Talk:Vizio

message: Was Vizio really part of Sony?
:Rumors around various forums have been that Vizio is a subsidiary of Sony, but I've found nothing to confirm that. --LaraLove 19:07, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Sony?

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Vizio logo.png

message: The article lists a found date of 1999 and the article is categorized as founded in 2003. That needs to be resolved. --William Graham talk 16:07, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. --Endless Dan 15:40, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Found date 

message: I've semi-protected the page; there's an ongoing attack by a particular vandal (it's been going on for months), and I'm tired of it. --jpgordon::==( o ) 04:26, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected 

message: Will someone please update the information on vizio's expanding consumer electronics portfolio.  It has already begun selling the via tablet and CES 2011 is far over  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hockeyking123 (talk • contribs) 23:03, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dates 

message: http://www.consumeraffairs.com/home_electronics/vizio.html
(CaptianNemo (talk) 02:10, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you. -Mardus (talk) 21:12, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

text: Company does not renew product portfolio (of televisions), drops to #3 with a 44% drop in volume (of sales, I presume); also, a user experience failure was noticed. -Mardus (talk) 21:45, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Complaints 

message: Hello, I'm reaching out on behalf of the Corporate Marketing department at VIZIO about a couple inaccuracies we identified on the page. I went in and corrected the incorrect or outdated information but wanted to send a quick note about what we changed and validate why we did. All changes are fact based and are not promotional in any way. 
1. Can we please submit our updated logo?
2. Our current tagline is "Beautifully Simple." so I have updated that as it is current. 
3. In our description: we are a privately held consumer electronics company, so I have eliminated "producer of".
4. In the History section: The company did not start out as GreenDane. We do not know who/what GreenDane is. We did start out as "V Inc." so I have revised as such. 
5. In the History section: The company does not have an office in Magna, Utah, nor did we ever. The articles listed here do not reference Magna, Utah either so I have eliminated Magna Utah from the section. 
6. The last section that says "VIZIO's major partner in the consumer electronics arena is AmTran Technology, a Taiwan-based OEM/ODM that manufacturers more than half of the televisions sold by VIZIO and owns a 23% stake int he company", is outdated and inaccurate. I eliminated this sentence. 
7. In the Television Sets section: We did not unveil an R Series in 2012, so I have eliminated that. 
8. In the Television Sets section: We have not produced "LCD computer monitors", so I eliminated the word "computer."
Thank you and please let me know if you have any questions.
70.168.249.198 (talk) 00:24, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit requested 

message: Under Mobile Phones, I'm pretty sure the VP800 has 32 GB of RAM, not ROM.Crowless (talk) 00:58, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit 

message: It appears to me that VIZIO prefers to have its name in all caps.  For those of you who know, is that true?  Is it a change and if so it is permanent?  And if so, should we change all the instances in this article to match?--Mrcolj (talk) 20:59, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  All Caps on VIZIO? 

