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Measuring the inches on your LCD television is done by measuring the diagonal distance between for example the upper left corner and the lower right corner of the screen (not the edge). One inch equals 2,54 centimeter, so when you measure 99 centimeter, this means your LCD television is 39 inches.

Both techniques use an LCD screen that emits no light by itself. The difference is in the lighting behind the screen. With LCD screens this is done by CCFL (cold-cathode fluorescent lamp) and LED makes use of LED lights.

The Hisense U8H matches the excellent brightness and color performance of much pricier LCD TVs, and its Google TV smart platform is a welcome addition. But it’s available in only three screen sizes.

The Hisense U8H is the best LCD/LED TV for most people because it delivers the performance of a much pricier TV yet starts at under $1,000, for the smallest (55-inch) screen size. This TV utilizes quantum dots, a full-array backlight with mini-LEDs, and a 120 Hz refresh rate to deliver a great-looking 4K HDR image. It’s compatible with every major HDR format. And it’s equipped with two full-bandwidth HDMI 2.1 inputs to support 4K 120 Hz gaming from the newest Xbox and PlayStation consoles. Add in the intuitive, fully featured Google TV smart-TV platform, and the U8H’s price-to-performance ratio is of inarguable value.

In terms of design, the Hisense U8H is not as svelte as our upgrade pick, but it’s plenty sturdy and doesn’t look or feel cheap. Two narrow, metal feet jut out from beneath the panel and steadily hold the TV. They can be attached in two separate spots, either closer in toward the middle of the panel or out toward the edges, to account for different-size TV stands. The feet are also equipped with cable organization clasps—a nice touch for keeping your TV stand free of cable clutter. Though the TV is primarily plastic, its bezels are lined with metal strips, providing a bit more durability in the long run. I moved it around my home, and it was no worse for wear, but we’ll know more after doing some long-term testing.

The Hisense U8H has some difficulties with banding, or areas of uneven gradation, where transitions that should appear smooth instead look like “bands” of color (sometimes also called posterization). Like many current 4K HDR TVs, the U8H uses an 8-bit panel rather than a 10-bit panel, which affects the color decoding and color presentation process. This is usually relevant only with HDR video and games. When playing games on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, I saw a few instances where the content wasn’t rendered correctly and displayed ugly splotches of color on the screen. However, this almost always occurred during static screens (such as a pause menu or loading screen); I rarely spotted it during actual gameplay. Hisense has stated that it would address the problem in a future firmware update, but at the time of writing it was still present. This is a flaw that may give dedicated gamers pause, but we don’t consider it to be a dealbreaker for most people.

Finally, like most TVs that use vertical alignment (VA) LCD panels, the U8H has a limited horizontal viewing angle, which may be a bit annoying if you’re hoping to entertain a large crowd. Our upgrade pick uses a special wide-angle technology to address this.

Why do monitors and TVs get image burn? Why can"t manufacturers prevent LCDs and plasma screens from a burnt image imprint? Moreover, what can you do to fix an image burn?

LCD and LED do not work in the same way as CRTs, either. LCD and LED screens use backlit liquid crystals to display colors. Although manufacturers market screens using LED and LCD, an LED screen is still a type of LCD. The white backlight filters through the liquid crystals, which extract particular colors per pixel.

LCD and LED displays don"t suffer from the same type of image burn as CRTs and plasma screens. They"re not completely clear, though. LCD and LED screens suffer from image persistence. Read on to find out more about image persistence.

Before you can fix screen burn-in, take a second to understand why these images burn in the first place. LCDs and LEDs don"t suffer from burn-in as seriously as plasma screens. But static images can leave an imprint on both display types if left alone for too long. So, why does image burn happen?

LCD and LED screens can also experience image burn, though the image burn process can take longer to develop into a permanent issue. In addition, LCD and LED screens suffer from another issue, known as image retention (also known as image persistence or an LCD shadow).

Image retention is a temporary issue that you are more likely to notice before it becomes a permanent issue. However, proper image burn can still affect LCD, LED, and OLED screens.

Image burn-in fixes exist for LCD and plasma screens. How effective an image burn-in fix is depends on the screen damage. Depending on the length and severity of the image burn, some displays may have permanent damage.

