I won three ways on cyber Monday when I went to Costco and bought a new 39 inch Samsung TV. It’s a lot lighter than the old 32 inch I have.
First, I already have a 32 inch Samsung, so it’s much the same as this TV.The remote buttons are not the same, but similar.
Second, all of my universal remotes work the same with both TVs; I didn’t have to reprogram them for a different TV. Every button seems to be the same.
Also, the old original 32 inch TV remote works with the 39 inch, and the 39 inch works with the 32 inch. What this means is that as long as the TVs are in different rooms, I can use a single remote to do whatever I want with both TVs. IF they’re near each other, then I have a conflict because one remote will change both TVs.
Third, I went to our monthly computer club meeting and there was a box of miscellaneous items on the consignment table. I bought several items, such as power adapters for various devices and a wireless G router. Also in the box was a Samsung remote. I bought it too for two bucks, and when I got it home and put batteries in it, it worked just all the other remotes. Cool!
So now I have three original Samsung remotes that work on both TVs, and several of the five dollar universal remotes that also are programmed to work on both, too. Talk about a couch potato! Problem is I don’t have a couch. I’ll have to work on that.
That is, if I don’t spend too much time watching the new TV. It’s bigger, of course, and the picture is clearer, but the old one was adequate since I don’t have cable. The only problem I had when setting the new one up was that when it got done autosensing all the available channels, I wanted to delete a lot of them. But when I went into the menus, I couldn’t find the way to delete the channels. I had to read the single sheet instruction sheet to find out that each channel has to be selected, then one or more channels can be deleted. So I found that the menu software is not user friendly. And if I lose the single sheet of instructions, I may not be able to ever delete channels if I forget how. This is definitely not the way it should be.