message: I would like to request an edit on behalf of the corporate PR team at VIZIO. One comment on the page could be considered opinionated and is redundant with an earlier section. The earlier section is mostly correct and only needs a mild tweak. I have provided objective references for each comment, below. 
In section 3 “Controversy” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vizio#History< ) there is a comment that references op-ed news articles about VIZIO’s collection of viewing habits:  
"In November 2015 it was revealed that Vizio was collecting information on its customers and selling it to advertisers.[28] To settle the case, in which Vizio were accused of using 11 million televisions to spy on customers, the company agreed to pay out $2.2 million.[29][30][31]” 
Per the FTC notice on the topic,  https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2017/02/vizio-pay-22-million-ftc-state-new-jersey-settle-charges-it  Vizio is not accused of spying. This is an opinion of the journalists who wrote the op-ed articles. VIZIO is accused of collecting anonymous viewer history. At the very least, this section is redundant with section 2.1. 
In Section 2.1: Televisions, paragraph 3 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vizio#Television_sets) there is a more accurate version of the issue: 
"Vizio 'Smart TV' sets track viewers' habits and share them with advertisers, a practice that cable TV companies are prohibited from doing but that Vizio says is legal for TV manufacturers.[16] On February 6 of 2017, the Federal Trade Commission announced a settlement[17] with Vizio to pay $2.2 million to settle charges by the FTC and the Office of the New Jersey Attorney General that it installed software on its TVs to collect viewing data on 11 million consumer TVs without consumers’ knowledge or consent. The settlement required Vizio to delete the data it had captured and change its data collection practices."
This section would be more correct if it the word “can” were added, as follows. 
"Vizio "Smart TV" sets can https://www.vizio.com/en-ca/viewingdata  track viewers' habits and share them with advertisers, a practice that cable TV companies are prohibited from doing but that Vizio says is legal for TV manufacturers.[16] On February 6 of 2017, the Federal Trade Commission announced a settlement[17] with Vizio to pay $2.2 million to settle charges by the FTC and the Office of the New Jersey Attorney General that it installed software on its TVs to collect viewing data on 11 million consumer TVs without consumers’ knowledge or consent. The settlement required Vizio to delete the data it had captured and change its data collection practices.”
- This addition ("can" above) reflects the fact that the process is voluntary and can be disabled through the “Smart Interactivity” setting in the user settings menu.
BBQguy (talk) 22:24, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Declined. I don't see this as an improvement. jd22292 (Jalen D. Folf) (talk) 16:41, 14 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Controversy versus Television_sets 

message: I updated the article with new sources and new information. Therefore, I will be removing the tag that indicates that the article needs updating. Betanote4 (talk) 16:15, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing the Tag 

message: Hi, this is Jeremy. I have a few additional edit requests which will update the article, specifically in the History, Sound bars sections and the creation of a new SmartCast section:
#In the History section please add the following updates:
#*In the sixth paragraph, right after the last sentence "Cognitive Media Networks was subsequently renamed Inscape Data." Please add the following few sentences: "Inscape is Vizio's data subsidiary. Previously known as Cognitive Networks, it was founded by Zeev Neumeier, an early pioneer of the automated content recognition (ACR) industry, who serves as Vizio's chief innovation officer. Inscape functioned as an independent entity until the end of 2020, when it was combined with Vizio Ads and SmartCast; the three divisions combining to operate as a single unit.
#*Before the sentence "In March 2021, Vizio filed for and IPO," please add the following two sentences: As of 2020 Vizio was the second largest company in the US for sales of flat-screen televisions.  The company reported total revenue of $2.04 billion and net income of $102.5 million by the end of 2020.
#*Please change the following sentence, to this: In March 2021, Vizio officially went public on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol VZIO.
#*Finally, in at the very end of the History section, add the following sentence: As of March 1, 2021, the company has sold over 11 million sound bars and 80 million TVs,  and had more than 12 million active SmartCast accounts.
:I'm not fulfilling the request to talk about Zeev Neumeier due to WP:PEACOCK issues. CTO's name can be included in . Other requests above were fulfilled in principle. ~Kvng (talk) 21:57, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi , Thanks for making the first edits, and I understand your reasons for leaving the CTO out of the body of the article. I am pinging you because I am hoping you can finish up the edit requests, which still have numbers 2 and 3 left to do. Thanks so much for your consideration. Jeremy885511 (talk) 15:44, 24 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  COI requests to edit History, Sound bars and SmartCast sections. 

message: Around 2018 Vizio pulled out of Canada after having some success for about 5 years here. Should it be part of the company’s history 174.89.175.132 (talk) 08:54, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: We don't talk about Vizio's business in any particular non-US markets; what's significant about this? --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 14:19, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vizio leaving Canada - history 

message: The Link zu Vizio, is linkig to Exertis. The Other Karma (talk) 19:39, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vizio Link not Linking to