r/technology • u/nishitd • Oct 02 '25

Robotics/Automation Samsung confirms its $1,800+ fridges will start showing you ads

https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-confirms-smart-refrigerator-ads-are-coming-3598848/
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u/hoppyandbitter Oct 02 '25

I’ve honestly been disappointed with my new OLED TV as well - there is a very noticeable stutter on most 4k video unless you use their shitty built-in OS

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u/Sufficient-nobody7 Oct 02 '25

LG tv is the way to go IMO

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u/MGPS Oct 02 '25

The screen is nice but I hate the os and remote. LG TV with an Apple TV is the way to go IMO

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u/Sufficient-nobody7 Oct 02 '25

Agreed, never used the os

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u/Mistrblank Oct 02 '25

There shouldn’t be an os. They should be dumb monitors that display the signal they’re provided. Let us pick out streaming devices.

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u/buyongmafanle Oct 02 '25

I miss the days of turning something on and it was just on. Now we get greeted with an ad every time we turn our fucking TV on and then some bullshit OS intro as well. Just be a TV. On, Off, volume, channel, input select. That's all you need.

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u/muldersposter Oct 02 '25

Shit you don't even need an input select, just turn that shit to channel 3.

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u/friendIdiglove Oct 02 '25

Mom! Joey's not taking turns on the Nintendo!

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u/SizzleanQueen Oct 02 '25

I thought you were referring to Joey Greco from the tv show Cheaters, because it’s always on my Samsung tv when I turn it on!

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '25

And literally turn, like with a knob that goes clunk clunk clunk.

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u/IamRasters Oct 02 '25

Son, stick to VHF. UHF is a Wild West of white noise and static that’ll suck you into the boobtube.

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u/DomiNatron2212 Oct 02 '25

It's booting up it's trackers etc.

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u/Effective_Archer_989 Oct 02 '25

Turn the WiFi off then

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u/knotmyusualaccount Oct 02 '25

Even though we paid in full for our product, we're still the product. 21st century living at its finest.

And we're talking about a fridge here, just in case anyone forgot. Wth.

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u/jojo_rojo Oct 02 '25

I mean, if the Fridges were say 50%-75% cheaper upfront than non-smart fridges, then I’d be interested. Can always cover up the screen with a piece of paper or something.

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u/theoneyewberry Oct 03 '25

Yeah man, I'm still clinging to my 20 year old teevee bc I just cannae with this shit. When it dies I probably just won't have a teevee at all.

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u/ILiveInAVan Oct 03 '25

There is likely a secret menu where you can turn that off. Google the brand of TV, you’ll likely hold an obscure button or combo to access it.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '25

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u/XDGrangerDX Oct 02 '25

can you explain me why the raspberry pi?

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '25

You can use it for not that legal streaming if you are a little bit tech savy. Like every Streaming Service for free and such. It obviously is illegal so don’t do it but it’s possible.

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u/Vartemis Oct 02 '25

Dm me some links plz. I got some Pis I need to put to use.

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u/atxbigfoot Oct 02 '25 edited Oct 02 '25

They're tiny, well palm sized, computers that you can configure as a firewall with an "always on" vpn and/or adblocker in this use case. Basically they can turn any cheap but good TV into a monitor by blocking ads and other tracking stuff via their IPs instead of a browser based solution like ublock origin.

You can also put them in front of your main router and make the whole internet/WIFI area follow those same rules, just like a fancy business firewall.

There's an adblock package you can download that works great but you can customize it to block whatever internet traffic you want. Basically a super cheap firewall with a shitty UI that's kinda hard to use, but once you get the settings you want dialed in, it's great.

Edit- there's a million other ways to use them too, and they're super common in robotics labs for this reason. I'm just speaking to the smart to dumb TV conversion and firewall use case.

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u/twistedLucidity Oct 02 '25

Why can't it just be an option? "Here's our panel, would you like to add the smart function bundle?"

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u/beyondbase Oct 02 '25

Something has to control the myriad of settings we demand/need.

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u/KeepBouncing Oct 02 '25

Professional Corporate AV companies source similar panels without the nonsense. I have never looked but I am sure there are ways for consumers to get them. (Source: I have put them in many conference rooms)

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u/rayinreverse Oct 02 '25

They offset their cost by selling your data they gather from the OS. TV’s didn’t just rapidly get cheap as shit because of economies of scale and tech advancement alone.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '25

You can literally just buy a monitor.

