Ok 2 new Samsung smart TVs with Tizen operating system. I love them.

[Donny Osmond fan]

Ok I had a Philips Quato in my house downstairs. The first 70 inch expensive too. It would not turn on. It had a sound bar and subwoofer. It will not connect to a modern smart TV.

So I got a 70 inch crystal 4K for the living room. Not a OLD because they are expensive and can have burn in. Which means ION is permanently on the screen as a example.

The other one is a 65 inch 4K for the downstairs. So I love them. My dad bought me one last year for my bedroom. A Christmas gift. My other TV went out.

So I do not have cable. So after the over the air channels it goes into the Tizen operating system. It pulls channels the best from the Pluto TV app. It makes you think it has 300 channels. Works like the old cable preview channel. But when you see what you want to watch you click on it to watch.

I love the Nick JR channel. Andy Griffith show channel. Etc.. Star Trek. I still log in the Pluto TV app to watch more channels and movies.

The TV has a home button. It has so many apps built in. And through a way I found on YouTube I can add more apps. So many free apps. So much content. The apps it has built in it are so many it is heard to count them all. Video games too. Bowling, platformer etc..

I have never had a smart TV until my dad bought me one. Now I have 3 Samsung TV's. Crystal UHD is amazing. No burn in. 4K too. Great sound and picture. Adaptive sound I cannot use. It hurts my tinitis.

Amazing flat screen too. Under 700 for both. Really nice. The upstairs TV is amazing. I really like it. I also got a Blu Ray player. And I am getting a Blu Ray and 4k player for the downstairs. I enjoy my TV's and I also cut the chord. Way before the apps existed.

I can watch so much content. TV shows movies, YouTube, my Facebook friend Scott Grove gaming channels etc..

I really miss a few cable channels but for the most part I do not miss any of it.

Anyone else cut the chord also?

 

[haggardfan1]

I haven't subscribed to cable TV, or had a dish, in thirteen years. The cable company here is a monopoly, and although they don't block the network ads for Suddenlink, etc., other providers are blacked out in this market.
I have indoor antennas, plus whatever channels are on Samsung TV, Netflix basic streaming and DVD, and I'm good. My wifi/internet is $72 per month, and Netflix runs me about $21 for the dual plan.

Samsung has a couple hundred channels, I'm guessing, and after a year I'm still discovering good programming.

 

[Weazel]

Nvidia Shield TV here....
Connected to a Samsung 60" plasma (!)

I love the picture quality from the plasma panel, but the smart-tv software is of course outdated.

Nvidia to the rescue.

 

[Guitarteach]

Now if they only ever updated their apps..

Got loads of recent Samsungs here needing Rokus or playstations to get them working as ‘smart tvs’

 

[dented]

Cut the cord 13 years ago. Love it.

 

[Donny Osmond fan]

I love the Smart TV apps. Never have I had so much free programing. I love the size, sound, picture quality, etc.

When I was a kid we had a Curtis Mathis big screen TV. I had it in my house until 2009 it quit. It lasted that long.

So I am uses to a huge size in a big screen. I really do not like smaller TV'S because of that. You would not have told me years ago that we would. Use the computer like we do and it becomes a big part of our life.

I thought I will never need one. I was addicted to video games back in high school and I thought I would just want one to play video games and I said I did not need that in my life.

And I never would have thought of dreamed that because of the computer that a TV would use it wirelessly and we would watch apps with so much content.

It is like Star Trek. Wow. I thought video games would look so real and I would be dead and never get to see them look that real.

I was stupid.

 

[memorex]

I have 3 Samsungs. A 75" QLED in the living room, circa 2021. And two 40" smart TVs, probably older technology, although I bought them at the same time, but they were only $230 each. They're all pretty nice, I actually like the older remotes better than the big TV because it has no buttons, although you can set it up for voice operated, but I didn't. We have Spectrum cable, but I'd lose it in a heartbeat if my wife dies before I do. Between over-the air, and free Samsung TV+, and Amazon Prime, there's plenty of stuff to watch. And I only took Prime because I buy almost everything online from them, not for the streaming, it's just a bonus.

 

[Donny Osmond fan]

My TV'S are amazing. The app contents are amazing. I love Pluto TV. Andy Griffith channel TNA Wrestling channel Family Ties channel the 2 Star Trek channels are amazing.

