Vizio is fantastic if you’re using your own source, I wouldn’t rely on their smart stuff though.
I’d still refute that claim. I bought a vizio tv about ~7 years ago and it was perfect when I first bought it. A few software updates later and now the TV will switch to it’s internal bullshit any time there isn’t an input source for greater than ~3 seconds. It’s infuriating that if my nvidia shield takes a second too long to push out a video signal the TV will just switch inputs on me. There is no way to disable this antifeature. The best part is after I noticed this behavior, I (at the network level) prevented all outgoing communication from this TV and it is still perfectly happy to just switch to a blank internal input whenever an external source takes slightly too long. “If I can’t track you, fuck you I’ll make your TV basically unusable”
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I just don’t have my TV connected to the network at all, I think there is an option (on mine at least) to disable the switch to “smart whatever” when no source. YMMV though.
I agree wholeheartedly though, I use my devices to power the tv on and off and when that fails it’s such a mess even just swapping inputs.
Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I connected it because it was in that like 2 year span where they had that a small android tablet as a remote. Legitimately cool feature but I should have known better than to let it update.
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I’ve updated mine and it’s generally made it better tbh, at least insomuch as now that I have that setting toggled I don’t have to deal with hitting their smart shit.
I just always update it and then reset it, stay at the firmware level but set it up like a new TV and don’t connect it.
Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 7 months ago
factory reset went back to the shitty upgrade version I upgraded to :(. But I will say that I haven’t let it update since that initial terrible upgrade assuming it might get worse. Maybe I should try upgrading it once more and then lock it off if the next version is decent?