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Stream Your PC Games to a Samsung TV — Sunshine + Moonlight Cloud gaming like GeForce Now costs a monthly subscription. But what if you used your own PC's graphics card to stream high-end PC games to the big Samsung TV in your living room? All you need is Sunshine (host) on the PC and Moonlight (client) on the TV . It's free. Here's a beginner-friendly walkthrough from install to actually playing a game. I have an 85-inch TV, and when I first bought it I tried a month-long demo of Microsoft Xbox (cloud) and GeForce Now . I was impressed that a remote cloud PC could stream to my living-room TV so I could enjoy demanding games on a huge screen without stutter. But a monthly subscription just isn't reasonable for someone who games only occasionally, so after a few tests I dropped it. Then I heard that Samsung TVs (Tizen) support Moonlight too , and tried it right away. The principle is identical to GeForce Now, except the server is my own home PC instead of the clo...

Install Unofficial Apps on a Samsung TV with Apps2Samsung (VLC, Jellyfin & more) The Samsung TV app store has no VLC and no Jellyfin. But with Samsung's own Developer Mode and the open-source tool Apps2Samsung , you can sideload Tizen community apps (.wgt) in just a few clicks. Here's the full walkthrough — from enabling Developer Mode to actually installing and running VLC — based on the latest interface. Apps like Jellyfin and VLC aren't available in the Samsung TV app store, so you can't install them the normal way. But many open-source communities offer great free apps, and you can install them easily. There's only one hurdle: putting your Samsung TV into Developer Mode . This isn't a hack — it's a feature Samsung officially built into Tizen TVs, so it's not hard. Here's how. STEP 1 Enable Developer Mode on the TV First, open the Apps screen on your TV and go to Settings . ▲ The Samsung TV Apps screen. Move to the gear-shaped Se...