I was just in the market for one of these and came to about the same conclusion. I did buy a new Samsung TV that was compatible with this device, but I bought a Linksys DMA-2100 and a Harmony Remote to tie them together. This solution works out to be more "integrated" than the complete Samsung solution, and cheaper, since I could get a DMA-2100 for only $110 from Amazon. If I want to wall-mount the TV or get surround sound (that HDMI receiver trick won't work, by the way), I'd be out of luck. If I wanted to change TV's I'd be out of luck.
There just is about no good advantage to using the Samsung extender that I could find. The "cons" far outweighed the "pros".
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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I was just in the market for one of these and came to about the same conclusion. I did buy a new Samsung TV that was compatible with this device, but I bought a Linksys DMA-2100 and a Harmony Remote to tie them together. This solution works out to be more "integrated" than the complete Samsung solution, and cheaper, since I could get a DMA-2100 for only $110 from Amazon. If I want to wall-mount the TV or get surround sound (that HDMI receiver trick won't work, by the way), I'd be out of luck. If I wanted to change TV's I'd be out of luck.
There just is about no good advantage to using the Samsung extender that I could find. The "cons" far outweighed the "pros".