SamyGO

Hello all, I have bought a D5003bg from Argentina, it has only 1 hdmi, 1 usb, etc.

The thing is that I have set the model as 5005 and I'm able to watch videos over usb BUT, someone from my work told me NOT to do this because when he bought his samsung LCD (not LED) a couple of years ago, he read in this forum that this type of change cause the tv to over-heat and destroy the micro, that although the models where also the same, the microprocessor is not and it is much slower...

What do you thing? Any experience?

PS: A funny fact... I bougth this tv at around 890u$s and it was the BEST price... the normal price is 1225u$s!

Well your friend doesn't know anything...
First of all, Video compression is NOT made by CPU/microprocessor but special DSP circuit. Means, it does the job for it is built for...
On low end device, this video codec decompression chip are not used / disabled "artificially".
Enabling video playing options make this DSP chips "working" NOT "overclock". Even if you "overclock" this DSP chips, you will have image artifacts on decompressed video, not bricked TV.
So enabling disabled video player does NOT overheat the chip but make it little warmer since it starts working.
Your friend is lying OR his TV bricked due h?s some other fault (like flash?ng wrong image) or its natural HW problem that related w?th samsung's low quality engineering.

erdem_ua wrote:Well your friend doesn't know anything...
First of all, Video compression is NOT made by CPU/microprocessor but special DSP circuit. Means, it does the job for it is built for...
On low end device, this video codec decompression chip are not used / disabled "artificially".
Enabling video playing options make this DSP chips "working" NOT "overclock". Even if you "overclock" this DSP chips, you will have image artifacts on decompressed video, not bricked TV.
So enabling disabled video player does NOT overheat the chip but make it little warmer since it starts working.
Your friend is lying OR his TV bricked due h?s some other fault (like flash?ng wrong image) or its natural HW problem that related w?th samsung's low quality engineering.

Thank you men, then I'm able to recomend the service menu in order to change D5003 to D5005 without any worry (and the front panel work)