Samsung presents its TV Discovery service at Mobile World Congress

This new service will provide the user with a quick and easy way to locate and enjoy live television and video content. It will be available on both mobile devices and Smart TV.

As part of the annual Mobile World Congress fair, Samsung this week presents TV Discovery, a service that provides the user with a quick and easy way to locate and enjoy live television and video content. Available on upcoming Samsung mobile devices (both smartphones and tablets), Smart TVs or both, TV Discovery offers personalized recommendations and allows you to search across multiple content providers.

Samsung's new service greatly simplifies the content search process, as it integrates and offers real-time information from different sources, such as traditional live television, video on-demand or online content repositories such as YouTube. Later, it is planned to also offer personalized recommendations based on the user's preference history.

Won Pyo Hong, president and director of Media Solution Center, highlighted that "TV Discovery offers the user the possibility of searching and viewing the content provided by our providers, either through subscription or on demand. The service implements a personalized recommendation engine that allows the user to "teach" the service their tastes and preferences. The more you use the service, the more relevant the recommendations are for TV, movies and other on-demand content. It couldn't be easier."

Connected devices

TV Discovery is a practical tool to find and play video on Samsung Smart TV devices and compatible mobile devices, but also to easily transfer content between connected devices. What's more, TV Discovery can also transform a connected tablet into a remote control, so users can choose and play on-demand programs or live television, after doing a search from their tablet, and then view them on their Samsung Smart TV.

Initially, TV Discovery will offer content from providers such as Netflix and Blockbuster in the US, and Acetrax, Wuaki, MovieMax, Filmin, Chili, Pathé and SF Anytime in Europe.

One of the advantages of Discovery TV is that users will not need a multitude of remote controls to play different content, since TV Discovery allows you to connect and control the main multimedia devices, whether cable or satellite television, home stereos, DVD and Blu-Ray.

Samsung's new service makes it easy to identify the most relevant content for each user through personalized recommendations.

On the other hand, One Stop Search allows users to find movies, TV shows and videos on demand from different sources, using a single search.

Users transfer content from a smartphone or tablet and view it on a Samsung TV, or vice versa. Thanks to the Social Sharing features, you can also share the content you are viewing with your friends, but also enjoy what they have previously seen through Samsung TV Discovery.

The TV Discovery service will be available on the entire 2013 Samsung Smart TV range in the first quarter of this year in Korea, the US and 14 European countries (including Britain, France, Italy, Germany and Spain). Subsequently, and in the second quarter of 2013, it will arrive in the US, Korea and 14 European countries, including the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany and Spain, on mobile devices.