Streaming Smart TV Buyer Beware!
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This is NOT a reliable streaming smart television. If you are a cord cutter or you're just looking to stream your favorites to another room like I was, this is not the television for you.

You'll find plenty of complaints about it not working well with a busy internet connection.  If you are the only person using your internet, then this may work okay for you but beware.  If you have lots of people using all kinds of devices to stream things in your house, do NOT buy this television.

I was very disappointed since I liked the interface and the form factor, but I just would not stream anything.  So, I returned it.

If you're curious, I ended up getting a Samsung 28" and even though it's only 720, it does exactly what it was meant to do.  It streams flawlessly via wifi. And, I really like the OS.
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As a TV it is 4 to 5 stars. For streaming video it turns out to be a big ZERO. Streaming NetFlix worked fine for over a year. I then enrolled in Amazon Prime Time and their videos froze and the application required rebooting to get it working again. I purchased the  Vizio Skype camera it works at about a 3 level freezing some times and working well at other. It never occurred to me it was a TV problem. Next, now netflix movies freeze. Worked with support they were great; however, I had to return the set to default settings and reinstall all apps. Neflix worked for one movie then froze again 4 days later. I was watching a YouTube video today and it froze. I have searched online and found others with the same problem.  If this was a car it would have been recalled. My wifi exceeds all requirements by a large margin. FYI: I have a Hisence TV and Sony Blue Ray Player in the bedroom and have had no problems streaming video. It is twice as far away from my WIFI hub.

I have purchased, the VIZIO TV, Skype Camera and Tablet, so I was satisfied at one time. But will probably never buy another Vizio product. (Streaming NetFlix from the WII works just fine!)

You would be better served buying a TV without aps. and another device to stream Videos/music etc.

Vizio emailed me and asked for a review of the fixes that customer service tried fixing the problem. I gave them similar comments and got no response.

It looks like a software problem, or is there a memory problem in the TV? Of course, my warranty has expired.

Followup. The TV now has grey pencil like marks on the screen. They are behind the front screen so they can not be cleaned with the cloth that came with the TV. Customer service = No Help at ALL.

I also purchase a VIZIO Tablet, It will not charge now. A  others have compkained about.
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Spent a little extra to get a samsung because i knew the picture would be good. This TV did not disappoint- the picture is really good for the price. However, the samsung "smarthub" is abysmal.  When turning on the TV it takes about 45-60 seconds before any of the apps (netflix, hbo, etc.) are able to work, presumably because the TV is reconnecting to the internet each time. Minor thing, but annoying. Biggest issue i have is using HBO GO. It constantly refreshes, freezes, or crashes. It will eventually play what i want but only after exiting and restarting the app at least 2-3 times. Super aggravating. When you look up "fixes" for this issue (which is common), instructions say to uninstall the HBO GO app and reinstall, except it comes preloaded on the TV and there is no way to delete the app.

In the end i'm keeping the TV because i got a good deal and the picture is nice, but will be adding a ROKU 3 to avoid having to use samsung's really poorly designed smarthub.

Also, as other reviewers have pointed out- the remote really is terrible. Very poorly laid out buttons.
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The picture quality is quite amazing, but the smart features are not so much. First of all, I really do not like the smart remote control of this tv. It is just a pain to use when typing something in youtube or web browser. When you go to the connection settings of this tv, it will tell you that you can connect a mouse and a keyboard to it to make your life easier. However, when I call the samsung customer service to ask them which mouse and keyboard would be compatible for this model, they say that they don't know and refer me to a third party supplier. To be fair, they did say that brands like microsoft will not work. The compatible keyboard has be samsung brand or something I guess. I tried the 1000 Microsoft wireless keyboard, and yup it didn't work.

