Samsung and Amazon have collaborated to bring a new open HDR standard for TVs called HDR10+. The new standard claims to “elevate” the existing HDR10 standard with the addition of Dynamic Tone Mapping that integrates dynamic metadata instead of HDR’s way of static metadata. In other words, Samsung and Amazon claim that HDR10+ allows the […]
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Wikileaks: CIA hacked Samsung TVs, tablet to extract information
Wikileaks yesterday, uploaded a trove of alleging the reach of United State’s top intelligence agency by detailing the agency’s hacking capabilities. However, an exploit dubbed “Weeping Angel” claims CIA targeted Samsung Smart TV that transformed them into “covert microphones” due to TV’s feature to accept voice commands and sending audio data over the Internet to […]
Samsung unveils QLED TVs at CES
Hot on the heels of CES 2017, Samsung today announced their latest QLED TV series. The Q9, Q8 and the Q7 TVs boast improved picture quality, thanks to the evolution of Quantum dots technology. Samsung says the metal alloy Quantum dots technology allows the TV to produce richer and accurate colour range, up to 100 […]
Samsung to launch personalised Smart TV services
Samsung Electronics announced that at CES 2017 it will launch three new Smart TV services viz. Sports, Music and TV Plus. These services will offer personalised content to consumers based on their viewing preference through Samsung’s Smart Hub platform. For instance, the ‘Sports’ service will inform sports fans when their favourite teams are playing. All […]
2016 Samsung 4K TVs now support HDR playback on YouTube
HDR is the next big thing in the world of televisions and Samsung today confirmed that their 2016 top-end Quantum dot TV models will support YouTube’s global HDR playback. The support will come through an expanded version of the YouTube app and will be available to all 2016 Quantum dot TVs and UHD TVs. The […]