The PQX TV: A Review of its Picture Quality and Gaming Capabilities

As I watched the PQX TV, I was blown away by its impressive picture quality. The screen never had issues with blooming, which is a common problem for LED LCD TVs, especially in dark environments. In fact, the PQX's backlight issue was never an issue for me, even when watching subtitles or other bright objects on dark backgrounds. This made it easy to watch the TV in the dark without being distracted by any unwanted backlight bleed.

Real-world color was also surprisingly good, with some folks might be thrown off by the high saturation of reds at high brightness levels like the red in some of these app thumbnails. However, I didn't see this as an issue in regular content, and the reds I saw looked pretty accurate to my eyes. Even when watching scenes with bright red lights or the War Machine suit from Avengers: Endgame, the colors didn't come across as overly aggressive.

In terms of motion and TV shows and movies, there was a bit of judder that you might see on this TV, especially in the 85-inch model due to its large screen size and brightness. However, I found this to be a relatively minor issue, and I could still enjoy the show without being too bothered by it. If you're looking for smooth motion, you can engage motion smoothing, but keep in mind that this can bring about its own artifacts.

As for gaming, I'm less of a fan of Vizio's Pro Gaming Engine preset than I would have liked. The TV does allow for high resolution and high frame rate gaming, as well as good brightness and contrast, making it suitable for fast-paced games. However, to get really great picture quality for games, you'll need to make several adjustments to get things dialed in. For example, the color temperature is a bit too cold, and the brightness can be a bit overwhelming.

Despite these minor issues, 4K@60 and 4K@120 gameplay on this TV looked smooth, with input lag dropping to around eight milliseconds at 4K@120, which should be competitive enough for most gamers. However, I don't think this TV would be the top choice for gaming enthusiasts who are looking for the absolute best picture quality.

In terms of HDMI ports, Vizio doesn't label two of its four HDMI ports as "full bandwidth" like they did the other two. It's unclear why they didn't do this, but it might be worth reaching out to Vizio for clarification.

For sound quality, I'm not a huge fan - especially in bigger blockbuster movies, where I felt that the TV pulled off a surprisingly wide soundstage, but didn't quite bring home the oomph. Fortunately, Vizio makes some great soundbars at relatively affordable prices, so I would personally plan on buying one to pair with this TV.

Overall, I can wholeheartedly recommend the PQX TV for its impressive picture quality and value for money. While there may be some minor issues to be aware of, such as quality control concerns and a less-than-ideal gaming preset, these shouldn't detract from your overall experience. If you're in the market for a high-quality TV that won't break the bank, I think this is definitely worth checking out - especially if you can get your hands on a solid unit.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis tv has surprised me i mean in some ways i'm awestruck but can i recommend it welcome back everyone i'm caleb dennison and this is my review of the vizio p series quantum x 85 inch model distinguished by the model number p85qx-j01 and it's the j01 that indicates it is presently the latest model no matter which size you're looking at i'm going to get straight down to business in this review i'm going to cover the good the great and the not so great and by the end i hope to have helped you decide if this is a tv you may want to put in your home if you end up finding this review helpful maybe start clicking away down below and let me know in the comments if you're gonna hit the gas or take a pass on this tv after hearing what i've had to say about it and hey if you think somebody you know should see this video sharing is caring and you want to be caring right all right let's get into it so i wasn't kidding when i said i want to get right down to it if you want to know a little bit more about this tv check out my unboxing and setup video when you're done here otherwise i think we need to dive right into picture quality first let's address the not quite elephant sized blotch in the room i'm talking about this spot right here this best as i can tell is a very localized occurrence of dirty screen effect often when we see dse which by the way i've got a video about that as well it's spattered across the screen in this case though we have just this one very specific area and then a little vignetting in the upper corners made a little more obvious by the tv size and the height at which it sits in other words since i'm looking up at this area when i'm seated i'm a little off axis and you can see the darkness at the corners a bit more at that point anyway the rest of the screen is really clean which makes that one spot an anomaly i'm not going to spend a ton of time guessing at whether this was shipping damage or a quality control issue but i do not consider this to be egregious enough to spark a request for a replacement