Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features
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Re: Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features
#2At my last job we bought a lot of Vizio tvs. We used them for conference rooms, hallway displays, etc. They were reasonably priced and had a good feature set needed.
They have been on a decline for years and this is a nail in the coffin.
Re: Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features
#3Kinda a wild idea I had never really considered, but absolutely a possibility: using a TV as a loss leader to sell ads.
Not sure if that's they're intent here, but I could easily see that becoming a thing (if it isn't already). And what better way to collect useful ad data on people than forcing them to create an account and then tracking their usage of the device.
Re: Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features
#42040: a $30k neural interface becomes available.
2042: a $20 budget neural version hits the market but requires the user to watch a 15s ad every 5 minutes.
Re: Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features
#5For now, we can vote with our wallets and avoid this crap. But, how long until the entire TV and display industry requires an account to tether you to each company in order to use their products?
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#6Isn't that actually great? Just never create and sign into a Walmart account and now your TV isn't infected.
Re: Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features
#7Kinda a wild idea I had never really considered, but absolutely a possibility: using a TV as a loss leader to sell ads. Not sure if that's they're intent here, but I could easily see that becoming a thing (if it isn't already). And what better way to collect useful ad data on people than forcing them to create an account and then tracking their usage of the device.
> using a TV as a loss leader to sell ads
That's Amazon's Fire TVs in a nutshell.
Re: Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features
#8Kinda a wild idea I had never really considered, but absolutely a possibility: using a TV as a loss leader to sell ads. Not sure if that's they're intent here, but I could easily see that becoming a thing (if it isn't already). And what better way to collect useful ad data on people than forcing them to create an account and then tracking their usage of the device.
That's been the standard for a decade. $200 for a 4k 55" TV is not realistic without a secondary profit source
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#9So, just like Google, Amazon, and Roku TV's? (And probably LG and Samsung too?)
Re: Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features
#10Kinda a wild idea I had never really considered, but absolutely a possibility: using a TV as a loss leader to sell ads. Not sure if that's they're intent here, but I could easily see that becoming a thing (if it isn't already). And what better way to collect useful ad data on people than forcing them to create an account and then tracking their usage of the device.
it is definitely a thing. a 65" 4K OLED tv costs less than 32GB of ram!
practically every other electronic has gone up in price like crazy, tvs have gone down.