Samsung forum: Netflix streaming on Samsung TV

Netflix is not available on Samsung (other than thru Blue-Ray etc). The Samsung APPS allow for VuDu access. NOTE; I AM A NETFLIX USER AND IT WILL NOT STREAM AT true high def!!! VUDU ONLY STREAMS AT HIGH DEF. Hope the above helps.

clavdj,

What is "rec netflix"?

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Samsung seems like has a bad habit of advertising heavy and not following through once you have bought the product. I have been mislead and so has all of us here. They have the same bad habit on their mobile handset side of the business. All their Galaxy S class cell phones are stuck on ver 2.2 and was supposed to be updated to 2.3 as soon as it was available, but now, they are saying that it will no longer be supported. This is less than a year after it has been released!

These are the reasons there will no longer be any Samsung products whatsoever for me. EVER!!!

-Tolik,

We didn't advertise Netflix on 2009 televisions. In fact, much ado about this topic surfaced when Netflix become available in 2010 models, and 2009 model owners discovered that new models had this ability, but their 2009 model didn't.

People don't like to buy something and see improvements that they want on next year's model. This happens often when technology progresses.

Netflix IS on our 2009 Blu-Ray players, and Samsung was one of the few(!) companies offering that feature on Blu-Ray players that year. People gave us a lot of credit for that, too, and enjoyed Netflix on TVs that had no widgets at all.

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http://www.samsung.com/us/function/search/espsearchResult.do?input_keyword=UN45D66900WF&keywords=UN45D66900WF

If Best Buy adverts a 2009 model with such and Samsung above notes "didn't advertise Netflix on 2009 televisions" then your next stop is clearly to head back to Best Buy to work out the problem.
Bob

My mistake on the model, it is UN45D6900WF and I cannot find in on samsungs website.

So, I found my answers on best buys help forum website... The UN46D6900(don't know why i kept typing 45, sorry) TV is a 2011 model. http://reviews.bestbuy.com/answers/3545/product/2121725/samsung-46-class-1080p-120hz-3d-led-lcd-hdtv-questions-answers/questions.htm

Apparently, It is being distributed nation wide now. If this is the case, others should know that it has the same netflix issue as the previous models do.

So, would you say this is probably the reason that I have so many streaming issues with Netflix on my Samsung TV? HuluPlus seems to work great, but not Netflix. So, I have to watch netflix through my Nintendo Wii instead. Not a big issue, but frustrating that the Netflix app on the TV doesn't do well.

Bob,

You are right in that, with technology, it could often be a combination of factors that causes an issue. I have to wonder though, if my issue isn't with the app for Netflix alone, or their ability to stream. All other applications seem to access internet data fine, and when I select to go back to the Smart Hub menu, they exit pretty quickly.

With the Netflix app, I have intermitted issues where the screen flickers to black, audio disappears, the video will pause and have to rebuffer, or when you scan through an episode or movie, will show a "Thumbnails not available for preview" or something along those lines. Then, when you try to exit the app, it takes anywhere from 30 seconds to a minute to exit (compared to Pandora, YouTube and HuluPlus taking about 5-10 seconds).

Now with the Netflix app for Wii, I do not have these problems. And the Wii is positioned about 3 feet below the TV.

Does anyone else have these same issues with the Netflix app on their Samsung TV?

Christopher

HDTech,
My 2009 LN46B650T was chosen BECAUSE it advertised support for Yahoo Widgets, and Netflix WAS advertised by Yahoo as an available Yahoo Widget in 2009, so your claim that you didn't advertise Netflix on 2009 televisions is a technicality I do not appreciate.
I saw nothing in any advertisements about Samsung limiting WHICH Yahoo Widgets were supported, or I would have chosen a different brand of TV.
Like the other 2009 Samsung TV owners on this forum, and exponentially many more who are not here, I was and still am thoroughly disappointed in Samsung.

Yahoo does not write those widgets, 3rd parties do. Just check the Yahoo Connected TV page and forums.

Elsewhere in THIS forum, you will also see that a Netflix Yahoo Widget is not available on Samsung TVs because of a licensing issue rather than a technical issue or a Yahoo issue.

I have also complained to Netflix about this problem, btw.

What I am unhappy with Samsung about is not advertising its "WALLED GARDEN" when it advertised support for Yahoo Widgets. Why has neither the Samsung rep on this forum nor Samsung Customer Support explained the problem in such terms?

I am a developer myself, so perhaps also more technical than most. I do know that a good technical person is one who can help others understand without making them feel stupid or wrong, whether in a GUI or on a forum.

I wrote today in reply to "Samsung_HD_Tech", as I did not appreciate his/her implication that this thread is about envy of next year's model. It is about the many of us bought 2009 Samsung TVs with the implied idea (whether by BestBuy salesman, research and deduction, or assumption) that their new TV would provide Netflix streaming via Yahoo Widgets, and the disappointment that followed when it did not.

I am writing in the context of Netflix specifically because that is the specific Yahoo Widget I am most interested in, and that WAS advertised as available in 2009 on such TVs.

As I mentioned ("I have also complained to Netflix about this problem, btw.")...I am still asking, and still asking all the players (Netflix specifically and separately. Yahoo has removed Netflix from it's advertised TV Widget offerings so I have stopped asking them).

R. Proffitt, thank you for your input.

David

That's a very arrogant response coming from a representative of the company given the fact that now these customers who have paid $1500-$3000 are already STUCK with these TV's and there's nothing else we can do. The least you can do is give us the update and be done with it. Even the VIZIO TV I bought a couple of months later got the update!!! Which would've been another SAMSUNG if not for this BS of a marketing scheme from SAMSUNG. I'm enjoying my VIZIO TV much more these days than the samsung one. Just like I said... no more SAMSUNG PRODUCTS IN THIS HOUSEHOLD... and I'm telling everyone that I know about it. Same BS is happening on their cell phone side of their business, so don't even bother with Samsung cell phones.

Yahoo has provided me what I am looking for on my VIZIO TV which was bought 3 months later though.... so I don't have a beef with YAHOO.