review sample the lion's share of the screen as i mentioned is clean and the area from which i measure right smack in the center is good to go so i'm able to get a very good understanding of what this tb is capable of now that spot in the upper right sometimes i didn't notice it while watching content like when i got sucked into watching a movie it didn't call attention to itself most of the time when there were scenes with light colors broadly painted across the top part of the screen yeah i saw it so it was an annoyance yes but a rare annoyance okay enough about that blemish what can this tv do let's get into some basic measurement results first in a segment i've been calling numbers for knit nerds by the way some of you have suggested some alternate names for this segment and i want to let you know i am considering them anyway if you're not concerned with the deep stuff and just want to hear my takeaway on the picture quality you can skip ahead using the links we have down in the description anyway what i found was that the calibrated dark mode on this tv and this goes for sdr hdr10 dolby vision as well as hlg on youtube is really the only picture preset i liked from a picture quality perspective in my unboxing i said i could see using calibrated bride if watching sports during the day but i'm walking that back because most of the time calibrated dark was actually plenty bright enough in sdr and no question was the best mode for hdr and dolby vision two reasons i don't care for this tv's regular calibrated mode is that it seemed to raise the black levels to the point where they got milky for me and that really stole from the overall contrast also the color temperature was way way way too warm by default like normally a brighter picture mode you get more blue in the whites but when i tested this tv it was very heavy in the reds which i don't care for oddly enough the bright picture preset was more balanced sure this is something a calibrator can address in the two-point white balance and that helps things look more natural but with the raised blacks and the off-target gamma and calibrated bright i found that calibrated dark was what i preferred if you get this tv check it out and decide for yourself but that's where i stand now in this tv's brighter hdr picture modes it was able to hit 3 000 nits peak brightness no problem this came as a surprise to me not because i didn't think it could do it but because i thought that the c6 colorimeter i have was capped at registering about 2000 nits nope lucky me and i triple checked on this it had no problem registering right up to about 3 000 nits in calibrated dark hdr and dolby vision modes the tv maxed out at about 2 300 nits using a 10 window it was lower at 2 and 5 sizes peaked at 10 and then dropped down steeply to about 800 nits in a 100 full white window and that is actually remarkable in bright mode i clocked 1500 nits in sdr which is just like that's excessive if you ask me but if there was any lingering doubt about whether this was a good bright room tv let me banish that thought from your mind right now this tv punches hard like mike tyson on a plane after getting bottles of water thrown at him hard color accuracy measured pretty well with an average delta e of about 2.45 that's pretty good but it was the color gamut and color volume that really impressed me this tv is covering up to 80 of the bt 2020 color space according to my measurements which is pretty awesome so overall the measurement data pretty damn impressive for an 85-inch tv that comes in under three grand at most retailers truthfully pretty damn impressive period but as we've learned over and over measurements don't tell the whole story in fact they can sometimes be flat out misleading so what's it like just watching this tv on the whole i found watching this tv really enjoyable dazzling at times but not over the top which surprised me i expected it to be just blown out of the room with unnecessary brightness power but thankfully vizio's processing is very decisive about how it handles all the horsepower in this tv again in the calibrated dark picture mode the p85qx paints a very vivid lively picture with generally good accuracy and that's in part because on the other end of the spectrum it's doing a really impressive job with blacks the backlighting on this tv with all its zones for this 85 inch model is not perfect but it's really good on the negative side i caught the tv shimmering a bit in some cases if you take a look at this windmill scene on the spears and muzzle disc you can see that shimmer off to the left hand side of the screen and i saw this on the tv's home screen and in some apps home screens as well for most of the tv and movie content that i watched though even with a screen this big which will really make imperfections more obvious that backlight shimmer really wasn't an issue for me but it is there and i have to make mention of it blooming was never a problem for me on this tv halos around subtitles or other bright objects on dark backgrounds were within very acceptable thresholds for an led lcd tv you can watch this tv in the dark and not be distracted by those backlight issues which i consider a big win for this tv real world color was also surprisingly