The best fix for screen burn is to prevent it in the first place. Okay, that isn"t super useful if your screen is already experiencing image burn. However, you should always try not to leave your screen on a still image for too long. The time it takes for an image to burn-in varies from screen to screen, between manufacturers, sizes, and panel type.

If your plasma or LCD screen already has image burn-in, you can try turning on white static for 12 to 24 hours. The constant moving of white-and-black across your screen in random patterns can help remove the ghost image from your screen.

Pixel-shift constantly slightly adjusts the image on your screen, which varies the pixel usage to counteract image burn. You might have to enable a pixel or screen shift option in your screen settings. Pixel-shift is a handy feature for LED and OLED screens that cannot recover from image burn and should help counteract an LCD shadow.

While the Deluxe version uses advanced algorithms to repair burned screens and prolong plasma and LCD longevity, the official site is no longer up and running, and there is no way to download the full version officially.

Considering its price, the M3D650SV is a decent deal. VIZIO"s 3D technology, as well as their smart platform, are both less rewarding than the parallel features found on Panasonic"s VT50, but its core performance--color, contrast, as well as audio--are very good.

Regarding the design, the M3D650SV is an ordinary 65-inch television, by contemporary standards. It"s got a big, rectangular display panel and an unremarkable, average bezel. While it"s on the thin side compared to VIZIO"s E-Series, it wouldn"t be considered thin within the LCD market. Its back is a dark, brushed metal that is pliable and feels a little flismy. The whole thing sits atop a large, oval-shaped stand that is black and heavy, enough to keep the 65-inch panel aloft.

The "Jag Wheel" (see photo) has replaced standard on-set controls for the VIZIO M-Series. It serves to replace almost all of the usual on-set controls. Pressing the wheel will turn the TV on. Spinning it will raise and lower volume, respectively. Pressing the wheel while the TV is already powered on will bring up a quick menu, allowing you to use the wheel and adjust volume, channel, and input source by clicking and spinning as need dictates. If you hold the Jag Wheel for three seconds, the TV will power off.

From one side, VIZIO"s infrared remote looks like any other: navigational buttons, volume and channel controls, a number pad, and three buttons dedicated to the TV"s top apps: Amazon Instant Video, Netflix, and VUDU. It"s a slightly larger version of the little remote that comes packaged with VIZIO"s E-Series.

On the flip side, however, is a small keypad, a set of navigational buttons, and colored A, B, X, and Y buttons meant for quickly navigating VIZIO"s wireless apps. This isn"t the first time VIZIO"s made use of this 2-sided qwerty remote. The keypad side of the remote is meant to be held horizontally (as opposed to the vertical inclination of a standard infrared remote). It sends a signal to the TV via a small area just to the left of center on the front of the keypad, which is occasionally blocked by your left hand, but works alright 90% of the time.

In the box, you"ll find the 65-inch display panel, the stand components, 14 screws (and a screwdriver), 4 pairs of passive 3D glasses, the 2-sided remote/qwerty keyboard, a quick-start guide, and the power cord.

VIZIO"s 65-inch M-Series tested with supremely accurate color curves, a decent color gamut, and almost perfect color temperature. We love to see a TV that knows how to produce accurate, consistent color. In the area of blacks and whites its contrast ratio is just shy of 4000:1, which is a great result for any kind of TV, and its got almost flawless picture dynamics. It"s a special bonus that its two 15-watt speakers produce above average audio.

We were taken aback by the narrow contrast ratio we measured for VIZIO"s E-Series (below), and thus were relieved to see that this TV, the M3D650SV, has a very respectable maximum contrast ratio of 3933:1. The chart below illustrates that this inexpensive LCD holds it own against a mid-range Sharp and Samsung"s flagship, the ES8000. [More on how we test contrast.](/content/How-We-Test.htm#contrast)

The VIZIO M3D650SV tested with very smooth, accurate color curves. While they"re a little slow to ramp up (meaning that dark shadows will appear as a flat black, bereft of detail), your midtones will transition smoothly to the brightest highlights. Just like the E-Series, VIZIO"s M-Series showed us excellent results in this area. More on how we test color performance.

