


#Mstar online review full#
This features a reduced version of the live picture from the AV input, or the broadcast you were watching when you last turned the TV off a selection of six recommended ‘currently showing’ broadcast programmes to the right of the live picture and a row of six ‘coming up’ programmes running along the screen’s bottom.Īll these quick TV links are presented with full photo-quality icons of the shows in question. When you first switch your new Samsung Smart TV on, the default homescreen is ‘On TV’. Samsung 2013 Smart TV Platform – On TV Screen But there are also plenty of significant differences between the two rival platforms. Samsung’s approach even follows roughly similar themes for each home screen to those chosen by Panasonic. If you read our review of the excellent 2013 Panasonic My Home Screen interface, this idea of multiple home screens will already be familiar. The most significant change from last year’s Samsung multimedia TV interface is the way the new one introduces five separate ‘home screens’.

So here is our more in-depth look at Samsung’s radically revamped Smart solution. During our review of Samsung’s spectacular new UE55F8000 TV a few days back, we mentioned that Samsung’s latest Smart TV multimedia/online platform was so sophisticated that we couldn’t possibly cover it properly within the boundaries of a normal TV review.