good if not dead on accurate all the time i think some folks might be thrown off by the reds at first due to their high saturation at high brightness levels like the red in some of these app thumbs looks pretty aggressive to the naked eye but the reds i saw in regular content didn't come off as overly aggressive at all even though red lights and war machine suit on avengers end game weren't out of control and i have seen them look wrong on more expensive tvs before as for motion and tv shows and movies there's a bit of jutter that you may see especially in the 85 inch model just because it's such a large surface area and so bright i really can't comment on how it might look in smaller screen sizes but it's there you can engage motion smoothing if you want but that can bring about its own artifacts you can get smoother motion than this tv offers from another brand but at this price you're going to spend at least a thousand dollars more and probably a lot more than that honestly for most folks i don't see this being a huge issue so the takeaway on the picture quality for this tv is that it's really impressive i mean you can't watch this tv and not just be really wowed out if you're something of a video snob you'll see some issues but i think we are still well into the premium performance tier without stepping into the premium performance pricing tier as for gaming i'm less of a fan of the gaming mode preset than i'd like to be vizio's pro gaming engine does allow for high resolution high frame rate gaming and the backlight allows for a lot of brightness pop without huge sacrifices to the black levels but to get really great picture quality for games and not just in your face brightness you need to make several adjustments to get things dialed in the color temp is a bit too cold and the brightness is just over the top in my opinion but 4k 60 and 4k 120 gameplay looks smooth to me and the input lag dropped to about eight milliseconds at 4k 120 which is definitely low enough to keep you competitive in a first person shooter for ultra high level gamers which i am not myself i don't think this is going to be your top choice for tv but for like 97 of folks having fun on their game consoles i think they'll be quite satisfied as for the exact bandwidth of each hdmi port it's still a little unclear to me and i've reached out to vizio for clarification but it does appear there are at least two full bandwidth hdmi 2.1 port separated from the e-arc port which i want to believe is also full bandwidth so hopefully my suspicions are correct i just don't see why they wouldn't label two of the four hdmi ports like they did the other two as for sound quality well i'm not a huge fan in some bigger blockbuster movies i felt like the tv pulled off a surprisingly wide soundstage and at times you get a little bit of oomph from the tv but the overall fidelity does not impress me fortunately vizio makes some great sound bars at relatively affordable prices so i would personally plan on buying a sound bar to go with the tv it deserves sound as big as its screen for sure so the big question can i recommend this tv the only reason it isn't an energetic yes for me is that i'm a little concerned about quality control that's something i can't personally test and speak to with any authority because i just don't get to keep them long enough my concern comes from both the state of this tv screen and others i've gotten from vizio in the past also and this is purely anecdotal but i've heard reports all over the map from folks on their vizio experiences some have had great experiences and others have not so i do recommend you checking this tv out if you get a solid unit it is capable of some incredible picture quality that you just can't touch from another brand at anywhere near this tv's price it's high brightness high contrast really impressive color volume and sheer scale combined to deliver some serious wow factor like i said i have really enjoyed watching this tv and i know there are a ton of folks out there that would enjoy it as well thanks as always for watching everyone what do you think of the pqx let me know down in the comments don't forget to like and subscribe and here's two other videos i think you might likethis tv has surprised me i mean in some ways i'm awestruck but can i recommend it welcome back everyone i'm caleb dennison and this is my review of the vizio p series quantum x 85 inch model distinguished by the model number p85qx-j01 and it's the j01 that indicates it is presently the latest model no matter which size you're looking at i'm going to get straight down to business in this review i'm going to cover the good the great and the not so great and by the end i hope to have helped you decide if this is a tv you may want to put in your home if you end up finding this review helpful maybe start clicking away down below and let me know in the comments if you're gonna hit the gas or take a pass on this tv after hearing what i've had to say about it and hey if you think somebody you know should see this video sharing is caring and you want to be caring right all right let's get into it so i wasn't kidding when i said i want to get right down to it if you want to know a little bit more about this tv check out