Cody Fousnough
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Our old Samsung 46 inch/1080P, that we bought at Circuit City on sale, in 2008, was going downhill. A lot of, what is called "pixelating" happening and it was becoming rather annoying. IOW, we knew it was getting to be the time to buy a new tv.
We took a couple of weeks and checked out tv's at Best Buy. We wanted another Samsung, mainly because we have a Samsung Blu-Ray DVD Player and a Samsung Sound Bar. There are a number of 4K tv brands out there as well as types of 4K. What we wanted, Samsung has stopped making, so we went with a Samsung 55 inch 4K M70H Series Mini LED that fits our tv stand perfectly.
On the new tv, there is no audio/video connections and there are only three HDMI connections. Our Wii Game needs audio/video connections and we needed a couple more HDMI connections. So, have to buy an HDMI Selector Switch and a RCA-to-HDMI Converter for the Wii Game. So, this was an expense and problem we didn't know about.
Then, since there is only one cable connection in the living room, and we have the combo tv and internet modem package from our cable company, we had to use the Cable Splitter we have. Well, we were still getting the "pixelating", even on the new 4K tv, just not as bad as our old tv was. So, after doing some research, found out that the problem could be: the Splitter and/or HDMI cable. The "pixelating" doesn't happen when we use our Roku or DVD Player and doesn't happen on every cable station we watch. So, we took the 4K Comcast DVR we got back to them and got a Wireless 4K Comcast DVR. That way we don't need the Splitter and hook up the Internet Modem directly to the cable connection in the wall.
IOW, folks, todays 4K tv's can be as much of a headache to learn about, as a new vehicle that is full of high-tech stuff. As for the continuing "pixelating" on the new 4K, we will buy a new HDMI cable to go from the Wireless DVR to the tv and see what happens. If that don't work, will have a technician come out from Comcast/Xfinity to check out what's going on.
Thoughts?
We took a couple of weeks and checked out tv's at Best Buy. We wanted another Samsung, mainly because we have a Samsung Blu-Ray DVD Player and a Samsung Sound Bar. There are a number of 4K tv brands out there as well as types of 4K. What we wanted, Samsung has stopped making, so we went with a Samsung 55 inch 4K M70H Series Mini LED that fits our tv stand perfectly.
On the new tv, there is no audio/video connections and there are only three HDMI connections. Our Wii Game needs audio/video connections and we needed a couple more HDMI connections. So, have to buy an HDMI Selector Switch and a RCA-to-HDMI Converter for the Wii Game. So, this was an expense and problem we didn't know about.
Then, since there is only one cable connection in the living room, and we have the combo tv and internet modem package from our cable company, we had to use the Cable Splitter we have. Well, we were still getting the "pixelating", even on the new 4K tv, just not as bad as our old tv was. So, after doing some research, found out that the problem could be: the Splitter and/or HDMI cable. The "pixelating" doesn't happen when we use our Roku or DVD Player and doesn't happen on every cable station we watch. So, we took the 4K Comcast DVR we got back to them and got a Wireless 4K Comcast DVR. That way we don't need the Splitter and hook up the Internet Modem directly to the cable connection in the wall.
IOW, folks, todays 4K tv's can be as much of a headache to learn about, as a new vehicle that is full of high-tech stuff. As for the continuing "pixelating" on the new 4K, we will buy a new HDMI cable to go from the Wireless DVR to the tv and see what happens. If that don't work, will have a technician come out from Comcast/Xfinity to check out what's going on.
Thoughts?
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