“When Apple listed all the AirPlay 2-compatible TVs, there was good news for Vizio TV owners: support was coming to older models,” Ben Lovejoy writes for 9to5Mac. “Indeed, the company later clarified that even some 2016 models would get the upgrade.”
VIZIO, Inc. announced today the availability of its all-new 2019 4K HDR smart TV collection, featuring its most captivating assortment of premium picture quality technologies ever… All of the 2019 offerings are also equipped with VIZIO’s acclaimed smart TV experience, VIZIO SmartCast™ 3.0, highlighted by the soon-to-come support for Apple AirPlay 2 and HomeKit.
Lovejoy writes, “As with older models, it will be summer before AirPlay 2 and HomeKit support is added, but you can at least now get your hands on the new TVs.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Still in beta, but here’s an idea of how it will work on Visio TV’s from MacRumors‘ Juli Clover:
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Smart TVs and other nonApple gadgets smartly spy on you. After the smart market is saturatd and people begin to rebell against it, the same manufacturers will recognize a business opportunity to market non-smart devices but charge more for them. The poor will be stuck with smart devices which the gov will like so that it can track the homeless population as they migrate after automation replaced that workforce.
Yes, because when you’re homeless you always keep your SmarTV on your stolen grocery cart so the gubbmint can spy on you. 🙄
When you think we have progressed as a people, read the above comment. We are stuck in tin foil hats, sipping moon shine and praying for running water.