Samsung TV and DLNA

davb

I have been asked by a friend if his TV setup can play media over a network from a NAS drive (if he gets one). He has a Samsung UE46C8000 TV and a Samsung HT-C6930W/XEU home cinema system. The NAS drive he gets will have a DLNA server built in, but he hasn't got it yet.

Both units have network connections, for internet TV etc, but the only thing mentioned in the manuals about LAN streaming is that it uses what Samsung call Allshare, and involves installing Samsung software on the host PC called ‘PC Share Manager’. This is where it gets confusing, as I think the software is actually a DLNA server, but they don’t say that.

Does anyone have any idea if these units will connect to a NAS drive with DLNA, thanks.

fwor

I'd like to know more about this too, as I want to buy a DLNA-compliant TV to use with my MythTV media server (which is a compliant DLNA server).

As I understand it, you shouldn't need to use Samsung's own DLNA server but... I've also heard that Samsung's user interface for DLNA on their TVs is very poor (or was when I asked mid last year).

Hopefully someone will come along soon with experience of Allshare on one of the latest Samsung models - and hopefully they will have better news...

custardy

no experience of your set up,but i would expect the TV to look for DNLA servers
I use PS3 media server on my PC and it see's my TV as a WD TV server(its an LG) and the TV sees the files
however i would say i find the TV slow to browse with
so i stick with the PS3/360 for streaming

davb

custardy wrote: »

no experience of your set up,but i would expect the TV to look for DNLA servers

That's what I am hoping, but just can't find any confirmation.
We have an LG tv that finds my Netgear NAS DLNA server no problem, and I think the Samsung will be the same - just confusing as they only mention network support with their software, which is obviously no use on a NAS.

doverswot

I have a Panasonic Viera TV which works fine with my DLNA compliant NAS server. TV Interface is simple, usable and responsive. No personal experience of Samsung but was interested (sad I know)so did a quick google. Samsung manual for their All Share product suggests to me that you do need to have this running on a PC to enable the TV to access DLNA content which, if the case, is less attractive than native support from the TV as per the panasonic. Link to the manual -- http://www.samsung.com/us/pdf/dlna_guide.pdf