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The weird thing is if you lucked out like I did and got one of their earliest SmartCast TVs. My SmartCast came from the very apparently shortlived "Chromecast b
by kotaKat 3y ago
The weird thing is if you lucked out like I did and got one of their earliest SmartCast TVs. My SmartCast came from the very apparently shortlived "Chromecast built-in" era and did not receive upgrades or updates to it to make it "smarter".
All my Vizio does is HDMI, QAM tuning, and an input that launches the Chromecast-built-in. They also had a very short-lived Android tablet as a companion device that would be your control surface to cast content to the TV with (installing your streaming apps to it, etc).
That was a good era of Vizio smart TVs. As soon as they actually made the TV do any heavy lifting, it got bad instantly.
- velcrovan 3y agoI have one of these, but I never even used the Chromecast tablet/remote, I just plugged in an Apple TV 4K and disabled internet access for the TV itself on my router. I imagine this would work for the new even-crappier models as well.