40" Samsung Smart LED TV w/wifi €365

Shred

Ah that suck mega balls Zascar, I hope you get sorted.

Colemania

Absolutely super TV. Great picture quality, class interface and menus and very handy for pairing with your phone/laptop. I paired it with my phone for youtube, played a video on my phone and streamed it on the TV. My internet connection is quite poor where I live and when I stream videos on my phone it tends to buffer quite a bit but it didn't buffer once on the TV. Strange but not complaining!

Also, if you search Samsung Smart remote on the Android Market (not sure about apple store) you can download a handy unofficial app to control everything on the TV.

All in all, very very impressed with the TV, especially at that price!

homewardbound11

Anyone note the lack of Mheg 5 for text.
Might go down as an impulse buy. I ordered to replace an old 40" LCD. It still looks tiny even though they are both 40. LCD surround was much larger . Might consider letting this go . Pm me if you are interested. I am still undecided so please bear with me if I don't reply.

Zascar

Phew, it just arrived. There was no label on it but thankfully they worked it out. Relieved. Can't wait to set it up!

ferrigan101

Zascar wrote: »

Phew, it just arrived. There was no label on it but thankfully they worked it out. Relieved. Can't wait to set it up!

Glad you got sorted!

Paddy_man

TV is pretty cool. Connected to my WiFi straight away. Use skifta to broadcast through my XBOne but the tv pics up skifta now and can browse all the videos on my tablet via skifta on the tv. Can't wait to get gaming on this and see how the graphics look

Zascar

Set it up quickly last night, very impressed with the Smart stuff and apps etc. I was expecting them to be a bit crappy and slow etc but they work really well! I only used youtube and RTE player. Can you get Channel 4 OD or BBC iPlayer does anyone know? Or what other apps are worth getting? Will need to properly play with it tonight and see what else it can do. Anyone else got any tips?

Colemania

Zascar wrote: »

Set it up quickly last night, very impressed with the Smart stuff and apps etc. I was expecting them to be a bit crappy and slow etc but they work really well! I only used youtube and RTE player. Can you get Channel 4 OD or BBC iPlayer does anyone know? Or what other apps are worth getting? Will need to properly play with it tonight and see what else it can do. Anyone else got any tips?

Haven't tried this but I was of the assumption that if you set your region to United Kingdom on setup, you'll get BBC iPlayer and so on. Not of any use to us at home as the TV was for my parents and they only watch RTE and TV3 so the RTEplayer and 3player will be very useful for them.

teecee74

I got mine setup - really happy with it and would never have seen the deal without the OP so thanks. Anyone know why there's no proper OFF button? According to the manual it's left in standby unless it's plugged out.

Zascar

Yes big thanks to OP!

Thargor

teecee74 wrote: »

I got mine setup - really happy with it and would never have seen the deal without the OP so thanks. Anyone know why there's no proper OFF button? According to the manual it's left in standby unless it's plugged out.

Thats the way most tvs are these days unfotunately, keep an eye on Lidl/Aldi for remote control plug sockets.

Colemania

teecee74 wrote: »

I got mine setup - really happy with it and would never have seen the deal without the OP so thanks. Anyone know why there's no proper OFF button? According to the manual it's left in standby unless it's plugged out.

I don't think it wastes much electricity anyway. Its A energy rated. The 32 inch TV we have at home and a crappy 26 inch TV that my brother has which were bought about 4 or 5 years ago are showing up as 120 Watts or so, while being used, on the energy monitor we have and this TV is only 40 Watts while being used.

ShoulderChip

Plex is super, what else can it do, I like allshare from my samsung phone, but havent been able to figure out how to do this from my samsung laptop

brian ireland

A mate bought one of these on my recommendation so I can't play with the menu myself. Is it easy to change the region to UK to use NowTv?