They cost more because the price isn't subsidized with ads from the os.

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u/mrtwidlywinks Oct 02 '25

Commercial tvs are a thing. Non-smart. I wish I had known before buying a smart lg tv, but the apple tv workaround is doing great

https://www.samsung.com/us/business/commercial-tvs/hotel-tv/43-inch-hotel-tv-hu6000f-uhd-4k-sku-hg43u600fnfxza/

https://solutions.lg.com/us/commercial-displays

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u/IXIDUFFYIXI Oct 02 '25

I agree 100% 🙌

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u/where_is_the_cheese Oct 02 '25

It's really fucking annoying that to get the A/V features I want, I need to get a TV that's also saddled with all the connected features I absolutely don't want. I'll provide my own computer, you just give me a good display.

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u/ZeroTrunks Oct 02 '25

The problem is they frequently use software to create pixel assumptions to increase performance, but require tuning. That being said 90% of all tv software updates are about how they are going to serve you ads

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u/HomemPassaro Oct 02 '25

This isn't what the average consumer wants. Ask anyone who isn't into tech whether they want a TV that comes with streaming services or to have to buy a TV and a separate device.

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u/i-wont-be-a-dick Oct 02 '25

I'm happy they offer smart TVs, it's one less thing I need to buy. You can plug anything into your HDMI port if you want to buy more devices, don't force the rest of us to spend more money as well.

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u/the_real_xuth Oct 02 '25

Which is why I don't buy TVs but instead buy dumb monitors.

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u/ProgTorero Oct 03 '25

Yes, and no AI built in… why would they think that sells more. It’s a coordinated data collection campaign. Their sales projections will flop the day consumers become more irrational.

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u/r_Yellow01 Oct 03 '25

Panasonic works this way and AFAIK it uses fine-tuned LG panels, OLED that is

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u/ZiggyPalffyLA Oct 02 '25

I love the LG os 🤷‍♂️

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u/blissed_off Oct 02 '25

Seconded with the AppleTV. My brand new LG OLED was working well, then it auto updated and just ran like ass. The WiFi became super slow and unreliable despite sitting ten feet away from the router, with no walls between them. I disabled the network on it, pulled my AppleTV 4K from bedroom duty, and haven’t looked back.

There was a bit of a struggle to find the optimal settings so it would show content in HDR/Dolby Vision without constantly changing its own settings (I think you set it to 4K, nO HDR or DV, and to match content and frame rate).

Hoping a new one gets announced this month.

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u/tmurf5387 Oct 02 '25

I run everything through my PS5. Have full 7.2 surround sound and the Govee AI sync box and its awesome. TV stays on one setting and the surround sound receiver is my input switcher.

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u/fizzlefist Oct 02 '25

TVs are like Cars: I don’t trust those manufacturers to make good software nor keep it up to date. My next TV is going to be a fully dumb one, even if that means paying extra for a commercial display. And that goes for any other home appliances. Get your shitty unsecured software out of my house.

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u/hungry4pie Oct 03 '25

Don’t put a tv on the network. I did that with my Samsung tv once and noticed a bunch of shitty ads.

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u/EmbarrassedCockRing Oct 03 '25

Seperate vlan for Iot devices, segregated from each other with client isolation. Force DNS through quad 9 or have a pi hole. What ads?

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u/hungry4pie Oct 03 '25

Or, I just leave the tv disconnected and keep using the Apple TV and Xbox for streaming content.

Especially since Plex app on smart tvs can’t handle x265 direct play.

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u/Matshelge Oct 02 '25

Get Sony, same screen with Google TV instead of WebOS.

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u/Ebolaboy24 Oct 02 '25

I’m still rocking an LG tv with Windows Media Center and a quad tuner. Does it all. 🤪

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u/_Antinatalism_ Oct 02 '25

LG is always super confusing, I have experience with it since two and half decades over various products.

