1 July 2011, Singapore – If you own a Samsung Smart TV, you’ll be getting much more content from today with Samsung’s 3D VOD service and partnership with SingTel. Samsung has partnered SingTel to develop two Smart TV applications – SingTel Video Store and SingTel Video Search.
With SingTel Video Search, you can access web video content in SD, HD and 3D content that can be found through an online catalogue. Besdies, movies, a wide variety of content such as entertainment, news and videos are available across multiple video sites.
SingTel Video Store, an online video store with Asian and other international content, is the first such store on the new range of internet TVs with the option to watch directly on your TV, without the use of a set top box. You can preview clips with thumbnails, descriptions and watch movie trailers of upcoming movies or stream movies.
The best part, is Samsung Smart TV owners will be able to access the 3D VOD content at no additional cost by downloading the ‘Explore 3D’ application available on Samsung Apps from today where 20 3D clips will be made available. During this initial pilot phase, the 3D content will include movie trailers, music videos, children classics and lifestyle videos.
Samsung has collaborated with Dreamworks and will offer exclusive 3D movie trailers from How to Train Your Dragon, Shrek: The Final Chapter and the Latest Kungfu Panda 2 as well as music videos from popular Korean Bands – Girls Generation, Super Junior, and BoA. There are also eight 45-minute documentaries produced for IMAX theatres. Samsung expects to increase the number of clips available on demand to 100 by end of this year.
Samsung 3D VOD has generated one million views in the first 100 days of its initial launch in Korea in March 2011. Smart TV users have watched its content 10,000 times a day on average and increasing to 20,000 views a day in May 2011.
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