Samsung App store for your TV launches

Hundreds of apps promised by end of year

9 March 2010 16:58 GMT / By Stuart Miles

You've got an App store for your phone, so why not your TV? Well that's the thought, presumably, behind the Samsung App Store for your TV, Blu-ray player and home cinema system.

The electronics' giant has launched Samsung Apps, the first HDTV-based application store where users can download applications from select 2010 Samsung HDTVs, Blu-ray Players and Home Theater systems via the upgraded Internet@TV – Content Service.

Samsung says there will be more "than 20 apps" available by the end of March, with the promise of hundreds more expected by the end of the year.

Applications can be downloaded and viewed all while watching TV. Premium apps will be available for purchase via the platform’s transactional interface in the second half of 2010.

It's not just news ticker tapes or weather reports, Samsung says it's even planning on allowing connectivity with Samsung mobile phones citing an example of people able to use the phone as a controller.

"Consumers will be able to play Texas hold ’em poker with friends, where the TV screen shows the table and the phone serves as the controller, while showing cards in your hand like a real poker game".

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The picture is of a Toshiba TV!! Posted by ploppythekangaroo, UK
Great, now I don't even have to see my friends in person anymore. This is such a more personal way of playing cards. Let's app-up everything so I don't have to leave my house. Is there an app that'll do my nob for me? What's next, an app that pops a beer out of the TV screen? Posted by Rich Ochoa, USA
Great, now I don't even have to see my friends in person anymore. This is such a more personal way of playing cards. Let's app-up everything so I don't have to leave my house. Is there an app that'll do my job for me? What's next, an app that pops a beer out of the TV screen? Posted by RichOchoa, USA
ploppythekangaroo - doh - changed so intent on making sure that it had apps on it that didn't check the logo close enough Posted by stuartmiles, United Kingdom
What about the 09 internet @TVs? Can we buy apps through those TVs? If not, what was the point of having internet @ TVs at all?

There is no way that Samsung widget tv will compete Google and Apple TVs if it pisses of a whole sector of its market, the 09 internet @ TVs owners. We will not recommand anyone we know for buying Samsung Tvs if we are treated unfairly.

It is either staying with Samsung or migrating to Google/Logitech STB. it is Samsung's call.

Posted by Diriye , USA