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In this episode of Home Theater Geeks, I answer a listener question about Vizio TVs. Haven't heard of them lately. Neither have I, so stay tuned.
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Hey there Scott Wilkinson Here, here the Home Theater Geek in this episode, I answer a question from Brad Marmon who writes Several years ago I purchased a 65 inch Vizio 4K TV which at the time was considered one of the best on the market. It is still our primary TV and we are still very happy with the picture quality. My questions are does Vizio still make TVs? If so, why don't I hear about them anymore? Has their quality gone down or have other manufacturers simply surpassed them in quality? Great question Brad. It reminded me that I hadn't heard of Vizio TVs for some years either. And you got me to wondering what the heck happened to them. So I did some research. Turns out Vizio was purchased by Walmart in December of 2024 for $2.3 billion. Apparently Walmart wanted to expand into the connected TV market, which is pretty lucrative in terms of ads within apps. So Vizio became one of Walmart's 90 or so private label brands. Now looking at the Walmart website I see only the O N n pronounced I assume on but it's O n n. This is the brand of Walmart tv, some of which say powered by Vizio smart television. I don't see any TVs with the Vizio brand and I also see on brand TVs with Roku or Google TV as their smart TV platform. So I don't see Vizio TVs on the Walmart website. However, I do see them on the Vizio website and there are a lot of them there. There are five different lines. At the top is a mini LED, what they call Quantum 4K. So it's a quantum.tv with mini LED backlighting. So it's an LCD TV, the VQM series, which is only available in 55, 65 and 75 inches. They also have a conventional LED, non mini LED Quantum 4K. So again it uses quantum dots in the backlight and conventional LEDs. This is known as the M series and it has many sizes up to 100 inches. They also have a 4K without quantum dots which is known as the V4K series. Still does HDR high dynamic range as the upper 2 series that I mentioned also do, and it also has many sizes up to 86 inches. Below that is a full HD 1080p called the VFD series, available in smaller sizes, 32, 40 and 46 inches. And finally the HD series which has the model number VHD that's 720p and it's available in 24 and 32 inch sizes.