This is really a good unit. I tried it out from Amazon. Purchased the "Renewed" unit. Came with all the original equipment. Worked and sounded great. Lots of bass and pretty clear and plenty of volume for our bedroom. I enjoyed it so much that I purchased a 2nd unit.
I picked one of these up today at Walmart. It came in a green box rather than an orange box, but it is still this 2.0 model. It doesn't come with an optical audio cord anymore, but it still has the port for it. I already had a TOS Link optical audio cord from another sound bar that no long works like it should which is why I decided to get this one. Mine sounds pretty good. It wasn't too hard to set up. I thought I'd watch this video to see if I was missing any tricks that I didn't pick up from reading the manual. Yes, the optical audio cord does give fantastic sound! It really is the way to go. It's a good value. Actually sounds better than my old sound bar from Amazon did back when it worked.
I bought this speaker, but setting it up was much more complicated for me. Took hours! First I tried the straightforward method that you covered in this video but no luck. Dish is my cable provider and I have a Dish voice remote. I called Dish. Lengthy call. No sound from soundbar using optical cable. Tried everything. Called Vizio. Two very lengthy calls. They decided the soundbar was defective, gave up and were going to send me a new one. One last-ditch call back to Dish. Still no luck with optical cable in any combination, but using RCA cable connected from back of soundbar into back of Joey and resetting Dish voice remote, finally got sound from soundbar! Big improvement over TV speakers! This TV is a Samsung 36" in a cabinet in the master bedroom, and TV sound was being lost in the cabinet, so was only looking to boost sound, not get true surround sound. This soundbar works great for what I needed. However, I cannot get sound from the soundbar when watching Hulu: can only get sound from TV using TV remote . Can you help???
It took me all of two minutes , maybe, to hook up. It was too easy with the digital/audio connector that came on this 10 year old Panasonic. Sounds so much better for my mom who is hard of hearing and the tv speakers just weren't cutting it. Helps me enjoy it as well. I may even get one for myself.
Thank you for this video. Me the most technologically challenged person got it working again. I think the cat unplugged the back of sound bar. Thank you again!
I actually bought this sound bar and I was rather impressed by the sound there was another option to buy it with a subwoofer for $130 but I figured that is a little too expensive for a Walmart soundbar I usually would prefer a JBL sound bar but the reason I chose this was because of its compact size and $68 is not bad I was skeptical about it sounding good but it has good treble and decent bass for its size
I bought it two years ago and love it it is a great value. But…. Every once in a while I hit a button without knowing it and the sound goes off …. So then I go crazy pressing all possible buttons - especially the SOURCE button - to bring it back to my hard line inputs sound. Eventually with enough searching around I get the TV audio back but I never learn what particular button brings it back.
Thanks. I couldn't get my bar to work until I plugged it into "headphones" as you suggested. (Old 2012 RCA flat screen) I got bar because my movie listening quality was poor, I had trouble understanding dialog. Hope bar helps. Thanks again!
Truly helped. But i also wanted to connect my Roku remote control to be able to control the volume instead of using 2 remote control. Wondering if it’s possible?!
Excellent explanation, the problem is I don’t have a Vizio Tv, I have a Sony Bravia, and I can not make it work. I have the same sound bar connected to my Samsung and was an easy set up but somehow I can’t figure it out on a Sony TV.
Video was very helpful ... thank you! Couldn’t get sound from sound bar. Unplugged power cord temporarily, changed to PCM ... nothing. Hit the input button on Visio remote and what do you know ... we have sound! :o)
I'm just looking to find out if there's a way to see my Equalizer options rather than hope I didn't push the button to many times. Gf set it up but the music in movies and TV shows cause us to have to turn it up and down and up and down all the time. Highly annoying. It has great sound quality tho. I'd recommend 12/10.
Thuis is the second one I have purchased that stops working in a few moths, I was happy for the inexpensive sound bar, I was fine with the sound quality, but I have no sound.
We did not experience any static or buzzing. Static or buzzing often is sign of electrical interference coming from another device or electrical wire. Try to move speaker away from all other devices.
