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Original URL: http://www.cnet.com/news/chinese-conglomerate-leeco-acquires-vizio-for-2-billion/
Chinese conglomerate LeEco just spent $2 billion to get its foot in the door of the US television market.
Along with Samsung, Vizio has been one of the two most-popular TV brands in the US over the last few years. Vizio TVs are among CNET's most-recommended models.
The news, rumored for the last couple of weeks, came from Vizio founder and CEO William Wang on stage at a joint press event in Hollywood. Vizio's hardware and software businesses will be owned and operated as a wholly owned subsidiary of LeEco, while the Vizio's data business, Inscape, will be spun off.
[...] "Fourteen years ago, I mortgaged my house to start Vizio, and since then, it has grown into one of the most well-known and respected CE brands in North America. As an entrepreneur, I couldn't be more proud of what has been accomplished," said Wang.
ArsTechnica also notes:
Wang will still be connected to Vizio, however, by becoming chairman and CEO of Inscape, a separate business that will carry Vizio's controversial torch of mining TV viewers' data for advertising and other data-driven services. Wang will be a 51-percent stakeholder in Inscape, with LeEco owning the other 49 percent and licensing Inscape's offerings for Vizio products for 10 years.
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday July 30 2016, @03:26PM
Popular for welfare queens, that is.
Right, like how Daewoo shook up America's auto industry.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday July 30 2016, @04:07PM
TVs are commodities. They are cheaper and lighter than ever before, and don't need to be replaced that often (even the Chinese brands).
On a whim, I searched my first sentence and found this lie [tradimo.com]:
Literally none of that shit matters. 4K doesn't matter. 3D doesn't matter. The Internet/UI features don't matter. All that matters is that the thing can put out 1080p, has a couple of USB and HDMI ports, and is available at the size you want and the lowest price. And that price is likely lower than you think, because if a truck driver accidentally gets more of these flat things loaded onto their truck than they were supposed to, they will claim them for themselves.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 30 2016, @04:35PM
This (commodity) might be true this year?
~5 years ago when we bought a ~42" we looked carefully at different models to see how well they handled objects moving quickly across the screen. There were big differences in the visual artifacts when the scene was moving/changing quickly -- just a guess, there were differences in how well/quickly they decompressed the image data? Wound up with a Samsung that happens to also be rated for 3D, although we've only watched a couple of 3D movies. It still has some odd visual problems, but not many.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 30 2016, @05:29PM
Ok, friend, don't take this as an insult, it's not.
You're in the 10%.
Not the 1%!
But you still have the time and money and concentration and ability and taste to discern between movement with ghosting or none. You probably are a tech worker earning six figures. 90% of the US earns less than you and your partner. When they go in to walmart and there's a wall of TV and one is the size they want and is cheaper than the others at that size, it's probably the one they're getting.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 30 2016, @09:26PM
Interesting comment, not sure why you care? You are correct that I often find the time to research purchases to get something that will do a good job of meeting my (perceived) needs. The expensive 42" Samsung replaced a 25" tube TV that I'd fixed a few times and was really sick of working on...
According to this page, http://money.cnn.com/calculator/pf/income-rank/ [cnn.com] I'm just outside the top 10% -- but that's on income only. Looking at net worth (own my house, nearing retirement age with savings, etc), I'm doing considerably better, well into the top 10%, http://www.financialsamurai.com/top-one-percent-net-worth-amounts-by-age/ [financialsamurai.com]
A long time ago I realized that I didn't want to grow old and rely on others (or future gov't benefits) to be comfortable, so savings has been a top priority.
Anyone know of a better calculator for this stuff?