On my Samsung Terrace outdoor TV, I was able to enjoy the hobbies of landscaping and the sporting events broadcast on TV.
This past fall, I had the opportunity to combine my passion for maintaining the plants, flowers and lawns around my home with my day-to-day work of writing about home technology. Samsung Terrace outdoor TV provided for review. Adding this to your Origin Acoustics outdoor speaker system can take your outdoor entertainment system to the next level.
As soon as the 65-inch TV arrived, I emailed a local custom integrator, Millennium Sounds, to ask for installation assistance. I’m pretty handy, but I know my limits. There was no way to trust my skill of hanging that particularly sturdy beast on the bricks of the exterior walls of my house.
Millennium co-owner Bill Lehman said his company always uses Snap One’s SunBriteTV brand for outdoor mounts, so he confirmed his preference for articulated models and scheduled the installation.
After opening the mount and TV box, the Millennium technical team worked with me on my favorite TV placement between the patio door and the kitchen window. The installation took place in the Midwest in November, so I didn’t have much time to enjoy outdoor movies unless I really wanted to bundle them up. As a result, a large-scale unveiling ceremony was finally held in late May, and we were able to stream the Indy 500 livestream.
For me, watching the Indy 500 live was perfect without getting stuck indoors for 5 hours on a beautiful spring day. So was the very clear 4K performance of the TV.
Vroom, vroom. May Indy 500
After that, I spent many afternoons and nights watching some of the Yankees’ baseball games, drinking adult drinks and hitting dogs with tennis balls. The sound quality of the terrace TV is so good that I never thought of adding a soundbar. The vibrant brightness settings for daytime viewing make your TV look vibrant even from deep in the lawn. At night, reduce the brightness to “cinema” mode so that the TV does not illuminate the entire neighborhood. My only minor complaint is that Samsung hasn’t signed an app deal with Major League Baseball. So to watch ball games on the MBL app, you had to buy a Roku 4K streaming dongle that attaches to the back of your TV.
For me, next to watching the Indianapolis 500 outdoors is watching a baseball game on a warm summer night or on a regular Sunday afternoon while working in the yard.
Flowers and the Yankees thrive in midsummer
But then something “interesting” happened to my oasis in Shangri-La’s backyard. First, a terrible heat wave and draft hit that started in late June and continued deep into July. My lush green grass became dry and brown, and the ground cracked every day.
And finally it rained in the form of a heavy midnight thunderstorm the other day. A lightning bolt hit one of my backyard trees and split it in the middle, leaving a great deal of confusion. Fortunately, no one was injured and no major property damage was incurred. It sounds ridiculous to say that, but I’ve escaped all my outdoor technology.
The lesson of the story is that you can try to bring the convenience of modern technology into the natural world, but often Mother Nature is trying to find a way to regain what belongs to her.
We are now clearing the turmoil and my lawn is starting to turn green. Eventually, after (temporarily) tame the small outdoor section again, turn on the terrace TV again and listen to the birds singing to your favorite baseball team during the summer breeze. That would be pretty close to perfection.
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