I’m experiencing the same thing which is a shame since the sound bar is super great but with some audio like music it buzzes super loud. Were you able to find a solution to this??
@@faithekanem If u have a WiFi box near it when Bluetooth is on, its going to sound bad. Either move it or use the cables that came with it. Wish I could of found this comment earlier lol.
Yes, turned off my TV speakers, but sounbar does not come on when I turn on TV. I have to use sounbar remote each and every time I turn on TV. Is there a way to set up TV to recognize soundbar as primary audio and come on automatically when TV gets turned on?
Picked one of these up mine is the newer version took a few to hook it up had to run to best buy thought I' needed another usb but No they helped buy mentioning the cec is off works like a charm I will be upgrading my optical sound to 4 K Gold
I have a vizio sub woofer and 2 little speakers but i don't have the sound bar could i buy this oneas a replacement and connect them trought bluetooth?
Same issue here. I cant find a decent sound and I'm clueless on what I'm changing. All that space on the remote its to bad there wasn't more options lol
I have a 10 year old 40" Sanyo LCD TV with 2 internal speakers and one of them blew out and the other one still kinda works. I bought one of these Vizio 2.0 soundbars for $30 on black Friday but my TVs speakers don't have a off thing in the menu. The only way too turn off the tv speakers is to mute them or to rip them out.
What is that headphone jack adapter called? I don't seem to have it with my sound bar, and my TV doesn't have a port for the toss link cable so I had to use the red/white cable as you suggested. All I need is the adapter, but I don't know what it's called, and typing in any name I could think of on Amazon or wherever else gave me everything except that adapter that I need.
Hello, I am trying to connect with the optical cord to my Visio TV and no sound. I went into audio not sure what to hit. I been hitting everything and still nothing. The sound bar keeps saying searching. Can someone assist?
Had the same problem. The optical cord was not pushed in all the way. If you plug it into the tv, you should see a red light on the other end of the optical cord.
I'm using that cable on 5:55 with the adapter and I'm only hearing the left sound instead of both for some reason because I got this for my parents and my brother grandkids was playing around and one of them messed it up but not damaged. How can I get both to work at the same time?
Great video, one question I have optical connector on tv and tv speakers turned off , but no sound out of sound bar and I tried pressing input on Visio remote no luck, any ideas , I have ion 40 smart tv, Thks
Hello I called Vizio tech support and they did everything they could but still not working, I am using 3.5 jack and everything works that way, they told me it must be onn 40 inch smart tv settings ,I reset unit no luck and I switched to pcm, no luck, thk
I didn't think my TV had the digital out. I hooked it up through the white and red. Found out I do have the digital audio but now it will only work through red and white.
There's no wall mounting this girthy sucka. Except gor maybe using some L brackets from a hardware store and getting creative with it. Just duct tape it to the wall 😉 You're welcome
Any powered subs (they have a regular power chord you plug into a typical outlet) that has the same type of component plug on the back of it like the putole one on the soundbar. Just plug sub into an outlet, then plug a male to male chord into the sub and into the soundbar and turn em both on.
Hi, Are you running it through a media device or Bluetooth? I purchased this for the bedroom and run an nvidia shield tv media device. I was able to fix it by finding the advance sound settings and syncing the audio by using the slider bar to advance at delay the audio timing to match the video. I'm not sure if this was the right fix but it worked for me. Hope this helps... It's a great little sound bar especially streaming music to it from your phone...
mine wouldn't work using the aux. RC , just don't understand why they only offer optical and RC cable and not a USB or HDMI cable....very cheap and not user friendly at all.
RCA is historically very reliable. Optical permits digital surround signals to pass & is simply plug and play, The price point of the unit mandates carefully selected yet limited user features most closely paired with a majority of today’s equipment. In our study of the product we found user friendliness to be straightforward.
This is really a good unit. I tried it out from Amazon. Purchased the "Renewed" unit. Came with all the original equipment. Worked and sounded great. Lots of bass and pretty clear and plenty of volume for our bedroom. I enjoyed it so much that I purchased a 2nd unit.
