Samsung TV

Long-term owners

had a Samsung fridge, AC and TV for about 7 years without any issues whatsoever

Sep 2026 · comment

Immediately worked for me on a simple Samsung bought 15+ years ago.

Jul 2026 · comment

What hackers pick instead

• LG smart TVOwners praise the picture quality and say the TV works well when kept offline; the most common caveat is intrusive software and data collection.57recommend
• Sony Bravia TVOwners say the TV keeps working well for many years, especially when never connected to the internet. Critics agree the smart interface has ads, lag and no security updates.19recommend
• TCL TVRecommended for value and a basic TV mode; critics warn of tracking, Google terms and laggy input on some models.17recommend
• Roku TVRecommended for its clean, ad-free interface and working as a plain display offline. Critics mainly cite slow startup and a sluggish interface.14recommend
• Samsung Frame TVRecommended for its matte, art-like look and casual TV watching. Main caveat: it shows ads in the app bar.10recommend

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The 40 most detailed of 182 comments. Each links to the original.

1. The simplicity of the remote was also a factor. So a cheap 32" Samsung TV it was. Turned out great.

   Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids”

2. Samsung scored highest on https://www.rtings.com/ for my criteria, and I'm happy with the purchase.

   Recommends · Jul 2026 · in “LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps”

3. had a Samsung fridge, AC and TV for about 7 years without any issues whatsoever

   Recommends · Sep 2026 · in “Samsung accidentally freezes its smart fridges with a software update”

4. This works pretty well on my several year old Samsung (most of the time [1]).

   Mixed · Jan 2026 · in “Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids”

5. Their TV's are still good as long as you don't connect them to the internet.

   Mixed · Nov 2025 · in “Samsung Family Hub for 2025 Update Elevates the Smart Home Ecosystem”

6. HDR does not look good at all, way too dark, but HDR10+ is just amazing.

   Mixed · Oct 2026 · in “Show HN: Making a smart TV dumb and then smart”

7. Immediately worked for me on a simple Samsung bought 15+ years ago.

   Recommends · Jul 2026

8. I am so very happy to have a 2010s Samsung TV with no Wi-Fi

   Recommends · Jul 2026 · in “LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps”

9. things mostly just work, and it cost me next to nothing

   Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “Samsung Family Hub for 2025 Update Elevates the Smart Home Ecosystem”

10. My two year old Samsung still works as a dumb display.

    Mixed · Sep 2026 · in “LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby”

11. It turns on quickly and right to the selected source

    Mixed · Oct 2026 · in “An ad-free Android TV”

12. with the goofy bullshit turned off it looks amazing

    Mixed · Dec 2025 · in “Stranger Things Creator Says Turn Off "Garbage" Settings”

13. Just use your smart TV as a dumb TV, and move on.

    Mixed · Dec 2025 · in “Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch”

14. It's in my garage and still works great.

    Recommends · Jul 2026 · in “LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent”

15. I had to pi-hole my entire network to get rid of the ads in my "switch source" menu on my Samsung TV that did not have ads when I bought it

    Criticizes · Mar 2026 · in “'Your Frustration Is the Product'”

16. started getting ads. Inspected the traffic and it connects to at least a dozen different Samsung domains on startup and then periodically.

    Criticizes · Jun 2026 · in “Surface Laptop Ultra: Made for World Makers”

17. screenshots everything shown on their televisions at regular intervals and sends these to their South Korean data centres

    Criticizes · Mar 2026 · in “The workers behind Meta's smart glasses can see everything”

18. the obnoxious need to check if antenna-based broadcasting is available, every single time you open the settings menu

    Criticizes · Jan 2026 · in “Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids”

19. Just try to make sense of the naming strategy of Samsung TVs, and you'll either eventually give up or go insane.

    Criticizes · Oct 2026 · in “Gemini 4 Carbon”

20. I hate 2 things about my samsung tv's (I have 4 only samsung): the simplistic remote and ads on home screen.

    Criticizes · Oct 2026 · in “Root shell on Samsung TV”

21. We are talking about a company where if I press the exit button there's a 50% chance I get the menu or not.

    Criticizes · Nov 2025 · in “Samsung Family Hub for 2025 Update Elevates the Smart Home Ecosystem”

22. repeatedly opens a pop-up info window about their AI features while my AppleTV is playing movies and shows

    Criticizes · Dec 2025 · in “Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux”

23. On my Samsung TV recently on the start page some ad has started to show up, years after I bought it.

    Criticizes · Aug 2026 · in “BMW Spider-Man in-car advertising”

24. I hate my damn Samsung Smart TV, even though it (almost) doesn't show any ads in my country/region.

    Criticizes · Dec 2025 · in “Stranger Things Creator Says Turn Off "Garbage" Settings”

25. They'd provided a single button to accept but literally 200+ decline buttons, one for every partner

    Criticizes · Jul 2026 · in “1,741 "informed" consents with one click? GDPR complaint filed”

26. It's way too frequent and runs at random times in the middle of a movie so I always choose Accept.

    Criticizes · Nov 2025 · in “Samsung Family Hub for 2025 Update Elevates the Smart Home Ecosystem”

27. That, combined with a built-in physical microphone switch (which I noticed in the quick start guide before I'd even attached the wall mount) made me quite impressed with Samsung off the bat.

    Mixed · Dec 2025 · in “Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch”

28. Samsung was the single brand reviewed which actually stopped sending data after the user told it to do so.

    Recommends · Oct 2026 · in “Root shell on Samsung TV”

29. I can actually install/remove apps from my Samsung smartTV running TizenOS using my Linux PC

    Recommends · Mar 2026 · in “What keeps IoT devices running for a decade”

30. I do like that I can still hook up a broadcast TV antenna and have the TV scan for channels

    Recommends · Jun 2026 · in “Nearly Half of LG Smart TV Apps Contain Residential Proxy SDKs”

31. It’s heavy and runs hot, but doesn’t look any worse than cheap TVs of the same size today.

    Mixed · Dec 2025 · in “LG TV's new software update installed MS Copilot, which cannot be deleted”

32. It's quite nice, but I struggle with changing the HDMI input of all things.

    Mixed · Mar 2026 · in “Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features”

33. I would pay 2x for a dumber version of my otherwise-excellent TV.

    Mixed · Sep 2026 · in “LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby”

34. Samsung is good, except: - No Dolby Vision support, only HDR10+

    Mixed · Jul 2026 · in “LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps”

35. All we have is Samsung/LG and Chinese vendors like TCL/Xiaomi.

    Mixed · Oct 2026 · in “Honey, I shrunk the TV”

36. On my Samsung film mode has an insane amount of processing.

    Mixed · Dec 2025 · in “Stranger Things Creator Says Turn Off "Garbage" Settings”

37. If you get a Samsung TV it even has a dedicated "PC Mode"

    Recommends · Nov 2025

38. I was leery of of Tizen on my Samsung TV but it's fine

    Recommends · Jun 2026 · in “Fox to Buy Roku Streaming Service in $22B Deal”

39. older TCLs are a bit laggier than Samsung smart tvs

    Mixed · Jun 2026 · in “Nearly Half of LG Smart TV Apps Contain Residential Proxy SDKs”

40. I much prefer the Samsung software over the LG.

    Mixed · Dec 2025 · in “Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted”