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Aug 2, 2009 Emmy     I bought this at Costco for $599 with $100 off coupon Feb 15, 2009. I had all of...

Feb 17, 2009 Wonderbird     I just bought this model about a week ago from my local Costco. $599 after the $...

Dec 30, 2008 TJ     An outstanding TV for the money. Bought from Costco for $689. What a bargain! An...

My Experience: An outstanding TV for the money. Bought from Costco for $689. What a bargain! And Costco extends warranty to 2 years with the manufacturer which is a in-home warranty service...Wow! Picture is outstanding on SDTV(480i) as well as HDTV(720P or 1080i). We are getting analog and digital SDTV as well as digital HDTV directly from our Comcast cable wall connection. Vizio quickly found 100s of stations during the initial channel scan. Picture and color is outstanding. Did I mention this model was displayed next to a $1600 40" Sony TV in Costco and pictured looked every bit as good after I tuned it(took about 5 minutes).

Only 2 negatives, but really minor in big scheme of things.

1). The remote is very simple which works for us since we bought this for my 84 year old father-in-law.
2). The audio out (red & black composite) connection will not work unless you turn off the audio to the TV speakers via the menu/audio setup. You can not push the audio signal through the audio out and TV speakers at the same time. We bought the TV Ears from Costco to allow listening through the TV speakers and a headset at the same time with different volume controls. You will not be able to do this with a Vizio unless you put a cable box, etc in front of the TV where it pushes the audio out of multiple output connections independent of each other. So if we hooked up a Comcast cable box from the wall and then into the Vizio, we would just hook the TV Ears to the cable box instead of the Vizio audio out and Viola.....all would work advertised by TV Ears.

Problems: No problems, just a few inconveniences.