Thanks to all the folks who wrote but I've decided to just forget about watching David Letterman on the Samsung TV Plus channel. I am less enthused than I was before I learned that they're running selected excerpts, not whole shows. There are oodles of old Letterman clips on YouTube that I haven't gotten around to watching. It also seems difficult — not impossible but not worth the hassle — to access this channel unless you own a Samsung Smart TV made after 2023, a Galaxy phone or tablet, one of their Family Hub refrigerators and so forth. I own none of those items and I'm not about to go out and buy one just so I can see Dave having his stage crew throw things off the roof.
Here's one those "How dumb can I be?" moments: I've been discussing this with friends on the phone and on the 'net for a few days now and I kept telling them, "I don't own any Samsung products." Then I finally realized I do. My computer monitor — the one I stare at all day and am staring at as I write this — is a Samsung. In fact, it's a great monitor that has served me well for at least fifteen years now so I'm not about to chuck it even though it's too old to get Samsung Plus TV.
It turns out that there were ways to just access the Samsung channel on a PC — which is why I read on the 'net that there were. But Samsung has closed them off — which is why I couldn't find one. It does seem possible to do it but the methods folks sent me involve some hacking and downloading software of dubious pedigree so I've decided to just give up on this. Maybe one of these days they'll come out with an app for my iPad or I'll be able to add it on my Roku TV. For now, I'll just watch some of the YouTube Letterman clips like this recently-posted one…