Vortexbox with my Samsung Smart TV and LG Smart Sound Bar

I took the plunge this year and ended up buying a 22" Samsung smart tv for the bedroom,  to my enjoyment it has been by far my most enjoyable purchase this year.

To use with Vortexbox which acts as a DLNA server to stream movies and music to the Samsung smart TV, all you have to do is connect the tv to your network either via cable or WiFi. For my setup i used WiFi and have experienced no problems at all.

The Vortexbox is an old acer revo which i had kicking around with a 500GB hard drive, again to load Vortexbox is very simple.

When you have the Samsung Smart TV Networked and also the Vortexbox, no configuration is needed simply go to the menu option for recorded TV and you Vortexbox will show up as media server.

 You can then stream any movies or music that you have stored on your Vortexbox Dlna server.

The LG smart sound bar works with a very similar approach once you in the home menu your Vortexbox will show up as an option again it will be called media server, you can call the DLNA server anything you wish by logging into the Vortexbox settings and there is an option to name your DLNA service.

The great advantage for me of purchasing the LG Smart Sound Bar was that my 32 inch Samsung TV in my living room was not a smart TV, by adding the LG Smart Sound Bar to it not only gave me grat sound for my Freeview TV channels via an optical cable, it also adds smart functions from the Smart Sound Bar, giving me apps like netflix and BBC iplayer. Again i can stream movies and also music from Vortexbox too.

Another twist is you can setup Bluetooth from your smart phone or tablet PC, i use an Iphone and i can stream music from that to.

On Both the sound bar and smart TV i have spotify which i have a premium account for.

Please check out my video for my Samsung smart TV review


Also my LG Smart Sound Bar Review