Walmart to buy TV maker Vizio for $2.3 billion in move to grow its ad business::Walmart touted the ability to grow its ad business through a Vizio TV platform that allows users to watch free ad-supported content.
Walmart to buy TV maker Vizio for $2.3 billion in move to grow its ad business::Walmart touted the ability to grow its ad business through a Vizio TV platform that allows users to watch free ad-supported content.
That would be so much easier if companies weren’t dedicated to making CEC confusing as all hell through naming schemes:
So for the vast majority of these manufacturers, you can’t just look up “CEC,” you have to know what their branded version of it is called, and each company has named it something different.
I’m all for easy compatibility and interoperability, but this is an example highlighting how hard these companies work to make these things not obvious and not consumer friendly.
EDIT: One final complaint from the tech-nerd sphere: I run everything via a Plex server, and while I have one Amazon FireStick, I’m mostly using HTPC’s and the amount of hoops to have to jump through to get CEC working with a PC is kind of fucking maddening. I shouldn’t have to be a Powershell wizard to get it to work.
The fact that a PC can’t make an HDMI-connected TV wake up and go to sleep out of the box is fucking maddening.
Oh don’t get me started!