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First Smart TVs Powered By Firefox OS On Sale In Europe, Worldwide Soon

Posted by samzenpus on from the brand-new dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The first smart TVs powered by Firefox OS have gone on sale in Europe. Panasonic's line of Viera smart TVs includes six that are powered by Firefox OS — CR850, CR730, CX800, CX750, CX700 and CX680 — including their first curved LED LCD TV. The full global launch of the TVs is expected “in the coming months.” From the Mozilla blog: "We’re happy to partner with Panasonic to bring the first Smart TVs powered by Firefox OS to the world,” said Andreas Gal, Mozilla CTO. “With Firefox and Firefox OS powered devices, users can enjoy a custom and connected Web experience and take their favorite content (apps, videos, photos, websites) across devices without being locked into one proprietary ecosystem or brand.”

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  1. Re:Not Interested by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    YES... exactly.

    Want a smart TV, get a dumb TV and put a small footprint computer on it, e.g. in my case a Mac Mini.

    It gets updates, the RAM can be upgraded, it has expandable local storage, has USB ports, Bluetooth, Ethernet, Wifi

    It can play games, run a massive variety of Open Source and Proprietary software.

    As new protocols are developed it is far more likely to be kept up to date.

    And it may well cost less.

  2. Re:Just hope by antiperimetaparalogo · · Score: 3, Informative

    Just hope that it can run netflix.

    I don't understand why you have been down-modded, but:

    The first smart TVs powered by Firefox OS have gone on sale today in Europe. [...] The new Panasonic TVs ship with a decent number of Firefox OS apps, including a Netflix app that supports 4K streaming, [...]

    "Sorry, Netflix is not available in your country yet.": Netflix - Greece (that's in Europe... and not just in Europe, but in the European Union also... actually "Europe" IS A FUCKING GREEK NAME!)

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  3. And it still sucks by Lumpy · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sorry, but ALL smart TV's suck.

    Give us a place to dock a Roku or ATV and call it done. LG/Sony/Panasonic/Etc all utterly suck at the "smart" part. actually they all utterly suck at software and firmware in general. All of them have user interfaces that are train wrecks.

    These Firefox Tv's will have a bastardization all over in them. Like how SHARP shovels advertisements at you. Buy a $2600 Tv set and you have Ad's on screen unless you unplug the network and never use the smart functions. WTF is that?

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