Samsung Series 6 (UE46B6000)

I have recently bought a Samsung Series 6 television and I wanted to share my thoughts.

I’m not going to describes specs. so look here. 
http://www.samsung.com/uk/consumer/tv-audio-video/television/led-tv/UE46B6000VWXXU/index.idx?pagetype=prd_detail

I spent time reading many reviews before I took the plunge!

First thing, it’s brilliant!

Why did I choose the 6000 series?

There was a series 8 (UExxB8000) and the overall difference between the Series 6 and 8 in my opinion are:

• 200 Hz
• DLNA
• Media 2.0
• Yahoo widget stuff
• £400 more

These didn’t interested me.  I have an Xbox 360 and Virgin Media V+.  The Xbox 360 can output at 1080p at 60hz and the V+ box at 50Hz so this ruled out the 200 Hz mode for me.

I basically use the television as a huge monitor, being delivered digital TV and on demand from the V+.  My Xbox has all the necessary DLNA crap that I never use anyway.

Internet Explorer 8 freezes when attempting to browse

I had a weird problem with my Internet Explorer that took me a while to track.  Occasionally when I would open other tabs and try to browse to bing.com,  google.com or any other web site it would not respond to the request.  It would freeze and behave like there were not connections available! Odd.

Anyway, I found a problem that solves it for me.  AVG Web Shield was causing my issue.  I have no evidence to support my claim other than when I restarted my computer and started using Internet Explorer 8 the problem went away.  Could be coincidence :)

Steps to disable Web Shield

• Double click the AVG icon in the notification area of your taskbar
• Double click Web Shield icon circled below
• Uncheck Enable Web Shield (require browser restart)