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This is an excellent product in every way !!! Including a guarantee of "No Defective Bright Pixels" !!! -- The picture is outstanding from ANY angle ,,, truly no fade-out at the sides !!! I'm impressed.

The Wizard setup is a piece-of-cake ,,, Just click OK. The Menus are navigable and comprehensible i.e. If confused choose "standard".

The high quality REMOTE, which is stable when standing upright, feels comfortable in my hand, has a nice weight, a soft felt back and easy to reach and comprehend buttons. Remote response time is immediate [after initial channel download]. The angle of Remote Control to TV reception is near 90 degrees; if you can see the screen ,,, so can the remote :-)

The SOUND quality is MOST excellent. Not tinny or muffled !!! I have it set at 30, out of 100, and I can easily hear and understand as I walk throughout my home. A marked difference from other TV's I've owned where the audio becomes garbled, muffled and I can't understand at any volume.

The CONNECTORS are of ALL TYPES and are mounted on both the back and the side. They are clearly labeled for their function ,,, and correspond to the Remote Control buttons.

I just took delivery of my Vizio today. Before purchase I read criticisms on another website ,,, those criticisms ARE BOGUS in my view. This product is MOST EXCELLENT !!! In every way !!! Maybe all of the criticisms have been addressed by VISIO ??? This Model has been out since at least 2006, sale price at that time $1,000.00.

The setup took me 5 minutes out-of-the-box !!! --

Oh yeah ,,, there's another nice feature, a built-in remote mounted on the side for those who can't keep track of that "mobile" remote control :-)

I bought mine at Walmart for $447 because of a price mixup, its usuaully $497 there. I am more then impressed with the TV, i love the bottom gold stripe on the bezel and the vizio logo on the bottom front glows a very faint amber when the TV is off and a very faint white when on, just enough to look nice without being annoyingly bright. The picture is amazing. I use mine mainly for gaming in my bedroom. I am positioned only about 3-4' away from the TV so the 1080p really looks sharp. If you have to sit farther away then 4-5 feet you might want to go with the bigger model, as its hard to see the 1080p picture enhancement farther away then that on a 32". I would recommend this TV to anyone, if you can find it! 3 HDMI's, + VGA is nice too.

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.

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.

This TV is amazing, and I'm not even watching it at its full capabilities.Vizio 32" 1080p LCD HDTV - Java (VOJ320F1A) To start with, I'm hooked up to TiVo, so there's a certain amount of picture degradation that occurs, and you can't get HiDef unless you spend big bucks for a HiDef TiVo. But, given all that, the picture quality is far superior to all the other televisions in this house. It's sharp, clear, and steady as a rock. Want to know what I like best about it? It's a 32" TV and it ONLY WEIGHS 35 LBS. I almost got a double hernia moving the old 27" TV out of the way, but I one-handed this baby right onto the stand.

Hook up was a cinch because Vizio (the ONLY U.S. made television) includes a quick set-up guide, and an excellent instruction manual. Okay, I did have to make one quick trip to Radio Shack to buy a cable I didn't have, but I was forewarned about that, so I don't count it as a negative. Lots of hook-up options, so no matter how or what you want to hook up to this set, there's a hook up available for it (provided you have the right cable).

Programming my TiVo remote to control the TV was a cinch since Vizio only has one code. How's that for simplicity?

This LCD HiDef true 1080P television set is excellent at any price, but how can you go wrong for $550 - 580? Oh, and it looks good, too. It's an outstanding buy, and I highly recommend it.