Samsung Plasma Review

Review: Twitter on TV? Samsung has an app for that

It used to be that people promoting flat panel TVs concentrated on the differences between plasma and LCD, 720p versus 1080p, and, most recently, the benefits conferred by LED and 3-D technologies.

That’s changing.

Faced with slower than expected sales, television marketers and salesmen are no longer trumpeting technical specs and trying to convince us to buy based on which set has the best picture, biggest jack pack or greatest depth effects. Now it’s about the unique experiences built into each panel.

Take Samsung. The South Korean company’s latest line of plasma and LED living room displays look great. Pictures pop off the screen, there’s little detectable image tearing or blur in fast moving scenes and dark images are filled with subtle details.

But the same can be said of many of its competitors’ televisions.

That’s why Samsung is shifting focus to talk about what their sets are capable of beyond great picture quality. And that leads directly to a discussion about “smart TV,” a high-level label for a variety of web-connected features.

All of these features can be found in the Smart Hub, a single, simple dashboard – no nestled menus – that users can call up at the tap of a button. The current program plays in the top left corner while a variety of apps, which can be organized as you like and placed in folders, are spread out as tiles across the rest of the screen.

A lot of these apps – such as YouTube and AccuWeather – have been around for a while and are common among web-enabled televisions. Most people use them occasionally, but they aren’t exactly home run features.

Samsung’s new Social TV, on the other hand, comes a lot closer to knocking the ball out of the park.

Social TV lets people watch their Twitter and Facebook streams scroll down the right side of the display, laid over or beside the program they’re watching. If viewers want to join a conversation, Samsung’s dual-sided Bluetooth remote offers a full QWERTY keyboard on the back. That means you can watch TV and fully engage in your social networks without ever reaching for a phone, tablet, or laptop.

What’s the point? When James Franco hosted the Oscars this spring he pumped out plenty of juicy behind-the-scenes tweets from backstage. With Social TV, viewers can follow all of his updates onscreen. Hence, the potential to enhance live programming.

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