Amazon 4K43N400A vs Vizio MQ7-J Series

First of all, let me say that I rated the Alexa and Smart Features in the middle just because I don't use them -- at least not yet. So don't judge the product based on that!

Not the best experience. Roku's grid of apps is simple and familiar, and if you want your homepage to show more relevant programming, Google TV does a much better job. I'd recommend Vizio owners connect a streamer, like a Roku Express Plus 4K or Chromecast with Google TV, and forget Vizio's system. David Katzmaier/CNETIn its favor, SmartCast plays well with phones -- you can easily cast video and photos from Android or Apple phones using Chromecast and AirPlay, respectively -- as well as smart speakers like Echo and Nest, which you can use to command the TV hands-free

On day 2 I was unable to get the TV to respond to the remote to turn on. I used the physical power button in the bottom middle of the TV to start it manually and the remote functioned fine after that. Since that, the remote has functioned flawlessly to turn on the TV. I have no idea what caused the initial issue

Sometimes the Apple Remote turns on TV, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes the Vizio remote works. Sometimes it doesn't. I've had to call Vizio Customer Service 4x in two weeks to assist

This TV (I know, it is a FireTV) is very app/streaming centric, but once I found the setting to default to last input, and that is 99% of the time HDMI1, then it behaves like I want, turn on and display my input, not the apps home screen where I have to use the TVs remote to clear it and show input in HDMI1. I mainly use the remote for my satellite service, and rarely use the TV one, but since it is also the streaming apps, I will use it, and it adds yet another Alexa mic to do things from, TV related or not. TV can be slow sometimes to turn on (it turns on reasonably, but doesn't show what is on the input for a while), again thought the remote was misbehaving again, it was just taking time to show anything. Sound is better than old TV, none of them are real great, I do have a sound bar but I can use this TV with out for watching news and normal shows (not action movies or things with lots of audio like music)

On both the sound pops and crackles and cuts out entirely as some sort of noise-gating - wish I had read more reviews before I bought it and saved myself the time because it looks like a longstanding issue that vizio refuses to care enough about to patch, essentially the tv intentially cuts out ambient noise in scenes so you lose lots of atmospheric sound. There are workarounds with soundbars but for that much money I don't want to need a workaround. Don't know much about the rest, but avoid the M-Series at all costs.

I will say that the FireTv interface is very spammy. There's a few sponsored banners on the home page. A lot of the recommendations are for Prime Video -- which I have -- but a lot of them aren't free with Prime. They're recommending me content that I have to buy /rent -- which makes it feel like I'm being advertised to

SO-SO: 1) The main interface "SmartCast" doesn't want to load every so often, requiring a reboot. 2) The mobile remote app looks promising, but doesn't consistently turn on the TV, so you still need the physical remote handy. 3) WatchFree+ has an issue playing adds, where it starts to play the first few seconds of each add, then restarts the add so you hear the first few seconds again. It does this for every

Actually called me today about my review. They never asked any personal information and never will, just for you to verify the information they have is correct. This is awesome customer service. The call came from an unknown number from Washington D

As a TV it's great. As a smart home device with Alexa it's a failure. Vizio needs to get their act together. From what I found out, this issue has been going on for a long time