On Tue, 8 Aug 2017 21:10:16 -0700 Steve Christiansen <[email protected]> dijo:
>This has nothing to do with PLEX (I don't even know what that is), >but I'd like to comment on the problems I've had in accessing online >streaming content with my Samsung "smart" TV. > >Even though the Samsung TV offers access to Netflix and other online >services, it is not usable. While watching Netflix content, the video >and audio become so out of sync that it is truly impossible to watch. > >However, the workaround is easy because I also have a Samsung Blu-ray >player with online access, connected by HDMI to the TV. For reasons >unknown to me, the engineers who designed the Blu-ray were much more >competent than those who designed the TV. It works perfectly. In case >you are wondering, the TV and the Blu-ray are connected to the same >switch leading to the same router. There is no difference in their >network connections. > >In summary, you might try want to try avoiding the Samsung TV network >access altogether and use another box with an HDMI connection to the >TV. I don't know what PLEX is either, but I do have a Samsung Smart TV. I also have an HDHomeRun tuner that collects over the air broadcasts and makes them available over my home ethernet or wifi. After unpacking and plugging in the Samsung I successfully got it seeing my home wifi, but no way could I get it to see the HDHomeRun. It would use the wifi for Netflix, etc., but as I have no interest in that I left it alone and plugged in a plain set of rabbit ears. Meantime, I can watch over the air broadcasts through the HDHomeRun, but only on my computers with VLC. I suspect that Samsung gets $$ from Netflix, inter alia, so they disabled any other possibilities. Instead of the Samsung smart TV I probably should have bought a big monitor and a small computer. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
