Tvs come pre loaded with so much extra shit now. I hit the wrong button on my remote and I'm not playing Nioh 2 but stuck in the menu of something called Xivious music.
Wtf is that shit?
I have a newer Vizio and I kind of hate it
When you start it up, it displays a screen full of countless movies and TV shows from countless streaming services. It's not personalized, so it's always just garbage I'd never watch. Lots of current year crap. There's no way to tell it that I'm not interested in all these random-ass services, either.
Getting to the actual streaming services I actually have is a hassle considering you have to click past a bunch of ads for those things, and it's slow and laggy, so it's easy to overshoot what you're trying to launch. There are a few hotkey buttons on my remote, but they're not remappable and have the logos of the services they launch painted on. The button to launch Prime Video is right under the power button, and all of those buttons turn on the TV too, so it's easy to accidentally jump straight into Prime.
There's no way to disable it outside of just not agreeing to the licensing agreement, which I tried to do. Doing that just starts the TV up to the "Do you agree?" screen every single time, with the cursor automatically highlighting "I agree". Trying to keep the TV offline isn't ideal either, since I can't use the built-in Chromecast, and it'll just start up to a "you're TV is offline idiot!!!!!!" screen. You also can't just keep it on one of the input channels, either, unless it's all connected and you've agreed to the bullcrap, and even then, using the Chromecast just kicks you back to the screen with all the ads when you turn it back on.
Also the thing has one of those shared composite/component inputs, but for whatever reason, older game systems don't work. My Wii does over composite, but not my N64. I have no idea why not, and trying to search for that problem brought me no answers. It's the only TV I've ever owned that flat-out will not display my N64.
Now that phones are bigger I can't reliably unlock it via the screen only using the thumb of the hand holding it. Phones are too big, if Apple had made an all-screen phone the same size as the 4 or 4S I would have bought it, I resent having to use both hands to dial a number or flip around my music.
I really don't know why smaller cellphones are just gone now. So many people loved the size of the older iPhones. so there's still a market for them. Hell, I remember when phablets were new, it was trendy to make fun of them and call them clownphones, and that was regarding the Galaxy Note having a 5" screen.
Today, I think Samsung's smallest flagship has a screen bigger than that. It's nuts.
