The first thing you notice is the premium design and appearance. We liked that the 4k panel has slim bezels on three sides while the bottom has a soundbar type speaker. Precision drilled speaker holes on the speakers add to the overall appearance. However, the premium design only applies when viewed from the front. Seen from the side, it’s like any other LED TV, with a thick plastic casing. We are spoiled by the incredible 4.9mm thickness of the MiTV 4 and expected something similar from Vu.
We placed the TV on a table — the legs complement the design and prop up the TV well. From the left, you can easily access one HDMI port, a USB 3.0 port and Ethernet. Two additional HDMI ports, a USB 2.0 port, composite, S/PDIF and headphone jack are on the back.
To evaluate the quality, we used it with a Tata Sky HD box, Xbox One, built-in streaming services and direct media playback from USB drives. The TV impressed us with its picture quality — it offers vivid colours, good contrast and deep blacks. We also like that the panel does not have any light bleed — the streaks of light normally visible on a dark screen in budget TVs.
Upscaling of content worked well for the most part as long as the source was full HD. With 720p video, the TV tends to over-sharpen content and this leads to slightly unnatural looking video.
The speaker housing has dual 10W box speakers and offers sound that is good enough for a large room. There’s excellent clarity for vocals but sound is flat and there is no bass at all. This makes it great for watching movies and TV series but if you listen to a lot of music or want to enjoy gaming sound effects, you should connect an external speaker system or use headphones.
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