Hi

 

We have been looking at new Televisions over the last week or so, and finally settled on a Samsung.

 

We went into the local independent television shop, where the sales person asked do we have Sky Q, they then advised us to stay clear from Samsung Tv's as people are having problems connecting their Sky HD boxes to them.

 

Can anyone shed any light on this ?

  

To the sales persons credit they did point us to a different brand at a cheaper price, but the better half doesn't like the stand.

 

Many thanks

 

We have a Samsung connected to a Sky Q mini and had no problems with the connection between the TV and Sky Q. The network  that connects the Sky Q boxes can have issues though.

Edited 12 May, 20188 yr by Jfhuk

Thanks Jfhuk, been doing a bit more digging and some people are say the issue is with the Samsung one connect.

We have a Samsung and SkyQ and no issues either.  HOWEVER, I have read that Sky's implementation of HDR 4K will not work on certain Samsung TVs - sadly including our KS9000 from 2016 (got early 2017).  We're already out of luck with BBC's HLG offering via iPlayer - but that's still not putting me off - when we want 4K movies, we get them on 4K Blu-Ray, and that works a treat!  

I was very impressed with the BBC's HLG Beta UHD stuff on iPlayer this summer (I have an LG). Only downside was I had to turn the telly off and on again afterwards if I wanted to use Amazon Prime etc as it appears the the BBCs implementation chews up an awful lot of memory and it's the only way i could find to clear the buffer! 

28 minutes ago, Lady Elanore said:

I was very impressed with the BBC's HLG Beta UHD stuff on iPlayer this summer (I have an LG). Only downside was I had to turn the telly off and on again afterwards if I wanted to use Amazon Prime etc as it appears the the BBCs implementation chews up an awful lot of memory and it's the only way i could find to clear the buffer! 

 

Is your LG updated with the latest firmware? As that used to happen with one of the earlier releases. Try selecting setup, general, about Tv, check for updates.

Fully up to date thanks  

 

Check it once a week if it doesn't prompt me to update the apps etc 

It shouldn’t lockup then. I’ve an 2016 model and it hasn’t misbehaved so far.

It doesn't lock up as such, just doesn't like high def movies from Prime straight afterwards.  Didn't notice it when I watched Blue Planet in 4K HLG, but I think that didn't have the high frame rate that the World Cup did for instance. 

Tried iplayer in HLG followed by Clarkson and co in UHD HDR a few times last night just to see if we had the problem and it worked fine. 

It was only with the high frame rate that the BBC was trying that caused problems, there regular UHD was fine. I worked on the Commonwealth Games for BBC R&D where they trialed 4K 100 frames/sec on FREEVIEW! now that was pushing it. Mind you they recommended a min 40Mbs broadband speed, so there was a fair amount of data being pushed. I regularly watch UHD 4k (Dolby vision/HD10 etc) without the slightest hiccough. In fact Rakuten now let you rent UHD movies with Dolby Vision, unlike Amazon, SKY or Google, which if you have an LG OLED is fantastic  

Surprised that 100 frames a sec even worked on Freeview. During the London Olympics I saw a couple of the 8k prototype cameras, they where connected by four fibre lines to their control unit and had a special satellite uplink van.

They took over a whole mux (equivalent to 4 or 5 HD freeview channels) and broadcast from a few tv transmitters around the country. It was Winter Hill in the North West of England. Unfortunately no off the shelf gear could view the tx  To get the output from the venue they borrowed the JANUS network which had a 100Gb/s pipe available at the time. I think they only used around 60-70Gb/s of it though and that was with only 5 cameras   

I bet some academics had confusing experimental results that night ;-)

Luckily the whole experiment coincided with the student being on their hollybobs. R&D wouldn't have got it otherwise