#blindreview

- by Bryan Gruver

Display

I am blind. My friend says it looks great. Vizio is known for good black levels. That is how black black actually is when it is displayed.

I called this a display and not really a TV because it is mainly a display. Technically, it does have a TV tuner built-in, but this TV really shines as a smart display. You can airplay to it from your Apple device or cast to it from your android device. Among its real inputs, it has several virtual inputs and buttons on the remote specifically for streaming services, including a free one. As far as inputs go, it has down facing Analog (Red White and Yellow RCA) inputs and side facing HDMI inputs, two. And an optical out below theHDMI ports. This makes the unit perfect for wall mounting. The coax input is also down facing. We use this input for an actual over the air digital antenna. I wish it had more HDMI ports. At least three. But this is fine for what we have. A cable box, and DVD player.

Audio

Out of the box the unit had no base. I left it like this because I intended to hook it up to a sound bar and bass usually just muddles The audio of cheap speakers. The mid range and high end is very good. At times you think it’s a real person in the other room. A virtual surround sound effect is enabled. It’s pretty good. Although I intend to replace the speakers with the sound bar, they are actually very decent quality.

As a Computer

Welcome to the future, everything is a computer. This TV is actually running googles Android. But for this purpose, it works well. You may have to occasionally fully reboot the TV. There is a way to do this in the menu. Otherwise, the TV will quick start. This means it’s in a low power mode. There is also an app for the TV that will allow you to fully control the TV, change settings, change inputs and a completely virtual remote. This is great for a blind person. Apple devices are very handicapped accessible,. this feature makes it very useful for me. You can also enable talk back on the accessibility menu in settings. I have not done this, but from what I know, it will speak the items on the screen.

Thoughts

I got this TV used from Amazon for $134. You would never know that it was used. This is a great deal. It is heavily subsidized. I am very happy with the quality overall, and Vizio as a company. I would recommend their products..

I am going to try something new. If you enjoyed this review and would like to tip me, please feel free to send cash to my cash tag. Lol. $brygruver

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When it comes to music, I’m not the type to only listen to specific artists or one particular genre; I like to listen to everything. Since I was a kid, I’ve always liked discovering new artists and/or songs and while I haven’t been actively doing this lately, recently I decided to ask a friend to give me a song to listen to by an artist that I didn’t know of. He suggested Angels or Devils by Dishwalla. 

I got on my laptop, opened up YouTube, and searched for the lyric video of the song. As soon as I heard the strumming of the guitar on it’s own, I had a feeling I was going to like this song, but I desperately hoped that my expectations wouldn’t be crushed. 30 seconds into the song and I was sold. It’s a song you can sit back and just vibe to, which was just the kind of sound I wanted to hear, coincidentally. 

The more I listened to the song, the more I realized that it has a similar sound to some other early 2000s alternative rock songs, like Coldplay’s “Yellow” for example. 

Both songs start off slow with just a guitar in the background, but as they progress, Angels or Devils maintains its slow and mellow beat, while Yellow’s beat gets a little bit rougher. Regardless of this though, I really like this type of sound. Even though I do typically enjoy listening to music that I can get up and dance to, I like to have tracks like these handy for when I want to bring it down, or when I have a headache and just want to listen to something soothing.

Since I ended up really liking this song, I wanted to hear more of their music. But first I wanted to know where the hell they got their name from. What does Dishwalla even mean? 

And while that answered my questions of where they got their name and its meaning, I still didn’t understand what it signified for the band and I wanted to know. So thanks to a little help from Google, I managed to find an answer to the question that was irking me so much. 

Apparently the bass player, Scot Alexander, thought that the name was appropriate because Dishwalla is “the name for satellite-pirates who make cable available to the masses in India [and] he hoped the band would bring its own gift to the world.” Well now, that makes sense. 

Anyways, back to the music. To be honest, this next song, Every Little Thing, took pretty much zero effort to find because it was the next song to automatically play after Angels or Devils. But don’t let my laziness fool you, it’s a pretty good ass song (even if it’s a little bit on the depressing side). 

Other than the beat, I like this song because of how relatable it is. At some point, everyone hopes to be every little thing they believe their significant other wants them to be. It’s a little bit unrealistic, but shit happens.