Walmart closed its $2.3 billion acquisition of TV maker Vizio, a move by the retailing giant to expand its advertising business.
    • bizarroland@fedia.io
      10·
      18 days ago

      I’m not in the market for a TV because the one I bought 6 years ago is still running fine and wonderful but…

      I allowed it to do a firmware update and that almost completely destroyed the television.

      It became so slow you could press a button and go fuck your wife and come back before the change actually happened on screen.

      Due to that I have already decided to not purchase any Vizio TV ever again.

      Good to see my original decision validated I guess.

      • nocturne@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        3·
        18 days ago

        I connected one of my Vizio tvs to the internet once, it was painful to use. So I disconnected it and used my old Roku box. Works great.

        I have 3 at work, and two at home. All do not use the smart features.

        • bizarroland@fedia.io
          1·
          17 days ago

          Yep. And if you buy a TV and it requires internet connection just to set up, use the hotspot on your phone so that it does not have any way to connect to your home network.

          • mindbleachEnglish
            1·
            17 days ago

            If a display requires an internet connection, take it back.

        • bizarroland@fedia.io
          3·
          17 days ago

          It is back to being more responsive after calling tech support and waiting to get help so that I could learn that I needed to redownload the original firmware and reflash it back to factory default.