Walmart Acquires Vizio For $2.3B (1 Viewer)

[Kevin Clancy]

Walmart Acquires Smart TV Firm Vizio For $2.3B, Altering Streaming Ad Landscape

Retail giant Walmart is acquiring smart TV maker Vizio for $2.3 billion in a deal that will alter the streaming advertising landscape.

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[Clinton McClure]

I wonder if that means all Vizio tvs will now deliver Walmart ads directly to your home.

 

[Lord Dalek]

Vizio tvs have some of the worst streaming options and can't be updated. I doubt this'll make the situation better.

 

[JohnRice]

Vizio was briefly an excellent display manufacturer a few years ago. I bought two of them in 2020. After declining since then, I'm guessing this signs the death of that.

 

[Todd Erwin]

I wonder if that means all Vizio tvs will now deliver Walmart ads directly to your home.

That’s the whole idea behind this acquisition. If the ONN line of TVs continues after the deal closes, then SmartCast wil be the new OS on those TVs.

 

[Todd Erwin]

Vizio was briefly an excellent display manufacturer a few years ago. I bought two of them in 2020. After declining since then, I'm guessing this signs the death of that.

Yeah, both TCL and Hisense have surpassed Vizio in picture quality and consumer trust.

 

[Scott Merryfield]

Vizio was briefly an excellent display manufacturer a few years ago. I bought two of them in 2020. After declining since then, I'm guessing this signs the death of that.

Both our Vizio displays died within a few months of each other last year. One was the display in our primary home theater and was 7-8 years old. The other was in the living room of our SC condo and was about two years old -- but that one was damaged by a lightning strike that hit the condo complex. However, that newer Vizio had a seam you could see at times running down the middle of the display -- calibration got rid of most of it, but it still showed up faintly depending on what was on the display. My wife never noticed it, but I was never happy with it. My days of buying Vizio are probably done.

Yeah, both TCL and Hisense have surpassed Vizio in picture quality and consumer trust.

Ironically, I replaced the Vizio display in our main HT with a TCL 75-inch QM8 Mini-LED, and the SC condo display with a Hisense 65-inch U7K mini-LED.

 

[JohnRice]

Both our Vizio displays died within a few months of each other last year. One was the display in our primary home theater and was 7-8 years old. The other was in the living room of our SC condo and was about two years old -- but that one was damaged by a lightning strike that hit the condo complex. However, that newer Vizio had a seam you could see at times running down the middle of the display -- calibration got rid of most of it, but it still showed up faintly depending on what was on the display. My wife never noticed it, but I was never happy with it. My days of buying Vizio are probably done.

Ironically, I replaced the Vizio display in our main HT with a TCL 75-inch QM8 Mini-LED, and the SC condo display with a Hisense 65-inch U7K mini-LED.

If I needed to replace either of those 2020 Vizio TVs today, I expect it would be with OLEDs. Probably LG.

 

[Scott Merryfield]

If I needed to replace either of those 2020 Vizio TVs today, I expect it would be with OLEDs. Probably LG.

I considered an LG OLED for our main HT. However, they are still more expensive than LED (even mini-LED) displays. Considering the expected lifespan of modern displays, I didn't want to spend that much money. Mini-LED got me most of the way there in picture quality for a better price - - especially when I was replacing two large screens in such a short span of time.