This video exists just in case you bought one of these, and you are trying vainly to describe the 'flicker into black' problem that you might be seeing to a Vizio tech-support rep, and don't have the hundreds of thousands of words needed to describe this moving picture. What you are watching here (for the rest of you who haven't seen this) is the unit switching back and forth (using PiP) between being a monitor for my Mac on HDMI1 and being the video presentation of the Dish TV system on the Composite input. This is mostly me hitting 'swap' for a minute and a half or so. It doesn't seem to elicit the behavior, but when it goes black, it does show that the LCDs are really not black (but getting an otherwise black signal, which is proven by the flickering "1080pHD" and "1080iHD" text on the blue background showing up). Curiously, the tech at phone support had me disconnect the power cable and *then* press the power button (for thirty seconds, no less) to reset the system. Of course, since the problem wasn't occurring at the time (it's an intermittent bug), this behavior didn't 'stop' it (nor did it prevent it, later). BTW, I think the use of the 'American Idol' bg video is 'fair use' (especially as I don't actually get more than a few seconds of 'video' in a row, and the point of this isn't the video, but the display). It kinda had to be something, yano? But if they want me to take it down for infringement, that story will actually be a bit more interesting than the bug itself.
Keywords: Vizio, bug, fatal flaw, 1080, HD
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