When comparing Toshiba Amazon Fire TV 2018 43" (43LF621U19 ) vs VIZIO E-Series 55" (E55-F1), the Slant community recommends Toshiba Amazon Fire TV 2018 43" (43LF621U19 ) for most people. In the question“What are the best TVs?” Toshiba Amazon Fire TV 2018 43" (43LF621U19 ) is ranked 40th while VIZIO E-Series 55" (E55-F1) is ranked 197th. The most important reason people chose Toshiba Amazon Fire TV 2018 43" (43LF621U19 ) is:
This TV can play HDR10 content.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Supports HDR
This TV can play HDR10 content.
Pro Decent performance in a dark room
When placed in a dark room, this TV offers fair picture quality thanks to its ability to reproduce decent blacks. The blacks look deep and inky because of the panel's high native contrast ration and high black uniformity.
The panel's native contrast ratio measures at 5000:1 which is a good result for a TV in this price bracket. This means that, within the same frame, the brightest highlights are 5000 times brighter than the dimmer blacks.
Pro Good performance in a dark room
The VIZIO E-Series is a good home theater TV because it offers good picture quality when placed in a dark environment where it can reproduce beautiful images that have inky blacks and bright and colorful highlights.
The blacks look good thanks to the TV's high native contrast ratio that measures at 5900:1 which is a decent result for a TV in this price range. Additionally, the blacks don't look cloudy thanks to their high uniformity.
Pro Requires no calibration
You'll not need to spend time calibrating this TV because its out-of-the-box color accuracy is quite high. The color inaccuracies cannot be spotted by a human eye because of the TV's average color inaccuracy measures at the dE of 1.97.
Cons
Con The main interface has ads
There are a lot of ads and suggested content in the main interface of this TV. Sadly, there's no option to opt out of that.
Con Requires calibration
You'll need to spend some time calibration this TV because it's out-of-the-box colors are noticeably off. Namely, all the colors look horrible at the default settings. All the critical calibration parameters are available on the Internet.
Con Poor viewing angles
Those who view the TV at an angle will see a degraded picture because of the TV's bad overall viewing angles. For example, the image's black levels will start to shift once the viewing angle gets larger than 13 degrees.