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Re:Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads by burtonator on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @01:50PM (#24630835)
NEVER buy a Samsung TV... they're horrible.

They have the same contempt for software that they do on their phones.

They NEVER update their firmware. It's amazingly slow and latent.

When they DO occasionally update they usually break things that were working or remote features you used.

About 2 years ago they implemented some weird/stupid popover commercial thing which you could eventually disable but they hid the feature.

I'd be watching Game of Thrones or something and in the middle of the show they'd bring up a popup for a new TV show or something along those lines.

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Re:Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads by disown on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @04:41PM (#24632702)
> NEVER buy a Samsung TV... they're horrible.

NEVER buy a TV. Even better. They are all horrible. I thought that TVs would be a thing of the past like landline phones, but looks like I was wrong. It's incredible that the gullible are swarming to "smart" TVs.

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Re:Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads by VHRanger on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @05:36PM (#24633306)
I mean you can get a TV much like you get a computer monitor except bigger.

That screen has no business connecting to the internet.

Even better is a home projector.

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Re:Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads by potta_coffee on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @06:47PM (#24633974)
Have an recommendations for a home projector setup? I have a really good space for a projector now but idk what I want.
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Re:Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads by VHRanger on Thursday October 08, 2020 @09:20PM (#24725744)
I have the BenQ ht2050a and I like it. It's only 1080p but 16ms response times and 120hz make it good for gaming.

The color resolution is also great for movies.

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Re:Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads by potta_coffee on Thursday October 08, 2020 @10:38PM (#24726180)
Thanks!
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Re:Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads by systemBuilder on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @06:37PM (#24633875)
No, I enjoy paying 50% more than necessary for the paucity of features the Samsung sparingly distributes at each price point!
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