Well to start, I planned on buying this tv at my local best buy but my store was sold out, so i picked one up at my local walmart. Not my favorite place to buy a tv but I got a good one. So on to the good stuff. I got my tv home and found that it had a nice sturdy stand with two bases that are held in place by two screws for each side. It was very easy to assemble and very sturdy. I eventually wall mount it later on. The reason i bought this tv was for side by side gaming with my son. I already had a high end sony 1080p 50" and wanted something similar in size without breaking the bank. I have to admit this tv has surprised me. I recently purchased a 60" mid level samsung for my parents, and that was a pretty nice tv but I actually prefer the Vizio overall. It has better black uniformity and deeper blacks and better grey scale details. Overall i really like the tv. I would argue that my Sony looks slightly better on skin tones and face detail in Bluray movies. But hardly enough to warrant twice the price. If I had to do it over again i would have purchased two of these tv's from the start and saved myself a lot of money. For gaming, the tv is very good. We don't notice any latency and use the standard picture setting mode calibrated with the disney wow disc with game mode on. Seems just as quick as my sony which has the fastest response time of all tv's in it's class. Long story short I believe anyone that buys this tv will be very happy and it only needs a minor calibration to get it looking great. It's pretty good out of the box. One thing i noticed though was when I originally started to setup the tv I was using the game mode picture setting, while games looked very good movies on a ps4 or xbox one had this bizarre effect where there were vertical bands of the screen in focus and out of focus, changing the video mode to standard mode fixed all of this and made movies look great. Sound is pretty good and overall the tv performs as good if not better than most mid level tv's. It even had better back lighting uniformity than my Sony but not quite as good color reproduction or face graininess. Some of that might be able to be tweaked better in the settings. But I was very happy with the picture as it was so I have no complaints, and I'm pretty much a tv snob. So bang for the buck you are getting a lot of tv. Hands down the best deal I've seen in a long time. Just a FYI I have all my Tv's calibrated using the Disney Wow Blue ray calibration disc.