Its crazy how shitty they’ve gotten. I got one on black Friday probably 10 years ago and it didnt have and built in apps just casting from your phone. A few years later they updated it and suddenly it had apps and demanded you agree to their TOS and all that (possibly also download their Vizio app?). I didnt keep it for long after that (mostly because it was a budget ass TV with 4K but not HDR) and replaced it with an LG C3 AMOLED from Costco, which I couldn’t be happier with. In our bedroom we have a TCL and I think that’s where the sweet spot is with budget TVs
Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features
Submitted 2 months ago by commander@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
sturmblast@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Buy commercial displays, not TVs
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I think I prefer my 14 inch CRT
Psythik@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I used to prefer CRTs too… And then I got an OLED. Nothing else comes close, not even the best CRTs. Especially if it’s got quantum dot in combination with OLED.
Given that input lag was already solved five years ago, really the only advantage CRTs still have left is their ability to look great at non-native resolutions. But upscaling filters like HQX/xBR for retro games, and DLSS/FSR for modern titles, have all but completely eliminated that last remaining advantage. These filters are really good at upscaling lower resolution content to fit your display’s pixels. Hell, DLSS is so good that it looks better than native 4K.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My “big” TV is a dumb 55" Toshiba I bought in 2012. It works just fine plugged into my computer to display VLC. I don’t need anything else. I don’t bother with Jellyfin anymore, because all I do is “acquire” the content, watch it immediately, and delete it. I don’t keep anything apart from a few old movies, because I don’t rewatch anything.
Sauvandu60@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
This is why i don’t like “smart” tv.
jaxxed@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Does that mean it disables all Tue smart shit about f you don’t connect an account? Nice.
systemglitch@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah I’ve been sitting here trying to figure out the downside.
Dalraz@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
It would not surprise me if the tv it’s self will not work until you run through a setup process, and during this process you are required to create an account.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Sounds like a feature
GutterRat42@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Make Sceptre TVs great for once
bilb@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Are those still a thing? I couldn’t find anywhere to buy them.
GutterRat42@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Oh no!
Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I finally got fed up with it last year and blocked the internet access of my TV on the router level becuase upon contacting support I learned that there was no way to turn off the microphone setting. For real. They just didn’t add that feature in to my model. I still can’t believe that.
It is a little incovneient that I have to turn on my PC before I can watch anything but man the freedom of knowing that TV won’t be spying on me 24/7 is freeing.
Next time I buy I will be looking for commercial displays with HDMI and DisplayPort if its even possible by then.
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Damn shame, Vizio’s are designed in California.
Cantaloupe@lemmy.fedioasis.cc 2 months ago
We are we are Walmart!
echodot@feddit.uk 2 months ago
I have an extremely expensive smart TV that probably cost around £4,000 (I didn’t buy it so I don’t know what the actual price tag was) and it’s UI is awful because of stuff like this and it’s all stupid. It has an app, it’s a TV, I already have a method of controlling it why do I need an app?
As a result it’s purely a media streaming platform I don’t use any of its smart features. It’s just hoocked up to a mini PC and it’s just been a display.