Like the VIZIO E-Series, the 65-inch M-Series tested with excellent picture dynamics. To test picture dynamics, we take a reading of light output (in candelas per meter squared), comparing outputs between varying degrees of black and white on a TV"s screen. For LCDs like the M3D650SV, we want to see white/black light saturation staying the same regardless of how much white/black is on the screen. This TV proved to have very reliable picture dynamics, maintaining the same brightness and black level regardless of which hue held the majority of the screen. A very good result. More on how we test picture dynamics.

The M3D650SV tested with a total viewing angle of 45°--less than average for an LCD television. Next to the TVs we used for comparison, it"s small but not terrible. You"re only going to be able to watch from around 23.5° from center on either side, meaning only a small handful of people will be able to watch with perfect contrast. If you want a wider viewing angle, there are definitely better LCD TVs, but plasmas invariably have the widest viewing angle.

The M3D650SV has an edge-lit LCD screen, which causes a lot of light bleed-in during shadow-edged scenes. While the centers of all black and all white screens were perfectly uniform, the black screen"s corners were probably about .099 cd/m2 lighter than the center, which really destroys shadow uniformity.

Most HDTVs come standard with two 10-watt speakers. The wattage refers to the amount of electrical power allocated to the speakers, and in turn, their audio output and quality. The VIZIO M3D650SV has two 15-watt speakers embedded along the bottom of the TV, beneath the bezel, and the increased wattage makes a surprisingly big difference. This TV is plenty loud at just half maximum volume, and it handles treble/bass output well, giving ample clarity to machine gun fire, explosion, voices, and musical score.

Like the E-Series, VIZIO"s M-Series features an EQ menu that allows for manual adjustment of treble/audio balance, as well as a setting called SRS TruVolume, which (while on) attempts to make standard content louder and clearer, and commercial advertisements less so. Ever been watching an older movie, and had to turn it up, only to find that the modern, interspersed commercials are then way too loud? Essentially, the TruVolume setting tries to solve that problem, with decent results.

As you can see from the chart below, this TV uses an almost outrageous amount of power, consider that it uses LED backlighting, the distinguishing feature of which is energy efficiency. The results were unusual enough that we retested a few times and came up with the same number. Another Vizio LCD TV we tested this year, the E-Series, consumed even more power, so we can only guess that it"s something in the Vizio TVs this year.

Compared to similarly priced and even more expensive LED LCD televisions, the M3D650SV is very pricy. It"ll cost the average user about $30 a year to power, given 4-6 hours a day of use. At maximum backlight, that number skyrockets to over $50 a year; yet the M-Series still doesn"t use as much electricity as the less expensive E-Series.

Either way, VIZIO has obviously not yet implemented the same kind of energy saving technology that other companies (like Samsung and Sharp) have been using for a couple of years now.

We had to tweak a few settings, but for the most part, the VIZIO M3D650SV proved simple to calibrate. We attempt to maximize color detail across the high end of the spectrum while still maintaining good shadow detail, essentially pushing the TV to perform to its max without erring in any one area. The chart below details our final calibration of the VIZIO M3D650SV.

VIZIO"s 3D looks decent, but it"s a far cry from the 3D trickery that your brain undergoes on an IMAX screen. It"s a subtle effect, which is good and bad. There"s very little crosstalk (when images bleed into the wrong eyes and create a halo), but there"s also nothing very breathtaking about the 3D itself. We recently went to see Prometheus in IMAX 3D, and the sense that we were looking back into a non-2D plane was very convincing, even to our skeptical brains. That feeling is entirely absent from VIZIO"s technology; the difference between a movie in 2D and a movie in 3D is very mild, though thankfully the contrast and color integrity remains strong.

If you"re looking for a VIZIO TV with a convincing and immersive 3D mode, you may want to wait another year. If you"re okay with "3D lite," then you"ll be pleased with the M3D650SV"s ability to maintain its contrast and color during 3D viewing.

VIZIO"s passive 3D glasses are lightweight, fit well over average-sized spectacles, and can be worn for a considerable amount of time without growing annoying. They"re large enough to cover the extent of your vision without being heavy or cumbersome. Best of all, the M3D650SV ships with 4 free pairs, and on average a new pair of glasses costs about $25, meaning it"s much cheaper to keep a family supply of VIZIO passive 3D glasses than more expensive, active shutter 3D glasses from Panasonic or Sony.

