Operation with Smart-applications: Smart-TV, Smart Hub, etc.        

Basics:

Most Popular Smart TV Platforms and their Apps in 2016

What are Smart TV Apps?

A smart TV is a digital television which is internet enabled and is mainly used for entertainment. Smart TVs are manufactured with inbuilt functionalities, however, normal TVs can also be made smart through the use of set top boxes with advanced features.

For internet connectivity, smart TVs use Ethernet or WiFi. To transfer media to the smart TVs, Bluetooth and memory cards are used.

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For proper and user enhanced entertainment, smart TVs come with smart TVs apps that offer the user with different possibilities to be able to access different media.Some of the apps that can be accessed by using the smart TVs are Netflix, Pandora, Skype, YouTube, Plex, Spotify and many more.

Popular brands that manufacture smart TVs are LG, Samsung, Panasonic, Sony, Toshiba and Philips.

Best Smart TV Brands and their App Systems

LG – LG Smart TV

The LG smart TV runs on the WebOS technology. The remote offers point and click, making menu navigation easy. The WebOS platform is attractive to the eye and provides an easy user interface.

The TV offers easy USB playback due to the fast operating system it runs on. Opening photos and videos is seamless and they run without delaying or stuttering.

For web browsing, the load speeds are fast and takes a maximum of thirty seconds for the heavy web pages (on fast broadband connections).

The remote control also comes with an internal microphone that makes it possible to use voice based commands. The smart TV also comes packaged with a remote control system that has the ability to control other systems in the house such as home theatres.

Gesture controls can also be used to operate this smart TV due to the inbuilt cameras.

Samsung – Samsung Smart Hub

Samsung smart TV uses the Tizen OS platform. This OS interface monitors your viewing activity and suggests other stuff that the user might be interested in. The interface provides a shortcut of frequently used services and apps.

The smart hub pages have been arranged in a way that is easy to access. They are grouped into Samsung apps, multimedia, films and TVs shows and a games hub page. Each of the hub pages gives further options and subcategories giving the user more content.

With the Tizen operating system, the user can also do some customisation on the interface by juggling around with the icons.

The smart TV offers TV apps such as Netflix, YouTube, Amazon instant, demand 5, BBC Iplayer, iTV player and 4OD. For a detailed list of the latest apps available and for support, go to Samsung Smart Hub.

For the TV control, Samsung offers Wii-like control which can use gestures. The remote control comes with voice recognition abilities. The Samsung smart TV comes with a built in camera, that is advanced providing clear images during Skype calls. Samsung smart TVs use the anynet+ technology. Samsung smart TVs come with built in WiFi allowing you to access internet with ease.

These TVs also come with mobile high definition link which allows the user to connect HDTVs to tablets and smart phones. For video-on-demand content, Samsung provides a whole range to choose from and comes in HD and 4k/UHD quality.

The inbuilt web browser runs on the HTML5 platform making it easy to load practically all web pages.

Panasonic – Firefox

Panasonic re-designed their online system to Mozilla’s Firefox system particularly designed for TV.

The key features for the new Panasonic smart TV are its intuitive and customizable home screens which allows getting shortcuts to your home screen with off course wide variety of Apps such Netflix, Amazon Instant, Accuweather, FreeviewPlay, etc. Another feature of Firefox TV is the Info Frame (clicking on the Home button) brings up four colour bar and text based links giving you easy and quick access to the recently used icons.

Panasonic smart TVs also comes with FreeviewPlay offering ultra-simple EPG-based interface for accessing on demand content from key broadcasters.