You can certainly get the service, but you will need to use an outboard device. You can cast or use AirPlay from a mobile device, or as stated use a Roku, FireTV device, AppleTV, AndroidTV/GoogleTV device, or DirecTV's own streaming device. The list of supported devices is here.
Vizio is certainly "smart enough" (YouTubeTV, Hulu, Sling, and Fubo, plus most of the major on-demand streaming services all have apps on Vizio) - but DTV hasn't created an app for Vizio. They (DTV and AT&T before them) haven't added a new streaming platform (other than AndroidTV, which they already used on their own device) in a long time. We don't know what their plans are - they might add support for more platforms at some point. My understanding is that Vizio doesn't use conventional apps but streams using something based on HTML5 (I assume with the control interface on the TV). Since DTV Stream already supports HTML5 streaming for viewing via web browsers, it could be that it wouldn't be a huge effort for them to do this - but there are many things that would solve issues for more of the subscriber base that seem like they wouldn't be huge efforts, and those haven't been added. Since we don't know their future plans, all we can say is that they don't have an app now.
doo4usc44
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I Believe you have go with a stick, Roku etc. Vizio isn’t smart enough for DIRECTV Stream.
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Jrandomuser
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You can certainly get the service, but you will need to use an outboard device. You can cast or use AirPlay from a mobile device, or as stated use a Roku, FireTV device, AppleTV, AndroidTV/GoogleTV device, or DirecTV's own streaming device. The list of supported devices is here.
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Vizio is certainly "smart enough" (YouTubeTV, Hulu, Sling, and Fubo, plus most of the major on-demand streaming services all have apps on Vizio) - but DTV hasn't created an app for Vizio. They (DTV and AT&T before them) haven't added a new streaming platform (other than AndroidTV, which they already used on their own device) in a long time. We don't know what their plans are - they might add support for more platforms at some point. My understanding is that Vizio doesn't use conventional apps but streams using something based on HTML5 (I assume with the control interface on the TV). Since DTV Stream already supports HTML5 streaming for viewing via web browsers, it could be that it wouldn't be a huge effort for them to do this - but there are many things that would solve issues for more of the subscriber base that seem like they wouldn't be huge efforts, and those haven't been added. Since we don't know their future plans, all we can say is that they don't have an app now.
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