So first off, I never had to visit a manufacturer’s website to figure out how to enable or disable things. Older TVs were simple and concise - a lot smarter than these so called smart TVs. Let’s go down my list.. and I’m not the only one with these issues. All of them “unresolved” due to embedded software supposedly.. how convenient for Samsung to get paid for advertising - which I might add is no where to be found on the box of the television.
1) Advertising in the menu bar. You have a nice YouTube video on how to disable “interest based advertising”, but then the tv continues to run ***** on my home bar. I didn’t pay for this, or want this. Obviously you thought about it Damsung, and decided to make it not an option so future televisions will have the same feature. I might as well have paid nothing for my tv if you’re going to advertise and try to sneak it in. I hate ads. I don’t even watch movies with commercials anymore..
2) Mandatory handshake when unplugging and plugging in the HDMI cable. So every time you disconnect any of the HDMI cables and plug something else in, I have to wait 10 seconds for a stupid handshake that hasn’t recognized ANY of my three sources. Can’t be disabled either. Who designed this?? And firmware can’t touch it. Wow.. pretty smart tv.
3) The remote - no source button or settings button, meaning I have to go to the home button, WITH advertising, to change sources. I’m not going to use the voice command option. That might be a good idea for those with impaired vision, but it’s not going to catch on in my opinion for mass majority. Then you have a bunch of crappy corporate buttons at the bottom - unassignable I might add. Maybe the four colour button is assignable.. still why don’t you have a source or settings button.. why?? For advertising.
Next time give your TVs away, since you and Netflix and all your friends are making big bucks at the cost of confusing software and selling advertising. This will be the last Samsung I ever own, and actually, with the digital motion ***** turned off, it’s not a bad TV. Digital motion doesn’t resemble CRT, plasma, projector,.. doesn’t look like television or film. Should be an option in the gaming section. You’d probably sell more TVs since the floor models default to auto motion plus. Garbage in my opinion.
To close, why would you design televisions that don’t have software/firmware upgrades?? $700-$3000 is still a lot of money to the mass majority out there. Looks greedy. Can you Samsung explain to me and the other folks out there what is possessing hardware manufacturers to be out of touch with what the consumer industry wants.. and even expects, when purchasing an expensive piece of hardware.
Anon. (Canada)
