Sceptre 65 Inche 4K UHD LED TV 3840x2160 MEMC 120 Ultra Thin HDMI 2.0 Upscaling U658CV-UMC, 2018

This TV is most excellent. I am not a videophile, but this was a huge upgrade from my 42" 1080p Plasma from 2008. If you are a videophile, you probably aren't even considering purchasing this TV anyway, but to me the video quality looks great. This is a "dumb" TV (not a Smart TV), which I am actually grateful for (I don't want my ****ing TV connecting to my ****ing WiFi anyway), so don't buy it if you want a smart TV. My thinking is, I don't want to be stuck with TV software that is behind the times in 5 years. So I bought an Amazon Fire TV, which I can replace if it gets slow or I need to get a cooler thing. Harder to do when the software is built into the TV (like with a Smart TV). Here are some facts: - This TV is an excellent value for the price - You can probably get better picture quality if you spend a lot more money - I only had 5 dead pixels which is pretty good (and actually impossible to see from the couch anyway, I tried) - It would be cheaper to buy 4 of these and get a 130" screen than to buy some of the other 65" TVs on the market, which is ridiculous

Extremely good value for the price and so far we have going the quality to be excellent. At the outset of the work from home thing I bought a 32” Sceptre monitor to use with my laptop and found the quality very good so when I needed a replacement for our main TV I figures I would try the Sceptre. We cut the cord a while back so and we stream via an Amazon 4K Fire Stick so had no need to pay for a “smart tv”. It looks great, has a great picture and integrates better with our sound bar than our prior TV too. EXTREMELY happy with this purchase.

I should preface my review by noting that I probably don't use this TV in the way that most people would. I use this TV as a PC monitor for my work 30 - 50 hours a week, as well as to watch movies, TV & play XBox games. So it's probably turned on for a good 60 - 70 hours a week. Got this as an upgrade to my three year old 55" Vizeo HDTV, which is still a solid TV, btw, even though I've probably already put 10,000+ hours on it. The 4k display allows for higher resolutions as a PC monitor, which allows me to fit a lot more stuff on the screen for work (easier multitasking). In general: the 4k is a good new feature most of the time, but the TV is otherwise pretty unremarkable or even a little below average. So mediocre overall, but still a good value at the $700 I paid for it. As a PC monitor it's nothing spectacular. It displays everything fine, except that it cuts off a sliver of the screen all the way around the edges. The TV settings don't allow the fit to be changed when a PC is the input. Not the end of the world by any means, but not perfect, either. For games, movie and TV it's a very good screen for the most part. Pictures generally fit well and look good. I'd say probably 95% of the time the 4k upscaling works well. There are some games and movies where the upscaling doesn't work so well and the edges of objects look fuzzy or distorted. Cons: 1) The brightness isn't consistent. Sometimes it'll start off brighter for a while in the morning and then I'll see it noticeably dim after an hour or two of use. I've only noticed this when using it as a PC monitor, which means lots of bright white on the screen. It may be too subtle to notice in other contexts. 2) Maybe once a week I've noticed the screen will get buggy after I switch from one input to another. I have to turn it off and then back on again to get it to display properly again. A little annoying, but as long as it doesn't become a frequent occurence I can live with that. 3) As others have noted, this thing takes a while to turn on. Also, given my long-time use of PCs I associate a solid blue screen with bad news, which means I instinctively get a bit worried every time I turn it on or change input sources and get hit with the blue screen the TV shows while connecting to the input. 4) I am not aware of any way to use the TV volume to control the volume of my speakers (the TV's speakers are not very good at all). It's slightly annoying having to adjust the volume with a separate remote. There's an option for that in the TV's settings, but it doesn't actually work, at least not for my speakers. Since that wasn't an issue with my Vizeo, it's gotta be the TV's fault.

This 65 inch Sceptre TV is better than I could have hoped for. The picture, and yes even the sound, is as good as any TV I have seen, including Samsung, LG, etc, and for much less money. I love the fact that it is NOT a smart TV, which is really not necessary. I connected a UHD Roku box to my TV, and the quality is better than my Samsung smart tv, in my honest opinion. There is plenty of UHD content to stream, especially on Amazon prime, and it looks so lifelike on this TV. Bottom line, if your looking for a 65 inch 4K UHD at an affordable price, then you cannot go wrong with this Sceptre model. And by the way, I set this up myself, and it was the easiest setup of any TV I have ever owned. And I did not have to make a single picture or sound adjustment, it was perfect right out of the box. Just a final thought, High price does not always mean best quality, especially in TV sets.

