TV recommendation, and some very basic questions

DullGreyGuy

longwalks1 said:

Thanks everyone. The Samsung we have is a smart TV, but it’s slow and the thumb pad on the remote takes forever to navigate the ons teen keyboard when logging into a web page.

Can you get something more ‘mouse like’ to use with a smart TV?

RumRat's question is very important... OLED are fantastic, I too have an LG "C" OLED and will be replacing it with the latest model fairly soon but their brightness is materially less than an LCD/LED screen. If your kitchen is bright then OLED may not be the answer.

If its just the smart TV element of your current TV you dont like then you can easily add a FireStick, AppleTV or whatever your preferred tech giant is and use that instead of the built in smarts. Our LG apps do occasionally lag so we tend to use our AppleTV for 95% of watching because it never misses a beat... we have a fire stick too but currently out projector isnt using the latest copy protection and so it limits itself to HD rather than 4k but its useful for getting US TV via VPN

RumRat

longwalks1 said:

Thanks everyone. The Samsung we have is a smart TV, but it’s slow and the thumb pad on the remote takes forever to navigate the ons teen keyboard when logging into a web page.

Can you get something more ‘mouse like’ to use with a smart TV?

Attaching something to navigate the keyboard won't necessarily speed things up if the TV is just slow.....Get a streaming device and you can forget the built in system of your TV.

J_B

RumRat said:

.....Get a streaming device and you can forget the built in system of your TV.

Firesticks on offer at Argos again, so they say ...

RumRat

Yes....ARGOS FireStick

J_B

RumRat said:

Yes....ARGOS FireStick

Or even this https://www.argos.co.uk/search/fire-tv-stick   

400ixl

As others have suggested, put the new TV in the Lounge and an OLED would be a good choice and only consider the retina burning QLED if the TV is facing directly into sunlight.

Then move the current TV to the kitchen and plug in an Amazon Fire Stick to do the smart features (removing the need for the slow interface and old controls).

RumRat

J_B said:

RumRat said:

Yes....ARGOS FireStick

Or even this https://www.argos.co.uk/search/fire-tv-stick   

I was thinking that I should give the benefit of the doubt when it comes to posters IQ....and that they may be able to handle some choice....😉😁

getmore4less

RumRat said:

J_B said:

RumRat said:

Yes....ARGOS FireStick

Or even this https://www.argos.co.uk/search/fire-tv-stick   

I was thinking that I should give the benefit of the doubt when it comes to posters IQ....and that they may be able to handle some choice....😉😁

Given the number of people that post that have failed to grasp Google basics that iq number is probably quite low.