Thanks for sharing
It's that good
Thank you so much. I have been trying to get this working for an hour. After watching your video I got it working in about a minute. Thanks again!!!
Watched one time and was able to do exactly what I was trying to do....easy and informative
8:35 is when he finally talks about the overall quality of sound and stuff
Thanks lol
Thank you!
Thank you!
I'm listening at this video through the sound bar as I type this.
Do you like it?
Same lmao, I love it. Just gotta tweak the bass and tremble a little bit and it’s loud
Peak comedy
I picked one of these up today at Walmart. It came in a green box rather than an orange box, but it is still this 2.0 model. It doesn't come with an optical audio cord anymore, but it still has the port for it. I already had a TOS Link optical audio cord from another sound bar that no long works like it should which is why I decided to get this one.
Mine sounds pretty good. It wasn't too hard to set up. I thought I'd watch this video to see if I was missing any tricks that I didn't pick up from reading the manual. Yes, the optical audio cord does give fantastic sound! It really is the way to go.
It's a good value. Actually sounds better than my old sound bar from Amazon did back when it worked.
I bought this speaker, but setting it up was much more complicated for me. Took hours! First I tried the straightforward method that you covered in this video but no luck. Dish is my cable provider and I have a Dish voice remote. I called Dish. Lengthy call. No sound from soundbar using optical cable. Tried everything. Called Vizio. Two very lengthy calls. They decided the soundbar was defective, gave up and were going to send me a new one. One last-ditch call back to Dish. Still no luck with optical cable in any combination, but using RCA cable connected from back of soundbar into back of Joey and resetting Dish voice remote, finally got sound from soundbar! Big improvement over TV speakers! This TV is a Samsung 36" in a cabinet in the master bedroom, and TV sound was being lost in the cabinet, so was only looking to boost sound, not get true surround sound. This soundbar works great for what I needed. However, I cannot get sound from the soundbar when watching Hulu: can only get sound from TV using TV remote . Can you help???
most likely in your tv settings
I'm trying to grt it connect to the TV using the aux cords at the TV im using it with is an older TV any suggestions
Had been trying to figure out how to connect this then your video saved the day...👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼😁😁😁😁😁😁
It took me all of two minutes , maybe, to hook up. It was too easy with the digital/audio connector that came on this 10 year old Panasonic. Sounds so much better for my mom who is hard of hearing and the tv speakers just weren't cutting it. Helps me enjoy it as well. I may even get one for myself.
Perfect review. I need the same for my mom as well. 👍🏾
Very helpful, thank you. I had to push the optical cable so hard to get it to click int the tv, i thought i was going to break something.
I really appreciate the simplicity of your video. Thanks a lot
Thank you for this video. Me the most technologically challenged person got it working again. I think the cat unplugged the back of sound bar. Thank you again!
Not understanding I have done this procedure and still not working on the TV
I actually bought this sound bar and I was rather impressed by the sound there was another option to buy it with a subwoofer for $130 but I figured that is a little too expensive for a Walmart soundbar I usually would prefer a JBL sound bar but the reason I chose this was because of its compact size and $68 is not bad I was skeptical about it sounding good but it has good treble and decent bass for its size
I bought it two years ago and love it it is a great value. But…. Every once in a while I hit a button without knowing it and the sound goes off …. So then I go crazy pressing all possible buttons - especially the SOURCE button - to bring it back to my hard line inputs sound.
Eventually with enough searching around I get the TV audio back but I never learn what particular button brings it back.
Very good video. Lots of useful information. Not sure why anyone would down vote it. Keep it up.
Thanks. I couldn't get my bar to work until I plugged it into "headphones" as you suggested. (Old 2012 RCA flat screen) I got bar because my movie listening quality was poor, I had trouble understanding dialog. Hope bar helps. Thanks again!
This was a very good demonstration of this product I think I will buy one today nice job 👍 sir..
