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Samsung Smart TV and Horizon

  • 22-08-2013 2:08pm
    #1
    seniorf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4 ✭


    For those of you thinking of getting a Samsung Smart TV and using it to WIFI connect to Horizon, think again. The Samsung Smart TV browser isn't compatible with Horizon for playing video or TV stations. You get the web site but nothing will play. This is because you have to download Widevine Video Optimizer and it isn't compatible with the o/s of the TV. This isn't the solution to watching TV on your second TV.


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  • #2
    Wabbit Ears
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,043 ✭✭✭Wabbit Ears


    Misleading post is misleading....


    You're referring to using the online service on the Samsung smart TV which UPC has never supported. It also doesn't work on android devices, Linux boxes and basically anything other then apple devices, PC and Macs (and Macs have an issue with the version).

    The horizon STB works fine with Samsung TV's and will use the internet from the box without any issues ( I have both a Horizon box and a Samsung smart tv).


  • #3
    coldfire1x
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,356 ✭✭✭coldfire1x


    Why will anyone want to access horizon website on a smart tv??? Can you not see the channels on tv itself rather than looking it in the tv browser??


  • #4
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,620 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    seniorf wrote: »
    For those of you thinking of getting a Samsung Smart TV and using it to WIFI connect to Horizon, think again. The Samsung Smart TV browser isn't compatible with Horizon for playing video or TV stations. You get the web site but nothing will play. This is because you have to download Widevine Video Optimizer and it isn't compatible with the o/s of the TV.

    Those problems have nothing to do with the Horizon box which is simply passing TCP/IP packets between your TV and the web.

    The OS which runs on a SMartTV is nowhere near as 'open' as Android, iOS, Windows or OSX (Mac), you'll usually come a cropper trying to run anything that requires third party add-ons.

    You'd experience exactly the same issues with any broadband supplier or router and with a wired or wi-fi connection. Your issue is with Samsung, not UPC.
    seniorf wrote: »
    This isn't the solution to watching TV on your second TV.

    UPC never suggested that it is. Horizon TV Online is promoted as an easy way to watch TV on 'Computer, laptop, iPhone or iPad', not as a solution to watch the UPC channels on another TV.

    http://www.upc.ie/horizontv/horizontvonline/


  • #5
    Heisenberg1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,511 ✭✭✭Heisenberg1


    seniorf wrote: »
    For those of you thinking of getting a Samsung Smart TV and using it to WIFI connect to Horizon, think again. The Samsung Smart TV browser isn't compatible with Horizon for playing video or TV stations. You get the web site but nothing will play. This is because you have to download Widevine Video Optimizer and it isn't compatible with the o/s of the TV. This isn't the solution to watching TV on your second TV.

    I have the Samsung ES8000 Smart TV I have had no problems with the Wi-Fi with the TV.


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