Customer Ratings & Reviews

I went to Best Buy right after Black Friday to get a new 4K UHD TV. I didn’t want one of the cheap Doorbuster Tv. I picked up the LG SK8000 55” for $699 which was a good deal I thought. The picture was great but the Edge Lit Display was TERRIBLE! So I exchanged that for this Vizio P Series 55” 4K UHD Tv and the P Series is WAY BETTER than the Lg SK8000 55” Pros of the P Series: - nice bright display - Great colors - Nice Clear And Amazing Picture Quality that competes with QLED TVs for half the price. - Built in Chromecast is a Plus - I love the build of the P Series 2018 TVs. - Non-existing Bezel on top and sides with a tiny sliver of silver at the bottom. - 5 HDMI PORTS! - Best TV in this price Range by far! - Full Array Dimming - Bright colors deep blacks Cons of the P Series : - Smartcast is a little sluggish but is nice especially when you cast stuff to your tv. I would HIGHLY RECOMMEND this TV to anyone looking for an AMAZING 4K UHD Tv for an amazing affordable price! Defiantly beats ALL the competitors which are a lot more exspensive with less features. I always get Vizio TVs but this P Series 2018 55” is the best TV I have owned!

This is a great 4K tv with all necessities: 120hz panel, various hdr standards, local dimming and wide color gamut. Pros: Brightness. It can reach up to 1000 nits which is insane for a tv at this price. Hdr really pops as intended. If a tv is no brighter than 600 peak, the hdr will only feels washed out. Color calibration. Out of the box the color is accurate and needs minimum tweaking. This is a huge plus for average customers. Local dimming. With it, this tv can reach some awesome bright dark contrast. Although it only has 56 zones (mine is 55 inch), they really work great without obvious blooming. Build quality: not flimsy, panel quality is solid as well. Slight Vignette on corners but unifomity is great. Cons: Laggy OS. The tv OS is sometimes slow to respond. If you have a console or a tv sticker, you are fine. Viewing angle. This tv including all other tvs with VA panel have this problem. Color will shift slightly if not directly in front of the tv but in real world it’s not that scary. Sound quality. The speaker of this tv is bland and mushy. A basic 2.0 sound bar is recommended. **for the people struggling with this tv and TCL 6 series: TCL has better brightness and more dimming zone in paper. I compared with them side by side only found that thanks to Vizios better color calibration and better dimming algorithms, tcl does not feel as pop as vizio. Plus, you don’t risk playing panel lottery with TCL at least for this year or before they upped their game in QA. Overall, this tv ticks all the boxes for a real 4K HDR experience.

This Vizio P-Series delivers big time for picture quality and features without the big price tag. 55 inches is a perfect size for the mancave. Paired with a Hue lightship this setup creates the perfect movie watching space.

First off let me say that i have been through the ringer trying to find a TV. Guess what? I found it! After going through the TCL hype, we went through 6 (SIX) replacement tv's between the 5 and 6 series.. I was enraged and couldnt believe how hard it was to buy a decent tv these days.. I called the TCL support line (awful, absolutely awful) and finally got them to send me a refund for my defective equipment and i will not be going back. Ever! Horrible experience. Now on to the Vizio.. I did extensive research on this product. A native 120hz panel with full array backlighting from a trusted brand for under $1,000, I had to try it out. The colors are super vibrant and rich even in a bright room. Reflections to a minimal and black looks like black, grey looks like grey. I seriously couldnt be happier with this purchase. The sound on the tv is a little iffy, but it's fine for everyday watching. Dont expect a concert in ur family room. HDR content is crazy. I'm seriously blown away with this TV. You cannot go wrong with this. You just cant. PS4 plays flawlessly and actually looks like a different game. Especially madden. The AI on this thing is incredible and i honestly cant rave enough. I hope this review is enough to persuade you into buying this set.

Watching 4K content and playing games on this tv the picture looks great , that being said it doesn’t do a very good job at upscaling in my opinion my Sony does a much better job in that area, also the tv tuner seems to be weak at picking up good signals , I might try a different antenna but I’ve seen that complaint in other reviews. Other than that I am satisfied with this tv the comparable Sony tv with better upscaling was about 400 dollars more at the time I purchased it. The 4K pictures on the two were similar in my opinion and I think saving 400 bucks for a spare tv in the sunroom was worth it.

First off the software is horrible and clunky. Just skip it. The legs are very spread apart and wide making a huge stand necessary. The image when utilizing local dimming really messes some things up. Especially text. All of my on screen guides look like crap around the text. Especially those on gray backgrounds. The color is not uniform what so ever. Last of the bad is the VERY loud siren alarm sound that happens once in awhile. Now the good. The design of the TV, material, fit n finish are all very nice and upscale. The colors are amazing. The picture is very good. Sound is adequate. My Samsung UN55MU6290 broke after 16 months. I picked up this Vizio for really cheap. On paper the Vizio blows the Samsung out of the water. In real life this is not the case. This TV is worth the discounted price it is now selling for.

Won't do better in picture quality for the price. This is the best bang for the buck.

Love the new price point on this year's models, but sadly, performance and QA have taken a major hit. Having used both a 2014 P55 and a 2016 P65 previously and quite liked them, my P55 in comparison suffers from some major issues, including significant edge-clouding and backlight bleed, extremely noticeable local-dimming, and HDMI issues. Edge clouding and bleed results in noticeably dull colors and increased black levels around the edges of the set (up to a about a foot into the screen on each edge), while the the dramatic cut in local dimming zones (about half of last year's models) results in much less effective local dimming, and very obvious zone switching (you can occasionally also see the actual LEDs in certain bright white scenes). The new God of War in HDR mode looks terrible with local dimming on, with very obvious zone switching and flashlighting as you pan the camera around. The first HDMI port also appears to have issues with HDR content, occasionally losing picture and requiring a reboot. Though far less of an issue, the built in apps are also rather sluggish. Given the more positive reviews below, I'm assuming my set is defective, but given the overall cuts in performance to this years' sets, I'll be switching to a different brand. Big disappointment from a prior fan of Vizio TVs!

