I would like to know if it is a smart tv because in the list of tv products it said it its not one. Is the sound bar worth the extra 50 dollars.
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It is a smart tv but you have to buy a $20 WiFi dongle if you want to use wifi. Otherwise, you have to use Ethernet. The sou dbar is crap but, I think it is just added in as a selling point. Overall I love this tv. It has great picture quality especially when you take off the energy saving mode and turn the picture setting to vivid. I am not disappointed at all.
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I think it is classified as SMART because it can be hooked up to the internet . You can search the web and down load movies from a service such as Net Flix or another service.A family member has a hearing problem so I ordered the sound bar.It works fine but after several weeks I disconnected it because the regular sound was OK. That's a personal decision!
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The sound bar is NOT worth the $99 I paid so it is certainly not I would recommend. The unit is a SMART TV but you must provide internet to the system to make it work. Be prepared to pay for an adapter to make that happen.
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if this is the tv i got it is a smart tv. the sound bar was free and is nice
1609485
Lame, but so was a sound bar. I Spent a $1k on a Bose surround sound system. Now the sound quality matches the great picture.
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I think it's fine. Again, we have the 50 inch set and it's in our bedroom, which is a smaller master bed. The sound is just as good as our larger LG set, which is in the living room. I've had the TV now for some time and it's a great set. The colors are amazing for a set that was about $500. You cannot go wrong.
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You ask for a subjective but my guess is that you would not hear a significant difference given the sound reproduction limitations of the soundbar. I own this AT soundbar and love it for what it is. Just about the perfect bedroom system where you can't, or don't want to, live with speakers everywhere. Newer tvs auto-detect the HDMI source. You do have to manually select the soundbar audio source, probably on the remote. The soundbar display shows the sources as S1, S2 etc so you have to remember which is which. This can be cumbersome I suppose but everyone here knows S1 is PS4, yada. So... HDMI sources to tv, audio sources via light pipe to soundbar. Select HDMI souce on tv and audio source on the soundbar remote. If you want to hear and enjoy the fancy decoding you should buy a great receiver and great 7.1 speakers. This AT soundbar is not a mini-7.1 system, it is a fat and usable 3.1 near 5.1 system.
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Hi! We've connected it to our TV and listening all movies and music and whatever we are watching on our TV (as for example I watch videos from iTunes in my iPhone and transfer it through appletv on our tv), and the sound goes through this sound bar. We like it very much, after a month using it, if we turn on the regular sound through the TV it really sounds kinda "poor". Don't know how this sound bar is in compare with the once that are more expensive, but we've Reyes only this one and are extremely happy! Hope it helps you to make this decision.
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I got this soundbar for a while now, i got no problems with it. I considered it the best because of the price and its functions. There might be better ones, but it will cost more definitely. I would suggest the same product line with a higher speaker and subwoofer output.
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I have a Samsung sound bar on one tv and a sony on a second tv. Both are excellent. Just make sure you get a wireless sub woofer. The sound compared to the tv speakers is like night and day
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Speakers are so bad audio settings are useless. Investing in $50 more will get you a better tv. If you can't then invest in a sound bar
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It's not a smart tv. It does have 2 hdmi ports so you can connect devices to it. I watch Netflix on it all the time through my ps4.
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The sound quality for this TV is OK. Very normal compared to its size, its Basic quality, depends of what you are watching or listening. If you want a higher quality sound,I recommend you get the sound bar or a surround system.
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We have this tv. The tv sound is not that great, we have our sound coming through our stereo dolby 7.1 , it sounds great! I guess buying a soundbar is another option.
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No. I am also not happy with the product quality. I would reccommend a different soundbar.
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Yeah, the optical input connection is really weak at the soundbar. Sound cuts out intermittently. I ended up using the analog connection (the difference is negligible with these cheapo soundbars).
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It is not a smart TV. I had a Roku but later on I just hooked it up to my Wii.
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re Samsung soundbar: Thanks for the info Tim. I think this is the one for us. Reviews seemed to be mostly positive and it looks less complicated than some.
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Sound is great. Although a sound bar would make the sound better I have not found the need for one. This tv comes with cinema sound that is deep and crisp. Also has 3D sound included which is nice. So you don't need a sound bar unless you feel like you can't live without it.
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love the sound bar....I just installed it the way they said to do it and I watch netflix all the time.....the great thing about the samsung is it has different settings you can press a button to get at will....cinema, news, drama, etc.my tv is a sony....2 years old.I HAD the yamaha prior....lots of trouble with, and except for looking great was a pain....Costco replaced it with the samsung and I've had it almost a year. Only thing I hate is having to use 2 remotes, but I'm used to it now.Good luck!