Sony software faster on a Samsung Smart-TV
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PlayStation Now turned my awful Samsung Smart TV into a fun gaming system
Sony games on non-Sony hardware? Can it really be possible?!
No surprise for people here after reading all those success stories from Samsung in the software area but ...
For all my complaining about my Smart TV's performance, PlayStation now runs amazingly well! Starting the service seems to completely unload the on-board Smart TV software to the point that the power button on the TV doesn't even work in the PS Now app. On most smart devices you would expect an app to run on top of the operating system, but the Smart TV software is completely off, and PS Now takes over the whole TV.
Once PS Now launches, you can immediately feel the difference. Arrowing through the menus, which used to be a slow, sluggish process, is now fast and snappy. PlayStation 3 games actually start, and run, and run well. The whole experience was a level of performance I didn't know my Smart TV was capable of.
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i clicked through that article expecting the TV to be performing better because of the freaking PS4 plugged in the back!
i was quite surprised when that was not the case, and now i don't know what to think....
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@accalia said:
i don't know what to think
I know what I'm not going to do: buy a Samsung product
well duh.
nor will i buy a sony product TYVM
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I've seen Samsung Smart TV, seems pretty functional.
Unlike, say Phillips TV, which is borderline unusable.
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I only buy Phillips TVs for their screen (which is really really good, especially the anti-glare coating or whatever it is) and Ambilight, and only use them to show external video sources (cable box / PC). The onboard software is shitty and slow as hell.
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So no Samsung, no Phillips, no Sony, ...
Is there anything non-shitty left?
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hmmmmm..........
was there ever any non-shitty option?
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Sharp, maybe?
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Buy a dumb TV and attach your own smart device (probably in the form of an Android stick or a larger HTPC).
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Buy a dumb TV and attach your own smart device
This. Your TV should last at five to ten years - you can easily go through five generations of Chrome Casts, Amazon Fire TVs, and whatever else comes along in that time.
There are very few downsides to buying separate and very few upsides to having software embedded in the TV.
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I'm confused about what this is. Is PS Now the "Vita-in-a-set-top-box" game console? And it's built into the Samsung TV? Or is it a PS3? ... hm.
Well anyway, considering you can fit Vita hardware in a Roku-sized box for like $200, it's not surprising a TV company would install them in a TV. If it's a PS3 that's a little weirder.
EDIT: oh it's not the Vita set-top, it's the game streaming service. That only requires a network connection and MP4-decoding hardware, so that makes more sense.
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I have a Panasonic from like 2011.
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Is PS Now the "Vita-in-a-set-top-box" game console?
No, that's the Playstation TV. Which is super idiomatic and easy to remember: the Playstation TV is a console, the PS Now runs on your TV.
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PlayStation TV is the "Vita-in-a-set-top-box" game console... and from what I heard, it's on sale on Amazon for like $40 right now. Although that is for the version with no memory card or controller.
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No, that's the Playstation TV. Which is super idiomatic and easy to remember: the Playstation TV is a console, the PS Now runs on your TV.
Clear as mud now. Thanks.
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thatsthejoke.mp4
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@blakeyrat said:
Is PS Now the "Vita-in-a-set-top-box" game console?
No, that's the Playstation TV. Which is super idiomatic and easy to remember: the Playstation TV is a console, the PS Now runs on your TV.
Note that PS Now also runs on the PlayStation TV (and Vita and PS4).
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SmartTV is the way for manufacturers to have programmed obsolescence. Remember the time when a TV lasted 20 years? Well, that can't happen any more.
For example, the certification process for Samsung or LG goes way back to 2013 only. This means that any new application that comes out doesn't have to work with 2-3 year old devices even when they pretty much could work.
Anyway, my advice is to get a good dumb TV (or completely ignore the SmartTV thing) and also a setup box. I particularly like Roku because its store is not filled with crap... yet.
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Well, that can't happen any more
Sure it can. Just ignore smart features when buying a TV. The only people that get suckered are people that actually use the smart features and realize that the TV app never picks up new services that come out and eventually stops working with the existing services. Even those people always have the option of dropping $35 on a ChromeCast instead of considering their TV obsolete and buying a new one.
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Why would people shell out for a supposedly "smart" TV and not for a simple midrange PC in a small form factor case with an IR receiver is beyond me. I mean, if I ever did own a TV, that's the first thing I'd do with it - just plug a computer in.
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Exactly.
I even noticed the Blu-Ray player I got my mother for her birthday has PSNow on it.
Then again, it was a Sony1.
1Mainly because they're one of the few I could find that Amazon says can play Amazon Prime videos. And in fact, that's mainly what Mom uses it for (she watched all of Downton Abbey on it, for instance).
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I'm not sure if large TV's come without SmartTV software.
if I ever did own a TV
Right...
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Right...
Well I did back at my family home, but the only "smart" thing about it was supporting Teletext. Which is still more than we've used it for.
So forgive me if I'm a bit, uh, out of the loop.
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I'm not sure if large TV's come without SmartTV software.
Whether they come with it is irrelevant. If a consumer pays more for a TV or gets an inferior picture or fewer features for the same price by intentionally choosing a model with smart features, then that consumer made a bad choice. If you end up with a better TV at the same price, or pay less for the same, and the TV happens to have smart features that you will never use, then those smart features are causing no harm.
In Consumer Reports' most recent TV comparison article, they mentioned that most of their best buys happened to be models that would be described as "Smart TVs". They also generally noted that 3D TVs often have better pictures than non-3D TVs. So, you are often better off buying a TV with features you will never use.
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