Comments on: Samsung LED TV with Medi@ 2.0 is not ready for me

By: Graham

Graham — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 03:07:20 +0000

I wish I read this before i bought UN32C5000 but info in english is rare on this subject and i’m still learning Portuguese. I would have done more testing. i just stuck in a pen drive and found that it played avi, mp4 & mkv but not m4v. I thought 3 out of 4 is good enough for me, but i forgot about subtitles at the time. I’m still learning but I think m4v is the only one that allows soft subtitles to be optional – doh! Subtitles are very important in a multi-lingual house hold! Anyway, the user manual says it supports a number of subtitle file formats, however no further information is given on how to actually ensure subtitle files load.

I think like probably all tv manufacturers, they put out too many models with too many features and not enough support. I wish apples were not such a rip off here in Brasil. I would be happy with a 30″ imac using elgato for tv but at over R$7,000.00.. forget it! Good luck in your search but i really think you might be better of with just hooking up the best monitor you can find to a pc. I think they call it a media center. Check out the mac mini, it’s got hdmi now. That might be blasphemy to an ibm employee though!

I guess your like me. You want one device with one remote that does everything. I think people like us will never be satisfied. For instance, you’ll find the tv of your dreams, get home and mount it on the wall and find that the sound is pitiful and you really need a sub. The samsung site says that my model has a sub [even i know what 'sim' means] but it doesn’t. I could complain but do you rekon they will do anything? Thanks for the opportunity to have a whinge!

By: soham

soham — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 15:15:08 +0000

hi ,
i hav samsung series 5 led tv. It played all video formats but recently i encountered a problem with h 264 file types. Im confused because even those which played perfectly well earlier do not play now. pls help me out.

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 13:37:28 +0000

I own a 47″ LG LED TV and it has the limitations that were described in the posting. It also has the superb quality picture. But to get around the audio codec problems I have tried to re-encode videos with h.264 video and mp3 audio in an MP4 container using Media Coder. But surprise… I get “Unknown Audio” as error message I have tried all kinds of combinations but as of today could not find anything that would work. If someone knows what video/audio codecs will actually work with these TVs please let me know. Thanks.

By: samsung love!!

samsung love!! — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 02:50:25 +0000

I”ve done the research and all i can say is that Samsung does rule!! 1st its super thin not too sure how many mm, 2nd the picture quality is amazing beyond words, even when i saw them at best buy they looked great but once i plugged in the blue ray OMG!! All im saying is do your research and you’ll see why Samsung is the leader in this technology! )

But yes you are right on that department, but cmon its a t.v just use your desktop!

By: Como será sua próxima TV « Avi Alkalay

Como será sua próxima TV « Avi Alkalay — Fri, 07 May 2010 06:41:24 +0000

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By: Andreas

Andreas — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:04:09 +0000

The wifi adapter does work with WPA, I have one (and I had a Samsung TV: not anymore). You may find that it won’t work if the passphrase has spaces in it, though.

My final opinion is like the Unix philosophy: do one thing and do it right. The TV has to have a good picture. Leave the rest for devices that know better (like a PS3, for example). But if you really want a TV that has some aspects of a media centre, then I would suggest to go with the LG SL80YD or SL90 (the LED one). Me, I’m staying with my Sony

Samsung has nice features. When it works.

By: Helio Chissini de Castro

Helio Chissini de Castro — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:46:01 +0000

Hi Avi

Well, run away as hell from Samsung, always read htforum ( in portuguese ) to see how bad is the status of wuality of “high end” tvś in Brazil ( i.e. friend of mine need to come to Procon )
If you want a tv that do everything up in your list, except for 6, go for new LG line ( 80yd or 90 LED )
I have one 80YD 32″ 240hz and plug my external NTFS drive ws a question of put the usb in and play. all files are basically supported except play 5.1 sound direct on tv, fo this you need sound going out to a receiver. The rest, even my mkv was playing fine and beatifull.
Upscale are excelente for SD files and attach a computer with hdmi and PS3 wows
So go and try the new LG’s, you will go out of the shop with one.