"The first thing was the remote removed most the buttons, especially the video source button" This is not a defense of Samsung, but something you can try if yo

"The first thing was the remote removed most the buttons, especially the video source button" This is not a defense of Samsung, but something you can try if you're stuck with it: While the Samsung remotes have slimmed down quite a bit, at least on my TV it still responds to the buttons the old more fully-sized remote controls had. If you get a universal remote and program it for Samsung TVs, you may find you get a lot of the functionality back that your remote is missing. I can't speak for every year's TV; mine's a few years old now. But you may already have a universal remote just lying around, in which case this is really cheap to try.