Samsung Reveals Expanded Smart Home, Privacy Initiatives
Samsung made a slate of smart TV-related announcements prior the start of its developer’s conference Tuesday including plans to incorporate the new smart home standard, Matter, into SmartThings enabled smart TVs and Galaxy devices. At the same time, the S. Korean electronics giant revealed it…
Samsung Smart TVs From 2018-2020 Get Apple Music App
Samsung said that starting today, it will be the first major TV brand to integrate the Apple Music app into its Tizen Smart TV platform, bringing those sheltering at home from the COVID-19 pandemic another entertainment alternative to help pass the time. Samsung said it…
Samsung, LG TVs Updated To Relieve COVID-19 Cabin Fever
As the COVID-19 pandemic increases reliance on digital streaming entertainment to help weather the viral storm, two of the world’s largest television manufacturers announced this week additional new capabilities now available to owners of some of their smart TV sets. On Wednesday, Samsung revealed that…
Disney+ Hits Samsung, LG, Roku, Android TVs & More
As promised, the Disney+ streaming service launched today offering a compelling selection of PG-13 or softer original and library content from the company’s significant collection of content assets. And from our brief experience this morning signing up with the Verizon one-year-free service offer and activating…
CBSN Added To Samsung TV Plus Free Channel Library
In a bid to make its Tizen-based televisions further appeal to the rapidly growing cord-cutting community, Samsung announced Thursday that it has added CBSN – CBS News’ free 24/7 streaming news service – to its Samsung TV Plus app service. Samsung TV Plus is an…
Samsung Offers Tizen OS To 3rd Party TV Makers
Samsung Electronics said it is making its Tizen OS, which it uses for its TVs, smart home appliances and mobile devices, available to other third-party TV makers. The announcement, which was posted on the corporate web site Tuesday, comes out of the Samsung Developers Conference…
Apple Replaces iTunes For The Streaming Age
Apple revealed at WWDC 2019 in San Jose, Calif. this week that it is ending the iTunes software program as its been known and shifting emphasis to more streaming friendly segregated content-type entertainment apps, like Apple TV. Apple executives revealed the company will be phasing…
Roku Claims Top Smart TV OS Market Share In Q1 2019
Roku released the results of its first quarter 2019 financials this week, indicating that its Roku TV smart TV OS had taken the top market share position among operating systems in TVs sold in the United States. The Roku TV platform is carried by a…
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