Buenisima la barra y suena súper bien yo la compre para mi t.v roku y es perfecta👏👏👏👏👏👏👏marca vizio muy buena marca
Truly helped. But i also wanted to connect my Roku remote control to be able to control the volume instead of using 2 remote control. Wondering if it’s possible?!
I just bought this and it keeps saying searching I'm trying to connect to tv with aux cable .
same
@@dylan-st5gx it never worked on that tv i had to plug it to another tv in my living room !!
@@dylan-st5gxturn tv speakers off then press the second button on the soundbar, hold down for a few seconds then release and it will turn green.
Hey quick question. Which is the high and low tone when turning on TRU Volume or VRT X?
Excellent explanation, the problem is I don’t have a Vizio Tv, I have a Sony Bravia, and I can not make it work. I have the same sound bar connected to my Samsung and was an easy set up but somehow I can’t figure it out on a Sony TV.
Video was very helpful ... thank you! Couldn’t get sound from sound bar. Unplugged power cord temporarily, changed to PCM ... nothing. Hit the input button on Visio remote and what do you know ... we have sound! :o)
I'm just looking to find out if there's a way to see my Equalizer options rather than hope I didn't push the button to many times. Gf set it up but the music in movies and TV shows cause us to have to turn it up and down and up and down all the time. Highly annoying. It has great sound quality tho. I'd recommend 12/10.
Love mine and bought another one for a gift.
Me to at black Friday
Thuis is the second one I have purchased that stops working in a few moths, I was happy for the inexpensive sound bar, I was fine with the sound quality, but I have no sound.
Hi! I just bought this soundbar today. What do you think I could do about the static/buzzing noise? I am using the sound bar as a bluetooth speaker.
We did not experience any static or buzzing. Static or buzzing often is sign of electrical interference coming from another device or electrical wire. Try to move speaker away from all other devices.
So do I make sure the speaker is the only thing plugged into the outlet and no other appliances are plugged into the same outlet?
I’m experiencing the same thing which is a shame since the sound bar is super great but with some audio like music it buzzes super loud. Were you able to find a solution to this??
@@faithekanem If u have a WiFi box near it when Bluetooth is on, its going to sound bad. Either move it or use the cables that came with it. Wish I could of found this comment earlier lol.
@@Allabouthomeelectronics is this sound bar a good ?
What as that black thing your soundbar is sitting in front of the set?
We have four Vizio bar and I wont to connect seimenteniusy run by Bluetooth plz give solution thanks
Works pretty well. Only problem I'm having is that it's set to night mode by default so if I don't remember to turn it off, all my booms are muted
$68? That’s great! I got mine on sale from Target for $50, originally $100 tho!
Is there a way to use the vizio subwoofer along with this soundbar?
Via cable
@@goocherrific what subwoofer can it be added and what type of cable ?
At 3:10 in this video he shows you two options any powerd sub that has the single rca imput or the Vizio specific one.
Getting this for Snyder Cut Justice League 😎
Yoo same!
Yes, turned off my TV speakers, but sounbar does not come on when I turn on TV. I have to use sounbar remote each and every time I turn on TV. Is there a way to set up TV to recognize soundbar as primary audio and come on automatically when TV gets turned on?
just ordered this, can't wait for it to get here :)
I’m trying to connect through the optical cords and trying to get it through my tv
Press input on the sound bar until connects to the tv
@@jccg1968 thank you thank you saved me a headache
keep trying
Picked one of these up mine is the newer version took a few to hook it up had to run to best buy thought I' needed another usb but No they helped buy mentioning the cec is off works like a charm I will be upgrading my optical sound to 4 K Gold
I just got one for a Christmas gift at $68 as well
Is there anyway to connect this to a Vizio tv via Bluetooth?
Mine just keeps flashing with the white light. Any clue?
Good video, but what about the USB input jack??? Want to connect to laptop, what cable do I need etc.?
I have mine connected to my iMac via the red and white adapter using the headphone jack on the computer.
If i connect the sound bar via usb to a ps4 or ps5 will that work?
