U.S. Customs sees it VIZIO's way, TVs to keep flowing in
By Steven Kim 
posted Jul 10th 2009 10:09AM
posted Jul 10th 2009 10:09AM
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Vizios are really really sweet budget TV's. NO OTHER TV CAN COMPARE TO THE VISION AND MINDSET OF THE VIZIO COMPANY. ANTI-CORPORATION. DOWN WITH AOL.
Down with aol? what is this gizmodo? ur post is as unrelated as it could ever be(mine too btw)
I might has well throw in another non-sequitur.
Cabbages!! Knickers!! It aint got a beak!
I wonder at what point we'll stop using the terms monitor and TV and simply refer to everything as a display?
When they put tuners in monitors...?
Or stop making monitors with tuners in them?
never! That's when
nice reply fail..............in other news i'm glad vizio won this. screw funai. i bought a vizio tv about a month ago and couldn't be happier.
It's like two welfare recipients battling over the last food stamp
Mmmmm. Watching my Vizio while I eat my government cheese!
What shame. I remember our very first color TV was Funai back in the olden days. Sad to see them stooped this low =(
I was rather impressed that I could buy a 42" 1080p Vizio for $700 but was rather unimpressed by the picture qualiity when I could buy a 47" 1080p Samsung or Sony with far better image quality for $950 on sale.
Vizio's pricing structure is good but the panels are a generation or two behind in most cases. At least the build quality is better on the new models.
TV vs. Monitor/Display
TV's have a tuner or two. TV have a MUCH lower color depth, usually 10bit. TV's have a slower "refresh" time. Most TV's of the 19-24" range are of lower resolution than comparible monitors. The lower resolution, bit depth and refresh time all account for TV's having a lower quality of image than a monitor. TV's usually have multiple types of inputs which include analog ports (I suspect this will quickly go away now that the US has fully switched to digital).
Monitors don't have tuners. Monitors have a much larger color depth. Almost always 32bit, but at least 16bit. Monitors have a faster "refresh" time. Monitors are better at switching resolutions "on-the-fly". Monitors of the same size usually use significantly less power and give off much less heat. Monitors usually have VGA and DVI/HDMI. Monitors color is usually more "true" than on a TV (as measured by the color gamut).
Why is Funai even going after Vizio, rather than one of the companies that manufactures their TVs? (In fact, does Funai not produce any TVs for Vizio?) I thought Vizio was just one of those companies that is primarily involved in marketing and design rather than any actual engineering of products.
Not exactly, they've been using their success to sorta become a legit brand and have basically just forged a long term alliance with one manufacturer (so all their TVs are made by the same company now). I'm not sure exactly how the financial setup works but I think they're somehow involved in the manufacturer then buying up the portion of the LG/Philips LCD joint venture that Philips sold off.
So more or less Vizio has it's "own" panel facility as well as television assembly facility now although since it's a private company nobody really knows what's really going on with the financial transactions behind the scenes. I suspect that they own at least a part of their manufacturing facilities though or it would seem like they would get very screwed otherwise.
does this site use silverlight?
Vizio makes Junk...I bought one, and it didn't work right out of the box...I returned it at the same time a lady was returning hers for the same reason...bought a samsung...never looked back...Vizio=Garbage!