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hanspl
Channel Surfer
8 months ago
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Cannot get out of Blu Ray mode

I added a Blu Ray player to my Samsung TV (HTML cable). The TV is already connected to a Roku box via Ethernet (from router to the box). Now, when I turn on the TV, it is stuck in the blue box ("No s...
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  • Strega2's avatar
    Strega2
    8 months ago

    Well, as it happens, I have:

    In one room, a 2008 Samsung TV, Roku, BD player. DVD player, Android player, Satellite receiver, AVR, LaserDisc Player, should I even mention the beta VCR? 

    In another room I have a 2017 Samsung TV with a BD player, and a Roku.

    My tutorial?  Use the source button to select inputs.  Seriously, they're the same as Sony TVs I had before them and the other brands of TVs before that.

    At least both of my Samsungs are just normal TVs.

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Strega2
Roku Guru
8 months ago

An external device should be incapable of causing a TV remote to stop working. However, certain buttons on the remote may be meaningless in certain situations. For example, if you select the Blu Ray player, then hopefully you realize that at that point, you need to use the arrow keys on the Blu Ray remote, not the ones on the TV remote in order to make selections on the Blu Ray.

Of course, even then, if you do something like press the Settings button or Home button on your TV remote - in that case you will be driving the TV UI with the TV remote arrows. But once you exit the TV UI, you'll be back to using the Blu Ray Remote on the Blu Ray.

If you can't even turn the TV on and off with the TV remote, then you may have the wrong remote, batteries could be dead, it could be defective etc. Replacement remotes are common and third-party remotes are inexpensive (do check model numbers for compatibility). I see someone selling a two-pack of Samsung-compatible TV remotes for $9.45 on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Universal-Remote-Samsung-Replacement-Compatible/dp/B0B7B6KLH3

In the picture on the Amazon site, you can see the Source button in the upper right.

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Tivoburkee
Community Streaming Expert
8 months ago

Strega2 

 

I can't stand that model of Samsung tv remote, the buttons are so close together for my big fingers. It's the main remote used in the living room of where I live. It belongs to my niece and nephew. I have so many better universal remotes, but he won't have it. 😞