Shred

It's very easy - http://support-us.samsung.com/cyber/popup/iframe/pop_troubleshooting_fr.jsp?modelname=UN55F8000AF&idx=428339&modelcode=UN55F8000AFXZA&

cullenswood

Do these ever come back up on iBood at a later stage. Raging I missed out

mjmc4004

Wondering if any knows how to pair a HTC one or the onex with this TV .... and thanks OP savage TV

ShoulderChip

Or My Samsung 9 series Laptop?

brian ireland

Shred wrote: »

It's very easy - http://support-us.samsung.com/cyber/popup/iframe/pop_troubleshooting_fr.jsp?modelname=UN55F8000AF&idx=428339&modelcode=UN55F8000AFXZA&

Thanks for that..

pat1981

Hi, is it possible to pair my blue tooth headphone with this tv.

I inserted a usb blue tooth adapter to back of telly but cant seem to find an option to connect both,

Any suggestions would be great thanks.

Zascar

Shred wrote: »

It's very easy - http://support-us.samsung.com/cyber/popup/iframe/pop_troubleshooting_fr.jsp?modelname=UN55F8000AF&idx=428339&modelcode=UN55F8000AFXZA&

Does this reset everything like apps? Do I need to change it to Ireland, or do you guys change to Uk to get the uk apps like C4OD etc?

I'm giving plex a go now but no idea how it works

ShoulderChip

Zascar wrote: »

Does this reset everything like apps? Do I need to change it to Ireland, or do you guys change to Uk to get the uk apps like C4OD etc?

I'm giving plex a go now but no idea how it works

Plex is great, give me a shout if you have any questions

Zascar

Thanks I definitely will. Looks ok so far but really I'm not bothered about movie covers and library's netflix style, i just want lists of the files I've downloaded and in the folders i put them in. I actually have a WDTV and this does it very well. Can Plex do this also?

So what other apps are any good? I like the Screen Dreams on - turn your tv into a fish tank, fire place or art gallery!

Cintetrailer looks good, nice way to watch all the upcoming movie trailers

ShoulderChip

Zascar wrote: »

Thanks I definitely will. Looks ok so far but really I'm not bothered about movie covers and library's netflix style, i just want lists of the files I've downloaded and in the folders i put them in. I actually have a WDTV and this does it very well. Can Plex do this also?

So what other apps are any good? I like the Screen Dreams on - turn your tv into a fish tank, fire place or art gallery!

Cintetrailer looks good, nice way to watch all the upcoming movie trailers

OOh cool, I will give cinetrailer a look.

I see your point, it doesn't add much more functionality then just hooking your hardrive up now,
Where it comes into its own is how it hooks up to any cloud storage account you may have and u can simply synch a file to the cloud through it and therefore watch it from any where that has plex, other smart tv, any phone/laptop etc.

It is also useful for me as my two housemates have synched their movie folders with my accounts so we can watch all our stuff once our laptops are on.

Note the cloud synch feature requires a subscription, entirely unfunctional but pretty cool.

Shred

Zascar wrote: »

Does this reset everything like apps? Do I need to change it to Ireland, or do you guys change to Uk to get the uk apps like C4OD etc?

I'm giving plex a go now but no idea how it works

Yes it does reset apps but I've just left mine set to UK, I'd use 4OD far more than the RTE player.

Zascar

Ok so I changed to UK and I can get C4OD but ITV and BBC do not work, I guess cause of region IP. Any way around this? I wish you could get them all with RTE and TV3 player as well.

Has anyone got the moves to work on the menu to the right of the apps? They have some very good new movies there, but when I click in I just get a message saying "Server Params Error"

Unknown Soldier

Small favour if anyone has the time. I assume these can do photos? If so and you are into photography, can it display a .CR2 raw format picture?

ShoulderChip

Unknown Soldier wrote: »

Small favour if anyone has the time. I assume these can do photos? If so and you are into photography, can it display a .CR2 raw format picture?

send me one and I'll see, or send me a link to one

Unknown Soldier

ShoulderChip wrote: »

send me one and I'll see, or send me a link to one

You're a star!

