SAMSUNG 40-inch Class LED Smart FHD TV 1080P (UN40N5200AFXZA, 2019 Model)

I needed 32 inch 1080p ‘dumb’ TV of reasonable quality and price, but it seems so-called ‘smart’ TVs rule the market. My requirements are for a monitor, so the ‘smart’ features and internet connectivity are of minor importance. It’s a bit of a PITA having to get a Samsung account and app just to get this thing going so that I can watch video from my tablet via a dongle. No comment about the speaker quality as it I’m connected to my Hi-Fi system. All said and done, I’m pleased with the quality of the picture and the reasonable price I paid for it.

Picture and sound quality are excellent, as endorsed by Consumer Reports. Comes with a good number of apps. Very easy/intuitive to set up and use. Only complaint is the built-in antenna to pick up signals from our in-home internet router does not seem to be that great. It has trouble maintaining connectivity, when my tablet (right next to the TV) does not.

I had this same model until about a year ago, and really liked it until a voltage surge damaged the audio. One of my housemates is still using that set with earphones, but I didn’t want to go that route and made the mistake of replacing it with another brand I’d never heard of rather than with a Samsung or equivalent. That set lasted only a year before unexpectedly dying, so when it had to be replaced I went back and got the same Samsung model I’d had and enjoyed before. It’s easier to set up [not as many unnecessary and annoying steps], has better video and audio quality, and I expect it to last a lot longer.

The only reason I bought this TV is because it prevented me from having to rent a second Xfinity box; my living room Vizio can’t use the Xfinity app. The picture is good, but the UX/UI team needs to fired.

I don’t sleep well and often wake up during the night, so I put the TV on to fall back to sleep. I try NOT to wake my sleeping husband so I like to set the sleep timer to 30 minutes, which could be a new Olympic event with the amount of effort it takes.

Not sure what kind of psychopath engineered the remote. Instead of setting up the user interface on the screen and using minimal buttons on the remote, like my 21st century Vizio living room TV does, Samsung has every button they could possibly think of on the physical remote, like it’s still 1995. And, the buttons are small. And close together.

Notice the red boxes in the images? Those are the buttons you need to press to access the sleep timer. See how small the Samsung button is? If you have fingernails that are any longer than your fingertips, forget it…..you will be in “Inadvertent Button Pressing Hell” for a good while.

Here’s what you need to do to set the sleep timer on the Samsung:

Press Settings button—>then press the “down” button 4 times to get to the General screen—> then press the Right button—> then press the down button 3 times to get to the System Manager screen—>then press the Right button —> it brings you to Time —> then press the Right button —> then press the down arrow on Sleep Times –> then use the down arrow to select the amount of time. Once the time is selected, then hit the Back button 5 times.

Here’s what you need to do to set the sleep timer on the Vizio:

Press the Settings button — > use the center button to move down 4 spaces to the Sleep Timer, which defaults to 30 min. Hit the back button twice to exit the settings screen.

So, you’re like ok….get over it. And I would, except I love watching my Amazon Prime Video and 75% of the time the TV can’t load the Prime app. “There’s been an error”, “Try again later”, or my very favorite “Something went wrong”. Yes, it did….today, yesterday and every day since I bought this POS.

So, now you’re thinking “C’mon, it’s the wifi”. And, I would agree, except EVERY OTHER APP LOADS with no problem. So, I’ve reinstalled the Prime app multiple times…..which works for about an hour. When it refuses to load Prime, the only way I’ve found to get it to load is to unplug the TV, wait 30 seconds then plug it back in. Which isn’t super helpful if I’m trying not to wake up my husband.

So, usually at that point, I just go out to the living room to sleep on the couch and watch my Vizio…

Llego mucho antes de los esperado, facil de instalar y configurar.
La calidad de la imagen es buena en relacion al precio, recomendable si buscas una opcion economica con 1080p.
El control remoto funciona bien, toma un poco acostumbrarse a manejar las opciones de Smart TV.

A very good, reliable TV. Strongly recommended for a small room.