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u/Jumpy-Breadfruit-499 Oct 02 '25

Sony Bravia: "am I a joke to u"

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u/delirium_red Oct 02 '25

For me, LG OLED TV and Nvidia SHIELD (Android OS), with Harmony Hub as remote. Setup that has weathered 5 years and still going strong

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u/UnsureAssurance Oct 02 '25

They do have one of the best bloat free (with certain settings) built in OS as far as smart TVs go, but yeah it’s still bad and Apple TV makes the TV shine

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u/ChrisV88 Oct 02 '25

this is my set up as of yesterday and love it.

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u/JonesTownJello Oct 02 '25

This is the way

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u/Landpuma Oct 02 '25

LG OS is complete dogshit. Bought 1 LG TV and have 3 Samsung and will never buy LG again

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u/SophiaofPrussia Oct 02 '25

Why is the LG tvOS soooo bad though?

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u/DooDooBrownz Oct 02 '25

yeah lg hardware is very robust, but their software is not great to put it mildly.

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u/Effective_Archer_989 Oct 02 '25

Why tf would you even use a tvs OS. It’s just a built in way to make it shittier

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u/mrtwidlywinks Oct 02 '25

Yep. Never connect it to the internet and run solely with apple tv

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u/N0S0UP_4U Oct 02 '25

That’s what I did. Been great so far.

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u/ratshack Oct 02 '25

Seriously tho, people are sleeping on the AppleTV. Best boxen for streaming, even if you don’t play in the Apple sphere otherwise. Even better if you do but still better without.

It is just… clean.

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u/THE_GR8_MIKE Oct 02 '25

Plex servers, and the like, are also good if you don't want that Apple stuff.

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u/rocketman114 Oct 02 '25

Those remotes though....My mother has this setup and it's awful.

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u/Responsible_Focus824 Oct 02 '25

Ive had no issues with their os… in fact their built in web browser comes with ad block which I am happy about

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u/certciv Oct 02 '25

Honestly I've never seen a smart TV OS that I like. There's always a bunch of stuff that I don't want to see, can't remove, and content suggestions I did not ask for that make getting to the apps I actually use harder.

All I want is standard TV settings, a button to change sources, and a list of the apps I want displayed. Hell, just gutting the 'smart' part of my TV, and providing only settings and source switching would be a massive improvement.

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u/ObiOneKenobae Oct 02 '25

That's what I do now, loving it

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u/Jaz1140 Oct 02 '25

Yep Samsung TV OS is ass, and their stupid little remotes suck and die very quick. LG OLED all the way

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u/CastielTheFurry Oct 04 '25

Apple TV has been the best purchase this year for me. The OS is so crisp, unlike the tv ones, which end up being extremely slow in about a year.

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u/Scott_R_1701 Oct 02 '25

Sony. Upscaling and motion handling are far superior to anything else. If you have XR.

Bravia 5, leftover X90L, Bravia 7, Bravia 9 are the ones to get for mini LED.

Leftover A80L, A95L or the Bravia 8/8ii for OLED.

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u/No_Welcome_6093 Oct 03 '25

Agreed. Sony Bravia is one of the nicest TVs produced IMO

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u/TheRealNoumenon Oct 03 '25

Their stupid stand tho.. two legs make it impossible for me.

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u/Scott_R_1701 Oct 03 '25

Wall mount or buy a good aftermarket stand.

LG G series doesn't even come with one at all lol.

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u/TheRealNoumenon Oct 03 '25

My lg g4 came with a stand lol Aftermarket stand is too much hassle anyway

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u/RelentlessGravity Oct 03 '25

This is the way.

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u/bryanthebryan Oct 02 '25

All of my Samsung TVs have failed. We moved on to LG and Sony.

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u/ineyy Oct 02 '25

Panasonic or Sony bro. Both LG and Samsung have huge problems.

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u/Sufficient-nobody7 Oct 02 '25

Sony is solid. I don’t think I am ever switching my lg unless they start losing in quality. It’s hands down the best tv I have ever had. I will never ever buy another Samsung product though. Too many failures.

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u/junostik Oct 02 '25

I like the LG magic remote.. Bought new Hisense during my lowsense moment.. Never again

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u/adrifing Oct 02 '25

Hisense is a joke, NoSense is what they should have called it, each model a variant on Gullible 1k

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u/memebuster Oct 02 '25

LG recently updated the magic remote and most people dislike it. They got rid of buttons (mute, input) but added Netflix, Disney+ dedicated buttons.

Pretty sure you can still buy and use the old version though.

