i bought a brand new goddamn Samsung Smart TV to replace my Samsung Smart TV from 2016, and it's worse than my old goddamn television. the file browser for USBs is slow as frick, it won't play or read any of my video files that used to play fine on my old television, and the home screen is covered in goddamn ads and sponsored shit now. what the frick? i'm about to return this shit and buy a refurbished duplicate of my TV from 2016. this shit is unbelievable.
anybody have any suggestions for a good Smart TV that's compatible with more codecs and file types than the average? i can't believe this b***h is choking on x264 and x265 mkvs. tried looking for a stupid questions thread before making this one but there's no thread up. do i have to take my frickin' USB to Best Buy and plug it into display TVs till i get something that works?
Just buy an Nvidia shield box
that's a possibile alternative, but i really don't wanna have to plug a whole computer into my TV just so it'll play mkvs off a USB, if i can help it.
i don't doubt it, it's just fricking insane that my 2016 Smart TV was blitzing circles around this thing. that's part of why i bought the same brand i bought before, cause i just wanted an objectively upgraded version of what i already had and was more than happy with until it died.
I've got a 4k Samsung Neo OLED and the Shield with Plex does pretty well (Samsung OS is dogshit). I have a dedicated 16T drive for movies (1080p and 4k) and one for TV/Anime though. It pays off heavily in the long run because you don't need to pay for any movies or TV (only keep Netflix for business travel and the kids). It even does game streaming well for the 5 minutes I get a day to do that.
I use both. But gaming above 1080p is still a complete meme so I'm still running 1080p dual monitors on my home PC so 4K movies feel kind of pointless without using the big screen. And as comfy as my Steelcase is, it can't beat the sofa.
Frick off
>Shield
are you using external hdds with shield? Does it work well?
this is probably what i'll end up doing. i might still return this TV though, i think buying a 4k tv was the wrong move. 1080p YouTube looks kinda weird (and that's like 85% of what i watch) and i was never really trying to download shows or movies in 4K anyway. too many GBs of data. i only went with this TV cause Samsung stopped making 50 inch 1080p TVs sometime between 2016 and now, and i thought "upgrading" within the same brand would net me the best result. (it didn't). and if i'm about to make an Nvidia Shield how i primarily interact with YouTube and media through my TV, it's not like i'll be using the now ad-riddled Samsung interface anymore anyway.
get an lg g3, never connect it to the internet, and get an apple tv 4k. no ads and everything will look good.
dont buy this autism box, get appletv 4k instead.
Also I have never seen a 4k samsung tv that wasnt like staring into a fricking mirror even in low light.
>buying the iToddler box
>Apple TV
>is cheaper
>doesnt look like some autisic gamer explosion
>better software
>better controller
You might have downsyndrome
>better software
Now there's where you're wrong, iToddler. Anyway keep guzzling cum. I don't care. Android TV devices are superior because I can use Kodi. I use the Xiaomeme Mi TV myself because I'm too cheap for nvidia shit.
>appletv
I'm a Tim Cook cum-guzzling igay with an M2 MacBook Pro, an M1 Mac Studio, an iPhone 15, AirPods Pro 2nd Gen and an Apple Watch Series 8 but even I don't use my Apple TV for my mkvs because streaming .ass subtitles to them is a pain in the ass. OP needs to man up and set up a media server.
I own a sony tv so I dont have to use one. But if i had to choose between shield and apple its apple everytime.
No i dont have a mac. No I dont have an iPhone.
>OP needs to man up and set up a media server.
How fricking moronic are you? OP's issue is the lack of decoding support on his TV, the ONLY reason this would be an issue is if he wanted to stream those video codecs to his tv. This implies he already has a media server. How the frick do people like you function in everday life?
If you want to stream your streaming software should take care of transcoding to suitable codecs. I assumed he was talking about playing files off a USB drive or some shit.
>OP's issue is the lack of decoding support on his TV, the ONLY reason this would be an issue is if he wanted to stream those video codecs to his tv
>the file browser for USBs is slow as frick, it won't play or read any of my video files that used to play fine on my old television
>anybody have any suggestions for a good Smart TV that's compatible with more codecs and file types than the average? i can't believe this b***h is choking on x264 and x265 mkvs
literally says in the OP that he's trying to access x264/x265 mkvs VIA a USB drive you moronic homosexual
have a nice day
What can you expect from a guy who is a self-confessed "Tim Cook cum-guzzling igay with an M2 MacBook Pro, an M1 Mac Studio, an iPhone 15, AirPods Pro 2nd Gen and an Apple Watch Series 8 "?
Some people should not be allowed to exist.
