VIZIO 50" 4K UHD Full-Array LED Smart TV

As is usually the case in my reviews I plan to keep things as simple and clear as possible. I did a lot of research on LG, Sony and Samsung 60 inch televisions in the 1000.00 to 2000.00 dollar range. I also actually looked at the various and sundry sets at too many big box stores to effectively maintain my sanity with the mostly useless drivel, that spewed forth from far too many salespersons' mouths. Here on Amazon a whole lot of people have been far more technical than I like to be and there are some very astute and descent reviews on this product. My set was delivered on May the 24th and I am writing this review on the 15th of June after spending time getting to know and calibrate this beautiful television.It is totally worth the money I paid and I could not be happier with my purchase. The company that delivered the set, Pilot, was pretty worthless, which I in no way hold against Amazon. I had two tens and two fives to tip these guys 15 bucks apiece and when they said they knew nothing about helping me out with opening and then placing the t.v. I just smiled at them and kept my tip dough in my pocket. I have helped friends and family (ad nauseaum) to set up surround sound systems and televisions for too many years and it took no time to set the set up, around 20 minutes or less from opening to putting on the feet to placing it on the stand, it only weighs about 60 lbs.If you like myself are sick of the assanine corporate whores who mainly, due to copy protection issues can't give us simplicity buy this set! If you want just a scooch more future proofing look to the 2016 P and M series Vizio's, as they will do the HDR and Dolby Vision color update. I wanted a tuner for over the air stations as I cut the cable cord years ago and those televisions have to have an outboard tuner to receive over the air stations.My point is, Beta Max or VHS? Blu-ray or Red- ray? HDMI 1.0? 1.2? 2.0? 2.2? I think you see where I am going with this. I would buy this set and wail until at least 2018 to buy another set. If you have the money, 6000,00 to 12000.00 dollars, you can afford either LG or Panasonics OLED'swhich have the most beautiful pictures and features available as of this writing. If like me, you are a pauper, buy this television instead, or the 65 or 70 inch version of it. You will not need an upconverting blu-ray player, the 4k feed from Amazon and Netflix look absolutely amazing as does the upconverted 1080p signal from my blu-ray player. 480i looks like crap for the most part but any station showing 720p or1080i looks amazing on the over the air tuner which picked up more stations (77) after the channel scan. Another wonderful feature are the various picture settings you can dail in and store or adjust on fly. Considering the uneven standards of picture and aspect ratio options on terrestrial channels the fact that you can adjust as you're looking at the picture will make me forgo calibation by an ISF tech. If you're a gamer, buy this set, if you mourn the loss of plasma, buy this set, if you know the difference between an eyesight blasting display at the store and what pleases your eye asthetically,buy this set! As of this writing there are 2 4k blu-ray players and around 18 4k movies that you can purchase, another reason why I will wait until 2018 to possibly upgrade to OLED. I used the calibration settings from C-Net's David Katzemeyer (I think I misspelled his last name) and AVS Forum with minor adjustments here and there. Subjectivity is the norm in music and visual likes but you can dial in one hell of a picture with this set! It's big and beautiful, the speakers really surprised me with their clarity but lets face it, a soundbar or in my case a surround sound system really make for a true "home theater" experience. I may purchase a roku 4 as I love my roku 3, which is now in the bedroom if and when more things begin to be streamed in 4k, I will buy a 4k blu-ray player when they come down to $ 250 or less. For now this set is all you will need to watch the sparse offerings in 4k that are currently available, and they look damn good! When the corporate whores make up their minds and offer us one standard that works without having to constantly upgrade I will buy another set that does HDR-10 and Dolby Vision and whatever the hell else it is they come up with. When there are at least 500 movies in 4k not upconverted 2k to 4k I will upgrade. Until then this television and the Audioquest Dragonfly DAC are the 2 best electronic devices I have ever personally selected. I found them both on Amazon and I am an Amazonian forever. By the by Panasonic just began selling 8k cameras to the major studios, I hope this set will last at least 4 years cause I smell even more "format wars" b.s.in the years ahead. 8k or 4k? You get my drift.....