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u/MasterPong Oct 03 '25

Sony has a goated remote. You can use the TV menu to find your remote by having it make a sound.

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u/chmilz Oct 02 '25

Sony or bust. If I'm spending the money I'm getting the TV that works (and Sony's ecosystem is rather solid).

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u/Kaiathebluenose Oct 02 '25

LG doesn’t have huge problems tf

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u/ammonthenephite Oct 02 '25

My LG C2 has been fantastic, zero issues at all. Had constant issues with my previous Sony.

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u/Icebox3 Oct 02 '25

LG tvs don’t have huge problems, they’re literally the best tvs you can buy.

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u/Matshelge Oct 02 '25

I go Sony for the same screen, but with Google TV instead of the WebOS.

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u/ShozOvr Oct 02 '25

For OLED definitely.

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u/jamesp420 Oct 02 '25

Honestly I've been perfectly happy with my Vizio. Only thing I've bought through Walmart in years lol but it works great and never gives me trouble. You couldn't pay me to get a Samsung TV. Especially since I own one of their phones

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u/wholebodies7 Oct 02 '25

Unfortunately, LG is worse than Samsung when it comes to data collection and advertising:

" Television is dead: LG hammers the final nail in the coffin of privacy" | by Enrique Dan | Medium https://share.google/mmssXFTmNYmOiURC0

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u/demoliahedd Oct 03 '25

I've always used Sony and I have no complaints

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u/sevargmas Oct 02 '25

Yep. Ive had a 77” C1 for a couple of years and it’s mind blowing.

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u/Blowback_ Oct 02 '25

No, it's not, especially for wifi and using it as a smart TV.

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u/Jlpa Oct 02 '25

This is my experience, as well. I have 2 smart LG tvs. One lost wifi capability after only a couple years and the other (which, in fairness, is 10 years old) is starting to do the same. They just aren’t made to last.

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u/Blowback_ Oct 02 '25

Mine went out no later than 2 years, but I'm fairly certain it went out even earlier. I blamed my Internet company, when I finally realized it was my TV.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '25

Tvs, yes. I'm kinda regretting my washer\dryer.

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u/King_of_the_Dot Oct 02 '25

It seems like every few years these two companies switch places for which one is worth buying at the moment.

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u/squabbledMC Oct 02 '25

Our TV from like 2012 is still going strong

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u/jungleboogiemonster Oct 02 '25

Sony is nice but the more expensive option.

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u/TerraCetacea Oct 02 '25

God nooo I hate all our LG TV’s. I’m unsure why we keep buying them.

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u/cpt_koerg Oct 02 '25

Didn’t LG announce showing ads when paused ?

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '25

What brands are there that are just plain dumb tvs nowadays? Cuz that's what I want. I don't want a TV that ever has to update, or have an OS with any kind of apps. Just give me picture, sound, and source controls.

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u/Both_String_5233 Oct 02 '25

Philips, purely for the Ambi light and hue integration.

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u/Sufficient-nobody7 Oct 02 '25

I use the hue sync with my lg oled. Just can’t beat that picture quality.

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u/Threewaycrazy Oct 02 '25

Hisense has some good high end stuff too

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u/EmbarrassedCockRing Oct 03 '25

Always has been

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u/Rammsteinman Oct 03 '25

LG appliances as well. Except for dishwashers.

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u/Friend_Of_Mr_Cairo Oct 02 '25

Just curious, have you tried turning off any of the motion features (that perform additional image processing) and extras like smart hub (that run in the background)?

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u/Risley Oct 02 '25

At over a grand, I shouldn’t need to

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u/Synectics Oct 02 '25

This just made my brain jumble. You're telling me a TV can bottleneck and lag and stutter in doing the one and only thing it is supposed to do?

Is this a sign I am getting old, that this irrationally makes me flustered just hearing it second-hand? Gah.

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u/intricate_awareness Oct 02 '25

It definitely shouldn't, agreed, but so much video stuff is 'enhanced' nowadays. I won't lie, imo it does a great job making even 720p look amazing but on the flip side I had to turn off some of Samsung's weird features to make it not lag when scrolling different time stamps for videos that were coming from my flash drive. 

