It’s a Samsung 85 inch!
Our old 59 inch Samsung plasma died new year day! It was 14.5 years old.
Borrowed daughter’s old 40 inch tv in the meantime. I swear I was going cross eyed it looked so small!
To think in early days big colour tv of 26 inch was the ants pants 

Well I wasn’t going to go for Samsung but this 24 hour special came up for $1390 (down from $2490) so I clinched it!

Dang the 85 inch is huge! Had to rearrange small lounge area and take away wall units, it just seems so bare now!
Well I almost hated the tv as I couldn’t work out how to get into it… had to do some email thing and internet pass code and it gave me 6 minutes! I was down to 2 minutes then it connected!
Miracle!
The remote is very small and very few buttons.
Well next I wanted to connect to prime… oh no here we go again… needing my phone and passcode. I decided to leave it for later.
So now I’m calm I try again, it was a bit easier so got my prime connected and accessible.
I fiddled with all the controls late at night when he’s gone to bed so I learn faster.
To my amazement I can mirror my iPhone to the tv and it needed to get a code to connect.
The mirrored thing never worked for the old Samsung smart tv for me but for others with a Samsung phone it works for them 
Now I have the mirrored thingy… I went into photos and videos and looked at a few and it’s so good, larger than life!
And today I tested the usb stick with holiday photos on it… at back of tv, plugged straight in and it worked! I never could with that old plasma!
Now all I have to see is if our trusty old dvd and bluray players work. They are Samsung brands. Cross fingers. That’s for another day!
Whew! I almost hated the new tv at first!
Technology isn’t so simple, oh for the days of just plugging a tv in and changing channels.
There is no way on earth hubby could’ve connected the new tv if he were on own.
He thinks I’m so good (alright let him think that  ) but I said, I’m more flukey than knowing what to do.
That timer of 6 minutes stressed me 
What I don’t like is. As I need subtitles due to my hearing loss, those subtitles are huge! Can’t shrink them, (I’m deaf, not blind  ) and sub titles almost in the middle of the tv!
I will go into store tomorrow to find out if that can be magically adjusted.

Sophia wrote on Feb 22^nd, 2026 at 1:25pm:



Open the Menu: Press the Home button on your Smart Remote, then navigate to Menu > Settings > All Settings (the gear icon).

Go to Accessibility: Navigate to General & Privacy and select Accessibility.

Caption Settings: Select Caption Settings to open the customization options.

greggerypeccary wrote on Feb 22^nd, 2026 at 3:04pm:


I did all that, and there’s no customisation option.
I’ve taken a screen shot of your instructions and am going in to the good guys tomorrow to see what they can do with the exact same tv
I will let you know how it pans out.

Went in to good guys, the tv salesman showed us all the steps (which I had done) and there was no way to make subtitles smaller. All I could do was have white or black background for subtitles. White background was crapper.

So the larger the tv the subtitles go large in ratio with the tv it seems.

All I can do next is phone Samsung tech and see what they say about it.

greggerypeccary wrote on Feb 23^rd, 2026 at 12:40pm:


Thank you for your help. There’s no caption settings, anywhere on this tv with remote.
But good news is, went into Prime to watch this series Fringe, and the sub titles icon appears, and I can change the size…. Well that made me happier 
In next day or two I will phone Samsung about my particular tv about subtitles adjustment for normal tv viewing.
So you know, it’s 85" U8500F Crystal UHD 4K Smart
TV 2025

Sophia wrote on Feb 24^th, 2026 at 10:50am:


Hmm, strange.

Oh well, at least they're willing to help.

It would be nice if they sent out a technician.

Sophia wrote on Feb 25^th, 2026 at 12:27pm:


Wow.

Sorry to hear the problem isn't resolved.