If you scroll down to the "Sample RAW Images" on the following site there are a few you can use. Many thanks.

http://www.photographyblog.com/reviews/canon_eos_7d_review/sample_images/

ShoulderChip

Unknown Soldier wrote: »

You're a star!

If you scroll down to the "Sample RAW Images" on the following site there are a few you can use. Many thanks.

http://www.photographyblog.com/reviews/canon_eos_7d_review/sample_images/

Yup that works fine

Shred

Zascar wrote: »

Ok so I changed to UK and I can get C4OD but ITV and BBC do not work, I guess cause of region IP. Any way around this? I wish you could get them all with RTE and TV3 player as well.

Yeah they're geo-locked and you'll need to use a proxy to get around it.

acquiescefc

how did you change to uk, to get 4od app?

i dont have an aerial, not worked that bit out yet, as aerial goes into upc box.

Shred

http://support-us.samsung.com/cyber/popup/iframe/pop_troubleshooting_fr.jsp?modelname=UN55F8000AF&idx=428339&modelcode=UN55F8000AFXZA&

brian ireland

Zascar wrote: »

Ok so I changed to UK and I can get C4OD but ITV and BBC do not work, I guess cause of region IP. Any way around this? I wish you could get them all with RTE and TV3 player as well.

Has anyone got the moves to work on the menu to the right of the apps? They have some very good new movies there, but when I click in I just get a message saying "Server Params Error"

I use overplay to get nowtv,bbc,five, netflix US on my LG smart TV. I asked Overplay and they have assured me using their service is 100% legal.

discombobulate

Anyone know if it's possible to mirror the laptop screen onto the tv?

Sam Mac

discombobulate wrote: »

Anyone know if it's possible to mirror the laptop screen onto the tv?

via HDMI, yes.

Wirelessly - I do not know

discombobulate

Sam Mac wrote: »

via HDMI, yes.

Wirelessly - I do not know

Did a bit of Googling and doesn't look like it. I had presumed this is what the Chromecast did also but it only mirrors your browser rather than screen

varuka

discombobulate wrote: »

Anyone know if it's possible to mirror the laptop screen onto the tv?

If your laptop and tv has WIDI then you can mirror.

Gosub

WIDI is?

Zascar

Any compatible video/hdmi cable will mirror a laptop to the tv

discombobulate

Zascar wrote: »

Any compatible video/hdmi cable will mirror a laptop to the tv

Ah yeah but we've been able to do that since CRT's. Wireless mirroring would be far handier.

Zascar

Ah right ok. Yeah I agree there should be an easier way to doing it in this day and age

discombobulate

After reading up on WiDi it looks like it's starting to get rolled out more on the newer tv's and processors so should hopefully be standard soon enough.

varuka

Gosub wrote: »

WIDI is?

Intel WiDi technology is wireless software which mirrors your Intel WIDI enabled pc/ laptop screen to any WIDI enabled device.

varuka

http://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/samsung-to-add-streaming-from-pcs-to-tvs/#!A7OFf

homewardbound11

Decided not to sell mine as the price was too good to let go.

Found one issue. I am having trouble when the hdmi from my raspberry pi is plugged in. I loose or have very poor digital signal on the analog/digital dtt aerial input. I'm not sure why as the pi seems to work with CEC which is nice.

Etnies

discombobulate wrote: »

Ah yeah but we've been able to do that since CRT's. Wireless mirroring would be far handier.

What exactly is it you want to mirror?

discombobulate

Etnies wrote: »

What exactly is it you want to mirror?

I'd like to be able to wirelessly stream my laptop to play avi files etc. without having to plug in the avi or usb

ActingDanClark

"Play to" app ?

Etnies

discombobulate wrote: »

I'd like to be able to wirelessly stream my laptop to play avi files etc. without having to plug in the avi or usb

Plex app can do that.. It uses your laptop as a media server, you really don't need to mirror