my unboxing and setup video when you're done here otherwise i think we need to dive right into picture quality first let's address the not quite elephant sized blotch in the room i'm talking about this spot right here this best as i can tell is a very localized occurrence of dirty screen effect often when we see dse which by the way i've got a video about that as well it's spattered across the screen in this case though we have just this one very specific area and then a little vignetting in the upper corners made a little more obvious by the tv size and the height at which it sits in other words since i'm looking up at this area when i'm seated i'm a little off axis and you can see the darkness at the corners a bit more at that point anyway the rest of the screen is really clean which makes that one spot an anomaly i'm not going to spend a ton of time guessing at whether this was shipping damage or a quality control issue but i do not consider this to be egregious enough to spark a request for a replacement review sample the lion's share of the screen as i mentioned is clean and the area from which i measure right smack in the center is good to go so i'm able to get a very good understanding of what this tb is capable of now that spot in the upper right sometimes i didn't notice it while watching content like when i got sucked into watching a movie it didn't call attention to itself most of the time when there were scenes with light colors broadly painted across the top part of the screen yeah i saw it so it was an annoyance yes but a rare annoyance okay enough about that blemish what can this tv do let's get into some basic measurement results first in a segment i've been calling numbers for knit nerds by the way some of you have suggested some alternate names for this segment and i want to let you know i am considering them anyway if you're not concerned with the deep stuff and just want to hear my takeaway on the picture quality you can skip ahead using the links we have down in the description anyway what i found was that the calibrated dark mode on this tv and this goes for sdr hdr10 dolby vision as well as hlg on youtube is really the only picture preset i liked from a picture quality perspective in my unboxing i said i could see using calibrated bride if watching sports during the day but i'm walking that back because most of the time calibrated dark was actually plenty bright enough in sdr and no question was the best mode for hdr and dolby vision two reasons i don't care for this tv's regular calibrated mode is that it seemed to raise the black levels to the point where they got milky for me and that really stole from the overall contrast also the color temperature was way way way too warm by default like normally a brighter picture mode you get more blue in the whites but when i tested this tv it was very heavy in the reds which i don't care for oddly enough the bright picture preset was more balanced sure this is something a calibrator can address in the two-point white balance and that helps things look more natural but with the raised blacks and the off-target gamma and calibrated bright i found that calibrated dark was what i preferred if you get this tv check it out and decide for yourself but that's where i stand now in this tv's brighter hdr picture modes it was able to hit 3 000 nits peak brightness no problem this came as a surprise to me not because i didn't think it could do it but because i thought that the c6 colorimeter i have was capped at registering about 2000 nits nope lucky me and i triple checked on this it had no problem registering right up to about 3 000 nits in calibrated dark hdr and dolby vision modes the tv maxed out at about 2 300 nits using a 10 window it was lower at 2 and 5 sizes peaked at 10 and then dropped down steeply to about 800 nits in a 100 full white window and that is actually remarkable in bright mode i clocked 1500 nits in sdr which is just like that's excessive if you ask me but if there was any lingering doubt about whether this was a good bright room tv let me banish that thought from your mind right now this tv punches hard like mike tyson on a plane after getting bottles of water thrown at him hard color accuracy measured pretty well with an average delta e of about 2.45 that's pretty good but it was the color gamut and color volume that really impressed me this tv is covering up to 80 of the bt 2020 color space according to my measurements which is pretty awesome so overall the measurement data pretty damn impressive for an 85-inch tv that comes in under three grand at most retailers truthfully pretty damn impressive period but as we've learned over and over measurements don't tell the whole story in fact they can sometimes be flat out misleading so what's it like just watching this tv on the whole i found watching this tv really enjoyable dazzling at times but not over the top which surprised me i expected it to be just blown out of the room with unnecessary brightness power but thankfully vizio's processing is very decisive about how it handles all the horsepower in this tv again in the calibrated dark picture mode the p85qx paints a very vivid lively picture with generally good accuracy and that's in part because on the other end