This is probably what the sales person was confused about. You can get
an Apple iPhone app to control the TV but that's not AppleTV. That said,
this is the battle currently being waged. Should the TV be 'smart' and
support apps, web surfing etc or should it be a dumb screen which you
connect to smart boxes like AppleTV or whatever you like? For me, I like
to choose my stuff and want to plug in the device of my choosing, which
currently is a Mac Mini. My in-laws have some kind of big flast screen
with web surfing and such but they don't even use it. Just to cumbersome
with a remote. I did get to go to Comcast's unveiling of their talking
set-top box at CSUN which was impressive. They had an iPhone app and
when you hit the button and said "tune the weather channel" the set top
box changed the channel as expected. The whole interface on the box
itself had speech so, like an iPhone, everything you navigated to would
speak what it was. Quite nice. I was talking to some of the folks and
they apparently took the Siri approach where they render the speech on
their server farm and download it to the box on the fly. This makes it
much easier to fix/improve things in the future without having to push
out major software changes to a jillion boxes.
CB
On 3/30/14 8:19 PM, David Chittenden wrote:
Go to the app store. Double tap on the search At the bottom of the display.
Type in Samsung remote. Double tap the search button. Several possible Samsung
remote apps appear. The first one on my search is probably the one the store
clerk was talking about. Download the app and see if it is accessible. The app
is free.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
Email: [email protected]
Mobile: +64 21 2288 288
Sent from my iPhone
On 31 Mar 2014, at 12:56, Jenine Stanley <[email protected]> wrote:
So we are going to buy a new, or at least new for us, TV. We're looking at a
Samsung 55=inch, don't know the exact model but it's last year's hot Samsung TV.
The salesperson, in typical salesperson hype, said that it has Apple TV built
in. How does this work?
Can I control it through my phone or MBP?
He said there was an app, Samsung Smart Remorte, or something like that. anyone
used this?
Accessibility thoughts? the regular remote that comes with the TV scares me
enough. Is there a universal remote app I can use with Samsung TVs?
Help! :)
Jenine Stanley
[email protected]
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