On Monday 20 February 2017 04:54:42 Marshland Engineering wrote: > Bought a Samsung Smart TV and really regretted it. Keeps updating > itself and changes the icons etc etc. 'Support' from India and almost > all requests end in a "do a system reset" Oh yeah. No keyboard works > properly and you have to fart around with the arrows on the remote to > type things in. Bought a new low end Computer and a Hauppauge TV tuner > card. What a difference. I actually enjoy watching TV now. All my > Internet stuff and Live TV without any hiccups. Scheduler and TV guide > all works fine. PS get a dual tuber card so it doesn't flick you off > once a recorded program boots in (which the Samsung does). > > Cheers Wallace > Good info, thanks. The Samsungs I have 2 of do not have an rj-45, only a usb-2 for a service port and TBT, any tv that can phone home for anything but a firmware update is off the table. I do know how to run wireshark.
Samsungs have been good, I bought two smaller ones when we converted in 2008, and one still works great in my bedroom, but the other killed its tuner, so its on a vga cable on the G0704. The CCFL backlights are getting slow, but thats fixable, 2 caps in the PSU, and it will be as good as new. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