Every now and again we"ll see a TV with a larger maximum contrast ratio in 3D than in 2D, and the VIZIO M3D650SV is one such model. Its peak brightness of 314.64 cd/m2 was cut down to 120.92 cd/m2 during 3D viewing, but its 2D black level of 0.08 cd/m2 dropped, considerably, to 0.03 cd/m2 , giving it a 3D contrast ratio of 4031:1, which is a very strong result.

The VIZIO M3D650SV"s mild, almost imperceptible 3D had no crosstalk problems, but considering it looked more like a 2D-to-3D conversion setting than full HD 3D, that"s hardly surprising. Expect to be able to watch almost any content without any major crosstalk problems, as the TV--despite being over 50 inches wide--simply doesn"t offer the kind of in-your-face 3D that typically causes crosstalk.

VIZIO"s menus are fairly standard, but they"re arranged in a way that makes them sluggish. Pressing the menu button brings up a 3x3 grid of sub menus, complete with icons. That makes it easier to beginners, but the menu"s response time is slow, and navigating between menus (via the remote"s navigational arrows) is frustrating.

VIZIO"s smart TV platform is less a platform and more a loose collection of apps. The heavy hitters--Netflix, Amazon, and VUDU--are fleshed out and cohesive, but most of the other apps (a majority of them created by Yahoo!) are slow-loading and don"t offer much content or information. It"s a good thing the included remote has shortcut buttons to the aforementioned content providers; navigating through VIZIO"s on-screen app bar is about as sluggish as navigating their menus.

Pressing the stylized "V" at the center of your remote will bring up a horizontal menu of apps along the bottom of the screen. Yahoo! has provided apps for news, weather, and even stock market information, but they"re pretty limited, and can really only be interfaced with by creating a VIZIO user profile and entering some personal information. Where social networking is concerned, users have access to Skype and Facebook, but their respective interfaces are limited at best, and take longer to load than they should for only taking up a third of the screen. Besides these, the most noteworthy apps on Vizio"s platform are Netflix, VUDU, Amazon Instant Video, and Rhapsody.

While it"s not internet content, you can play back your personal media items (pictures, music, or videos) from your VIZIO TV as well. Plugging a USB flash drive into one of the two USB ports will bring up a fairly stripped down menu that divides your content by photo, music, or video, and then lists those files--though we would like to warn that it seems VIZIO"s TVs only support particular file types, and sometimes even have trouble with standard .jpeg files.

Pressing the "menu" button on the included infrared remote will bring up the grid style menu, which consists of some traditional sub menus, like Picture, Sound, Settings, and Network. Included with the M-Series (and with VIZIO"s 2012 models with 3D) is also a 3D menu for selecting 3D side-by-side or top-to-bottom. For the most part, the menus are basic and simple, which makes them easy to navigate, though the navigation itself is fairly sluggish, and the infrared signal from the remote doesn"t always connect with the TV"s infrared sensor.

The Picture menu (below) will allow the user to select from VIZIO"s staggering number of Video Modes (see our Calibration section for more info), as well as setting things like Backlight, Sharpness, Digital NR, and any motion smoothing effects you (hopefully) will opt out of. The Picture menu comprises a couple of separate pages, but most of the other menus are a single page of options.

VIZIO"s 65-inch M-Series, the M3D650SV ($2199 MSRP), is a strong core performer that"ll save you money, but its unique features run the gamut from fairly interesting to hardly worthwhile. Where core performance is concerned, the M3D650SV has very good contrast, color, and black/white dynamics. It"s also got speakers with a higher wattage than the average HDTV, so its sound output is both generally louder and of higher quality. Unfortunately, that color integrity doesn"t carry over to its 3D technology--which is also so mild that it"s almost not worth using.

The M3D650SV has decent connectivity options, but most of its other features are simply average. VIZIO"s smart platform is probably in last place when compared to their competitors. Finally, it"s probably the least attractive flagship TV out there, but for the price you"re paying for a 65-inch TV, that might not be a hard pill to swallow.