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Samsung smart TVs appear here mainly where they intersect with Microsoft services and living-room gaming. The tagged discussion covers Xbox Cloud Gaming losing support on 2020 Samsung Smart TVs in early November, with Microsoft citing operating system compatibility and Tizen platform limits as the reason. It also looks at what affected owners can do instead, including alternative devices for streaming games. For WindowsForum readers, the thread is a practical example of how TV firmware and app support cycles can cut off cloud services that people rely on, and why checking platform requirements matters before treating a smart TV as a gaming hub.
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    Xbox Cloud Gaming Hour Caps Start in November as 2020 Samsung TV Support Ends

    Xbox Cloud Gaming is getting hour caps, losing a batch of older TVs, and still, according to Windows Central's sources, not slowing down. Those three facts sound contradictory, and they are easier to read once you separate what Microsoft has confirmed from what is only reported. The short...
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    Xbox Cloud Gaming Support Ends on 2020 Samsung TVs November 3: Tizen Limits and Alternatives

    If you've been using a 2020 Samsung TV as a cheap Xbox, you have about five weeks before that stops working. Microsoft is emailing some Xbox Cloud Gaming users to say that the Xbox app will lose support on 2020 Samsung Smart TVs in early November. The only reason it gives is a single sentence...