Amazon 4K43N400A vs Vizio V435-J01

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!

Lastly, it comes with Vizio's new remote that features voice control, but you can't download any extra apps on the SmartCast system like on some other operating systems.

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

I own 2 vizios and one is a early model the other is this it is blatantly obvious how much their quality has gone down since even 3 years ago I have a E55 and then this V series the E has metal legs much nicer speaker grills and better physical build plus the remote is much nicer and easier to use on the old one the plastic legs on this model and the remote that feels bear bones both make me want to replace them however the product works fine just why would they change their products to be worse?

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)

After lengthy phone calls with VIZIO techs, we were able to do a different hard reset, and that worked for about a day. Our external audio (Bose) initially worked. After day 1 the audio system could not be heard. After a bunch of troubleshooting again it failed

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

2) Allow reprogram the shortcut buttons on the remote. Some of the shortcut buttons are useless. Vizio, why not allow the user to reprogram these buttons? I am sure you will make more money by selling more units than these useless stream providers.

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

I NEVER had a problem with Roku. Visio is crap! Contact me if you want details, but be prepared to have your ear chewed off if you deny the problems.