I have a Samsung TV...

[Phentex]

old enough that I'm not sure how long I've had it. 6 or 7 years?

Last night, I just HAD ENOUGH!!! I googled how to mute opening sound on Samsung TV. And are a TON of people wondering the same thing. And I pressed all the right buttons and there's no more annoying chime when I turn it on and off. Now I'm just pissed I let it go this long.

Have I become a curmudgeon?

[jberryhill]

1. You are not a curmudgeon

Every maker of every electronic device thinks I want to hear it fart, belch and carry on every time it does something. Sometimes I'm in the kitchen and something beeps, and then stops, before I can figure out what it is. This morning I thought I'd left the refrigerator door ajar, but, no, it was the toaster informing me the toast was done, in the event I was too stupid to recognize the sound of the toast popping up.

It's like the place is haunted and the ghosts are screwing with me.

I shut that stuff off at every opportunity.

[Phentex]

3. I was babysitting and heard a song in the kitchen...

What was that? I asked.

And the 3 year old grinned and said the dishwasher. I just smiled back.

When the parents got home they told me the dishwasher plays music when the cycle is done.

I'm old.

[jberryhill]

10. If my dishwasher did that, I would call an exorcist

[unblock]

11. for some real fun, get alexa

alexa sometimes butts into a conversation thinking you've asked her a question.

usually her response is something like "i can't help you with that right now" or "could you please rephrase the question?"


no, alexa we weren't talking to you, but thanks for reminding us that you're always on and always listening to *everything* we say....

[jberryhill]

12. No way

I wouldn't get one of those.

It's bad enough that I have Siri set to "oh hell no" in my iphone options, and she randomly decides that her input is wanted from time to time...

"I'm sorry, but I can't find any information for 'I thought I told you to leave me alone!'"

[csziggy]

22. I've been cussing a lot at Google recently

I'm using Google Maps to navigate around the UK and sometimes it just doesn't respond quickly or give me route I want. So I cussed at it. Everyone often I suspect Google resents this and gives me poor or unusable routes in revenge. Maybe I should turn off the mic for my tablet?

[jberryhill]

23. What gets me about using Google maps to navigate

...is that it says to me, fairly randomly, "You're on the fastest route."

Now, think about that statement for a moment.

I am where I am, and I'm going to where I want to go.

From where I happen to be, to where I want to be, why would I NOT be on "the fastest route" to get there?

I know there is a knee-jerk reaction to that question, but it is wrong. By definition, I cannot help but be on the fastest route to get where I'm going, because I can't be anywhere else other than where I am at the moment. So, even if there are two roads to get there and the other one is "faster" in some sense - if I'm not ON that road, but I'm ON the slow road, then I'm ON the fastest route from where I am to where I'm going.

Bugs me every time. What a useless piece of information.

[csziggy]

24. Here in the UKthe fastest route is probably not the easiest

Many times Google will send us some back way to avoid traffic - sounds good but that can involve single lane roads which are hard to drive when hundreds of other people are taking them to avoid traffic.

That's my husband's biggest complaint aboutdriving here- the really, really narrow roads. There are single lane roads with occasional "passing" zones, almost two lane roads that makes it hard for two cars to pass each other, and reasonable sized roads if there were not cars parked on both sides of the roads. He's rather drive in bumper to bumper stand still traffic on the motorways than on those narrow roads.

[OnDoutside]

2. No, just lazy !

[Phentex]

4. You aren't wrong...

I have been annoyed by the damn thing for years. Never thought there might be a way to shut it the F up.

[OnDoutside]

6. Sometimes minor irritations can just hang out there.

[targetpractice]

5. There is a setting, BUT...

There is a setting to turn off the opening logo/sound, but that stopped working for me on my 5 year old Samsung. It's just like it lost the ability to remember/save settings.

It's super annonying, but I have no hope of getting it fixed. Big TVs are a "cheap" commodity now.

[Phentex]

8. reading the replies last night...

others said the fix only worked for a while. Some gave instructions about different modes to try but I hope mine sticks!

[Gidney N Cloyd]

19. Then, as Samsungs will, it updated its software without asking or tipping you off.

Me, I'd just like a way to mute the unearthly loud U-Verse emergency weather warnings. A little beep like the broadcast networks use would be just fine. This is like a school building fire alarm. The purpose seems to be to alert my dog that thunder and lightning is coming so he may as well start running around and leaking on the carpet now.

[mbusby]

7. We have a Prius Prime advanced....

...car that plays a song when you start it and then a song when you turn it off. My wife will not allow me to turn the songs off.

[Phentex]

9. oy!

noise pollution

[matt819]

13. Speaking of curmudgeoning

I have a Sony tv. No chime. But I can’t stand the Netflix or HBO sounds. HBO’s sound makes me jump every time.

While I’m at it... Is it just me, or are most shows now shot I damn near black and white. Every scene is dark. Are lighting costs too high? And, no, it’s not my tv settings. Some shows are perfectly normal. But most seem to want some sort of darkish tone.

[Phentex]

17. I'm with you...

somebody's job to think up some chime or opening sound to every single show?

[AllaN01Bear]

14. i muted the macs ding when it started up. the thing i hate are the "commericals " at startup. gah.

[Phentex]

18. there's not enough advertising in the world...

said no one

[targetpractice]

21. These short sounds are called "stingers" or "bumpers"...

... and a lot of creative work/effort goes into them. The Intel Inside sound is a famous example.

Here is a (really long) history of the macOS startup sound over the years...

[PoliticAverse]

15. We need more info. Does your VCR still flash "12:00"? n/t

[Phentex]

16. HA HA! No, but

the modem crashed and had to be replaced. Now it's covered in a dozen bright green buttons that blink like a Christmas tree!

[Ron Obvious]

20. What, that little diddly-doop?

I have a Samsung as well, which is possibly a bit older than yours. I spent a fortune on it when I bought it, and then within just a few years it started dying because it suffered from capacitor death. Apparently a lot of Korean-made televisions suffered from a bad batch of capacitors around that time. It was out of warranty, so I did some research and eventually replaced the bad capacitors myself.

I'm hardly Mr. Fixit and hadn't done any soldering since college, so I'm rather proud of myself for having fixed the damn thing. It still works great and every time I hear the startup sound when I turn it on, I'm delighted that it still works.

Maybe yours makes a different sound.