Samsung Series-6 UA32C6900VR LED TV - My Experiences for far - Shock, Firmware, Remote Control Issue and Support Calls - Ups and Downs

Buying Process:
Well, the fight was tight between Sony's 32EX700/710 Series Model and Samsung UA32C6900VR for me to buy one. Even though the battle was won by Sony, due to a decent difference in the price in which it was offered, i ended up buying Samsung on Nov 01st 2010. Let's just say that buying part was satisfying enough.

The first event - The SHOCK
After two days, the Samsung technical guy came over, opened up the package and installed the TV. Immediately after, when i tried to plug in the USB drive at the back, i felt shock at the back panel. I took the tester out and checked to find out that each and every metal part, especially screws, at the back was giving a bright light in the tester. I called up the customer care and they told that someone will be send for. I tested my home for electrical problems and found everything (earthing and reversal of live and neutral issues) fine.

The technical guy came after a day was talking ----****. "There is always a signal coming at the end. It is not electricity. LED TV's will have that" etc etc. Since this was not technically convincing enough, i had to call the customer care again the next day and they connected me to the technical team. They told that it is by design and there will some voltage at the back which is below a safe threshold. I felt OK with the answer even though they didn't answer my question about the possibility of grounding these potentials at the back, so that these kinds of issues don't come up. They could have provided a 3-pin plug to accommodate this. Well, this issue was not big enough for me since i didn't know deep enough to decide on the technical feasibility. So, i started using the TV as they told and i have to tell you, it was performing well and i felt happy.

The second event - Firmware Upgrade
Before buying itself, there was this firmware already released. Since my TV was having an older version, i upgraded through USB and everything went fine.I saw minor enhancements in the UI.

The third event - Remote Control
Few times over the days, i noticed that the remote events are less responsive. After 3 weeks of usage, this issue became a major one. There were two remotes, one from the Set Top Box (Universal) and the other is the TV's original one. For both, the TV was not responding. Turning ON the TV was not a problem usually with the remote, it turned ON. Once the TV is turned on, the remote actions became pretty useless. I tried different things (making sure that the sensor is clean - removed the plastic wrapping, remote has good batteries, proper distance of 5-6ft is maintained, indoor lighting changes etc) that i know of, but nothing worked out. I have to again call customer care and report this issue. Now, within 2 hours technical guy is supposed to give me a call, But, 48 hours over and nobody called yet.

Conclusion:
Well, I guess we cannot conclude that the TV or the support is GOOD or BAD from any of these experiences, as you might have already figured out. But, it's just that i'm expecting a better quality from a technically superior (as it is said) commodity having a decent price, that too from a company well known in this arena. May be, it's just me!

Allow the user to enter new values in to the Dropdown controls like Combobox in web-HTML pages

Until this time, it was not easy enough to make a Dropdown accept new values too, from the user. It will always work based on the predefined list items only.

There is tiny add-on, built on JavaScript, that seems to solve this in a fairly easy way. With just few lines of JavaScript code, the plug-in was able to make the already existing Dropdown (input type set as Select) to look and work like a Combobox. There was no changes needed in the server code that processes the input from the user.

When compared to the jQuery AutoComplete control, this has minor disadvantages. I works only on dropdown controls, while jQuery control works based on multiple sources. But compared to AutoComplete control, this control makes the changes in the server control itself in such a way that there is absolute zero changes necessary in the server side and the changes will be up and running in few minutes.CSS attributes are also exposed so that the control UI can be changed as desired.

jQuery AutoComplete Control:
http://jqueryui.com/demos/autocomplete/

ComboDropdown Control:
http://combodropdown.info/samples.html

Port Forwarding in a separate modem and wireless router scenario using ASUS RT-N13U, Beetel and Airtel connection

The usual settings was not enough for my utorrent Web UI to get accessed publicly. There was additional settings to be done in the modem side. I was trying various settings until i find it all explained here at the below article.

http://sanalksankar.blogspot.com/2010/11/router-modem-port-forward-utorrent-asus.html

All i had to do is to route the outside traffic to the internal router as mentioned, once the basic port forwarding was setup in the Wi-fi router.

How to quickly switch between multiple Google accounts in Chrome?

Here is an extension for Google Chrome that can make logging into any of your Google Accounts pretty easy. The extension is named as Quick Google and is available here.
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/cbgngpehipfmfmpjmhonhacgbkjpdidp

I have around 8 logins with Google and i had to enter them manually in all those login pages that i use daily. WIth Quick Google, i configured all those accounts and in just one single click, it logs me in and take me to a Google page where i can select the Google Services that i want use. Here is a screenshot from the website.

Essentialy, it works like a form filler, but specifically designed to work with Google's login pages. It works flawlessly and the Sign-in Assistant also seems to be useful for some services.

There are few cons too. The icons does not look that good and it looks like it will not work when Google changes their login pages as per the developer website. Hopefully, the google login pages will not get changed soon.

More information is available at http://sites.google.com/site/qgchrome/