Second problem is the false advertising about the cloud gaming. I am really hoping that Samsung will educate its support staff on this model because they seem to be clueless about pretty much every thing. Do not get fooled by the gamefly or playstation now app that you see in the description. After trying to access them for 30 min without success (I have good internet connection), I called samsung, and they told me gamefly does not support this model. Just to double check, I contacted gamefly as well, and they also confirmed that they do not support this model. If you want to play game, you still need to buy a game console which means that you do not really need a smart tv in the first place. there are still some crappy games from the samsung app you can play with the remote. Don't even need to ask them anything about cloud gaming. They have no idea what that is even though it is in the description. The staff I talked to said that he doesnt know why it is in the description.

I guess I should have gone for another brands like LG or Sony for smart tv. I believe Samsung is a great brand. You can perhaps get a decent smart tv for their more expensive line of models. However for this entry level 4k tv, do not expect to much. This is the initial review after a few days of usage. Hopefully, there are no more bad things about this tv. Overally, not satisfied with this 4k tv. Would not recommend. If you want smart features, I would recommend LG or sony. If you do not care about the smart features, this tv should be okay or to save some money, you should just buy a earlier model without smart features because with a game console, any tv or monitor will be smart.
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I bought this hoping to use it for streaming and on demand video, missing Home TV,
Currently on contract in Africa
The ROKU is shipped with global firmware which is useless and doesn't give access to the US or UK channels.
Just a paperweight now as it us useless an only picks up Arab and African channels
Waste of money if buying outside of the USA, I'll have to buy a new one when I get home
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I thought I was getting a good  deal being a smart TV.  Great picture and easy to configure. The sound is quite tinnie sounding.  No depth/bass  Wifi was very problematic.  TV is about 50ft from the router at 20mps.  Only got 2 bars on TV.  Bought a Negear extender and made no difference.  Netflix only buffered occasionally, Pandora skipped and eventually froze up.  BTW I never had a problem with wifi reception using an Amazon FireStick on my old TV.  I called Netgear support with regard to no improvement in the wifi signal by the TV using the extender, pointed that the problem was with the TV.  Called Sharp support, pointed at the wifi reception.  I finally hardwired the TV with CAT5, Pandora still skipped and froze.  Sharp then said it was a problem with the Pandora software and said it was not their problem and to call Pandora.  You cannot call Pandora, just e-mail them.  Pandora blamed it on the TV.  Turns out that the version of Pandora on the TV is not the same as on the Firestick.  So I called Sharp back and they said they just install what Pandora gives them to install.  They will take no responsibility for the software they provide on the TV.  You cannot download a fresh version of the Pandora software as well as install any additional apps on the TV.  They said maybe the problem will be resolved when Pandora provides a new version to be added to a TV firmware update..... Sooooooo,  I installed an Amazon Firestick on my my new Sharp TV that has turned out to be a somewhat 'dumb' TV.  Firestick has many more apps loaded and  as I said has no reception problems with my wireless network.  If it wasn't for the great picture,  it would have got one star.  How redicules having to install a Firestick on a Smart TV ?
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10-1-15 Review Update: A while back, I contacted LG and told them about the problems with the Google update (no Flash support & other things) but they didn't seem to care. I asked them for a software update that would work on this TV or for any software that would make the features work but they've completely ignored me. LG is using a software that runs their newer smart TV's called webOS 2.0 so why can't they just send this out to their customers to get the smart TV features to work?

Amazon Prime no longer streams movies to this TV so if you want to watch Amazon movies on here, you can't. I even tried side loading supported apps and still nothing. When this TV came out, I think I gave it 4 or 5 Stars, now I am down to 1. I am curious to see the what the rating would be now with those people who rated this TV 4 or 5 stars years ago.

Older Update: Since the new Android update, this thing is terrible. The software no longer supports Flash content so any website that has Flash content (crackle, etc.) you cannot watch it. There are no more bookmarks on the main menu. Google Chrome is really really slow, sometimes 40 seconds to load a page and it keeps freezing up so you have to restart. You could use other browsers (Puffin, Dolphin) but those also have their drawbacks. If you go to the Google Play store to download an app, most of the apps you cannot install because they do not support your device so you have to get the link, download to your computer, upload to a site, download from your TV and install. It's a little more complicated than that but that is the easy way, for me at least, of doing it. Oh and Customer support is pretty much worthless.