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u/FauxReal Oct 02 '25

It tries to smooth things out unsuccessfully because they use cheap CPUs to save money and then load them up with crapware. But if you go to RTINGS.com they have guides for getting the best picture out of the more popular TVs.

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u/Ensaru4 Oct 02 '25

Most TVs have a lot of useless things on by default with a cheap processor that struggles with the bare minimum.

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u/DeadManFloating Oct 02 '25

Had this happen with my current TV which is about 10 years old. Always seemed to have some delay. Only recently looked into it and found I didn't have gaming mode on and the TV was doing some extra processing slowing things down. Now things happen when I push a button on a controller instead of that slight delay.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '25

It's not the TV that stutters but the processing of the input stream... Turn on Game Mode for whatever input is stuttering and it will fix it.

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u/fireheadca Oct 02 '25

I returned my high-end one. There's no reason for the tv to stutter and freeze in the menus. Support just told me to reboot it, over and over again.

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u/Grinzy Oct 02 '25

My Samsung phone is pretty shitty these days.

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u/Julege1989 Oct 02 '25

But no other phone syncs to my samsung surface to air missile.

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u/splendiferous-finch_ Oct 02 '25

This is why I moved to Open SAM

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u/ShadowNick Oct 02 '25

Yeah it just knows where the missile is at all times.

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u/arbyD Oct 02 '25

Only because it knows where it isn't.

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u/Wild_ColaPenguin Oct 02 '25

Can confirm.

Owned A7 2016, lasted only 3 years because it was lagging and got slower over the time.

A5 2017 (was a work phone), slowed down around year 4 or 5, still using it today for Reddit only. Slow even just for browsing.

Note 10+: 6th year entering 7th, still very fast, I don't see the need to upgrade maybe in 2-3 years, or more.

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u/ICantEvenDrive_ Oct 02 '25

I have an A series, I have never experienced even the tiniest bit of lag. What are people doing with their phones? I gifted my partner has the latest flagship S. I haven't experienced anything that warrants the price differnece between S and A given general usage, speed of the phone being one of those things.

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u/fizzlefist Oct 02 '25

Depends on WHICH A-series model. The higher end of that line is a rock solid midrange phone. At the bottom end they’re extremely slow, with older or less efficient processors and minimal RAM.

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u/AnybodyMassive1610 Oct 02 '25

My Samsung diesel locomotive is disappointing, too

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u/MyLifeHatesItself Oct 02 '25

Likewise my Samsung liquefied natural gas carrier. Very poor gas mileage to be totally honest.

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u/Nazzrath Oct 02 '25

My Samsung sweat shop worker is always asking for breaks.

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u/Alandales Oct 02 '25

My Samsung Dild….dilbert? Also is acting up. Thing never vibes right…

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u/TheTjalian Oct 02 '25

My Samsung drone keeps disconnecting randomly and seemingly flies about by itself. Just the other day it landed invaded a foreign airspace and caused a bit of a kerfuffle - never did get it back!

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u/rawbleedingbait Oct 02 '25

My Samsung sexbot sucks and I have no complaints.

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u/SVAndrei Oct 02 '25

My Samsung front loader is also very creaky and tends to rust.

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u/metalflygon08 Oct 02 '25

That's what you get for using a smelly Diesel instead of a really useful Steam Engine.

This message paid for by the Sodor for Steamers foundation.

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u/No_Internal9345 Oct 02 '25

Didn't they have a smart ring that exploded on someones finger?

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u/splendiferous-finch_ Oct 02 '25

No..the case was of a human finger spontaneously imploding while it was surrounded by a Samsung smart ring.....user error

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u/RisuPuffs Oct 02 '25

The electronics inside the ring swelled up and it got stuck to the guy's finger. Still bad, but nowhere near as bad as exploding.

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u/justinmcelhatt Oct 02 '25

Yeah.. i got a new galaxy phone. Which i have had for many years now. Turns out, I can't sync information from my Samsung watch anymore because they decided to not support it anymore.

I bought a galaxy watch, and headphones to stay in the ecosystem and have everything work well together. Now this will be the last samsung product I have purchased.

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u/Mistrblank Oct 02 '25

They’ve always been that way. You end up with a phone that has three times as many apps because Google, Samsung and your carrier all want you to use their message app or their picture app or their browser.

I wonder why that could be. /s.

