Vizio has announced that they’ll be offering free three-month subscriptions for the Hulu Plus streaming service to all Vizio Tablet owners and potential buyers. The Vizio Tablet will be getting an OS update that will add the Hulu Plus application to the tablet and users will be able to start their free three month trials once they sign-up for a Hulu Plus account within the application.

Hulu Plus is the premium streaming service that free streaming company Hulu offers their customers who want to access more content through more devices for a monthly fee. Currently Hulu Plus subscriptions cost $7.99 per month with no commitments (contracts), but new users can sign-up for a free week (or month if you’ve got a .edu e-mail address).

The Hulu Plus application debuted on Vizio’s wallet-friendly tablet back in August, and that partnership seems to have some life in it yet. New and existing owners of the Vizio 8 tablet will be getting three free months of Hulu Plus service, presumably to lure the truly media-hungry away from other devices.

In its latest promotional stunt to sell more of its Android tablets, VIZIO announced today that its VIZIO Tablet owners are all entitled to three free months of a Hulu Plus subscription. Hulu Plus, one of the most popular video streaming services on the internet has a native Android app that comes preloaded on the VIZIO Tablet. This new promotion benefits both VIZIO and Hulu as consumers have an incentive to purchase the Android tablet, and Hulu gets the opportunity to convert a free viewer into a paying subscriber (for $7.99 a month).

VIZIO Gives Three Months Free of Hulu Plus to VIZIO 8” Tablet Owners

Irvine, CA — October 20, 2011 — VIZIO, America’s #1 LCD HDTV Company*, announced today that VIZIO Tablet owners can get even more Entertainment Freedom™ with three months free of the Hulu Plus subscription service. Hulu Plus, one of the hottest apps, delivers an extensive library of TV and film content from over hundreds of providers and independent creators.  With Hulu Plus preloaded on the VIZIO Tablet, users can enjoy the best shows on TV directly streamed to their 8” high resolution entertainment tablet with three speakers for enhanced stereo audio in landscape or portrait modes and a built in universal remote app for home theater control.  

Anyone who purchases a VIZIO Tablet or has previously purchased the Tablet will get the Hulu Plus app conveniently preloaded through an automatic software update that is rolling out starting today. With a simple launch of the app on the VIZIO Tablet, new subscribers to the Hulu Plus service can sign up right on the Tablet to take advantage of Hulu Plus for free for three months. 

With built-in Wi-Fi, the VIZIO Tablet makes it easy to catch up on your favorite shows anywhere there’s a Wi-Fi connection so you’ll never miss a minute.   In addition to the unique three-speaker configuration, users can enjoy SRS TruMedia™ enhanced audio with their movies and TV shows for a superior second screen experience. Hulu Plus subscribers can also easily continue watching their show on the big screen by launching the Hulu Plus app on their VIZIO Internet Apps™ enabled HDTV.  

The Vizio Tab is an Android 2.3 tablet which is both attractive and well-priced. Its 8 inch display has a 1024 x 768 pixel resolution, 512MB of RAM and 2GB of built in storage. Vizio Tablet is a media tablet. You can connect to your TV with Google TV software effectively using Vizio as a remote.

California-based company Vizio announced Monday its plans to incorporate Netflix onto the next firmware update to the Vizio tablet. The new update will allow members to log into their Netflix account for instant browsing and streaming.

“With an abundance of movies and TV shows to offer, Netflix is the ideal application to pre-load on our VIZO Tablets,” said Vizio Chief Technology Officer Matt McRae in the press release.

The 8-inch Vizio tablet, however, does not currently include models with 3G or 4G support, so the streaming will only be available where WiFi hotspots are in range. Those who do not have a Netflix account in the U.S. can always subscribe for $7.99 per month. Users will be granted access to the large library of TV and movie programs for streaming currently offered by the service.

Santa Monica, Calif. - Vizio was front and center at the launch of an elaborate new "3D sports bar" called South, here, Thursday night.

The grand opening of the redone bar, which is adorned with Vizio passive-technology-based 3D LCD TVs, drew celebrities and tech gurus who checked out some of the evening's sports action wearing highly styled passive-3D glasses carrying bold Vizio logos.

Like every other Sound+Vision writer, I’ve seen a lot of 3D TV. But I never saw so much 3D TV as I did last night, when I walked into South, Los Angeles’ first 3D sports bar. Everywhere I looked, I could see a Vizio flat-panel TV showing 3D programming—sports mostly, of course, but also games and a couple of Blu-ray Discs. No matter which way I turned, I got a full hit of 3D without having to wait for my glasses to sync with the screen I was viewing. It probably wouldn’t have been practical but for the passive 3D technology used in the Vizio sets.

“With active 3D glasses, you have to sync the glasses every time you look at a different screen,” noted Vizio VP of products John Schindler. The much lower cost of the passive 3D glasses—which don’t have active LCD shutters and don’t require batteries, as active 3D glasses do—makes 3D TV much more practical in a sports bar environment, where the lifetime of the glasses may be inversely proportional to the customer’s beer consumption. “You can even use Real D 3D glasses from a movie theater with these TVs,” Schindler added.

Latest Update for VIZIO 8” Tablet with Wi-Fi Includes Pre-Loaded Netflix App

-Netflix members will now be able to instantly watch thousands of movies and TV episodes on their VIZIO Tablet 

Irvine, CA — October 10, 2011 — VIZIO, America’s #1 LCD HDTV Company*, announced today that VIZIO 8” Tablets will receive a firmware update featuring Netflix as a pre-loaded app, offering Netflix members the ability to enjoy entertainment on a second screen. With the new update, members can simply click on the app already located on the Tablet’s home screen and log into their Netflix account to browse and instantly watch TV episodes and movies.  

Streaming instantly via the VIZIO Tablet wherever Wi-Fi is available, the pre-loaded Netflix app makes instantly watching TV episodes and movies on their Tablet more portable than ever. 

The 2011 NFL season is officially under way, which means one singular thing:  it’s time to re-evaluate the current state of your home entertainment system; get off the fence as to whether or not you need a new HDTV; and cram the biggest possible flat panel into your preferred NFL viewing room of choice.  Sure, there are some that prefer to wait until the Super Bowl to splurge on a new tv, but why limit the joy that a new high def tv brings to a single game, when you can instead be watching it all season long?  My thoughts exactly, which is precisely why I splurged on a new VIZIO 65″ 3D LCD HDTV last month, just in time to get the picture precisely dialed so that I could watch the Packers beat the Saints in the season opener.

Before I go any further, let me officially state that the name of the VIZIO I purchased is nearly as big as the television itself:  it’s called the VIZIO 65″ Class Theater 3D Edge Lit Razor LED LCD HDTV (model XVT3D650SV).  It’s a gargantuan 65″ monster that has a whole slew of technology built into it, including cinema-style 3D technology, built-in 802.11n dual-band wi-fi, VIZIO Internet Apps (including Netflix, Amazon, Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, etc.), Edge lit Razor LED backlighting with Smart Dimming technology, and a whole bunch more (which I’ll discuss shortly).  But to get straight to the point, after owning it for a month, I can tell you the VIZIO 3D Edge Lit Razor LED LCD HDTV is the best value on the planet right now if you’re looking to make the switch to a big LCD 3D tv, with current Amazon.com pricing coming in just under $2,500.  It has a fantastic picture, it’s loaded with features, and it’s huge.