Samsung Television Plus, Samsung’s totally free more than-the-leading video streaming service for its intelligent TVs and Galaxy phones, is coming to India in 2021. Samsung Television Plus is at the moment offered in 12 nations like the US, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Austria, Korea, Australia, and Brazil, bringing reside and on-demand Television from about 300 broadcast networks, content platforms and digital creators to more than 60 million Samsung Smart TVs.
The service is also offered on choose Samsung Galaxy phones in the US, like Galaxy S9, S10, S20, Note 9, Note 10, Note 20, Fold, Z Flip, Xcover, A51, and A71–with extra devices to turn out to be offered in the coming months.
“In 2021, Samsung will continue to expand TV Plus to other markets, with plans to launch in Mexico, India, Sweden and more European countries,” the South Korean significant stated in a press release. Though no more concrete particulars have been shared, Samsung touts Samsung Television Plus as a ‘100% free’ service with more than 15 million active customers. Unlike Netflix, Amazon Prime, and other people, there are no paid subscriptions–or important debit/credit card indicators ups–on Samsung Television Plus.
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The service produced its debut in 2015 and comes pre-installed on Samsung Smart TVs dating back to 2016 (topic to market place availability). With India becoming a market place for expansion in the days to come, Samsung Television Plus must come bundled with new intelligent TVs whilst current customers must get it by way of an OTA. It is not quickly clear if Samsung also plans to make it offered on Galaxy phones in India.
“Samsung continues to add top tier channels and content familiar with TV viewers,” Samsung stated, hinting that the service will rope in regional players as and when it tends to make its foray into the Indian market place.
India is becoming a hotbed for more and more OTT streaming services for expansion, even experimentation. This is in component due to the proliferation of the intelligent Television market place and somewhat more very affordable information plans–there’s just so substantially prospective.
It is also early to say if Samsung Television Plus will compete straight with Netflix, Amazon Prime, or even Hotstar and Sony Liv, and if yes, how it would go about undertaking that. For now, it appears more like a service complimentary to Samsung intelligent TVs, that must support Samsung tick one particular more box to entice persons into shopping for them–and subsequently into its entire ecosystem.