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| Thread ID: 125300 | 2012-06-19 08:06:00 | Internet Tv | Poppa John (284) | PC World Chat |
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| 1282718 | 2012-06-19 08:06:00 | Hi All, We have been looking at Smart TVs that can connect to the Internet. We're wondering if the Internet is CLEAR on these T.V's...You Tube videos, etc, in a home situation! Any helpful comments appreciated. Thanks PJ |
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| 1282719 | 2012-06-19 08:20:00 | Apologies for double post. PJ | Poppa John (284) | ||
| 1282720 | 2012-06-19 08:30:00 | I would be careful buying a tv on its smart features, tv is a long term purchase where as the features on the smart side things might not be able to be upgraded. Better off using a secondary box for your smart features. | plod (107) | ||
| 1282721 | 2012-06-19 09:18:00 | I agree with Plod - we bought a Samsung about 2 years ago and it has the "widgets" to see things on the Internet (Youtube displays well) but you are dependent on the TV manufacturer writing the widgets for NZ. I was hoping for things like TVNZ on-demand but it never happened despite my TV "phoning home" at 4am every morning. I think that Samsung have now changed the code and the newer TVs have widgets I don't have. When I tried ringing Samsung I got nowhere. I would put more faith in a separate STB - but you need to talk to existing NZ owners about what services/links/widgets they provide. |
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| 1282722 | 2012-06-19 16:42:00 | If you want actual internet tv it might be better to get an apple tv device and jailbreak it then install XBMC. I have a Settop box model Ultraplus x9200 which also allows the user to enter streams for internet tv viewing. For example I can watch BBC1 BBC2 and various other channels direct from the U.K all in fairly good quality. But at around 500 MB traffic per hour it does chew up the data cap pretty fast. |
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