• bizarroland@fedia.io
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    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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        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.

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          17 days ago

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