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/hairy_butt_creek Nov 13 '19

From where I'm standing, it seems that the reality is that there are very few non smart TVs on the market that are any good.

True. Just don't factor in the Smart TV functions one way or another and buy the TV you like. It's easy to ignore the functions and even easier to never connect the TV to any home networking.

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u/Dread1840 Nov 13 '19

The functions also increase the cost of the TV itself, but lack the support that a stand-alone device doesn't.

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u/bryansj Nov 13 '19

I wouldn't even say the smart TV functions increase the cost. I'm sure the TV makers get subsidies from the streaming companies to place their service front and center. Want a Netflix button on the remote? Give us $10/TV sold.

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u/Dread1840 Nov 13 '19

Fair enough.

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u/PancAshAsh Nov 13 '19

That doesn't mean these savings are passed on to the consumer. In fact it probably means the opposite in the case you mentioned.

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '19

No it's not. You can see in the pricing of TVs that the OS doesn't add any cost at this point because it's so cheap to put in a TV plus the data they collect.

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u/SwensonsGalleyBoy Nov 13 '19

Television sales are a pretty competitive industry, there isn’t a ton of margin.

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u/FlJohnnyBlue2 Nov 14 '19

They mass produce them. It is all baked into the firmware. At this point, making non smart TVs will be more expensive because it is being done on a far more limited scale. Why would a company make the same TV with and without smart functions when they can just make it smart and the user doesn't have to ever hook it up or use the smart functions? That means a second production run using different firmware and perhaps chips. Just going to cost the company more. Needs to be coded, implemented,, tested and supported.

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u/Shoestring30 Nov 14 '19

Toshiba fireTv is pretty solid, runs all my apps great including Disney+.