I have a vizio sub woofer and 2 little speakers but i don't have the sound bar could i buy this oneas a replacement and connect them trought bluetooth?
DONT HAVE A HEAD PHONE CONNECTION ON BACK OF VIZIO 40 INCH TV????
How do you tell which setting it is on with the equalizer button I only get two different sounds but I can’t tell which is music and which is movie
Same issue here. I cant find a decent sound and I'm clueless on what I'm changing. All that space on the remote its to bad there wasn't more options lol
I do not have a headphone plug in on the back of my Vizio set D40f-G9. What do I need to do to access sound through my headphones?
My Soundbar sometimes goes out so they are not good Soundbar because it constantly goes out with my Onn 2k android device.
I have a 10 year old 40" Sanyo LCD TV with 2 internal speakers and one of them blew out and the other one still kinda works. I bought one of these Vizio 2.0 soundbars for $30 on black Friday but my TVs speakers don't have a off thing in the menu. The only way too turn off the tv speakers is to mute them or to rip them out.
Can you connect this to a subwoofer?
What is that headphone jack adapter called? I don't seem to have it with my sound bar, and my TV doesn't have a port for the toss link cable so I had to use the red/white cable as you suggested.
All I need is the adapter, but I don't know what it's called, and typing in any name I could think of on Amazon or wherever else gave me everything except that adapter that I need.
Good video just bought one
Hello, I am trying to connect with the optical cord to my Visio TV and no sound. I went into audio not sure what to hit. I been hitting everything and still nothing. The sound bar keeps saying searching. Can someone assist?
Had the same problem. The optical cord was not pushed in all the way. If you plug it into the tv, you should see a red light on the other end of the optical cord.
Your not using Bluetooth when you use the video cable. The Bluetooth is for you tablet or cell phone.
I'm using that cable on 5:55 with the adapter and I'm only hearing the left sound instead of both for some reason because I got this for my parents and my brother grandkids was playing around and one of them messed it up but not damaged. How can I get both to work at the same time?
Nevermind I fixed it.
I cannot figure out how to open the remote to put the batteries in
Can you connect it to any tv
He literally said that...
Great video, one question I have optical connector on tv and tv speakers turned off , but no sound out of sound bar and I tried pressing input on Visio remote no luck, any ideas , I have ion 40 smart tv, Thks
I had the same problem unplugged Power cord plugged it back in and it worked
I had the same problem. Make sure to set your audio output as PCM
Hello I called Vizio tech support and they did everything they could but still not working, I am using 3.5 jack and everything works that way, they told me it must be onn 40 inch smart tv settings ,I reset unit no luck and I switched to pcm, no luck, thk
You’re better off setting up via Bluetooth: I had the same problem
How do you connect this to an xbox one?
If I have the subwoofer/surround speakers for the 4.1 sound bar, does it work with the 2.0 sound bar?
I’m wondering the same thing. My sound bar went out but the sub and speakers still work
My remote won’t slide open any ideas!
Can this sound bar connect to a Roku tv!?!?!?
I just got this I can't get it to set up but mine doesn't look like that 😕
Look for connection ports on the back of soundbar and you tv that look identical and try that, perfectly square or round might be easiest
I have this bar what subwoofer is best to connect to this?
I didn't think my TV had the digital out. I hooked it up through the white and red. Found out I do have the digital audio but now it will only work through red and white.
Change your input
@@TheOnion12 It was defective optical cable.
Thank you so much!!!
Do you know if you can hook it up to a monitor
🏆 you Deserve this.
the volume keep's going up on it's own?????
How do I rehook my vizio sound bar
My soundbar says connected to my computer, but when I play music, there's nothing.
I got it to work on blue tooth from my phone but using RCA to the tv it doesnt work..
Did u ever figure it out or it just never work?
@rag3optic183 yes i bought an optic cable that works ..
How do you wall mount it and is the power cord just a cord or is it also a power brick ??????
