Samsung Brings YouTube to the Living Room through Samsung Blu-ray Disc Player

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2009-09-03 18:45

Seoul--(뉴스와이어)--Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a market leader and innovator in consumer electronics, today announced that European consumers will be able to view online YouTube content via Samsung Blu-ray Disc players. By allowing consumers to enjoy their digital content on their Blu-ray Disc player and their TV, Samsung demonstrates its commitment to enhance the connectivity of its Home Theater products as consumers immerse themselves in the experience. The YouTube service on Samsung Blu-ray players is available at the home video corner in Samsung’s booth at IFA 2009.

With the Samsung Blu-ray Disc player consumers can access all their content on a single device from multimedia content like movies, music, photos to self created or downloadable contents, the player opens up the living room to a whole new world of entertainment. Samsung’s advanced technology brings more than just a Blu-ray and DVD player - consumers can now enjoy on-line streaming, PC contents and USB downloading through Samsung’s Blu-ray Disc player. With the new service, available from 3rd September, consumers can also enjoy video clips from YouTube on their TV screen. The YouTube service features a variety of video clips, including the most popular or highly rated videos and allows for video search through a mobile phone-like on-screen key pad.

“Samsung’s vision is to enable consumers to immerse themselves in their experience through devices that offer the highest picture quality, most connected entertainment,” said Yangkyu Kim, Senior Vice President of Visual Display Division of Samsung Electronics. “The Samsung Blu-ray YouTube service brings a new coveted genre of entertainment, user-generated video, to the living room.”

Since October 2006, when Samsung launched the world’s first Blu-ray Disc player, the company has been enhancing the features, functionalities and the services it offers, and is currently ranked No. 1 based on unit market share within Europe and the US. Samsung’s Blu-ray disc players in the US already offer streaming movies and music to consumers through services from Netflix and Pandora.

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