Samsung needs to concentrate on fixing the software on their TVs before they make new ones.
I'd love to have one of their very think current LCD HDTVs, but they take about 30 seconds to turn on. They turn on so slowly that they have a blinking light at the bottom to tell you they are in the process of turning on.
I've never used a TV that takes that long to turn on and I grew up in the 70s. CRT TVs turned on and warmed up far faster than this, even back then.
depends on if you are turning them on cold, by which I mean, from a power bar that was shut off to prevent it from being in a standby/low power mode... and how old it is of course
Yeah, is there something different with their LED LCDs? I've never seen one in the process of being turned on, but we have a fairly new Samsung LCD (non-LED) in the bedroom and it comes on in just a few seconds.
A friend has a last year's model at home. He told me about this. So I tried one of the brand news very thin (1") models at Fry's, it indeed takes a very long time to turn on. You press the power button to turn it on and it starts blinking a red light below the screen, it does this until it finally turns on 20+ seconds later.
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Samsung needs to concentrate on fixing the software on their TVs before they make new ones.
I'd love to have one of their very think current LCD HDTVs, but they take about 30 seconds to turn on. They turn on so slowly that they have a blinking light at the bottom to tell you they are in the process of turning on.
I've never used a TV that takes that long to turn on and I grew up in the 70s. CRT TVs turned on and warmed up far faster than this, even back then.
Dude, it's about 3-5 seconds! Unless you've somehow confused an LCD panel TV with a rear-projection TV.
Plasma ftw!
My lcd comes up in about 5 seconds...?
depends on if you are turning them on cold, by which I mean, from a power bar that was shut off to prevent it from being in a standby/low power mode... and how old it is of course
Yeah, is there something different with their LED LCDs? I've never seen one in the process of being turned on, but we have a fairly new Samsung LCD (non-LED) in the bedroom and it comes on in just a few seconds.
A friend has a last year's model at home. He told me about this. So I tried one of the brand news very thin (1") models at Fry's, it indeed takes a very long time to turn on. You press the power button to turn it on and it starts blinking a red light below the screen, it does this until it finally turns on 20+ seconds later.