Original Old Review: The LG 55 G2 remote is terrible. The buttons are so small that a smurf would have a hard time seeing them plus the pointer is too jumpy. I wish the remote had a number pad, so I am able to press my selection and I wish there was a sleep-timer button. I currently use a universal remote to go through the channels. The Google TV software seems ok but I am unable to use the voice feature on other search engines even though I am using the Google Chrome browser. I am unable to use other sites (ex: Hulu) because of the Google TV. Internet browsing seems pretty fast and the TV has a great picture.
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I am disappointed with this sound bar. I have a 55 inch LG Smart TV and it works flawlessly with Directv as well as Netflix and Amazon Prime videos. I am not an audiophile so I can't comment on the sound quality but it is good and the wireless sub-woofer works as advertised; however, YOU CANNOT STREAM MUSIC from the Internet (MOG or Amazon Cloud for example), and Youtube also has issues. The sound bar constantly drops the signal in this case when using both the HDMI/ARC and optical connections. And it doesn't just drop it every so often - it occurs constantly so that you can't even listen to the music. Here is Panasonic's response (you believe this?):

prodaudio@callcenter.us.panasonic.com

1:47 AM (8 hours ago)

to

Thank you for your inquiry and we do apologize for the inconvenience caused. This is common when streaming from the Internet. There are no settings to be adjusted to prevent this unfortunately.
Thank you for contacting Panasonic

On January 2, 2012 at 12:35 PM, wrote:

>The sound bar constantly drops the audio signal when playing internet music from an LT smart TV. Youtube also is affected. Direct TV and Netflix work fine. This occurs when using both HDMI/ARC and/or the audio optical cable. If I just use the TV internal speakers all works.
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DO NOT USE THIS FOR STREAMING!!  I never tried the bluray player part of it, but the streaming part constantly bugged out, played less than digital quality content despite having more than enough bandwidth, and sometimes required a manual power reset because the whole unit stopped responding.  Stay away from this product -- it may be worth it for blu ray playing, to that I have no opinion, but the entire streaming portion should be scrapped from the product.
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I have a unique internet situation; like a university wifi, my network is verified through a portal of sorts, then your verified device can access the internet with no password. The Roku TV and all Smart TV's DO NOT work with this kind of wifi. I was told by Roku that I would need to get a different wifi network with password. And I'm not going to pay an additional $50 a month just for internet that my tv can use, when my laptop and phone can both use my secure and fast internet that I already pay for. So, no Smart tv for people with verified networks situations.

The tv itself seems cheap. I mean it would've been great, and easy to set up if my internet had done the trick. But the screen and legs feel cheap. Honestly, I'd suggest spending an additional $50-$60 bucks on a Samsung.

I'm just going to get a HDTV flatscreen and a Fire or Chrome stick. Might have to go the old fashioned HDMI cable route. We'll see.
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My Geniego app on my pc would not play/stream a recorded show from 1 of 2 DVR in my home network.  Streams from one dvr but not the other.  I called tech support and was told that they couldn't help because my PC's OS is a Windows 10.  It is not a supported operating system.  Crazy.  They need to get their ACT together.
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I thought I was doing myself a favor by buying this unit so that I could watch Blu-Ray discs AND stream without an additional device. Not so.

I've been using a Roku 3 for some time now and enjoy it a lot. When I saw that the Sony Blu-ray had Wi-Fi and the ability to steam, I thought I'd hit the bulls-eye on a one unit solution. While it works well for services like Netflix and Hulu (plus several others) it works deplorably for Amazon. There are several shows we watch through Amazon Prime and since I still have to use my Roku 3 in order to see Amazon streaming content, I can only give the Sony player 3 stars.
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I've purchased a couple of these; one for myself and another for my friend after I had ironed out the kinks. It turns just about any TV into a "smart" TV, streaming content via XBMC or over the web, checking email, browsing, etc.