I’ve had this about a month now and didnt realize what I was missing the picture is incredible and easy to use and set up lots of built in apps and free tv I haven’t even used my cable since purchasing this love the Pluto Tv i would recommend for sure

This TV looks amazing. 1080p content even looks great. I really like the Dolby vision. That makes the picture look so good. I stream Dolby vision content on Netflix. The only issue with the TV would be the UI. I love Roku, so, it doesn't matter to much to me. But their apps are a bit slow. I got this TV for the super bowl. Live TV is never best quality, but this upscale looks decent compared to older models. I'm a huge fan of Vizio.

We love our new smart tv. It was the perfect size and the picture is great. Once we figure out all the many options it will be even more pleased

The picture on this tv is pretty great and the viewing angles aren't bad either. But the tv is not reliable. Sometimes when powering on, the tv just won't power on fully. No picture. TV needs to be power cycled again to try and get it working. When watching tv, the picture will randomly go black or you will get random white/pink/green pixelation for for either a couple of seconds and then resets, or the tv needs to be power cycled. I've attempted to resolve this issue with different video sources, hdmi cables and hdmi ports but the issue persists.

Love it, got what I wast looking for, cool color and super bright! Now sounds quality is to low!

The tv has blacklight issues after only 5 months. There is a large black spot that shows up on light backgrounds. And Vizio customer service is terrible. After 90 days they only replace them with refurbished TVs even though under the year warranty. Already contacted them three times and to get the replacement you have to agree to a refurbished one, it is the only way they will service it. Never buying Vizio again.

I have only ever bought 3 TVs in my life and this one is honestly the best one. Not only do I love the different settings of the TV mode, but I connected it with my Google Home and it is amazing. P Series for the win!

After maneuvering through the television confusion this was my choice. Excellent TV and I would highly recommend this if you have any confusion about all of the different models.

I’m not sure if I got a bad panel or not but, I’m getting a lot of color uniformity issues with my tv. All of the colors looks washed out around the perimeter of the screen. If I wasn’t out of my return period, I would return it in a heart beat. Gonna reach out to Best Buy and/or Vizio to see what we can do here. Not impressed w/ my first Vizio purchase

This set has been a complete nightmare from blooming issues with the full array to getting stuck on the power cycle . 3 repairs and now the unit won’t even power on. I regret not taking the lg unit even tho it did not have Dolby vision never had issues with Sony or Lg

After reading a few reviews on a few different models and brands I decided to settle on the Vizio P series 55" model. The picture is fantastic. It has deep blacks, has local dimming, a native 120hz panel. The picture looks great out of the box but once you calibrate it the picture is even better! I have not noticed much more than some very minor blooming or and have not noticed any screen effect watching NHL. While the picture is fantastic this TV does have some drawbacks. First the sound is bad and I mean really bad. Most modern 4K TVs have poor sound quality but this set is extremely poor so I recommend a sound bar. The second issue is the operating system and apps. Both are very sluggish and some are outdated and there is no way for you to download more but you can use Google Chromecast. The preinstalled apps don't support everything the TV does. For example the Vudu app will play Dolby Vison HDR format but display the image in 1080p rather than 4k. I would recommend getting a streaming device like Roku. One other issue is gaming. I had some issues with the HDMI ports and the PS4 Pro and Xbox One X both getting black flickering screens, especially in HDMI 2, which I believe states it is the best port. I was able to get everything connected without any flickering by changing the settings on both the PS4 pro and swapping HDMI ports which was initially annoying. I will say it has a low input lag and haven't noticed any lagging while gaming. I think the issue had to do with the PS4 Pros signal output and the TV. Also while the Xbox one x states it will play Dolby vision content it thinks the TV supports an older version so don't count on anything other than HDR 10 from the system. Besides the minor issues I mentioned the TV is worth the money. I lucked out by having won a panel lottery as I have no vertical banding or DSE. Note that with all FALD panels the corners of the tv will appear a little darker but mine is very minor and hardly ever notice it unless I look for it intentionally. I included an image of standard 1080p image from VIOS after the tv being calibrated for reference.

Overall, this TV is amazing. I switched over to this from a Samsung NU7100 and the difference is significant, although I realize there's a slight price difference between the two. This TV is still better than Samsung's other mid-range offerings for the value. I compared a lot of TV's on Rtings.com, and for the price and picture quality, this TV can't be beat. It's more reliable than the TCL 6 series and performs better overall. I feel immersed in the content I'm watching, particularly HDR/4k. The TV supports Dolby Vision and it's been very impressive. The first thing I watched was Planet Earth (UHD Netflix subscription), and there were colors I'd never seen previously (because previous TV's did not have the wide color gamut/were not bright enough to show HDR highlights). Freaking cool. Now I've got to rewatch the series. PROS: -Amazing picture quality with deep blacks and a wide color gamut for HDR -Simple UI -5 HDMI ports -Premium, elegant and bezel-less design CONS -Smartcast, as others have noted, isn't the best. The good news is you can cast in 4k, but Smartcast can be limiting. An issue I ran I to is the backdrop/ambient mode. I like to display my Google photo albums on my standalone Chromecast (ambient mode) and while the Vizio Smartcast let's you use the built in Chromecast ambient mode, it dims the display and you can't see the photos as well. I've worked around this by continuing to use my standalone Chromecast in an HDMI port. -Sound, as with most modern TV's is mediocre. Get yourself a soundbar or av receiver/speakers.