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Netflix to disappear on older Samsung TVs
Samsung has announced that Netflix will no longer be supported on some of its older smart TVs.
From 1 December, the Netflix app will no longer work on some 2010 and 2011 models due to "technical limitations".
Seven older Roku streaming sticks will also no longer support Netflix from December, Roku told Digital Trends.
Netflix can be watched on smart TVs, set-top boxes, streaming media players and video consoles. Users can check if their devices are compatible here.
Samsung wrote on its support page: "Due to technical limitations, Netflix will no longer be supported on 2010 and 2011 TVs beginning on 1 December 2019.
"If you have one of the affected models, you may see a message on your TV indicating that Netflix will no longer be available on this device. You'll still be able to watch Netflix on your TV by connecting another device with Netflix on it."
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 08 2019, @10:32AM (7 children)
I just watched Netflix yesterday on my ordinary old dumb TV from 2005.
I don't think it's because of some viewer tracking conspiracy, but it's more likely just an example of why devices with too much integration and no user control of the software aren't a good idea. Phones quit getting updates after two years, so Samsung is actually doing better with their TVs. But I have a twenty year old PC that can run the latest version of Linux, and a ten year old PC that can run Windows 10. The difference is that Microsoft and Linus want me to use their software, whereas Samsung wants you to buy a new TV.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Only_Mortal on Friday November 08 2019, @10:48AM (1 child)
Well yes of course. Samsung are a hardware company not a software company.
(Score: 4, Informative) by FatPhil on Friday November 08 2019, @11:54AM
And a construction company, and a financial company, and a shipbuilding company.
Just not a software company.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 08 2019, @11:57AM (1 child)
Apple phones get updates for longer than that.
Android phones are closer to abandonware.
(Score: 2) by choose another one on Friday November 08 2019, @04:08PM
Yeah and generally (there have been exceptions) the Apple phones carry on working fine for years too - I have four year old 5S bought for one of the kids (all he wanted, the only phone he would ever want, he'd want no more presents for several years, he'd never need a gaming computer, and so on). It's still being updated and still works absolutely fine and survived two years of abuse from the kid absolutely fine.
After two years Apple wasn't cool enough anymore, so the kid moved to a Chinese Android with bigger screen better spec and more uptodate. Not sure if it's still getting updates, but it does appear to still work (less than half the age of the apple though), and the kid puts up with using it through spider-web of cracks on the screen which seems to be a teenage badge of honour thing.
So yeah, on the face of it, buy Apple. Except the Chinese Android was 1/3 (or less) the price of the Apple, so you can get a new one every year or so and still have change from the iPhone.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday November 08 2019, @05:03PM (2 children)
Vista ran slow as dog-shit, and I'm still convinced that its requirements were a ploy to get people to buy new hardware to handle it. It's forced obsolescence, not natural obsolescence. Google's app store tells me that Lyft won't work on my own phone, but I can sideload and older version of Lyft and have it work just fine. That will work until Lyft find a way to block older versions of the app, but that will discriminate against the "poor minorities with older phones" so we'll be okay for awhile since Lyft headquarters is in San Francisco amid increasing public awareness of Jewish tricks.
However, the type of people willing to buy a new TV for Netflix are the same type of people stupid enough to actually enjoy what's on Netflix: Baraq Hussein Soetoro's pet project for globohomo race-mixing propaganda advocating for the extinction of the White man.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday November 08 2019, @07:14PM
Yeah, but that was back then. Modern windows is able to do that, but on more powerful hardware. So it's clearly better.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 08 2019, @11:22PM
Stupid is what stupid says.