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PersonZolaBuddy
29/4/2024 at 8:52pm
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I have spent almost 30 years in the IT industry, and so am familiar with a lot of technical terms and practices in the corporate sector.

However, what I find ever more bewildering is how over-engineered smart TVs are these days!

Quite recently we bought a 50" UHD Samsung TV, to replace a HD Samsung we've had for almost 10 years. And even though setting up the new TV was relatively straightforward, the number of questions it asked of you from the various pop-up menus, followed by the home screen/dashboard cluttered with all sorts of viewing options, was just a bit too much for the eyes to take in.

Then of course there's the remote control, which again is cluttered, especially with the usual streaming apps and a settings button that delves deep with an ever greater number of options/questions for your "viewing experience"

I guess familiarity will win me over, but I would guess for a lot of people it might just turn them off, along with their TV!


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We had to get a Firefox additional hand-held when our Samsung became too old for software updates, so it couldn't get FreeView channels any more.
The absolute faff is putting in the complicated broadband hub code, with its mix of upper & lower case & figures, all typed out by using the gadget to move the cursor around a screen keyboard. Hopefully your new TV has that automatic connection which ours does not.

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Quote: Originally posted by Fiona W on 29/4/2024
We had to get a Firefox additional hand-held when our Samsung became too old for software updates, so it couldn't get FreeView channels any more.
The absolute faff is putting in the complicated broadband hub code, with its mix of upper & lower case & figures, all typed out by using the gadget to move the cursor around a screen keyboard. Hopefully your new TV has that automatic connection which ours does not.


We changed all the names on routers and hubs in our house and then gave them all the same password. Only 2 people know that password but there is a guest channel for visitors. We made sure it was easy to enter but difficult to think of. The best part was renaming the ssids. You can get quite creative.

Don't get a Sony smart tv unless it is android. Their own system is awful. We put a Roku on it to make it better. The Roku will sort out the Freeview problem on your tv as well.

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Just bought a 2nd hand TV to use with my Atari STFM computer, there were 3 on auction locally but the vendors hadn't photographed the sockets at the back of the TV or listed them. I Ebay questioned them as to what sockets their TVs had, one was just Scart, the 2nd said "None", and the 3rd sent me a photo showing coaxial aerial, Scart and HDMI sockets.
I'm somewhat confused how a TV can have no sockets.
I got the 3rd item as the only bidder and at a low price because the vendor didn't describe the item properly and I bothered to ask.

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PersonPaul_B
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I have a Sony smart in the bedroom and its brilliant and so easy to set up and to use
LG downstairs which is good but not as user friendly as the bedroom sony

Both TVs are around 12 months old, they were bought when we dumped sly


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Oh! for the good old days when everything was just "DUMB" and just simply worked!



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