First off, I've bought literally thousands of products from Amazon since becoming a member. I can say that I've left very few reviews that weren't positive. I usually won't write a bad review unless something is completely horrible. But with this TV, I have to add to my negative count. I'll use the, "I had to give it 1 star or else I would've given it a negative star" line. I bought this Sceptre and I was skeptical...mainly because it's always seemed to be a lower end TV, but, I figured it would be fine for my living room. To be clear, I rarely watch TV in my living room, in fact this TV, in the 6 months that I've owned it, has probably been turned on no more than 20-25 times. Now my Vizio in my bedroom is another story. The Vizio is going on 10 years now and still works like it's supposed to, minus 1 hiccup...more about this later. So back to this piece of...well, you know what I mean. For 6 months, it's came on when I pushed the power button. And honestly, the picture was pretty good, I was surprised. But....Sunday I went to turn it on and nothing. Tried a different plug....nothing. Tried the power button on the tv itself...nothing. You can say I was annoyed but not completely surprised. So....a google search on Sceptre Warranty and I see they have a 1 year warranty..."Cool" I think...no problem...contact them and they'll take care of it....WRONG. First off, I had to fax in a RMA form which said I would be issued a RMA number within 48hrs...3 business days later and still no RMA. So, I call up ole Spectre in California to see what the deal is. Evidently their fax machine went out in the 90s (like most fax machines should have) and low and behold, no record of my RMA form. No problem, I'll resubmit. But.....while I have them on the line I ask, "So, you guys will pick this up or cover shipping and packaging right?" That would be a big ole NO. You're kidding me right? TV is 6 months old and dead and I have to pay $300 to package and ship this monster back to get it fixed? Oh and by the way, evidently you should just naturally assume that this piece of junk will be going out before a year is over because they expect you to keep the original box and packaging material so, when it does crap out, you'll have the box and not have to find something big enough to hold this thing and pay an extra $100. Unbelievable. It's my fault for assuming that a company would honor and stand behind their product....which brings my to the Vizio that I mentioned before. Almost 10 years ago I bought a Vizio 47" LCD. About 9 months after I had it, I noticed about 5 or 6 pixels that would glow a bright white when I would turn the tv on, it didn't do it all the time but fairly regularly. I called Vizio and told them what was happening and the rep asked me to take a pic of the pixels and email it to him, which I did. He called me back and said, "Yeah that's not right. I'm shipping a new replacement tv to you. It will be there in 3 days." I said, "For reals?" He replied, "Fo reals my schnizzel." (Ok I'm embellished that part but you get what I'm saying.) Needless to say, 3 days later and the new Vizio was at my door, shipped in a truck and two guys brought it in, unboxed it, hooked it up and then took my old one and put it in the box and took it away. How crazy is that? Just that customer service experience told me everything I needed to know about Vizio. Since then I've bought 2 more Vizios and they're still going strong. (Wow, this really sounds like a Vizio promo...that wasn't my intention but I guess I was expecting the same experience from Sceptre. Crazy me.... But anyways, if you've read all this then....you must be really bored....or you're kind of like I was before I bought this junk...teetering on buying it or not. I should've went with my gut and spent a little extra and got another Vizio....at least then I wouldn't have had to write a bad review...and my fingers wouldn't be so sore.....someday I'll learn. (Which I've been saying since 1989)

The model I received was a U650CV-UMRD, which is a newer model than the one advertised. It's a little better in every way except for one major one. It only has 3 HDMI ports instead of the advertised 4. Additionally its gtg time is 3ms slower, which isn't really a big deal to me. I had plans for that fourth HDMI port though. I believe the seller has been doing this a long time and that the model I received isn't even the first substitute model they've been shipping. I imagine that to start over with a new listing for a newer model would hurt their SEO and visibility since I found this page from a list of best non-smart TVs. For most people this upgraded model won't be a problem, which is why I decided not to report them. Aside from that, the TV has done its job fine. It's a good budget TV. The remote is very cheap though. And it hasn't given me any technical trouble yet after a few weeks. I just wish it had that 4th HDMI port.

Been in service for 5 days, & is everything I expected. The chassis plate says the correct model number, same for the box. No question this is the TV I ordered. Couple of things I like, there is a "Picture" button on the remote that steps through several presets of brightness, contrast, etc., including a "User" setting, which I tamed down further than the "Mild" setting for watching at night waiting to go to sleep. There's also a sleep timer handy with the remote. During the day I leave it on "Vivid," which is very bright & clean, best picture we've ever seen. The "upscaling" of some older programs like Star Trek: TNG isn't as sharp as modern HD shows, I did't really expect it, but t's still very good resolution. So far, I couldn't be more pleased. I accidentally turned off the power to the THX receiver this morning & the TV speakers kicked in, the receiver still passing the satellite signal, and you don't want to hear the speakers by themselves. Like the kitchen TV I based my decision for this one on, the speakers are very tinny. In the kitchen I just hooked up a couple of spares from a kit I got to add a subwoofer to the wife's computer. They sound fine in the kitchen, If nothing else, you need at least a subwoofer in addition to this TV's speakers. I got exactly what I was expecting, and I couldn't be more pleased.

I am really very pleased with this TV. The picture quality is excellent, after tweaking with the settings. Colors are vivid without appearing over saturated. Picture quality is excellent even from FHD sources, while with a 4K source it's just stunning. I can't comment on the speakers on this TV because I've always use a receiver setup for audio. The MEMC motion up-converting to 120 Hz is the first implementation that doesn't result in the "soap opera effect". This is the first TV where I've been able to leave the feature without the picture looking indefinably odd. This is not a smart TV. I didn't want a smart TV and didn't want to pay a premium for a built in streaming device that would be out of date in 12 months. And it shouldn't be evaluated as a smart TV; it's a video monitor, a high res video monitor and it's a great one. The real decider for me, though, will be the longevity; that, of course, will only become apparent in a few years.