Just ordered SAMSUNG 50-Inch QLED Q60A QN50Q60AAFXZA

[Alex]

I bit the bullet on my 3rd Samsung Tizen tv. I have a 43 inch 7000 series, a 50 inch 8000 series and now am putting in a 50-Inch Class QLED Q60A in our living room. Primarily went with this one for the bump in processing speed and the included Ambient mode. Been watching it for over a month to see if the price would drop. It's normally $699.99 on all the sites but dropped to $629.99 on Samsung and Bestbuy last month. On Amazon it dropped to $627.99. Was waiting for a black friday special but they kept it at this price point, no real drop on Black Friday. I haven't seen it go lower. The 43 inch at $497.99 saves you $102 on Amazon, but I wanted to 50 inch.

[FarmerBob]

At least it's a 2021 model release and you won't be left behind like some of the rest of us. Although they can sneak in and change, delete perfectly good things we like or add bloatware and convoluted "Live TV" access. But we can't have updated/current UIs.

If you haven't go to RTINGS.com or their reviews on YouTube and look this TV up and see what they say about it.

I was looking at the Q80A or Q90A. But I'm not all that happy with Samsung about TVs, Tablets and other devices anymore.

[Alex]

Its hard for manufacturers like LG and Samsung to keep their software updated with outdated hardware, plus they'll lose out on sales. So far so good with this TV. 

[FarmerBob]

On 1/3/2022 at 5:16 AM, Alex said:

Its hard for manufacturers like LG and Samsung to keep their software updated with outdated hardware, plus they'll lose out on sales. So far so good with this TV. 

Obviously not. The hardware is far from as outdated as you think. It still has to sign on when it gets turned on. If they are not "monitoring" or "updating" or "touching" things, why does the TV still have to sign in on their servers?!!

If they can come in and even see the TV as I had a Tech do when I first got it and couldn't use the built-in keyboard. The encounter through COSTCO was worthless and COSTCO said they would do whatever I found out to fix it. Several years later I fixed it by doing a complete Factory Reset. What a waste of time.

But still they come in and change, add, take and manipulate the UI, they can update it to the newer UIs. One minute I can interact with something and the next day it no longer works. I research it and find that it's a "Discontinued Feature". Who "Discontinued" the feature and "HOW?!" I build UIs and am running New OSs on "obsolete" computers that run better than the new ones. So it can be done. They just want us to buy new TVs. My 2008 DLP  TV ran for 15,000 hours on it's original light bulb and DLP Chip. They both failed at the same time. $200 later and couple hours of work, I have my DLP back, brand new and still working like it's just out of the box. It has no UI that they can mess with.

You've heard of "Planned Obsolescence"? This is "Forced Obsolescence"!

[Alex]

12 hours ago, FarmerBob said:

They just want us to buy new TVs.

That's true, they need to make money to stay in business. The only other way is ads, so if they build in ads or subscriptions, maybe then they can get to prolonging hardware. The other issue is that technology evolves so fast every year that it is difficult to keep older hardware up to speed using new software that requires more ram, more processing, coding changes, etc.  If they updated older hardware, the complaint would be that its too slow, doesn't render correctly, etc. Best to just not support older hardware. A smart tv today is like a computer, doesn't last forever and will get slower as time goes on. The better the haradware the longer it will last and be able to handle new updates. Back in the day you could have a tube tv for 20  years, not the case with a smart tv.