Hacker News Reader

Comment by levelist_com | Hacker News Reader

As a person that owns both a Samsung Washer & Dryer (they just did a recall on top load washers I believe), a Samsung Refrigerator, and at one point a Samsung television, I can assure you all of their products (that I have owned or currently own) are poorly designed, and more so, poorly manufactured garbage. I will never knowingly buy a Samsung product again. I replaced the TV after it came out about their efforts to track user behavior, etc.. The TV and its apps were garbage anyhow. Stay away from Samsung.

OTOH, the Galaxy S3 wasnt too bad, but perhaps that's b/c I have been conditioned to bad phones since every phone I've owned since the Motorola flip & the Razr has been complete shit.

View on HN

I'm quite happy with my Samsung TV - picture quality is great.

The remote is a terrible piece of shit, and I disabled the "Smart" TV features the moment that thing showed be a goddamn ad, but as a front end for my Apple TV/Playstation 4 it's quite good.

Except you can't fully disable ads unless they've patched it in the last 6 or so months. I had a very long back and forth with them about it and they kept denying it until finally admitting that it was impossible to disable. Worse, they were using the notification bar to advertise gamefly. Not cool. Keep in mind the TV I had was their flagship first gen 4k tv. There's no excuse for putting ads on a nearly 5k dollar tv.

> There's no excuse for putting ads on a nearly 5k dollar tv.

there is no excuse for putting ads on any tv without explicitly state it.

I bought a Samsung 4k TV ~1 year ago, and turning off the Smart TV features (smart hub, or whatever they called it) most definitely turned off the ads.

I'm not actually getting 4k video out of my TV, (since neither the apple tv or playstation support it), but I'm not terribly concerned about that (as I can't tell the difference at the distance I sit from my television).

I wanted a dumb TV anyway, but costco didn't have any at the size I was looking for when I purchased it.

Sounds like they may have fixed the options then. Before if you opted out of everything it would basically just ignore it. My solution was to just disconnect it from the internet. I haven't used their interface since and haven't had a need to since I have an nvidia shield which works wonderfully.

Holy shit, your appliance you paid for shows you ads. I thought ads on phones were bad 7 years ago. Wow.

Yeah, I was pretty miffed that my brand new $2k TV was showing me ads. Fortunately I didn't actually want a "Smart" TV, so I was content just turning that feature off.

If you don't mind me asking - how did you assert the quality of the picture? Did you use professional calibration or run some tests yourself?

Haha, certainly nothing so scientific. The picture just looks good to me, and compared with other TVs that I saw on display it was better than a number of the other options that were both cheaper and more expensive.

Out or curiosity where would it show ads to you? When it was in sleep mode or while you browsing something? This is the fist I have heard of this. I find this outrageous.

Well, I've seen many Galaxy S2s used in the worst of conditions. Right now I'm regularly marveling at an S6 Edge that has been dropped, and even purposely thrown to the wall by the owner, still work flawlessly with a cracked screen (even missing a big chunk of glass in the corner) and back... Pretty impressive.

But then again, I have an LG Optimus L9 that I thought would kick the bucket tomorrow for over a year now, and it keeps working...

Reply on news.ycombinator.com