My Samsung smart tv is thick as pig shoot

[Crackle]

I'm in the market for a new TV.
My decision is to go non Smart.

Probably wise. My Samsung stopped working as a smart TV a couple of years ago. It doesn't actually matter as the smart bit is now all in the Chromecast and the Firestick. The beauty of both of those, is that I can unplug them and take them on holiday elsewhere if I want, which I have to watch the TdF and various other things.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

I have a non smart TV with an Amazon Fire Stick plugged in, currently they are keeping this up to date, but at GBP39.99 (or less) if they don't I'll just throw that away & get the newer model, will be far cheaper than a new TV

 

[Electric_Andy]

^^ +1 to that. My Fire TV box is 3 or 4 years old now, works incredibly well, is much quicker than all the Android boxes I've tried. And I'm taking it on holiday at the weekend. I was never a big fan of "separates" but it does make you think, at least if you have a dumb TV you can put more of your budget towards the actual picture, and use separate alternatives for everything else.

 

[wheresthetorch]

Ooh, can we have a willy-waving contest about who has the dumbest TV like we do with mobile phones?

Here's mine. I think

it was from Tesco's.

 

[Cheddar George]

Ooh, can we have a willy-waving contest about who has the dumbest TV like we do with mobile phones?

Here's mine. I think it was from Tesco's.

It was probably all those Topgear DVDs that caused it.
Nice eclectic book shelf.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Ooh, can we have a willy-waving contest

Whatever floats your boat, maybe there's an app for that

 

[rich p]

I'm in the market for a new TV.
My decision is to go non Smart.

If the cap fits...

 

[Drago]

Fortunately, my Smart car is most exdellent.

 

[simonali]

My LG is all smart. It's not connected to an aerial or any sort of watch box such as Sky. Only use it for discs or streaming Netflix and Prime.

 

[gbb]

Ethernet cable could be dodgy...there is a tool that's not too expensive to test them IIRC. Have you checked the connections at each end, make sure they're securely plugged in ?
I have two Samsung's, one connected via Ethernet cable, one via WiFi, neither has given me any problems.

 

[swee'pea99]

I've now managed to get it back online - hooray! Swapped for another TP extender - that seemed to crack it. Just to discover what I presume caused the breakdown in the first place - another update. Which appears among other things to have disabled all my apps. As well as suddenly confronting me with this (after 18 months' usage, remember):

I 'Agreed to all', needless to say. Sadly this did not bring my apps back. Instead I now have 'My Apps', which appears to offer a veritable cornucopia of apps, most of which I don't recognise and none of which I want. How smart is that? Still, I'm sure with another hour or two of grumbling, cursing and generally wasting my life, I'll be able to get iplayer back. Until the next update...

 

[dodgy]

I obviously didn't read carefully enough, had I known you were using a range extender, that's where I would have checked first.

 

[Bazzer]

Oh, mine's 'smarter' than yours. It's connected to the net via a TP-link box by cable, and does all the updates automatically.....

The TP-link using the house wiring to connect to the master socket which is connected to your router?
If so, had the pairing dropped and needed resetting?

 

[Salty seadog]

My Samsung smart tv has decided it doesn't like being connected to the internet anymore. Something to do with IP addresses apparently. Auto things aren't auto-doing whatever it is they're supposed to auto-do, and it wants me to do something with DCHP in my router or something. All gobbledegook to me.

This kind of thing has been happening regularly over the 18 months or so I've owned this tv. And every time it's the same. You google, you flounder around finding 'answers' that refer to settings that don't appear on your menus. You find a *load* of posts from Samsung owners who have experienced this and similar frustrations, pretty much none of whom have ever got any kind of useful help from Samsung. Whose basic philosophy seems to be 'well, people carry on buying our stuff regardless, so really, who cares?'

This telly has caused me more grief in 18 months than the Sony Trinitron it replaced did in 15 years. Admittedly it's grief with things the Trinitron could never do. But the Trinitron never claimed it could do them. The Samsung does. And it doesn't. And it happens all the time.

Maybe other makers' tellies are as bad - I wouldn't know. I've never googled LG or Philips or Sony. But I do know this: I would never buy another Samsung 'smart' tv. Never.

Have you tried hitting it with a hammer yet?, you know, 'if in doubt give it a clout.

 

[Grant Fondo]

Flash its bios and change 'Samsung' to 'Sony'... works a treat.