Samsung TV plus - what’s the deal?

Stu999 · 8 Dec 2022 at 21:02

I notice a lot of current Samsung TVs are listed as not being Freeview or Freesat but Samsung TV Plus.

Amazingly, the internet does not answer the basic question of whether you can get live terrestrial TV via Samsung TV Plus tvs in the UK.

Any owners here who can explain a bit about how it works? If you want to use BBC 1 for example is it basically only via the iPlayer?

robfosters · 8 Dec 2022 at 21:50

It has very few normal channels. They’re mostly specialist sort of channels dedicated to one thing.

Stu999 · 8 Dec 2022 at 21:53

robfosters said:
It has very few normal channels. They’re mostly specialist sort of channels dedicated to one thing.

That sounds rubbish

robfosters · 8 Dec 2022 at 22:15

Stu999 said:
That sounds rubbish

Channel list

Samsung TV Plus | 100% Free TV | Samsung UK

Don't pay for TV! Now you can enjoy hundreds of free live channels & on-demand movies with Samsung TV Plus only at Samsung.com

www.samsung.com

glenimp617 · 9 Dec 2022 at 08:19

The range of pluto channels isn't too bad, but remember it's all free so can't expect much.

Kol · 9 Dec 2022 at 10:35

Note these are in addition to the usual freeview channels. Samsung TVs do have Freeview/Freesat (my QN94 has both and from what I can see all newer Samsung TVs do) and then the Samsung channels up in the 4000+ channel number range of the guide.

Stu999 · 9 Dec 2022 at 10:55

Kol said:
Note these are in addition to the usual freeview channels. Samsung TVs do have Freeview/Freesat (my QN94 has both and from what I can see all newer Samsung TVs do) and then the Samsung channels up in the 4000+ channel number range of the guide.

Thanks, that’s the bit that was unclear to me and I couldn’t find a straight answer for.

Kol · 9 Dec 2022 at 11:16

Yea, it appears to be a bit of a marketing (albeit unhelpful!) thing. What they don't have, though, is youview so can't scroll back and click play or whatever and it load it straight from one of the apps. The apps themselves are all there though, iplayer/itvx/4/5 and of course apple tv/disney/paramount/netflix/prime etc

pooley · 9 Dec 2022 at 11:48

I have a Samsung tv from last year, it has a tv tuner to watch Freeview/Freesat in addtion to the Samsung app.

dowie · 11 Dec 2022 at 13:40

robfosters said:
Channel list

Samsung TV Plus | 100% Free TV | Samsung UK

Don't pay for TV! Now you can enjoy hundreds of free live channels & on-demand movies with Samsung TV Plus only at Samsung.com

www.samsung.com

That's odd, some of these channels seem to be dedicated to individual programs. I presume the "Baywatch" channel just cycles through the entire series? Or maybe throws in some Baywatch documentaries or behind the scenes programs?