Electronics

[gadgetgal613]

In your post you said you couldn't understand what is so difficult about operating a TV or streaming service, the Google TV interface is what's so difficult for me. It's just a clunky mess. But adding a Fire Stick lets me bypass it. If all I knew was the Google TV interface, then yeah, I'd say it can be difficult. Even the easy things like pausing are a challenge that I had to look up. The Fire and Roku interfaces are easy. Google TV, not so much. 

I have 3 Smart TVs, 1 Sony and 2 Samsungs, and I stream using Apple TV.  I find the interface easy to use. The TVs in my bedrooms are only connected to the internet or an antenna.  I really should get rid of cable TV.  It's expensive and mostly junk shows. 

[Kachina624]

@gadgetgal613.  To whom are you addressing your comments?  They'll never know if you don't include a notification name.

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@In-x-s wrote:

I have tried a Samsung TV and didn't find it to be very user friendly and I am tech savvy.  We have several Roku TVs (TCL and Onn, specifically) and find them to be very user friendly even for my husband who has ZERO tech capability!!

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If you or anyone has basic tech skills, like how to get into the menu, you can figure out any device.  They all work the same.  You have a menu, source, channel up or down, and volumne control.  I don't understand what is so difficult about operating a TV or streaming service.   

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I didn't say I couldn't figure it out -- I said it was not as user friendly as the Roku.

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@Kachina624 wrote:

@gadgetgal613.  To whom are you addressing your comments?  They'll never know if you don't include a notification name.

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@Kachina624 

I assumed she was talking to me wondering why I couldn't figure out the Samsung.  I could figure it - out I just didn't like it.

[Ainhisg]

You know, this thread kind of went sideways from the original poster's intent, but I wish she had responded and let us know if she had internet, an old TV, a newish TV, etc.  We could have given her guidance if we had known those things.  

But since the thread went sideways, I'll just say that every TV we have is a Samsung.  I know there are other good brands out there so not dissing those.  When we got our first Samsung ("old" model was recommended by CNET as a best buy since a new version of the same model had just come out), I went on Youtube and watched videos on how to set/use all the settings and how to navigate the interface and the remote, as the remote *is* different.  We were so impressed with the quality and picture that there was no question what brand our next TV purchases would be.  This TV is our main TV and is on 24/7 when my husband is at home, so it has had a lot of use, and it still works just as well and looks just as good as it did 4 years ago.  Which TVs are considered disposable like everything else, so if it died tomorrow, we have gotten our good out of it, since it was not uber expensive. 

As an aside, the TV in my bedroom was a Vizio and not that old.  I am reasonably tech saavy, and I know what a previous poster meant about a TV not being intuitive to use.  I hated that TV!  lol  I knew how to use every bit of it, but you had to do a gazillion steps to get where you needed to be, and the interface was clunky and slow.  I gave it to my 9-year-old great-nephew and bought a Samsung.