Recommendations for Samsung TV with Freeview + Freesat please

Hello,

I've spent days looking for a new Samsung TV with two specific features, but their website makes it almost impossible to check all technical specs, let alone compare, and often seems to contradict the features mentioned in eBay and Amazon listings.

I'm looking for a model around 50-55" which:

• Has both Freeview HD and Freesat HD connectors built in
• Allows viewing one channel while monitoring another in the top corner (while adverts are on etc).

Any recommendations for models to investigate would be much appreciated.

Does it have to be Samsung, beware of forced adverts on some TVs too.

Yes I would prefer Samsung due to the Blu-Ray player other TVs in the house being Samsung.

I haven't heard about forced adverts, but yes that would definitely be a show stopper. I'm not interested in novelty features (Alexa etc) and assume we won't be exposed to additional adverts if only using the Blu-Ray player, Freeview and Freesat?

I don’t think there are many TVs with both Freeview and Freesat. Plenty with Freeview and free to air satellite though.

winston1 said:

I don’t think there are many TVs with both Freeview and Freesat. Plenty with Freeview and free to air satellite though.

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That is true, we bought a cheap TV about two years ago in a black Friday deal with Tesco, it had both satellite and terrestrial aerial inputs, however the satellite input only pick up half the programs to our free to air box, I assume either vertical or horizontal not both, but that is a guess. Since I use SkyQ this was not an issue. But one would not want that if you needed the aerial inputs, I only use the HDMI and USB.

But need to explain freesat and free to air. Freesat uses set channel numbers and an electronic program guide (EPG) which gives 7 days and I am told works like the Sky guide in that it gives all channels with out the need to tune into that channel.

Free to air gives not set channel numbers, this can be an advantage, I have mine set so ITV +1 is next to ITV etc. And all those channels often watched together, but you can't use a paper guide as channel 123 means nothing. I use a free to air satellite box in my bedroom, to watch end of programs, so I know where to look for what I want to view, and it can actually have more channels then freesat, however when a program goes off air, or a new program arrives my SkyQ updates, my free to air needs to be rescanned and all the silly programs deleted, there must be around 20 BBC 1's you can get all regions, still on the SkyQ box but all but your region is at end of listing, and porn channels mixed up with the rest, so you spend ages deleting them.

However free to air boxes can use multi-dishes or motorised dishes so you can in son-in-laws case watch Turkish TV. But the boxes which power rotators and/or have multi-inputs are not built into TV's.

Since I don't pay for HD I have more HD channels on free-to-air than SkyQ. But would need to sit on top of TV to really notice the difference.

I use an ICECRYPT STC3250CCIHD set bottom box, and this does receive both terrestrial and satellite so I can watch both and mix and match as I want, with a freesat since channel numbers fixed can't do that, but I would still prefer freesat with a good EPG if given the option.

Freeview is not as good as it claims for the EPG, my Panasonic worked well, my LG would often miss some programs, but today using Moel-y-sant transmitter so freeview just not worth having.

ericmark said:

That is true, we bought a cheap TV about two years ago in a black Friday deal with Tesco, it had both satellite and terrestrial aerial inputs, however the satellite input only pick up half the programs to our free to air box, I assume either vertical or horizontal not both, but that is a guess.

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That is almost certainly an incorrect guess.

More likely the transponder data base is not up to date in the TV. Satellite transponder parameters are continually changed for various reasons such as changing to HD transmission. Even new TVs are out of date. Do a blind scan if available, if not modify the transponder list using sites such as flysat.com.

winston1 said:

That is almost certainly an incorrect guess.

More likely the transponder data base is not up to date in the TV. Satellite transponder parameters are continually changed for various reasons such as changing to HD transmission. Even new TVs are out of date. Do a blind scan if available, if not modify the transponder list using sites such as flysat.com.

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As said I use SkyQ, so not worried about the TV receiver, but there is clearly a fault with the TV, and not worth getting fixed, so easy way is not to combine TV and satellite receiver so you can replace one at a time.