of the spectrum it's doing a really impressive job with blacks the backlighting on this tv with all its zones for this 85 inch model is not perfect but it's really good on the negative side i caught the tv shimmering a bit in some cases if you take a look at this windmill scene on the spears and muzzle disc you can see that shimmer off to the left hand side of the screen and i saw this on the tv's home screen and in some apps home screens as well for most of the tv and movie content that i watched though even with a screen this big which will really make imperfections more obvious that backlight shimmer really wasn't an issue for me but it is there and i have to make mention of it blooming was never a problem for me on this tv halos around subtitles or other bright objects on dark backgrounds were within very acceptable thresholds for an led lcd tv you can watch this tv in the dark and not be distracted by those backlight issues which i consider a big win for this tv real world color was also surprisingly good if not dead on accurate all the time i think some folks might be thrown off by the reds at first due to their high saturation at high brightness levels like the red in some of these app thumbs looks pretty aggressive to the naked eye but the reds i saw in regular content didn't come off as overly aggressive at all even though red lights and war machine suit on avengers end game weren't out of control and i have seen them look wrong on more expensive tvs before as for motion and tv shows and movies there's a bit of jutter that you may see especially in the 85 inch model just because it's such a large surface area and so bright i really can't comment on how it might look in smaller screen sizes but it's there you can engage motion smoothing if you want but that can bring about its own artifacts you can get smoother motion than this tv offers from another brand but at this price you're going to spend at least a thousand dollars more and probably a lot more than that honestly for most folks i don't see this being a huge issue so the takeaway on the picture quality for this tv is that it's really impressive i mean you can't watch this tv and not just be really wowed out if you're something of a video snob you'll see some issues but i think we are still well into the premium performance tier without stepping into the premium performance pricing tier as for gaming i'm less of a fan of the gaming mode preset than i'd like to be vizio's pro gaming engine does allow for high resolution high frame rate gaming and the backlight allows for a lot of brightness pop without huge sacrifices to the black levels but to get really great picture quality for games and not just in your face brightness you need to make several adjustments to get things dialed in the color temp is a bit too cold and the brightness is just over the top in my opinion but 4k 60 and 4k 120 gameplay looks smooth to me and the input lag dropped to about eight milliseconds at 4k 120 which is definitely low enough to keep you competitive in a first person shooter for ultra high level gamers which i am not myself i don't think this is going to be your top choice for tv but for like 97 of folks having fun on their game consoles i think they'll be quite satisfied as for the exact bandwidth of each hdmi port it's still a little unclear to me and i've reached out to vizio for clarification but it does appear there are at least two full bandwidth hdmi 2.1 port separated from the e-arc port which i want to believe is also full bandwidth so hopefully my suspicions are correct i just don't see why they wouldn't label two of the four hdmi ports like they did the other two as for sound quality well i'm not a huge fan in some bigger blockbuster movies i felt like the tv pulled off a surprisingly wide soundstage and at times you get a little bit of oomph from the tv but the overall fidelity does not impress me fortunately vizio makes some great sound bars at relatively affordable prices so i would personally plan on buying a sound bar to go with the tv it deserves sound as big as its screen for sure so the big question can i recommend this tv the only reason it isn't an energetic yes for me is that i'm a little concerned about quality control that's something i can't personally test and speak to with any authority because i just don't get to keep them long enough my concern comes from both the state of this tv screen and others i've gotten from vizio in the past also and this is purely anecdotal but i've heard reports all over the map from folks on their vizio experiences some have had great experiences and others have not so i do recommend you checking this tv out if you get a solid unit it is capable of some incredible picture quality that you just can't touch from another brand at anywhere near this tv's price it's high brightness high contrast really impressive color volume and sheer scale combined to deliver some serious wow factor like i said i have really enjoyed watching this tv and i know there are a ton of folks out there that would enjoy it as well thanks as always for watching everyone what do you think of the pqx let me know down in the comments don't forget to like and subscribe and here's two other videos i think you might like\n"