I unashamedly bought a new TV yesterday. It is the 40 inch Samsung LE40A557 from Comet £599. OhMyGoodNess it is an amazing television. I previously had a Polaroid 26 inch and this is better than that Tv by a country mile.
No longer do I have HDMI issues, the sound is better (not tinny) and of course with a contrast ratio of 30,000:1 it has much better blacks. There is one area that Polaroid beats this TV and that is the menus. On the Polaroid I could easily switch input sources between consoles and sky by pressing source and selecting the input I wanted. With the Samsung I can go from sky to ps3 or 360 in one button press as it detects the next HDMI source, but going back to sky I have to cycle through all the inputs to get back to sky and that is highly annoying. But I can live with that.
Right now to set up the Sky remote code. Press interactive on the sky remote and navigate through the options to customer services and choose to setup your remote control. Go down to Samsung but you will find this model not in the list. No problem, just select the closest match which is the LE40A566 – Sky code 0840
Then follow the on screen instructions to change the code. Voila! You can now control your TV volume etc with your Sky Remote.
I have confirmed this code works with Sky HD remote controls. I am unable to confirm it with other remotes.
To save cycling through the input sources, try holding the source button instead of pressing it. It might give you a select menu.
Hi Dekay, good to see you.
I tried holding it but the moment it is pressed it just skips to the next source and then stays on that one.
The only saving grace here really is that it only detects and goes through sources which are being used at the time – so it ignores component and VGA. Unfortunately it does not ignore all that are unused so it still wants to cycle through DTV, EXT1, EXT2. EXT are the scarts, maybe there is a way to disable them?
I do like that it will go to HDMI 2 or 3 automatically depending which is switched on when going from HDMI 1 – for example switching from sky to 360 or the ps3, it will auto detect the console so I don’t have to press source twice to get to HDMI 3. But I don’t understand why it will not do the same in reverse when going back to sky. It doesn’t make sense – if it can do it one way, why not the other?
Hi
I have also just purchased a Samsung LE40A557 and cannote set my Sky remote to control the TV is suggested 0840 as well but this code does not work for a standard Sky+ Box, I am going to try 0646 or 088 which I have found recommended on another website, if either of these work than I will let you know.
thanks for the guide!
No Problem Michael, enjoy your telly
Oh my god ur a life saver!! my hubby’s nephew came ova da otha day n was playing wiv da remote, we neva noticed him tk da batteries out n da settings on my sky+ control were gone, am so used 2 using only 1 control n i was really fuming wen i realised it wasnt working, i used da 0840 code n it worked straight away, thank u very very much xx
Glad it worked for you Shaz!!
Cheers the codes worked