On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Stefan Jafs <[email protected]> wrote: > About a month ago I asked for help with setting up 3 TV's for showing a > spreadsheet, I started looking into WiFi enable TV's bases on Ben Scott's > suggestion, and Samsung has this feature has anyone played with it? Does it > have a built in browser or how does it work?
The Samsung TVs do indeed have a built-in web browser. It's slow and quirky, doesn't render even moderately complex sites well, and hangs a lot. Or so my brief experience is. It would appear most of the "gadgets" and "apps" and things on the TV are web-based, but they work a lot better for being tuned for the TV in particular. As a general-purpose web browser, not so good. That said, you're talking about fairly specific data, so maybe you could tune it for the TV. *That* said, the Samsung and LG TVs I've worked with didn't have any advertised way to automatically go into a web page at start-up. So every time you lose power or the TV resets, you'd have to manually go in and tell it to load the web page again. *That* said, I didn't look very hard. Further, there may be more specialized options available on the market. There are certainly third-party products that do that kind of thing; "digital signage" is the generic term. *That* said, it might be easier/cheaper/whatever to just buy some TV-over-CAT5 extender boxes and generate your video signal from a single PC. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