Its just a cord
There's no wall mounting this girthy sucka. Except gor maybe using some L brackets from a hardware store and getting creative with it. Just duct tape it to the wall 😉
You're welcome
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Hello and thank you for the review. What are the dimensions of the speaker?
N Kouk it comes in 2 different sizes 29” and 32”
Is this too big for a 24” monitor?
Very decent Soundbar. It's not what I prefer but, Vizio Soundbars seem nice.
I have this soundbar connected to my sharp tv. TV Remote GB004WJSA. Can you help me control this soundbar with my tv remote.
My is not working when I am running my Netflix app
it's PCM only apparently.
My Toslink cable doesn’t click going in to the sound bar or tv
What?? I didn’t get the adapter or audio cable! Sucks. This thing is not as easy to setup as it should be!!
Can somebody tell me if I can conect any subwoofer to this or has to be vizio too?
Jose Morales the subwoofer is all ready linked to your Vizio soundbar.
Jose Morales just make sure it’s on
What about usb hookup
Anyone else have this issue and is there a fix rather than returning to the store?
has anyone connected a subwoofer to this sound bar?
Yes sir! Night and day better! 10" Polk Audio subwoofer from Amazon for $109 and together they sound awesome! It's a great little soundbar.
How do you find a subwoofer sold separately
Thanks this really helped
No it didnt
I love it
I have a 2.0 soundbar and I would like to connect a subwoofer to it, but which sub models are compatible?
Any powered subs (they have a regular power chord you plug into a typical outlet) that has the same type of component plug on the back of it like the putole one on the soundbar. Just plug sub into an outlet, then plug a male to male chord into the sub and into the soundbar and turn em both on.
Mine just keeps saying "searching"., can't connect the sound bar to my TV. 😢
Use a optical cable
Change the input using Vizio remote to amber light on soundbar for optical cable, green for RCA cable, blue for Bluetooth.
@@iair-conditiontheoutsideai3076 the optical cable worked.
@@modernvintagelifestyles happy to hear it also is the best audio as it is essentially a laser
So this sound bar can't operate my wireless subwoofer
They make coaxial to optical converters dude...
Will it start messing up the TV having it so close
There could be scenarios where it does
@@Allabouthomeelectronics Thanks
Hello good video What is the model number of this unit Thanks
Sb2020n
Can you mount this sound bar under your tv?
Bravo that's what I did, and it worked just fine.
Do you know the height? Inches of this sound bar?
2.19 inches. that dimension is subject to change by the manufacturer
Why does it sound laggy? It’s not in time with my tv?
Hi, Are you running it through a media device or Bluetooth? I purchased this for the bedroom and run an nvidia shield tv media device. I was able to fix it by finding the advance sound settings and syncing the audio by using the slider bar to advance at delay the audio timing to match the video. I'm not sure if this was the right fix but it worked for me. Hope this helps... It's a great little sound bar especially streaming music to it from your phone...
I cannot get mine to work for my tv, I just bought this tv too.
It doesn't produce any sound whatsoever ive connected it several times and nothing
charles xoxo try messing with the input on the remote I had that problem with both of my soundbars
Michael Sandmore dude ur literally a life saver i was about to lose my mind
Yeah thanks,👍. Had me lost for an hour too.
mine wouldn't work using the aux. RC , just don't understand why they only offer optical and RC cable and not a USB or HDMI cable....very cheap and not user friendly at all.
RCA is historically very reliable. Optical permits digital surround signals to pass & is simply plug and play, The price point of the unit mandates carefully selected yet limited user features most closely paired with a majority of today’s equipment. In our study of the product we found user friendliness to be straightforward.
mine keeps searching and not connecting.
Did u ever figure it out?
@@jennifersaragosa3638 yup I got it thanks
@iowaBlockhead where you talking about the bluetooth with the TV? Mine is doing the same thing with my Sony Bravia. Where you able to connect it?
@@menchiecornelio8202 yeah I had yo have a friend come help me and I don't even remember how she did it
Thank you so much.
You're welcome!
Does anyone sound bar have this weird static sound that happens?
What kind of tv/cable do you have?