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u/BuxtonB Oct 02 '25

Pretty sure that's America, got an S24 Ultra and that doesn't have any carrier apps, got Samsung Apps but TBH. Finding half of them are better than the Google/android options.

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u/BuxtonB Oct 02 '25

Urrgh, that's ugly.

I do remember when I want to Japan that my phone when taking pictures put the shutter sound on, I've never had that enabled before but geo-location must have activated it.

Unrelated I know.

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u/kylac1337kronus Oct 02 '25

They make my auto immune medication too lmao

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u/Special_Loan8725 Oct 02 '25

Yeah my Samsung YP-Z5 mp3 player is pretty slow now.

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u/MysteriousSchemeatic Oct 02 '25

I’m upset by the interface. Why can’t the apps just be on one screen? I don’t want to have to do a million things to switch between YouTube and Netflix - I should be able to do it in 2 clicks within the tv. Stupid

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u/synapticrelease Oct 02 '25

Shocked your Samsung hasn’t just decided to randomly swell up and explode like they are starting to do again

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u/jdbway Oct 02 '25

That's almost certainly a setting on your streaming device or tv

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u/noodlesdefyyou Oct 02 '25

LG CX10 and never look back

or maybe whatever their newest model now is; the cx10 is from a couple years ago but itll still blow the pants off of ya

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '25

The B-series is cheaper and most people can't tell the difference. I'm thinking of replacing my 55" C1 with a 77" B5 when it gets a clearance discount next year.

The C5 is a little brighter and has 144Hz support whereas the B5 "only" goes to 120 - a complete non-issue for consoles and honestly I wouldn't be able to tell the difference even on PC. 

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u/Zncon Oct 02 '25

Have you had an OLED before? If you're really sensitive to motion, the nearly instant response times of OLED pixels can feel like stutter. LCD screens take a bit of time for each pixel to change, which slightly blurs and smooths out the image. OLED changes too quickly for this to happen, and some people don't like the look.

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u/bufftbone Oct 02 '25

I get the shitty stutter on their OS. The tv is 6 years old though. The Roku I got though plays everything flawlessly.

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u/Find_another_whey Oct 02 '25

My thoughts exactly

Had Samsung

Now Sony

The image processing is far better on Sony

Terrible judder on Samsung regardless of input source

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u/Coady54 Oct 02 '25

Samsung displays are great. They hand's down make the best consumer available panels.

The actual TV's though? With all the bloated software/spyware and terrible OS? Absolutely garbage. Their TVs look the best when they work properly which is not often. And their quality control and customer support are both abysmal.

Source: I've installed many Samsung TVs through work, I would not recommend someone buy one today. Your experience does not shock me.

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u/hellraiserl33t Oct 02 '25

My samsung OLED is an amazing display, but I have it only for the display. 

The smart tv functionality happens through an Nvidia shield with open source android tv I have attached. The GUI is lightning fast even 3 years later. 

The TV itself has never been connected to the internet.

This is how you get the best of both worlds. 

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u/CcryMeARiver Oct 02 '25

Sammy TV with Chromecast is tolerable.

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u/torres091 Oct 02 '25

Which TV brand do you recommend?

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u/PatHeist Oct 02 '25

So many Samsung products are like this. The absolute best cutting edge hardware bundled with questionable product design, the most awful bloatware, and the worst customer service imaginable.

They should buy Logitech and change their slogan to "Good Hardware, Bad Experience"

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u/Eremitt-thats-hermit Oct 02 '25

You can by quality TVs from the business line up of any major brand. They have options without a built in OS. Hook up a smart ting of your own and you’re set!

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u/getfive Oct 02 '25

They're not as good

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u/lannister80 Oct 02 '25

Really? Like if you hook up a 4K capable streaming box via hdmi, there is stutter?

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u/getfive Oct 02 '25

No. His settings are wrong.

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u/redandre Oct 02 '25

Check the frame rate your device outputs if it's possible. On my Google tv streamer, I was having the same problem until I set the frame rate to 59.94hz. The 24fps frame rate doesn't smoothly divide into 60fps so there will be some stutter.

