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HTPC notes - Samsung UE32B6050 (6000 series LED TV) movie mode

My personal notes collected while messing with my HTPC running Windows XP SP2 and with a Hauppauge PVR-500 (dual analouge tuners) a and a (digital cabel tv on the cabel network in Denmark).

All entries here: 2009-11-14 11:57:10 Samsung UE32B6050 (6000 series LED TV) movie mode 2009-01-02 18:19:57 2008-04-09 22:17:41 2008-02-18 23:08:27 2008-02-18 02:49:04 2008-02-17 18:31:49 2008-02-17 16:02:12 2008-02-16 18:39:48 2008-02-16 14:36:21 2008-02-15 22:54:46 2008-02-15 16:50:04 2008-02-14 16:11:32 2008-02-14 00:48:34 2008-02-13 18:39:46 2008-02-13 14:31:40

Samsung UE32B6050 (6000 series LED TV) movie mode Samsungs 6000 series LED TVs (in my case a ) only supports music and picture playback from USB. The 7000 series also supports video playback, which is pretty neat. Fortunately its pretty easy to enable the movie mode on the 6000 series: Enter the service menu (be careful with what you change here, it could brick the tv!): Turn off the TV. Press [Info] then [Menu] then [Mute] and finally [Power] The tv should now turn on and youll see the service menu Change the model from 6000 to 7000 in the service menu: Select Option Move down to Model and change the setting from UB6000 to UB7000 (finish the selection with [Return]). Be careful not to select any other model! Press [Return] to get back to the main page in the service menu, press [Power] to finish the service menu Now enter the service menu again, and on the main page you should see the the model is now (for the 32 version). Power off to exit the service menu again. Now your series 6000 TV will think its a series 7000 and the movie mode will be enabled :) Put some video files on a USB key and plug it in, press [Media.P] (or [Menu], then Media Play (USB & DLNA)) and you should now see the new Movie icon. Select it and youll now be able to choose the video you want to watch. Ive tired a couple of files, XvID (in an AVI container) and x264 720p (in an MKV container) and both plays perfectly. Now, with the HTPC connected via HDMI its not the most convenient way to have to move files to USB keys and then plug them into the TV, but its pretty cool to know it is possible :o) Links with inspiration and helpful hints: A little update... It actually also enables the PIP (Picture In Picture) function from the 7000 series. Its not very well implemented though, it only works on the external inputs (like HDMI) and you have to select it through the menu ([Menu] then Settings then General then PIP...). I also get the Network setup in the menu now, so I guess the next step is to get a to see if itll work with the series 6000. 2009-11-14 11:57:10

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