Archive for October 5th, 2009
Monday, October 5th, 2009
The Samsung widget TV
Despite most TV manufacturers researching heavily into 3D TVs, Samsung is going down a different route. Taking ideas from the apps trend that seems to be gripping the technologic world at the moment (see iPhone and PSP minis), he Samsung ‘Widget’ television is adopting a similar approach.
Building on their LE40B650 TVs, Samsung are integrating a widget experience which they are dubbing Internet@TV. At the moment the widget list is limited to a whopping four items, including weather and news widgets (aren’t there channels for these things?). Apparently more are on their way, including a YouTube app, and they can all be downloaded straight to the TV itself, as long as you have an ethernet connection nearby, because there’s no WiFi on this modern piece of tech.