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Comment by Newtonip | Hacker News Reader

Not having an'input' button on a TV remote is really stupid.

My Samsung has one, but it opens a slow, animated, dynamic menu based on HDMI data. So depending on what devices are turned on, the input you want might have moved in the list.

When I turn the PS5 off before the TV, the TV forgets the input ever existed. So it goes back to the TV's default channel - which oh, is GB News (the Fox News of the UK).

So every time I play I have to watch a bit of bilious TV while I scroll through the input list.

Truly a cursed device.

My Samsung does that too. The most enraging thing though is they fucked up standard HDMI. Like, I can't even plug in my laptop or steam deck. It will show up fine for about two seconds, and then the TV cycles it off. It seems to be looking for some kind of two-way communication or signal which it never gets. But plugging a laptop HDMI in has worked on EVERY SINGLE TV I'VE HAD FOR MANY YEARS, maybe decades, yet it doesn't work on my new TV. Aggravating.

Try turning off Input Signal Plus. That seems to attempt to do some fancier detection of the HDMI signal that breaks some things.

Thank you, I will definitely give this a try!

HDMI CEC is truly infuriating. I have turned it off everywhere (TV, receiver, google tv box, PlayStation). I'd much rather power on (or off) three things manually with three different remotes if it works consistently, as opposed to playing the "which device refused to power on/off via HDMI Control this time" game, every single time.

It would be better to display the menu immediately and to display according to the physical ports, with a number associated with each one, so that you can push input and then the number and then it switches immediately (even if nothing is connected, e.g. in case you will connect something later). Unfortunately, too many modern computers and other stuff have excessive animations and other stuff, and the numbers on the remote control will not work, because they will not make them to work. (Unfortunately, some TV remote controls (such as the one in the article) do not even have numbers, and even when they do, they often do not work with all of the functions that they should work with.)

You should not have to - but if you're talking about Samsung's shitty home hub streaming service, that can be turned off (I think you disable "Autorun Home Hub" or Smart Hub or...).

I was sick of getting Fear TV or some garbage poorly streamed to me when all I care about is Apple TV, Roku, or Art mode on my Frame TV.

I blocked all samsung ads in my router for my tv. Still got that samsungtv ehich always started playing. Also got rid of that by putting it behind a childs lock iirc. Now, if for some reason my apple tv does not properly switch on, i do not get that samsungtv channel anymore, but a black screen instead.

It is terrible ux. After the samsung galaxy s i swore off samsung, but somehow got tricked by the looks of a frame.

Never again. And the tv can be thrown out of the window, but my better half still likes tv.

My LG is like that too (well, not quite that bad), but holding down a number key is a shortcut to that input. Huge annoyance mitigator once I learned that.

I prefer Roku TVs at this point. No input button but the inputs are listed alongside the other apps on the home screen which works well for me.

It should really be an input button per input.

“Hey now, how do you expect users to quickly open Netflix or prime or Disney+. Psssh no one uses video inputs now anyway!”

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