I have just bought a 'smart' Samsung telly. Its great, a quantum leap from the last one, a Sony. It is pretty amazing, connected to the internet it can bring back anything. However, there is one function I would like to do but not sure how to set it up. I would like to be able to record, pause, skip etc programmes. As I understand it, I just need to plug in a USB storage device. Is this right? If so, do external USB3 hard-drives just plug in using the standard USB plug? I am a bit naive here.
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Im kind of in the same boat as I bought a Sony Blu Disk player last week that has a network capability and have connected it to my NAS and foynd I couldn't see anything on the private partition so have had to move everything over to the public partion but that's easier said than done as it doesn't delete the original until its moved it so I've got a space issue so have had to use a 2nd drive as an intermediary and its taking an age, it was at it all day yesterday but I can now see mp3's and movies on the Blu Ray and also the Smart Tv in the bedroom too ;-)
I would be very interested to know how this works exactly. I have a Sony Bravia which I think also has the USB-port. So in principle you could copy a DVD movie to an external hard drive, connected to your computer via the USB port and then watch that movie on the telly by connecting the hard drive via that USB-port? Is it really that simple?
I bought a Samsung UE48H6670ST from Currys.
Memory sticks are not supported for the TV. Going to buy a USB 3 external hard drive to check this out!
Memory sticks are not supported for the TV. Going to buy a USB 3 external hard drive to check this out!
Bought a Samsung D3 2Tb hard drive with USB3 for less than £60. I can remember the time when I was blown away with the idea of have a terrabyte of storage at work.
Anyways, I digress, plugged it into the telly and it recognised it, formatted it and it works just fine. Setting up recordings is fine, the playback is a little more clunky, but its liveable with. So its good by Youview from our friends BT!
Smart TV's amazing bit of kit.
Anyways, I digress, plugged it into the telly and it recognised it, formatted it and it works just fine. Setting up recordings is fine, the playback is a little more clunky, but its liveable with. So its good by Youview from our friends BT!
Smart TV's amazing bit of kit.
DumfriesDik said:
Ha, youngster!
I remember being equally impressed when I saw a 2 Gb hard drive at work. The computer was a DEC VAX with 2 MB memory, shared across the company by about 40 engineers. 1 MB of solid state memory retailed for around £1000.
And we were lucky!
I left with the mainframe - network was the new buzzword as I walked out the door. One day they will realise that what they need is one big computer not loads of little ones networked together. You know, a bit like a mainframe!
I got a new samsung TV last Xmas. Model UE46F7000STXXU. It is amazing. It connects to the internet and also can see the home computer and play video, music and show photos from specific folders. Just needed to work out which folders it goes to, (it seems to be programmed to look for one of the shared folders) dump all the content into that folder and the TV has access to them. The wireless was a bit hit and miss, but on investigation the samsung TV is OK if the router is within 10 feet. My router is 20 feet away and upstairs. But it has an Ethernet port so I have threaded a cable from the router, up into the loft, down the central heating core and through the skirting to the TV and it works fine now with no drop in signal at all. Luckily I had a 50' Ethernet cable lying around.
The TV also connects to my 2 Tb USB device in another of the many ports on the back. From this device it can play all my films, videos, music etc. I haven't tried recording TV as we have a Humax PVR connected to the TV and that does a great job on that front. The Humax can record TV programmes which you can then transfer to a USB stick or hard drive which is handy.
The TV also connects to my 2 Tb USB device in another of the many ports on the back. From this device it can play all my films, videos, music etc. I haven't tried recording TV as we have a Humax PVR connected to the TV and that does a great job on that front. The Humax can record TV programmes which you can then transfer to a USB stick or hard drive which is handy.
We have a Panasonic Smart TV and have a 1TB WesternDigital plugged into one of the USB ports in the back and anything we want to record is captured on there, we can then also pause, rewind and restart whatever we are watching. I would assume that the Samsung would work in the same fashion. Although we now have this feature, it's only been used to try it out, although really I should be using it to record the TV I'm missing whilst he's playing bloody video games!