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Smart TVs

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  • 23-10-2011 9:10pm
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    Doom
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,381 ✭✭✭


    Just got a panasonic viera, very happy, with it.
    whats urs and are you happy?


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    Mazu
    Registered Users Posts: 1 ✭Mazu


    Hi,

    I got a Samsung smart LED TV recently. I cannot connect wirelessly to access the internet and it says in the user manual I need to buy a "Samsung Wireless LAN Adapter but not where seems to sell them except the Samsung website. Did you need one of these to set up yours.

    Thanks


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    coylemj
    Registered Users Posts: 25,455 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_0_16?url=search-alias%3Delectronics&field-keywords=samsung%20wireless%20lan%20adapter


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    PogMoThoin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,874 ✭✭✭✭PogMoThoin


    Smart TV's are crap, it's a marketing gimmick these days. Don't listen to TV salesmen, they love to taunt customers with BS. You are always much better with a separate device (PC/HTPC/Boxee/AppleTV/Android on a Stick/Raspberry Pi) that has decent processing power and a better choice of addons and plugins. Check out XBMC, you can install it on all sorts of hardware (including the Raspberry Pi).
    http://xbmc.org/about/


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    bigpoppa
    Registered Users Posts: 459 ✭✭bigpoppa


    Bought a Samsung with wireless adaptor works great YouTube spotify etc love it. Also have an xbmc setup


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    richardw001
    Registered Users Posts: 575 ✭✭✭richardw001


    PogMoThoin wrote: »
    Smart TV's are crap, it's a marketing gimmick these days. Don't listen to TV salesmen, they love to taunt customers with BS. You are always much better with a separate device (PC/HTPC/Boxee/AppleTV/Android on a Stick/Raspberry Pi) that has decent processing power and a better choice of addons and plugins. Check out XBMC, you can install it on all sorts of hardware (including the Raspberry Pi).
    http://xbmc.org/about/

    Agree 100% with this - a dedicated HTPC - combined with a relatively new TV will give you tons more functionality and flexibility than a smart tv.
    Cost wise its a lot cheaper as well: a raspberry, sd card, case etc. and media remote would cost less than 60 euro and turn any low end tv into the most impressive kid on the block


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    TheIrishGrover
    Registered Users Posts: 6,078 ✭✭✭TheIrishGrover


    I have a "smart" TV. New 8 series Samsung. But, to be honest, I couldn't be ar5ed about the "smart" functionality of it. I have a cheap HTPC under all the TVs in my house and they work wonders. All the functionality of a Smart TV, plus 10 times more, for less. Have XBMC on them all streaming from my NAS and they're all running XP so have full browser/streaming etc, netflix, youtube etc etc. A friend of mine asked me about getting one for his house: 300 quid more expensive, so I told him: No, get cheaper one and I'll set ya a cheap HTPC for the difference.

    They really are a hobbled ripoff. If, say, they could be hacked, Ubuntu or openelec or something installed, THEN you'd be talking but for anyone thinking of getting one: Get the tele you want WITHOUT smart functionality and spend the difference on a HTPC, it's easier than you think and only slightly geeky :)


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