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Samsung Pushes Its 4K/HDR TV Service in Europe (4k.com)
An anonymous reader quotes 4K.com:
Samsung Electronics has announced that its premium Smart TV content service, TV Plus, is now available for users of Samsung Smart TVs in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom... Owners of eligible Samsung Smart TVs with 4K / HDR capabilities in the above-mentioned European countries now have direct access to premium 4K UHD HDR content offered by Samsung, in partnership with Rakuten TV, and can find their favorite shows using the TV Plus straightforward interface... The expansion comes at what could be considered a strategically well timed moment in the European market, given that 4K TV sales in the huge continental market are steadily growing year by year and are expected to rise to over 17 million 4K TV units shipped by the end of 2017. Meanwhile, TV Plus content has become a success in Southeast Asia since its launch, where 70% of Smart TV users in Korea are watching TV PLUS channels, and 41% of Smart TV users in Vietnam are using TV PLUS.
Subject said it all.
Yet another streaming service but this one's tied to your hardware
Build a Man a Fire, and He'll Be Warm for a Day. Set a Man on Fire, and He'll Be Warm for the Rest of His Life.
By "premium content" do they mean that same localized region locked shit you can get from your local cable provider? No thanks.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
I know that Rakuten streaming service, formerly Wuaki, has been eclipsed by Amazon Prime and Netflix. I fear it is not a good idea to have exclusive content on Samsung TVs when you aim to be on as many devices as possible. I hope there is a fat check in order to make Rakuten live longer.
Nice marketing release. "where 70% of Smart TV users in Korea are watching TV PLUS channels". Sure they are.
There isn't that much 4k content around, which probably affects people's decision as to whether it's worth upgrading to a 4k tv set. So giving access to a significant library of 4k content to anyone buying a Samsung tv will probably get them a bunch of sales they wouldn't otherwise have had. There's no mention of cost in the article, I'm not clear if it's free for owners of the specified tv set models, but if so then it seems to be a pretty good deal.
A childlike sense of wonder?
Please, someone explain that to me. Is there anything in that I *do* want to have?
Allow me to clarify. Product features these days have nothing to do with what you want. Manufacturers only give a shit about features that make them the most money.
Your needs or wants are a distant priority to that. And no, they don't care if you don't like it, because there's not a damn thing you can do about it.
Seriously, is this "news" or just ad copy? It sure does sound like product placement to me...
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I'm in the US, a wasteland for broadband, even my smallish city has a regional wireless (ground based directional) at over 100mbps.
When there is content that needs, or even benefits from, more than 25-50mbps, it'll come.
Wow, sent an e-mail as suggested when clicking on "use classic" banner, and got a fast response that addressed my msg
How do you feel about File Allocation Tables?
I feel they're a way for Microsoft to tax users of removable storage. Once the VFAT patent (covering the method used to store long file names in FAT since Windows 95) was due to expire, Microsoft evergreened its patent by introducing exFAT and convincing the SD Card Association to make exFAT mandatory for SDXC hosts instead of UDF.
Do Samsung 4K TVs have an SD slot or USB receptacle whose use for storage would incur a FAT tax?
I've read reports that some TVs capable of IPTV have an interstitial requiring the owner to agree to the software license agreement and activate the TV online before using it even for things other than IPTV. Until the owner connects the TV to the Internet, all it can do is display the nag screen.
"Then just buy a TV that isn't 'smart'." Good luck with that now that the cost of including IPTV has become negligible in a large TV compared to the cost of engineering and stocking a separate SKU without IPTV. Because of this, not all such TVs even have a corresponding model with a similar panel but without IPTV.
> And no, they don't care [...] because there's not a damn thing you can do about it.
Well, there is. Remind myself and others that I don't *have* to shell out money for that. Sometimes there's a bit of activation energy to tunnel the barrier, but that's their trick, and *knowing* that life is always better beyond the barrier deprives them of customers.
I try to take as many as I can to the other side.
Remember the red pill metaphor?
You and your defiant opinion represent less than 1% of the customer base, which is exactly why they don't give a fuck what you think or do. You won't even be able to make a pathetic dent against those that dominate the industry.
Keep dreaming that you taking "as many as you can" to the other side is going to change a fucking thing. It won't, and my original statement stands. Consumers are lazy, and won't even expend the effort to look for a red pill, or swallow it.
Out of curiosity, do you have a source for that 1% figure?
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
The latest LG OLED TVs support HDR10+, Dolby Vision and Hybrid Log Gamma, which will likely cover all the final HDR standards. Haven't looked at Samsung's stuff though.
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.