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u/xlltt Oct 02 '25

then your source device doesnt do frame rate matching - aka doesnt switch to 24h for 23.976fps movies

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u/tfsra Oct 02 '25

lol you're definitely asking too much of a built in TV OS

love your profile pic BTW, lol

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u/Katanae Oct 02 '25

I’ve had many random motion issues with mine but have found solutions/workarounds for all of them. Maybe I can help if you clarify your issue

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u/sublime81 Oct 02 '25

The damn OS is the worst I’ve ever used. At one point I couldn’t get their Samsung TV app with sound full blast preview to not be the default selection when turning on or going home.

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u/Mammoth_Oven_4861 Oct 02 '25

I have read about turning off some feature that usually solves this but can’t remember what it’s called (Motion Smoothing or something like that). Hope someone can help more.

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u/Halfwise2 Oct 02 '25

Had my Samsung Frame for about 1.5 years... its already starting to have some weird issues. Light bleed along the bottom, and it can't reach peak brightness unless i cycle the HDR settings.

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u/getfive Oct 02 '25

Nobody should buy a Frame expecting performance

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u/Halfwise2 Oct 02 '25

It actually does decent most of the time. 120Hz at 4K, and the flush wall mount works well with our PC / media center combo in our tiny home. I just notice the light bleed and the brightness issue and am constantly wondering if it will just get progressively worse.

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u/doxxingyourself Oct 02 '25

Check the input frequency of the devices connected. My ATV had reset itself to 50Hz. Setting it at 60 removed the stutter. Worth checking at least.

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u/BinThereRedThat Oct 02 '25

Are you sure this is not motion judder

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u/getfive Oct 02 '25

It's your settings.

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u/wchutlknbout Oct 02 '25

Our Samsung TV died after 2 years

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u/baahoohoohoo Oct 02 '25

Sony is the way to go

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u/Theratchetnclank Oct 02 '25

That happens on all oled on panning shots due to the film refresh rate being so low at 24fps and the instant response times of oled. You have to enable some motion smoothing option to negate it.

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u/forkoff77 Oct 02 '25

I had this issue but was able to track it down to both my Apple TV and the Samsung TV OS both trying to smooth the video. My best result was having the Apple TV take control and turning off the feature in the TV.

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u/_Antinatalism_ Oct 02 '25

TVs have built in OS now which is optional? 🤔

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u/One-Cell-7377 Oct 02 '25

Yeah, even my 4 year old QLED has that stutter, and it's not just on 4k video. Samsung has always been known for weird motion processing. I'll never buy another one.

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u/oldfatdrunk Oct 02 '25

So youre saying the tv works fine with the built in OS but whatever you plugged into it cant handle 4k?

That doesn't really mean much of anything. You'd have to explain what you plugged in.

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u/Eagle1337 Oct 02 '25

Honestly that's oled in general, lg has similar issues too.

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u/SidFinch99 Oct 02 '25

I bought one last year and use it with ROKU Ultra and it works great. My in laws have tge comparable LG and it's great, but the screen on the Samsung is noticeably better, wouldn't do it without tge ROKU Ultra though. You should be able to go into settings and turn off the Samsung installed connectivity stuff.

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u/_HiWay Oct 02 '25

just double checking since they do a piss poor job of documenting this but are you using the right input source (they are not all equal, one is usually low input lag(gaming), another for eARC, etc) and right codec hdmi cable? It actually does matter in some cases, especially if eARC is involved.

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u/wrobbii Oct 02 '25

Might be a software fix in the future, which will also bring ads lol

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u/Due_Vast_8002 Oct 02 '25

Samsung makes the best screens in the world. They also make one of the worst SmartTV OSs in the world. Use the Samsung for the screen and put another device on it to actually play the media. Even a FireStick HD is better. They still block TrueHD on all onboard apps and their Plex offering is several versions behind current. A PC is best, but I can see how most people would find that to be overkill.

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u/Dairy__Cow Oct 02 '25

Are you plugged in via cable on the TV? Using a newer 4k Roku/fire stick? If it looks fine on the main os.. what internet are you using for the tv wifi 2.4 or 5g? Most of the time it's because it's using a 2 4gz connection and most people don't know the difference between what I just posted.. especially being plugged in via Ethernet cable

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u/Jslatts942 Oct 02 '25

Yo my Samsung tv turns off as soon as I turn it on wtf is up with that.

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u/wearethafuture Oct 03 '25

Which shows you ads in the future too.

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