Beware New Samsung TVs

1492 wrote:
OK, I'm totally lost? Are you referring to Samsung TVs that have built-in media player?

x2. I don't get that either.

AsheGuy wrote:

wa8yxm wrote:
Another thing about Samsung is they make "Smart" TV's.. These have a camera and microphone in them and can work "2-way" that is not only can you watch Tom Cruze fly the unfriendly skies. But Some hacker can watch you walk around .. ah-natural.

??? Deal in conspiracy theories much?

We have two Samsung Smart TVs, neither have cameras. One has a voice recognition option in case you want to be able to control the TV by voice so it could conceivably be hacked to listen to you but it can be turned off. And if you are really paranoid, you can disconnect the TV from the Internet. The Internet connection is needed for using streaming services.

Mainly, Smart TVs report back to the mother ship what you watch. Smart TV Snooping Features

No problem.

wa8yxm wrote:
Another thing about Samsung is they make "Smart" TV's.. These have a camera and microphone in them and can work "2-way" that is not only can you watch Tom Cruze fly the unfriendly skies. But Some hacker can watch you walk around .. ah-natural.

??? Deal in conspiracy theories much?

We have two Samsung Smart TVs, neither have cameras. One has a voice recognition option in case you want to be able to control the TV by voice so it could conceivably be hacked to listen to you but it can be turned off. And if you are really paranoid, you can disconnect the TV from the Internet. The Internet connection is needed for using streaming services.

Mainly, Smart TVs report back to the mother ship what you watch. Smart TV Snooping Features

Another thing about Samsung is they make "Smart" TV's.. These have a camera and microphone in them and can work "2-way" that is not only can you watch Tom Cruze fly the unfriendly skies. But Some hacker can watch you walk around .. ah-natural.

OK, I'm totally lost? Are you referring to Samsung TVs that have built-in media player? Otherwise, what difference would it make if connecting through HDMI? The player you're using would decode XVID or DTS audio, whether it's a media player, PC, or Bluray, before sending the signal to the TV?

DTS is still in use though in the theater world is known as DataSat. It's the only digital sound solution for 70MM film, Dolby has no 'digital' solution. It was used not too long ago in movies such as 'Dunkirk' and 'Hateful 8' 70MM Ultra Panavision. Both releases in Bluray use DTS-Master audio.

Though XVID may be open source, is uses patented technology. In which case, there would likely be a license fee required to patent holders for commercial use applications?

most bluray players have a usb jack and will play music pictures and videos from a usb stick or hard drive through them so that is another option.
i have been buying bluray players at thrift stores many for less than $10.00 you can pull up the manual on your phone and check the capabilities before you buy. people are dumping standard players for new 4k players or just streaming now days.

something to remember
newer codecs using more compression require more powerful hardware to decode during playback

Xvid is very useful, as it decodes/plays on older less powerful hardware
aka small portable media players, older phones and tablets, TVs etc..
without stuttering and bogging down the playback

i have a number of converted movie/vhs files in xvid codec avi and mpeg file containers, with no plans to recode

to do a proper recode, i would need to dig out the originals and do it all over

otherwise you need to use a multi-step process using an intermediary lossless codec like HUFFY, to prevent losing quality going from xvid to x264/265

XVID is open source and free, it doesn't cost Samsung (1) penny in fees, to implement, this was some Bean Counters idea, that thinks he is saving a bunch of corporate money in programming costs
another I-D-10-T error at corporate level

gosh I haven't heard of xvid in a long time. It was one of the earliest "open" h.264 implementations, copying the commercial divx codec, and quite impressive at the time (early 2000s) Since that time better implementations have come along, so it's not really relevant anymore. According to Wikipedia, any playback device that supports MPEG4-ASP can play xvid encoded content.

DTS is a licensed technology, so maybe Samsung doesn't want to pay to license it, or doesn't want to implement one of the open source decoders? That does seem odd. DTS and Dolby are both very old, but DTS is far from on its way out. Some of the best sounding movie discs' I've watched recently used DTS-MA, they sound great even though my system is setup for Dolby Atmos

Xvid was very common for DIY video nerds for a long time

It's use has been replaced by better codecs that offer more compression aka smaller file sizes for the same or greater quality
Xvid use is not commonLy used for HiDef movies, as it would result in very large files

Many of the early digital adopters, used Xvid to digitized their home videos and recorded vhs, to digital video

Once in a while I come across a file that won't play on my Samsung.
I simply convert it using... HandBrake