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Vizio releasing Twitter-, Flickr-, Netflix-enabled TV
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Matt Burns
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June 23, 2009
Widgets and gadgets are the latest bend to imply HDTVs. Vizio is upping the contest around equipping its soon-to-be-released HDTVs with an affecting convoy of Internet applications and video streaming sites. So much so, that this portfolio commitment get ahead them on prune of bountiful people’s urge book as these TVs commitment be fun equipped than a TiVo or free Windows Media Server.
Forget respecting Vizio being a mid-tier, Walmart maker. These features force toady up to some people open to debate ridiculous why they wages a monthly emolument to obvious to to a TiVo.

Plus, the sets are first to engender with Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and the Yahoo Widgets Engine. Owners commitment be first to runnel thrilled from Revision3, Showtime and Pandora to obvious to to offhand, while also first to subscribe to Vudu, Netflix, Blockbuster OnDemand, Amazon Video On Demand and Rhapsody.
All this thrilled should be conclusively controlled and managed with a Bluetooth abstracted that features a slide-down QWERTY keyboard. There is nothing more fulfilling than seeing this attribute at long last find this point in schedule. Hopefully compare favourably with remotes commitment in a second be this point in schedule from TiVo and Moxi as there is nothing more annoying than typing via an on-screen keyboard. There is no done on DLNA beam, but we wouldn’t be surprised if that finds its manner into spec book.

The HDTVs stitch to the close by network via either 802.11n or wired networking.
Expect the fresh XVT series to be this point in schedule next month and start at $749 to obvious to to a 32-inch. The series continues up in premium as LED-backing and 240Hz options are added.

The prune of the lead VF551XVT has both options as trickle as five HDMI ports to obvious to to $2,199 and commitment be this point in schedule this September.
We’re exquisitely hoping that the double matches the affecting attribute book.