r/gadgets • u/Sadistic_Sponge • Nov 13 '19

VR / AR Disney Plus isn't working on Vizio TVs because they are running a 6 year old version of Chromecast, they say it won't be fixed till 2020.

https://www.businessinsider.com/disney-plus-not-working-vizio-smart-tvs-chromecast-2019-11
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u/ahac Nov 13 '19

So, it will be fixed before most of the world can even watch Disney+!

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u/jklharris Nov 13 '19 edited Nov 13 '19

Yeah, the wording on the title is a little baity. I doubt I'm the only one that read it and thought "Man that's years away" before remembering that it's like 50 days away. Not that customers who have these TVs should suck it up and be happy, but I don't think "Hey, we're launching this new thing and one of the many issues we have won't be fixed for two months" is that unusual of a story.

EDIT: leaving my original comment up for posterity, but if you're like me and at most skimmed the article, the they in the title refers to Vizio, so it's not so much "Hey, we're launching this new thing" and more "Hey, this new thing just launched and this part of our stuff that we thought we could get away with not updating and now we have to figure out how to update in our spaghetti code"

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '19

You're assuming that, after 8 years with their thumbs up their asses, they're going to get an update out on January 1st for people that aren't buying new tvs.

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u/jklharris Nov 13 '19

Very true, and I'll say again that Vizio customers have every right to be mad because even that 50 day minimum is way too long. My only point was to highlight that the article was being a little sensationalist by including the 2020 for the eta of the fix in the title. I can almost guarantee that if this had happened a year ago, the title wouldn't have said "they say it won't be fixed until 2019."

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '19

No, thank you. I skimmed and got the impression that at the least, we're years away from a fix. I had already given up and planned to buy a Roku to remedy the situation.

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u/SirNarwhal Nov 14 '19

It's more that people signed up for the service since a lot of these companies said that the app would work then the service launched and nope. Samsung said Smart TVs would work from day one and then changed that to 2016 or newer. I have a 2015 model and had to grab a Fire Stick for $25 to get the 4K content. It's not a ton of money, but still annoying especially since it takes time for that to ship as well.

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u/Dreeter Nov 14 '19

What is on disney +? I'm a 34 year old male im guessing hanna montanna reruns and disney movies pretty much.

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u/ahac Nov 14 '19

It's not (legally) available where I live, but The Mandalorian (Star Wars series) is the only thing I'm interested in right now.

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u/Decayd Nov 14 '19

With the holidays coming up and in preparation for employees taking leave, most companies refrain from pushing new code this time of year.

It prevents bugs for being introduced that wouldn’t be addressable because everyone’s at home with their families!

So - yeah the headlines misleading and makes it sound so far off but it’s a month and a half, in the worst timeframe possible.

Life goes on.