Vizio's New Co-Star Steals Boxee Blind, GoogleTV, Built In Web Browser, Online Games

**HITech1** · August 8th, 2012, 03:59 PM

Vizio has sold out again ...!

Kelly (Listening)

Kelly: Thank you for contacting VIZIO Live Chat, the home of Entertainment Freedom for All. This is Kelly in South Dakota. Have you ever contacted us before?
JR: Have you sold out of the Vizio Co-Star again ...?
Kelly: Here at VIZIO we pride ourselves in providing best in class customer support and all of our support is U.S. based, and I can assist you with that.
Kelly: Yes, we are no longer taking preorders.
JR: When will you start taking orders again ....?
Kelly: When it becomes availabe and the prorders ship.
JR: Ok, I have pre-ordered already, when will I receive my Co-Star ...?
Kelly: Unfortunately there is not a set date available just yet.
JR: Ok thanks for your help ...
Kelly: You are welcome! Is there anything else that I can assist you with today?
JR: No again thanks ...!
Kelly: Thank you for contacting VIZIO Chat Support! If you need our assistance again in the future you can contact us by Chat, Email, and Phone service. That information is found on America's #1 LCD HDTV Company | VIZIO. Have a great day!
JR: You too..!

Now I have sold my Boxee Box with so many bugs, it was driving me wild ...(lol)

**neveroffline** · August 8th, 2012, 06:22 PM

LOL, this is the 4th sellout of the Vizio CoStar since it went on pre-order July 24th in the wee early hrs of the morning.

If anyone did manage to get in on the pre-orders, here is a nice surprise, the owners manual has been posted.

http://store.vizio.com/documents/dow.../UM_VAP430.pdf

**neveroffline** · August 8th, 2012, 07:55 PM

Just a quick update, but those who pre-ordered on round 1 on the 24th of July (the one that sold out in 12hrs), Vizio is starting to charge CC's and I can confirm mine was charged, so it should indeed ship soon, might even get it by the 14th instead of shipping on the 14th. Round 2 is the estimated ship date of the 21st, round 3/4 the 28th from what was displayed on the checkout page.

**HITech1** · August 9th, 2012, 05:15 PM

Originally Posted by neveroffline

Just a quick update, but those who pre-ordered on round 1 on the 24th of July (the one that sold out in 12hrs), Vizio is starting to charge CC's and I can confirm mine was charged, so it should indeed ship soon, might even get it by the 14th instead of shipping on the 14th. Round 2 is the estimated ship date of the 21st, round 3/4 the 28th from what was displayed on the checkout page.

That's good news, music to my ears ...!

**smallclone** · August 10th, 2012, 03:30 AM

Can you get spotify on the Vizio?

**neveroffline** · August 10th, 2012, 02:59 PM

Originally Posted by smallclone

Can you get spotify on the Vizio?

Yes you may, via the Plex app. Spotify is also working on it's own custom app for the Google TV however I don't have an ETA.

**darcilicious** · August 10th, 2012, 03:17 PM

Originally Posted by neveroffline

Yes you may, via the Plex app.

Plex's spotify plugin doesn't work across all platforms and isn't officially supported by spotify.

EDIT Based on this Plex forum post Spotify doesn't work and I'm guessing GTV has the same issue Boxee had before it got an official Spotify app.

**neveroffline** · August 10th, 2012, 04:49 PM

That's odd, I guess it doesn't work via Plex (was in a PR), but will via JamCast, but you have to control it from your PC, so pretty lame. I'm sure Spotify will get their GTV app out soon enough though, it's not hard for them to do.