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I just bought a new Samsung TV 3 weeks ago to upgrade from my previous Samsung.
Samsung 2020 43″ Q60T QLED 4K Quantum HDR Smart TV with Tizen OS
Joss
Current car: Peugeot 308 GT Premium 1.2 Pure tech Petrol"Men fight for liberty & win it with hard knocks. Their children brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves" - D.H. Lawrence
Yes it’s a very good picture as you would expect from a QLED 4K TV.
I have no idea about freeview Mike as i don’t use that as I have Sky Q Box
Joss
Current car: Peugeot 308 GT Premium 1.2 Pure tech Petrol"Men fight for liberty & win it with hard knocks. Their children brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves" - D.H. Lawrence
Menorca Mike
Unfortunately you won’t get free view on any new Samsung tv.
Menorca Mike Unfortunately you won’t get free view on any new Samsung tv.
yes I saw that on richer sounds website I want Freeview HD and freeview play looks like that’s only on LG ?
I use Amazon fire stick 4k to watch freeview/freeview play and you should be able to do this if your tv has an hdmi port.There is a lot of conflicting advice out there though so I would advise you to make sure you can get a refund on whatever you decide to purchase as it’s a bit of a minefield trying to find what works on your particular tv.
Keep you old TV Menorca Mike and just buy a Firestick, then install Freeview on the Firestick if you need to. As long as you have a WiFi signal near the TV, it will work and give you all the Smart TV features. I’ve a spare Firestick plugged into a 12 year old Toshiba TV, works just fine and another in our newer Panasonic TV for Amazon and Netflix, iPlayer, etc..
My router is 10 feet from the tv have good plusnet WiFi is the fire stick easy to set up ? Thankyou for the reply my old tv is a lovely picture I have freeview HD just want YouTube etc
Mike, you need an HDMI input on your TV to plug it into and a 13A socket for the power. Plug it in, press the Home button on the Firestick remote and it will ask you for WiFi settings. As far as I recall, that’s it
Our telly is a Sony Bravia about 5/6 years old. Don’t believe it is a “Smart” TV as had to get a Google Chromecast plugged into it before we could send wirelessly from computer. Was the only way to get all the All-4 programming. Understand that more modern models will receive data directly without need for Chromecast or Firestick. TBH, the whole range of what it is possible for TVs to do and what their makers allow you to do is utterly brain-boggling.
Even Smart TVs age very quickly. Our Panasonic has various apps like iPlayer and Netflix, but they don’t get updated so if they work at all they are very slow to load. I’ve used a Firesticks for years and treated our TVs as dumb!
77 inch OLED earlier this year, fantastic TV.
The only person who got all his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe.
Anything i post over three lines long please assume it is an article lol.I find the trouble with all the online, digital stuff stems from the fact that suppliers thereof will do everything possible to stop you using another system as well as their own. Amazon and Google, for example, are really not friends. If you have an Amazon tablet, you cannot use any Google bits on it. My Sony telly will link to Amazon OK, but I have to buy Google bits to make it talk to my computer. Can’t get Spotify on the tablet etc., etc. Very much like EV charging stations where you have to spend hundreds of pounds to get all the different appery and tw@phones simply to buy electricity.
Mike it’s a fantastic tv, very expensive yes but because of the wife’s health problems we do very little other than watch tv so it was worth the expense.
Tharg, you can sideload Android apps on your Amazon tablet including the Play Store, it’s just that Amazon would rather keep you, having subsidised the purchase price.
Thanks, Wigwam. Must admit to shocking digital ignorance in that “sideload” eludes me completely. Didn’t know Amazon subsidised the price. Thought it was a bit expensive for what it does. Only use it for reading Kindle-type books and playing Amazon music. If I want Spotify, I connect my laptop. The latter gives a much better reproduction anyway.
I’ve given up asking it, it won’t answer…
firestick modro kodi
I don’t watch much tv, maybe half hour in the morning..
Used to replace place every World Cup football..
Samsung 2020 43″ Q60T QLED 4K Quantum HDR Smart TV with Tizen OS
what’s the price for all that goings on in there, £500 ish I guess..
@ajn yes roughly. it is a 2020 model ajn. Entry level for QLED 4K. Still a cracking TV. Higher levels are into silly money.
Joss
Current car: Peugeot 308 GT Premium 1.2 Pure tech Petrol"Men fight for liberty & win it with hard knocks. Their children brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves" - D.H. Lawrence
Thanks Joss for the info and reply, we usually go Samsung, as someone said the apps seem to stop updates..
Could be time for a new one here, but at the moment we’re not watching it often enough to justify the spend..
This looks great though..
One thing very annoying about my telly is that while it has a most comprehensive range of sound settings, it refuses to assign them to Sky broadcasts. Sky’s sound quality is so bad that I have to have subtitles on all the time or any dialogue gets lost in “background” music and sound FX.
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