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I've had a Vizio "smart" TV for about 3 years. It is my first experience with a smart TV and it has been a massive pile of shit since day one. Most recently it has decided to show a black screen every time I turn on the Nintendo Switch. In this state it does not allow me to do anything but turn it off. So I have to turn it off, turn it back on, go into settings and restart the TV. It will then work for a single play session, but as soon as I shut the Switch off I will undoubtedly have to go through this same process the next time I want to play.
This is only the most recent issue I've had with Vizio's garbage ass software. To those saying to just unplug it from the internet, trust me when I say the solution is not that simple. It was even worse before any updates, but with each update they break something else. There is no "good" software version to leave it at.
Vizio is the worst. I bought a TV of theirs back in 2017 because it was just a display with integrated chromecast. Having a remote with 8 buttons that does both tv volume and chromecast play/pause is awesome.
Not too long later, they mailed me a standard garbage fire smart tv remote, and pushed a software update to add all the cancerous smart TV features. I've never accepted the terms of service, so it still kinda works like it used to.
The funniest part is when the ToS beg window comes up every time I turn it on, I get to enjoy the incredibly condescending language telling me that I bought a smart tv and that smart tvs have certain data collection requirements. Did I buy a smart tv, vizio?
The problem is probably due to it being a Vizio, they are not quality TVs.
Yeah, I have one of their soundbars, and it has similar weird issues that lead to me having to unplug the power every couple days...
Switch has a pretty aggressive handshake over the HDMI if I am describing that correctly. When I turn it on it takes over the TV input and forces the switch to display instead. I think you can turn that feature off though. Maybe that will solve your issue.
Yeah it's the CEC, though I think the Switch calls it something else. Unfortunately that doesn't seem to be the issue as I have tried it on and off. Thing is it has worked flawlessly until just recently, so clearly Vizio broke something with an update.
I have a Series X plugged into a different HDMI port with CEC on and it works just fine.