>What can you expect from a guy who is a self-confessed "Tim Cook cum-guzzling igay with an M2 MacBook Pro, an M1 Mac Studio, an iPhone 15, AirPods Pro 2nd Gen and an Apple Watch Series 8 "?
that I can read text on a monitor, digest it, and then respond to it accurately, which is more than I can say for you. OP needs to set up a media server and you need to check in to a mental hospital immediately.
Why do that when you can just use a personal computer?
PC is pretty shit all things considered. I want to kick back and use a remote when I watch TV. Not dick around with an OS UI with a keyboard and mouse.
Every smart TV has a slower processor than the cheapest $100 phone in the market.
yeah, stop trying to do playback and decoding with a fricking screen.
i get that, i was a moron for expecting any better. i just can't believe a 4k television produced for current year is less effective than a 1080p one of the same brand i bought almost a decade ago at the same price point.
i don't understand what you mean, but how should i avoid making that mistake again when i return this and get something else?
What is a good flagship Samsung lcd?
> sqrt(44^2+25.4^2) = 50.8
You just paid a 1.3 inch idiot tax.
Based on your description, seems like the "new" shit is slower than my $20 android tv box with 2gb ram.
If that box has an amlogic chipset you can even run CoreELEC on it. I've done it on boxes that cost even less than that.
>Just bought a new LG TV
>Have to agree to 20 EULAs before I can do anything at all with it
>A lot of functionality that didn't before now requires an LG account, like watching free IPTV channels or downloading free WebOS apps
>Menus are slow/laggy as frick
>Randomly updates whenever it wants, making it unusable as a TV for several minutes
Is every TV brand like this now? At least I don't have ads like OP mentioned, but I wonder if the TV waits until it's outside the return window to start showing those.
Ones that use Android like the Sony ones aren't like that. If you bought one of those you wouldn't need to follow the advice of fpbp.
Yep, theres a lot of money in all these side deals they do to promote each others brands even down to which buttons make it to the remote and for as long as its revenue generating, which it appears it is atm, it wont go away. The only option is to track down a commercial panel without any of the horse shit but even those now are getting a lot of 'helpful' automation and monitoring services added that are avoidable for the time being but might not be forever
Don't buy a Samsung. Or LG. Or Sony unless you have money to burn. It's bizarre to me how Hisense and TCL are the only brands that sell a good TV for a fair price now. (Seriously, they're way better than a few years ago.)
Turns out not having moronic huge marketing divisions to pay for means you can charge a lot less than the competition. The extra 5-10% in performance really isn't worth the 30%+ price increase.
We have a TCL TV in our living room that runs Android TV. Bizarrely Android only runs at 720p even though the TV has a 1080p panel. I'm kinda disappointed in it.
All built-in streaming solutions are bad. Buy basically anything external and you'll be better off.
Is just the viewport res 720p or does the app not let you choose 1080p, because I read somewhere that on embedded devices the YT app runs the UI at a lower ress to save on resources, the video displayed is still 1080p/2160p.
it's just a fricking tv
listen to this one gentleman
Since this is already a TV general
can anyone recommend a nice TV with minimum of smart features? I'm not going to even connect it to cable, just chromecast or Raspberry Pi connected to the wifi.
I considered a projector, but it's not very practical for my place.
LG does not shove any smart features in your face unless you specifically search for them, can skip login/registration, can skip "homescreen" and boot to last used mode/app/input directly.
I use C2 as PC and wireless DeX (miracast) monitor and never had to deal with any "smart" bullshit.
>the file browser for USBs
lol
>it won't play or read any of my video files that used to play fine on my old television
lmao even
>and the home screen is covered in goddamn ads and sponsored shit now
He actually connected it to the internet ahaha I thought you guys were supposed to be good with technology
A TV has no business being connected to the internet. At least use a DNS adblocker like pihole or something if you're not going to have it totally disconnected from the internet
Are there really tech enthusiasts out there who don't have a plex or jellyfin server for their media in one place? You literally load up USB sticks with files and carry them around with you?
Build a HTPC from a NUC or old SFF PC or something, or if you're too moronic to do that at least use a chromecast or one of those other normie sticks I don't the name of (roku? The Amazon one?) so at least your spyware and ads are on separate device you can turn off and not literally embedded into your viewing device
I thought IQfy was supposed to be good with technology but you all just use Windows computers and plug Chinese smart TVs into your home network?
>anybody have any suggestions for a good Smart TV that's compatible with more codecs and file types than the average?
Chromecast with Google TV (HD)
While it only displays 1080p, it does have AV1 decoding, iirc that's still relatively rare on smart TVs
Get ones that run android tv, that leaves out some tcl, hisense, and most Sony models