does not suffer from increased input lag in HDR mode, you will be able to enjoy console HDR gaming without any performance drop.