Walmart buying Visio

[mwynn]

Walmart Takes on Roku With $2.3B Deal to Buy TV Maker Vizio
The retail giant says the company will bolster its advertising business and give it a foothold in 'innovative television and in-home entertainment and media experiences.'

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bu...0f0740c6f56c40

[wattsndrive90]

Originally Posted by mwynn

Walmart Takes on Roku With $2.3B Deal to Buy TV Maker Vizio
The retail giant says the company will bolster its advertising business and give it a foothold in 'innovative television and in-home entertainment and media experiences.'

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bu...0f0740c6f56c40

As a Wal-Mart in store TV buyer I would like them to make Vizio TV's their premium brand. Stuff like 120hz, larger displays in stock in store (75+in), Dolby Vision on most models. And above all well made products.

[BijouMan]

I hope this is not the end of VIZIO as we know it. If Walmart is buying them they might switch to just bringing in cheap displays from China like they do with their onn. brand. VIZIO already gave up on OLEDs making the one I have the only generation they ever made.

[wattsndrive90]

Originally Posted by BijouMan

I hope this is not the end of VIZIO as we know it. If Walmart is buying them they might switch to just bringing in cheap displays from China like they do with their onn. brand. VIZIO already gave up on OLEDs making the one I have the only generation they ever made.

You'd be surprised of what and where from displays actually come from in general, just because a company claims this and that doesn't mean they may not all be from China. Not saying they are though. But as a poor man I want a Vizio for cheap lol.

[BijouMan]

Originally Posted by wattsndrive90

You'd be surprised of what and where from displays actually come from in general, just because a company claims this and that doesn't mean they may not all be from China. Not saying they are though. But as a poor man I want a Vizio for cheap lol.

Here's the thing: Walmart is a company that sells "regular" products for "regular" people. You are not going to find anything particularly fancy at a Walmart store, so I would not be surprised if Walmart significantly downgrades the VIZIO brand. While the OLED was being made, I don't recall ever seeing one at a Walmart store (I bought mine from Best Buy.)

[wattsndrive90]

Originally Posted by BijouMan

Here's the thing: Walmart is a company that sells "regular" products for "regular" people. You are not going to find anything particularly fancy at a Walmart store, so I would not be surprised if Walmart significantly downgrades the VIZIO brand. While the OLED was being made, I don't recall ever seeing one at a Walmart store (I bought mine from Best Buy.)

That was what my post said though. I'm poor no Wal-Mart in my store except for an 86in LG is 120hz for example, nor is any TV other then the current stock of Vizios and 1 Hisense model Dolby Vision ready. Thing is TCL, Hisense, Vizio, Onn, LG, Samsung, every single model I can afford is considered by the masses cheapo's and therefor they get stuck in wal-mart and rarely do any of the models go to Amazon,Best Buy,etc.

I plan, speaking of which buying the 86in soon its $998 at my Wal-Mart and fits my needs. I'm all about cheap as long as the wal-mart surplus TV's last me the 3+ years they have the last 3 years.

Lastly I'm not so much getting just the 120hz for that, but also its size. QLED tvs for example at 75in are sometimes over 1k, nearly $1,500 and unless your a videophile or what have you, you won't notice the slight difference.

My dream is a C2/3 LG OLED but asking me to pay 2 grand for something that will be given a bump the next year is crazy - so I'll stick to wal-mart for one other reason, easy returns. Its 5 minutes from my apartment .

[wattsndrive90]

I will say my current main TV is a TCL - 4 Series 65in. That one I've seen on Amazon. But its nothing special, just gets a lot of $$ i suppose so they stick it on other retailers websites.

[LexInHD]

Originally Posted by BijouMan

Here's the thing: Walmart is a company that sells "regular" products for "regular" people. You are not going to find anything particularly fancy at a Walmart store, so I would not be surprised if Walmart significantly downgrades the VIZIO brand. While the OLED was being made, I don't recall ever seeing one at a Walmart store (I bought mine from Best Buy.)

Back in the day of the HDTV boom, Walmart/Sam's Club and Costco went to Sony and everyone else, informing them that they would only carry their A/V products, if they offered to sell them lower-costing/lower-spec'd models that differed from what their retail competitors were offering, so that they didn't have to price-match sales on "the same stuff" as Best Buy, Circuit City, Fry's, etc. and lose money. Often, the difference between these A/V products and the ones sold at Best Buy would be a reduction in HDMI ports and dropping features deemed premium or non-essential, though for some of them, it was only a different model/product number, so that the "exact product" condition of price-matching clauses couldn't apply to their offerings. I suspect they will do the same with Vizio, dropping the brand further down in quality and using it to push out the other brands or using it as leverage to force other brands to offer more cut-down products with big name branding.

[meremortal]

Also kind of curious if they'll really cut corners just to coast on the Vizio brand recognition. I realize there are compromises to meet price points, but as someone else mentioned it would be pretty sad if it basically became Onn under the Vizio name.