VIZIO, VIZIO, CRAP,
CRAP, … THEY RHYME!
I’ve never encountered a sh!t!ier
TV in my life.
https://rumble.com/v5htg0q-vizio-crap.-words-that-dont-rhyme-...-but-are-synonymous.html
Over the years
I’ve owned Zenith, RCA, GE, Sony, Samsung, LG, TCL, and a host of other brand
TVs including Vizio. Wow, Vizio!
What was I thinking? These are
sold off the shelf at Walmart which should tell you something right there. They sit alongside similarly illustrious
names such as ONN and other Chinese-made TVs.
I’ve owned a
couple of Vizio TVs and God help me for buying a 2nd one when my 1st
was already showing itself to be a wall-mounted piece of spastic plastic.
It has hung on my wall for about 2-3 years.
Vizio isn’t really
inexpensive as much as it is cheap. You
see, the word “inexpensive” means that
something costs less than what one would expect. It doesn’t necessarily indicate any drop in
quality, but merely a lower price or fewer features.
The word “cheap” means that something is of sub par quality,
problem prone, or simply trash. A TV
that is inexpensive might well be a good one such as a Sony or Samsung when
either on sale or one of their basic models.
But a TV that is cheap might well be a piece of crap with a reputation
for failure such as Vizio.
My experience with
Vizio has seen a confusing and inexcusable litany of problems. I worked with Dale Hartlensen, a software
guru associated with a leading software troubleshooting company. He took my TV into his lab and worked with it
for 2 days.
https://rumble.com/v5htg0q-vizio-crap.-words-that-dont-rhyme-...-but-are-synonymous.html
What he said was
not a surprise. “The firmware is inadequate, as well as it’s huge files of
software which govern not only what channel you watch but the television’s
ability to grab a signal or isolate one from another. The software and firmware I surveyed are not
the work of a competent or even ‘good’ professional, just someone being paid to
put this horrible excuse for code and software into this and almost certainly
other televisions.”
What this means is
that Vizio, already infamous for a myriad of performance problems such as
gliches. mid-program software updates, uncontrollable volume and more problems
making Vizio less than your best choice for a TV.
I have been in the
middle of a TV show or movie when, out of the blue, Vizio has decided it’s time
to do a software or firmware update. So
much for watching my show or movie, at least until they are done updating and
then restarting my TV.
I also have
Samsung and Sony TVs and when they want to update software they do it when I
switch the set off. They never do it
when I switch it on or when I am watching something. Once my Samsung asked me if it could update
software and gave me the option of ‘okay’
or ‘later’.
One would of
course expect superior performance from superior and more expensive TVs such as
Sony, Samsung, and the like.
Obviously we can’t
expect top-notch performance or service in a budget TV like Vizio. I understood that when I bought this TV but
had no idea what a nightmare it would become.
I hate my Vizio
and will hate it until the day it appears on one of my videos as it is chewed
up, shot, set on fire, blown up, dropped from a great height, or otherwise completely
demolished. I recently finished 2 hours
of fixing it which took me to my software guru.
Here’s what
it was doing …
I could select
input as ‘antenna’ or ‘watchfree’, both of which usually take you
straight to antenna television but the TV only went to a screen saying ‘no signal’.
After a while puttering with it I did a ‘complete
factory reset’ which got me nowhere.
It was then that my software guru entered the scene. He got me going after keeping it for a couple
of days but mentioned the obvious shortcomings of this TV.
He said, “Expect this to happen again.
The code within the software is so jumbled and has so much ‘junk code’
in it that the same problem could well happen again. My advice is to drop this off the nearest
cliff or toss it into a wood chipper.
Buy a ‘real’ TV and don’t go cheap this time.”
My own list
of Cons:
● The remote control is cumbersome,
inaccurate, hostile and the body is slippery.
There is nothing ‘intuitive’
about it. This is a perfect example of
what ergonomics shouldn’t look like.
● The TV has the input jacks in the most
difficult to reach place. If you’re
mounting this TV on the wall, good luck with that. It’ll mount but your mount plate will make
access to inputs, etc. a pain in the @ss.
● The speakers are on the bottom and fire
downward. If this TV is on a stand on a shelf the sound will be a little muffled.
● It’s ‘settings’
selection is ambiguous, confusing, and a challenge to even understand.
● It occasionally goes into ‘mute’ whenever you change a channel. This problem is intermittent.
This is a horribly
contrived piece of garbage wrapped in plastic and with a 32 inch screen. I cannot possibly avoid condemning it. Oh, and it can take up to 15 to change
channel.
Do yourself a
favor; Buy Sony or Samsung if you can.
If they are too price try LG and TCL, both of which are, in my opinion, much
better choices than Vizio.
This has been an
editorial opinion and a review of Vizio televisions and all opinions expressed
are my own.
I’m Max, and
that’s the way I see it!
WAIT:
AN UPDATE ... My Vizio TV screwed me again! I'm done with it!
https://rumble.com/v5htg0q-vizio-crap.-words-that-dont-rhyme-...-but-are-synonymous.html
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)