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New Smart Hub interface streamlines the user experience

“In 2016, Samsung’s Smart Hub and Smart Control remote are providing the most streamlined, convenient and intuitive TV user experience”.

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Samsung Electronics unveiled a new Samsung Smart TV user experience with the refreshed “Smart Hub” user interface and new Samsung Smart Control remote. Instead of needing to switch inputs, the content you’re getting from those other sources will now be accessible from the remote and the new interface that Samsung has built around it. For a TV with more than three external devices connected, on average, the Smart Control remote will consolidate multiple remote controls into one, seamless device. “Together, they offer the choices and performance consumers expect from today’s home entertainment technology”. With their new Smart Control remote, it will be easier to control peripherals like video game consoles and digital HD antennas.

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In a way it could be thought of as a universal remote, thus saving you the need from having to operate multiple remote controls to control different gadgets. It’s a slight tweak, but a welcome one that should save TV watchers precious seconds that they could be spent binge watching something. The remote will run a version of Tizen to enable its smarts, which should, according to Samsung, allow it to control everything from set-top boxes and streaming devices to Blu-ray players and game consoles.

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