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Last year my teenage daughter decided to trip over the cord of a perfectly good TCL television, ruining it, so we ended up buying a Samsung TV. It has a slight
by yongjik 7y ago
Last year my teenage daughter decided to trip over the cord of a perfectly good TCL television, ruining it, so we ended up buying a Samsung TV. It has a slightly bigger screen and sturdier legs that wouldn't trip over so easily, but man, it's an exercise in software disaster.
Simply starting Youtube is an exercise in frustration with six or seven arrow keys, and it comes with a dozen built-in advertisement channels that will start auto-playing when powered on. After I finally got fed up, I looked up how to disable them, and turns out I have to click each channel individually to disable them. Also, I don't know if it's the fault of Samsung, Youtube app, or my phone (made by Samsung, haha), but trying to cast a Youtube video from my phone is a total shitfest - sometimes it takes a minute and the streaming still doesn't start. (Come on, you guys are sitting next to each other!)
It's sad to see such a great brand being ruined for shitty software, but I've had enough. My next TV won't be Samsung. Maybe it will have a slightly smaller viewing angle, but who cares.
- SketchySeaBeast 7y agoThat's frustrating. My LG smart TV is one click away from Netflix and Amazon, and I've got mapped buttons to YouTube and google play - it's a half second away, and there are no built in advertising channels. The worst we have is occasionally we need to exit out of whatever Netflix or Amazon stream we're on and go back in.