For many years, companies such as Samsung, LG and Panasonic have been criticized for implementing this practice. An operating system on your TVs that doesn’t receive major updates After purchasing the television, it allocates its new functions to the most modern televisions.

LG broke this trend last year by officially confirming that most of its 2024, 2023, 2022, and future TVs will receive webOS updates for up to five years. After months of rumors, it looks like Samsung is jumping on board and raising the bar: Up to seven years of free updates for TVs with Tizen OS.

Samsung joins the bandwagon of free Tizen OS updates

Although it is not something that happens on operating systems like Android TV/Google TV or Fire TV, on other televisions with proprietary software like Samsung or LG TVs, After purchasing the TV they were unable to receive important updatesonly security updates and bug fixes. The same thing happened with Panasonic, although they recently abandoned the myHomeScreen operating system and added Fire TV to their TVs.

This is one of the reasons why some users prefer to purchase an HDMI dongle or set-top box with open systems like Android TV. free updates for several yearsjust like mobile phones. It is also a purchase that usually aims to improve the operating system of the television or to have an operating system compatible with most applications.

Following this pressure, Samsung has also taken the step of offering free updates to those who purchase their TVs with Tizen OS. Samsung Visual Display’s president and current leader Yong Seok-woo confirmed this to Korean media outlets Korea Economic Daily and Business Korea.

“With Tizen’s seven-year free update to AI TVs, we will widen the market share gap with Chinese companies,” Seok-Woo said.

There are currently no details on exactly which Samsung models will be included in this new plan, but the company did assure: Most 2024 models and some 2023 models will undergo this processThis means the TVs will get six major Tizen OS updates over the course of seven years of updates, very similar to what LG offers, but in a shorter period of time (up to five years and four updates).

The next version of Tizen OS is expected to be known at the next CES 2025, the annual technology event where we usually get all the news related to the Smart TV industry.

The trend of not offering free updates on Smart TVs, a segment where hardware is less and less important for companies and where they have decided to increase their service offerings and promotional content on their own operating systems, also seems to be gradually disappearing.

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