First thing you'll need to do is ditch the firmware these ship with. They're junk. Probably go with Finless 2.1 for the 808B, but if you have my luck, it will bork your Google search bar, but at least you'll be able to sign into Google Play store, Gmail, Gchat, etc.  If you're using this to play XBMC, make sure you download a custom android XBMC with hardware acceleration, otherwise you'll get choppy video on anything over 480p.

Biggest drawback: the MK808s are fickle about which monitors they'll display on. Of the 5 TVs I've tested, it works on 3. It won't display anything at all or flat-out freeze on any other display than the 3 TVs it does work on.
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I purchased this TV from a highly reputable electronic and appliance store where we have purchased numerous items. This TV is by far the the worst TV I have ever purchased. It smart functions are not user friendly at all. There is an embarrassingly few useful apps. Additional inputs fail to function. I purchased a Fire Stick to make life easy but due to inputs failing could never get it to work. It was not due to defected  Sticks since I inserted it in another TV and worked fine. I removed a Fire Stick from another TV and it failed to work in the Sharp. I have 3 Samsung TVs one that is a smart TV and the other two have a Fire Stick or Fire TV. All work perfectly. For some inane reason I purchased this Sharp. I am ready to toss it and replace with a Samsung. I warn you stay away from this TV
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Home is about 1500 square ft and is essentially the shape of a square. Unfortunately router is in one corner and smart TV is diagonally across on the other corner of the house. Streaming videos works sometimes 50% of the time, other times, TV or firestick could not find the connection and i have a fast enough internet speed. When I added the extender midway between router and tv, now streaming is 90% better. I still get the occasional buffer but not as much as I use to.
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Update:: Just got an email to let me know that Hulu will no longer be supporting the Hulu app on VIZIO Smart TVs with VIZIO Internet Apps starting on August 8th, 2018.
What a waste of $400

I wish I had spent the extra money and bought a Samsung. Vizio lacks in every department.
 ***The app store "Yahoo Connected TV Store" is a joke. Out of 17 pages of apps (99 apps total) there there are 7, SEVEN, pages of news. 40 total. Why in the world do I need 40 apps of news stations from different cities?? I'm not kidding. I've made a list so that others no what they'll be getting into:
MY FOX:
-ORLANDO  -LA NEWS
-PHILLY  -NY NEWS
-HOUSTON  -DC
-PHOENIX  -MEMPPHIS
-TWIN CITIES  -ATLANTA
-DFW  -BOSTON
-AUSTIN  -TAMPA
-WPLG  -WEMT
-WKMP -KOMO
-WDIV  -KSTP
-KPRC  -FRESNO AREA
-KSAT  -NEWS CHANNEL 9
-WJXT -KOB
-KIRO  -KCTV
-WHEC -WNYT
-MY 9 NEW JERSEY
-WSOC-TV -WCYB
-KTNV  -WSMV
-WRAL
-CHANNEL 9 EYEWITNESS NEWS

***None of the apps have updated in so long. Hulu is not even called Hulu Plus anymore, and it doesn't support the Showtime add-on.
***The TV speakers. Terrible. The worst quality I have ever heard in any speaker. It is a must to buy a sound bar to get any good quality of sound. ***The connections in the back. Suck. Who was the genius that put the row of connections so low on the TV that in order to plug in my Xbox, I have to tip the TV forward in order to get a good angle to plug it in? Yes, there are some on the side of the TV, but have you seen the cord to the Xbox? It has what looks like an anchor on the cord about 3 inches from the usb part. Its quite heavy and didn't want the weight on the side of the TV.
All in all, I wish my TV did break so I could buy new one. And I won't be buy a TV off of Amazon again. I've had 99.8% good luck with Amazon. But I'd rate this right up there with the Amazon Fire Stick. Don't. Just don't.
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I unfortunately did not have a smart T.V., which unfortunately was not compatible with my standard Hi-Deef flat screen. It would have been awesome if I didn't have to return it. But I'm definitely rebuying when the Smart T.V. prices drop.