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Wow, that makes me never want to buy a Vizio, ever. Although from what I hear, their apps are pretty bad anyway, so you'd probably be better off using an extern
by parennoob 11y ago
Wow, that makes me never want to buy a Vizio, ever. Although from what I hear, their apps are pretty bad anyway, so you'd probably be better off using an external box (Roku or AppleTV or Chromecast) for your Netflix et cetera. This assumes that said devices are not phoning back to their home, which might be a slippery assumption.
- chadgeidel 11y ago"Phone home" is default for both Roku and AppleTV. Roku requires a username/password to enable the box. Same goes for AppleTV - you need to be signed into iTunes to even get anything to work. At least Apple provides regular updates.
- jkestner 11y agoOf course they are. But it's interesting that you and I care about who phones back home - why do we trust Roku more than Vizio? Is it that it feels "unnatural" for an existing object like a TV to change the relationship? And of course, most people actually don't care about this.
- rdtsc 11y agoThat is a good point, I have Roku as well in another room (connected to a "dumb" older TV). And yeah, I trust Roku more. And I trust Google -- I have a Gmail. Heck old work trusted Google with their internal discussion and files! Thinking about it, I guess I made a (perhaps bad) bargain -- you can have my data if you give me something useful and working that I want back. Roku works and gives me something useful, working apps and I expected I had to do it when I bought it. Google gives me Gmail, so it can spy on me. Vizio gave me a TV, but I paid for it, and I didn't expect that it would need an invasive home phoning agreement to be usable.