Customer with a Nice New Samsung TV

Channel Hopper

Channel Hopper

Suffering fools, so you don't have to.
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My Satellite Setup
A little less analogue, and a lot more crap.
My Location
UK
Tells me it's 4K and comes with all the gubbins.

I managed to advise him over the phone last week how to get the thing connected 'smartly' to his wifi system and 'success' , no more calls until an hour ago.

He wants to have some streamed radio stations played through it and onto the sound bar.

I suggested it might be better to check through the various services that would surely be shown under the main screen (Netflix / iPlayer and 4 at a guess) and look for something like
spotify and so on.

Spotify is an account only service and after finding nothing else useful I said just go to the Samsung internet service and ask the main Google page (which he can do, with a microphone built into the TV)

When asking for particular radio streams he likes the TV suggests that he install Macromedia Flash , which I doubt it will do. I suspect he is on pages for the particular stations to stream from those, rather than accessing them directly as an internet service.
So what can a really smart tv do to resolve searching and accessing internet stations directly ?
 
Use the AM/FM tuner function on his home entertainment receiver......If he has one.............................................Sorry....My fault.
 
Channel Hopper said:
Tells me it's 4K and comes with all the gubbins.

I managed to advise him over the phone last week how to get the thing connected 'smartly' to his wifi system and 'success' , no more calls until an hour ago.

He wants to have some streamed radio stations played through it and onto the sound bar.

I suggested it might be better to check through the various services that would surely be shown under the main screen (Netflix / iPlayer and 4 at a guess) and look for something like
spotify and so on.

Spotify is an account only service and after finding nothing else useful I said just go to the Samsung internet service and ask the main Google page (which he can do, with a microphone built into the TV)

When asking for particular radio streams he likes the TV suggests that he install Macromedia Flash , which I doubt it will do. I suspect he is on pages for the particular stations to stream from those, rather than accessing them directly as an internet service.
So what can a really smart tv do to resolve searching and accessing internet stations directly ?
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We got a Samsung 4K last year, Freeview and Freesat tuner but I believe its a waste to run a TV to listen to radio. Better to buy an internet radio and plug that into the sound bar.
 
Channel Hopper said:
Tells me it's 4K and comes with all the gubbins.

I managed to advise him over the phone last week how to get the thing connected 'smartly' to his wifi system and 'success' , no more calls until an hour ago.

He wants to have some streamed radio stations played through it and onto the sound bar.

I suggested it might be better to check through the various services that would surely be shown under the main screen (Netflix / iPlayer and 4 at a guess) and look for something like
spotify and so on.

Spotify is an account only service and after finding nothing else useful I said just go to the Samsung internet service and ask the main Google page (which he can do, with a microphone built into the TV)

When asking for particular radio streams he likes the TV suggests that he install Macromedia Flash , which I doubt it will do. I suspect he is on pages for the particular stations to stream from those, rather than accessing them directly as an internet service.
So what can a really smart tv do to resolve searching and accessing internet stations directly ?
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On my Sony 49” 4K tv the only options to stream is via the inbuilt dlna/upnp player or Spotify.

Some TVs have air play that could be a work round.
 
Thanks, I will tell him to open another can of worms tomorrow.

Only guessing here, but I assume he might be able to download TuneIn on his mobile, then stream whatever he gets to the television .....
 
If the soundbar has Bluetooth, many of them do, then he can just stream direct to that from his mobile.
 
I was initially hoping everything that might be of interest to him could be chosen from the television remote and the internal microphone.

The use of another device to add streamed radio stations seems ludicrous when there is already a direct Internet connection and content available.
 
Worth checking for Shoutcast in the apps.... my Panny has radio.net and Shoutcast. My LG, sadly, doesn't.

Also agree it's a bit overkill to run the TV for a bit of audio
 
pgh13 said:
Worth checking for Shoutcast in the apps.... my Panny has radio.net and Shoutcast. My LG, sadly, doesn't.

Also agree it's a bit overkill to run the TV for a bit of audio
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Perhaps, but since this is an amazing piece of kit, forms the centrepiece of his living room and has the ability to pull 4k stuff straight off the internet, if he can't do a 'bit of audio' with it then modern consumer equipment features need a kick up the backside.

I will check about Shoutcast
 
Samsung do Spotify app and you can turn off the screen and also Shoutcast app.
 
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