Honey, I shrunk the TV (cakehonolulu.github.io)

4 pointsby cakehonolulu11 hours ago7 comments

deltarholamda 22 minutes ago

I get that running seven different kinds of cables everywhere was a bit of a faff, but honestly I miss those days now that I have to be an electrical engineer, a computer systems analyst and a network engineer just to have my TV play sounds.

(And I still have to turn the subtitles on because I can't quite hear what the people on the TV are saying.)

cakehonolulu 7 minutes ago

Exactly. I in part, chose this setup to avoid running cables; I figured that technology has come a long way… but here we are unfortunately.

roughly 44 minutes ago

“Why would Samsung do this?” Because they are a deeply, deeply consumer hostile brand. Do not buy Samsung consumer products, no matter what the feature set and price tag look like. They are not trying to provide you with a good or service in exchange for money, they are trying to take as much of your money as they can.

cakehonolulu 41 minutes ago

Yeah… fair enough. I’m honestly a noob when it comes to TV/Audio equipment so it doesn’t surprise me that I picked one of the worst brands out of the bunch… hah!

asdfqwertzxcv 24 minutes ago

I went through the cabled vs wireless run around with Q-Symphony as well until I just settled on using wireless.

The main, unsolved issue was getting the Samsung remote to also work as the cable box remote. Spent 2 full days working on that, to no avail. This will be the last Samsung TV I ever buy. It's back to projectors or industry display TVs for me.

cakehonolulu 5 minutes ago

I actually recall seeing an option on my TV to set up the Samsung remote as a ‘universal’ controller. I haven’t had the need to do so because I have a Philips Sync Box that handles HDMI-CEC for me (So I can basically use the TV’s controller on the devices connected to the Sync Box).

Oddly enough (At least in my model) the ‘trigger’ to setup the universal remote is within the ‘input sources’ menu?

cakehonolulu 11 hours ago

How I found out I could get a 2026+ TV feature working on a (Year) older one and a few other rants.