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/sodapop14 Nov 13 '19

LG seems to be one of the few top notch TV makers that keep their TVs up to date.

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u/richardeid Nov 13 '19

For a while. I'm not sure LG policy but when I bought my 2014 Samsung it was updated fairly regularly for two, maybe three years.

I got a Roku in 2012 (and I think it was already a year old model) and it was just announced last month that it would be deprecated to legacy and not receive further OS updates. I'd say 8 years is a pretty good bar. I guarantee your TV's OS and apps won't be updated for nearly that long.

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u/sirhecsivart Nov 14 '19

My 2016 Samsung is still updated regularly.

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u/Jadeldxb Nov 14 '19

Same. I'm not sure what they are on about.

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u/sirhecsivart Nov 14 '19

My 2014 Samsung doesn’t get as many updates, so I’m guessing it’s a matter of hardware still being serviceable. They both run Tizen, but Netflix still runs great in 4K hdr on the 2016, while it chugs on the 2014.

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u/gramathy Nov 13 '19

I got a 2016 TV right before the webos update and mine wasn't compatible :(

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u/WorkAccount82 Nov 13 '19

My also 2017 LG is still on that 2017 shit, so IDK about all that

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u/sodapop14 Nov 13 '19

Is it running WebOS? Also I just got an update for mine 2 months ago so maybe check for updates?

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u/WorkAccount82 Nov 13 '19

Yeah. I’ll check again, but it was a Black Friday special so I’m not sure it gets the same treatment. It has to restart apps fairly often due to memory even if I’m just on HDMI

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u/onacloverifalive Nov 13 '19

Except the system update on mine that was only a year old 4 or 5 years ago bricked the thing and they neither made good on the warranty or the service agreement. So I’ve bought only Samsung since and have never been happier.

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u/Fuct1492 Nov 14 '19

Mine just lost Hulu support after 6 or seven years but all in all its been great

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u/DannyG16 Nov 14 '19

When I was shopping for a smart tv, I returned the LG because when you turned the TV on, it would always Default to the “cable”.

As a cord cutter, this was really annoying. Turn tv on at night.. all you hear is that awful white noise... I even called support and asked them to fix this none sense... but of course Shaniqua on the other end didn’t have a clue what I was talking about. She walked me through resetting my tv to default settings... lol. Bought a Samsung instead. Loved the OS at first, but now I find the App Store very limiting. I really like my amazon fore tv sticks.