It was hard to avoid Vizio at the Super Bowl on Sunday. The Irvine HDTV company was a major sponsor but its big Super Bowl spot starring Beyoncé failed to resonate with many critics, although it definitely wasn’t the worst of the bunch.

We weren't sure exactly what Beyonce, David Goes to the Dentist and Chocolate Rain all had in common, but VIZIO squeezed them all into its Super Bowl ad. Still striving to remake its reputation from being merely a cheap HDTV manufacturer to a premium one offering lots of features, the ad (embedded after the break) shows how it's bringing "the best of the internet" with VIZIO Internet Apps . We ...

Irvine HDTV company Vizio gets ready to release its second Super Bowl ad, starring Beyonce. But the ad isn't the only place where viewers can spot Vizio during Sunday's game.

VIZIO, a major manufacturer of HDTV’s announced yesterday that it has tapped Beyonce as the spokesperson for the firm. She will be featured in a Super Bowl ad that will run during CBS in-game coverage of the game. The company plans to run 3 ads this year during the Super Bowl which is expected [...]

Aw, snap! Just months after Funai took the reins from Philips in North America , along comes a lawsuit for its lawyers to deal with. VIZIO , still feeling proud after its all-business Super Bowl ad , has thrown a potent antitrust and unfair competition lawsuit in Funai's direction. The outfit alleges that Funai, "acting alone and in concert with others, unlawfully restrained trade and monopolized the market for the licensing of technology used to interpret and retrieve information from a