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May 27, 2014, 09:26:38 PM |
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In case anyone else is in the market...
I got that 70in Vizio. I freakin' LOVE this TV! Thanks so much for hooking me up. Coming with a remote that has a keyboard on the back is excellent. For the price, you'd think Samsung would do that, too... I got an open-box unit that claimed to have scratches on the bezel, but I can't find a thing wrong with it. Backlight is not perfectly even, but it's so minor the only way you can see it is on a perfectly black screen, such as when nothing is tuned in/it's just powering up. Speakers leave something to be desired, but perfectly serviceable. Being that the last time I owned a TV, it was a 13in CRT, some might say I'm too easy to please...
With a second-hand Chromecast plugged in, it's heaven. Some people knock the "bottom band" style "smart app" interface, but I find it convenient as it doesn't interrupt whatever is on screen and even has a sidebar function that still doesn't interrupt anything. This alone is reason enough for me not to buy other smart TVs. Samsung, for example, launches a whole new interface with a choppy/delayed PiP thing when you go smart mode... Vizio's method is minimally invasive and intuitive. I much prefer it and am glad I bought it. Yahoo, yeah, ghey... But it works.
The built-in DLNA is odd... I can push to the Chromecast with bubbleupnp in formats that the built-in DLNA won't read. Conversely, the built-in DLNA will read some of the formats that bubbleupnp won't. Between the two, they cover just about everything without making me find a computer. Running rygel, I can use bubbleupnp to push off of my 4TB drive bank. Navigation for the built-in DLNA is a bit clumsy and slow to load, but it works. I'm not digging into the transcoding on the flay stuffs...
I'm damn glad I bought this thing. Don't be afraid of the Visio.
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