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SFR TV app for Samsung TVs

brucine Posted messages 25208 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   -  
brucine Posted messages 25208 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   -

Hello,

My current Samsung is ancient and not very Smart; it only allows a few preinstalled apps. I’m getting a modern one this Saturday where you can install many more, especially the TV apps from Internet providers.

My network connection has been provided since December by a SFR 4G Box (pole outages), so neither the Box nor the TV receiver works. I don’t know if, in case of Wi-Fi connection on the TV impossible for the moment due to lack of apps, the IP of the SFR 4G Box is recognized as an SFR IP as it would be for a classic Box-to-receiver connection.

There is also no terrestrial reception, a recurrent outage on the Toulon-Cap Sicié transmitter for years, making it only episodic during the day.

What isn’t clear is the “RED SFR TV subscription” via the app on the TV; you read conflicting information: the solution isn’t a Multi TV option (paid) meaning a simultaneous double reception that passes through a second receiver, also empty; on the other hand one reads that there would be an option to choose between the receiver TV and reception via the app on the TV for those who have TV included in the plan, perhaps plus a TV bouquet option. I have both, so this time with a single reception which is enough for me, I can’t find it anywhere.

Your insights, please.


 

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    jeannets Posted messages 28443 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   Ambassador 6 615
     

    Hello,

    We don’t really understand what your question is..?

    Your text seems mainly intended for "salespeople" (see SFR or SFR Forum)

    However, if you receive 4G, without an external antenna, I doubt you will have enough bandwidth to watch TV... on several TVs... and also share internet with all the residents of the house..?? That’s technical..!

    Terrestrial television is a principle that still works, for everyone, without a subscription... if you’re not too far from the transmitter, if you have an outdoor antenna in alignment and properly oriented to the right transmitter.

    There you go, check if you meet all the conditions..

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    1. brucine Posted messages 25208 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 177
       

      Hello,

      There is no terrestrial TV or it is random despite a roof antenna and not "at the edge" of the transmitter’s coverage area; this has been ongoing for years but only becomes noticeable because poles have been damaged since December, there is also no Fibre, and therefore no Box and no TV set-top box.

      It is not a question of receiving TV on multiple devices at the same time, TVs, smartphones or whatever, but only one TV.

      The speed of a 4G dongle, around 300 Mbps, is more than enough but the TV set-top box only connects to the SFR Box, not to the 4G Box.

      I’m receiving the new TV today, I will test further, initial tests done; if there is nothing better we launch perfectly with its credentials the TV SFR app on the phone and the TV SFR site on the computer, still to be determined under what conditions the TV is sufficiently "smart" to connect via Wi-Fi/Bluetooth (I no longer have a Chromecast since several years).

      The obviously preferable alternative is to install the TV SFR app directly on the TV (it’s now only Wi‑Fi without any Box saga if the IP is recognized by SFR) but it exists only for SFR, not sure it works for RED SFR, nor if it works at all if we cannot sign in because this sign-in would be exclusive (set-top box or TV).

      In the first hypothesis we are technically stuck and it is not economically reasonable: there is no migration from RED SFR to SFR, it is not possible without an active line, and outside of a more expensive plan it is treated as a new line with a new operator: termination fees and subscription.

      The question, although one sees everything and its opposite on SFR’s sites, is to know if outside Multi TV someone has experience choosing at registration for RED SFR the option decoder or TV app (apparently not possible afterwards) and having TV SFR work on the TV that is compatible with operators (new Samsung) the TV SFR app at SFR or RED SFR while having a decoder elsewhere.

      Or of course, I’m not biased; any method to watch at least DVB-T on the TV without being ejected during a program as has been the case for more than 6 months (except HDMI connection from PC to the TV, geographically not easy to consider).

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      1. brucine Posted messages 25208 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 177 > brucine Posted messages 25208 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
         

        I hadn’t thought about the cocktail either, for which there apparently is an application for the TV. I don’t know if it’s free or not for TNT, what rates, with or without ads.

        https://www.molotov.tv/tv

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  2. jeannets Posted messages 28443 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   Ambassador 6 615
     

    Hello,

    I remain skeptical about the advertised speed of 4G

    Average speeds.

    4G offers 20 to 50 Mbit/s, 5G can reach up to 300 Mbit/s and almost 500 with an external antenna.

    With big drops in case of overcrowding.

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    1. brucine Posted messages 25208 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 177
       

      The nominal throughput is expected to be 75 Mb/s up to 150 Mb/s on 4G and 593 Mb/s on 4G+ depending on the frequencies used and their possible aggregation according to the equipment.

      When I plugged in the dongle, I had it verified at 300 Mb/s; now it is around 30 Mb/s, but that is of no importance for watching TV.

      Six years ago I was in an ADSL area (and in the bush) which did not prevent receiving TV on the Box; to my recollection the minimal throughput (where things go wrong) is 4 Mb/s.

      Unless, I suppose, for games, I am not concerned; I have no problem launching on the TV all the creation apps including those for thematic TV, there are hundreds internationally for all tastes, but I will not use anything in Azerbaijani or Anglo-Saxon series more than B.

      To get back to our sheep, partial results.

      It seems to me (new tuner?) that terrestrial TV is less sensitive to interference, but this is recent, less than 24 hours, and may be just an idea.

      The SFR TV app is indeed available and installable in the Samsung Store but fails to authenticate, perhaps because the RED SFR subscription does not include this mode of diffusion, surely because the app is developed only for SFR and does not work for RED SFR or it hasn’t been.

      On the PC side, the SFR TV site launches without issue and can be projected via Bluetooth to the TV, but it opens the channels in a reduced window and casts the entire desktop as is including the taskbar; VLC refuses to open the sfr m3u flux, we would then probably have full screen cast, perhaps because authentication is then impossible, there may be other similar workarounds.

      If you launch the SFR TV app on the smartphone, you are then in full screen without problem (except data consumption, but normally not relevant on Wi-Fi).

      On the TV, there is no Molotov trial option; the annual subscription is not expensive, but one would need to try the result beforehand and especially whether, in the YouTube or Netflix style, there are other adverts than the normal TV ones.

      By the way, I hadn’t thought of it, the FreeTV app works on the TV regardless of the operator, except for TF1 and M6 licensing (and I suppose W9?).

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