Movie apps and channels built in my TV are amazing. It makes me feel like I did as a kid watching cable at grandmother's. Then at my house as well.

I loved watching wrestling, MTV. Cartoons, TBS, etc.. late at night. USA Up All Night etc..

And besides the internet payment we really do not have a high payment. And get to watch so much content.

The TV's itself are amazing. Cheap too. I watched so many reviews on TV's. Heisen, Toshiba, Samsung, LG, Visio which I owned less than 6 months and it quit on me. I hated not being able to add any apps. I love the Samsung Tizen operating system.

And all the apps built in the TV's. And the picture quality is Amazon. OLED has a problem with burn in on screen. A lot of TV's had the burn in issue. So I avoided that. Plus I was not wanting to spend 3000 dollars.

I love the sound. But the adaptive sound hurt tinnitus. So I put in on dynamic sound. The size of the screen and the thin size of the TV's are amazing.

I am getting a Blue Ray and 4k player for the downstairs. I will love that. I got a new Blue Ray for the upstairs. I had a old one for my bed room. Amazing. I can watch guitar videos on YouTube in my living room. Scott Grove my friend on YouTube in my living room is great. Yes I am friends with Scott.

I watched the Star Trek reboot movies the other night. Rocky movies on my TV. I love those movies. The screen size is important to me. I grew up and had a wooden big screen. So I love a big size TV. My old big screen went out in 2008. The wood cabinet TV. I miss it.

For me the bigger size works better.

 

[Junkyard Dog]

I fired my cable company in 2003 after they refused to discount my bill for 10 days of service I lost in the aftermath of Hurricane Isabel. I have not had cable (or satellite, etc.) since. Every once in a while I miss out on a live sports event, notably the college football playoffs on ESPN, which I kinda would like to see, but it’s not the end of the world for me.

 

[Tarkus60]

Yup no direct tv or cable. I had the streaming Direct Tv. I was a early adopter so my price was supposed to be locked in. BS they kept raising the price. Screw all of them.

 

[wangdaning]

I have not used anything for ages. I somehow magically get anything I want to watch to jump into my hard drive and play it on my cheap xiaomi screen. It works. I occasionally use free iptv services, but have not done that in ages. It is basically live streams of local channels that are open access. I pay peanuts for internet here and, even with a vpn cause I need one, services is fast most of the time. By cheap, I mean, wifi, phone, and some type of android home tv box, my son uses it for cartoons but I never really have, it runs about 30 USD a month.

 

[Spazzmaster]

I was annoyed when I couldn't watch the KSU basketball games on TBS last weekend. Then I remembered I've saved enough from cutting the cord to fly to New York and buy courtside seats at MSG.

 

[unixfish]

Now if they only ever updated their apps..

Got loads of recent Samsungs here needing Rokus or playstations to get them working as ‘smart tvs’

We bought Rokus a few years ago. Even the brand new smart TV I got less than a year ago got connected to the Roku rather than the iffy TV apps. The external device just works.

 

[burntfrijoles]

I have Android OS on my Sony Bravia and it’s awful. Actually so is the TV itself.

I will never spend big coin on a TV again. The technology has become so good, even the LGs you get at Target are great.

 

[jay4321]

55" LG C1 OLED in man-cave theater, I make a case for 65" next time but that's about it for the space it's in. Not even a year old, if/when it burns in it burns in and I'll grab whatever 65" OLED is the thing to have at $1500 or so then.

Main TV, aka wife's TV in living room, is a respectable 65" TCL 6-series, less than 2 years old. Much better value than the OLED and Roku works great. As she put it, "I don't need better quality to watch Guy Fieri." There's also a (basically unused) 49" 4k in bedroom.

 

[Donny Osmond fan]

Ok besides the sound issues on the apps some content being to loud they are amazing TV's. No issues what so ever.

Huge screen. Nice color once I calibrated the TV's myself. I really like them. Great sound. Great for gaming. Some said the TV'S suck and the gaming sucked on them. OLD was the way to go. I think they are TV snob's. Wow. Computer snobs I have talked to them and been banned for saying a pre built computer is great. And I do not need a 3000 dollar computer. I payed that for my old one with a CD Burner in the 90's.

But now their is no need to pay that and I have a gaming PC.

But I love the TV's. Size is everything to me.