A:AnswerThis TV uses our SmartCast Platform which offers a host of built in apps, as well as support for Google's Chromecast, Apple's AirPlay 2, and voice support for SIRI, Google Home, and Alexa. You are not able to manually download additional apps, however new apps are added to the platform often. If you find there is an app you want to watch that is not on SmartCast you may be able to cast it using Chromecast or Apple AirPlay from your phone or mobile device.
A:AnswerThere are certain headphones that can be used at the same time as the internal speakers are on. I purchased the Sony WH-RF400 wireless stereo headphones, and had no problem connecting it to the TV. It works great and has no delay from the TV. If you want sound just from the headphones, you can mute the TV itself and still have personal audio.
A:AnswerThat you ask this question, I use it as a monitor for my Mac Mini. So, haha, yeah it was ready for mine ... but no, I don't think it has the Apple TV app on it. What it does have is a freaking sticky wifi feel, like it totally wants to be wifi connected to things, so it recognizes AirPlay in the horizontal connection scroll bar even when connected by ethernet cable to the cable modem and HDMI to the same computer (which is also ethernet connected to the cable modem). And it wants to be connected to my smart Sony DVD player so bad that I have to ask for it to go back to the computer's HDMI connection multiple times for it to do so after every time I switch over to watch a movie or listen to a cd. I knew this from day one; it refused to set up without wifi to my Spectrum modem even when it was ethernet connected to the same modem. So yeah -- it's ready for an Apple! But I don't figure that's what you meant. There's a bunch of things about this Vizio that are great but I'm pretty sure it doesn't want new apps, and I don't think it has Apple TV preloaded. Believe it or not I'll check the specs again now just because you asked.
A:AnswerI believe there is an input on the remote for the Vizio apps along with dedicated buttons for Netflix and Amazon so it won't involve switching HDMI inputs as the apps use the Wi-fi connection. You should be able to switch between apps and cable easily.
A:Answer... Had that issue. The answer is that there is no headphone jack on the TV for a standard 3.5 mil plug. There are instead two analog audio outputs (left and right channel RCA) like the kind you would use with a component system, so what used to be and often still is a white and red plug combination that would typically go from the tv to a standard amplifier input. And there is an optical cable out, which is the standard optical cable for audio. So this is an adapter issue if you are trying to connect to a sound system that will accept a 3.5 mil "headphone jack" cable, or if you want to plug in actual headphones. I wanted both... I use a powered speaker unit that has a headphone jack connector for audio in, like most bluetooth speaker units have for when bluetooth is unsuccessful/unnecessary, and I want to switch to headphones sometimes. I used an adapter which has the two analog audio plugs on one end for the tv (red and white for left/right stereo) and the 3.5 mil headphone plug on the other for the sound device. I can use a splitter and put headphones on it by turning the other sound device off. The TV has figured out how to use that and the sound has been good. You can get an optical adapter also, but since I didn't go that route, I don't know about splitting it the way I did. There are price and availability issues with either. It was an issue for me when buying the tv because this stuff can get pricey, like it started making me look at next price points on other tvs so that I could keep using my headphone jack dependent sound device. If you are using an older non bluetooth device like I am, with a headphone jack audio in, this part of getting the tv is a pain. I am still thinking it was worth it, but I happened to have the adapter cable already.
