Samsung SMART TV

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My sister got one of these for her new apartment

http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-UN40F...D8SXWA/ref=sr_1_3?s=tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1386895755

I set it up for her last night, and I was very impressed with the features.

She got a Samsung Blu-Ray player as well.
So, they linked up over the HDMI cable as I expected. Flip to the HDMI input that it's connected to and it powers up. Select a different input, and it powers down.
Pretty cool.

What impressed me though was the IR "shooter" that came with the TV.
You plug it in and place it out in front of the cable set top box, and the TV remote can now be used to control the cable box. The TV even asks for your cable provider name so it can set itself up properly.

Add in the SMARThub feature that sucks the channel guide info from the cable provider and displays it on the TV in a nice preview format and things get really cool.

I didn't get a chance to play with the apps, but there is a bunch in there.
I set up the WLAN connection so they're all ready to go.
We'll have to figure out how to get to the computer over the network and view videos, photos, and listen to music files. I think they have an app for that.

The only thing the TV remote didn't do was eject the disc from the Blu-Ray. There's no button for it. Otherwise, everything can be done on one remote.
The Blu-Ray remote had it, but we decided that if you're ejecting a disk, you're going to be walking up to the player. So, just push the button on top...

Pretty cool stuff. I was geeking out on it.

Oh, and the picture quality is great too.
Even the sound was nice with just the built in speakers.
 
We got a Samsung Blue Ray Smart player two years ago... frigging awesome.

It's most likely horribly obsolete now but I think it's the greatest. It was cheap too! :)
 
I have a 29" tube-type TV and a DVD player. I can't justify anything more for the amount of TV I watch.

Hey Beanie Weenie... make sure your sister knows that now the NSA can tell what she's watching! :D
 
Up until last year we had a 30" tube type TV. The wife had been bugging me for years to get a "Big screen"...so I finally gave in. We got a 55" flat screen...something or other...She really likes it. I don't watch TV anymore, and we haven't had cable for probably 5 years now. We do Netflix and, Blue-Ray movies, that's about it.
 
Halifax Hops said:
I have Fire TV actually cut the cabe bill with that and a antenna, think it is 100 a year for amazon prime, which aso gets me free shipping.
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I'm working towards doing that here.

My biggest hurdle is making it easy for everyone in the house.
 
old thread is old...however...
a friend got me setup, as part payment
ive got a server housing most of my own media, and running "plex" the 65 visio in the livingroom is the only "smart" rig along with the head unit which talks to the server for music, the other 2 tv's run a fire stick and a roku, i was running mini atx's but they were having some minor issues with certain formats

moms almost 70 and has ZERO issues with it, and my MIL has no issues either and is almost 80
 
I turned my cable TV off in August of 2014 and have never looked back. I can count on one hand the number of times my TV has been on since then. I couldn't justify the expense. It's gotten progressively more expensive since then, but based on what it cost at the time, that move has saved me about $6,300. It's probably much closer to $8,500 by now.

You can build a pretty fast 1969 Valiant for that kind of money. 😁
 
Nowadays a TV is nothing but an oversized phone, without the ability to make a phone call. They either run Android or Fire OS whether the manufacturer tells you or not.

After being burned twice on expensive TVs that didn't last, we started buying the cheapest big TV we could find. The next one lasted a couple of years, and started turning itself off. The set prior to this one did the same thing, and in that one it was a confirmed circuit board problem. I searched and tried several things, but finally gave up and bought another cheap one.

It's hard to get rid of a big TV without shelling out cash so we just pushed the old one in a corner and kind of forgot about it.

The other day Gina got a wild hair and plugged it up and it worked. It's been going strong for a couple weeks now and is a little bigger than the other one so it got promoted to full time use again. Now we've got a TV stand, with two TVs on top, one in front of the other. I guess it's a good thing they started making TVs thinner and thinner.
 
BBB. The problem with your tv stopping is rohos solder. I had a similar issue with one and found the solution was to take the offending circuit board out and and put it in a 380* toaster oven for 10 minutes. Re-installed the board and my son has been using a 47" tv ever since. Been going strong for over a year. Rohos soldier is know for bad joint due to not being heated hot enough and having cold joints that become intermittant.
 
Yeah it could be that. The first one it happened to, it was because of a failed cap on the power supply that I couldn't get repair parts for and I'm not throwing good money after bad burning up the circuit board replacing components. BTDT.

The second one was, according to the mfr's support on reddit, caused by a misconfiguration that we never could figure out how to correct. I had done the "leave it unplugged overnight" thing to try to get it, but I guess leaving it unplugged for a year was enough to finally reset it. I don't remember the details other than the guy was a lot more helpful than anyone else I've dealt with recently in CS.

I personally could do without TV but no one else in this house agrees with that.
 
71dusterman said:
Rohos soldier is know for bad joint due to not being heated hot enough and having cold joints that become intermittant.
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I believe you mean RoHS solder. RoHS stands for Restriction of Hazardous Substances; it "restricts the use of six hazardous materials found in electrical and electronic products". It was brought to you by the fine global socialists of the European Union as an "environmental concern". That's EU-speak for "how we drive end-user costs through the roof." Of course, it's voluntary outside of the EU, but political correctness demands everyone comply lest Greenpeace get ruffled.
RoHS compliance requires specific PPM measurement of certain substances in a component or supply. In the case of RoHS solder, it must be less than 1000ppm of lead. So the problem isn't the heating or cold joints since virtually everything is wave-soldered these days. The issue is that there's no f__king lead in the solder, which means there's little flexibility or temperature stability. It's prone to both solder whiskers and micro-cracking decades before lead solder becomes problematic. It's garbage, but since lead is cheap and plentiful (well, it was when you could mine it) it must go away, replaced by more-expensive materials that don't work as well. Decades hence, you still can't buy paint as purely white as the old lead-based stuff was. If you tinker in electronics, get good solder before it vanishes entirely.

The irony here is that if they used good ol' lead-based solder, the TV (or other device) would last several years rather than hitting the landfill after one. It's a smarter long-term environmental plan.
 
i bought me a dynex just as the smart tv's were catching on with momentum..its NOT smart but....aside from 2 touch board failures(couldnt be used without a remote) its still going strong and was run pretty much 24/7 for 5 years now its only on a few hours a day....and yes its a thin led unit

due to working on barter more often than not..the new livingroom beast is a 65inch visio...i dont know the model, but what i do know is its the same model that the tech geek who bought it for me has been using for 5+ years soooooo i feel pretty good it will last considering how little it gets used....ive actualy got a bunch of anchient screens..both me n my wife are on 40+ inch screens for our pc's

theres good n bad everywhere its just a matter of finding the right sub models that actualy last
 
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