The family hub refrigerator with built-in tablet will soon receive Samsung TV Plus, a free and advertising supported live TV service launched by Samsung At the second bespoke home event held on Tuesday, the company said that the update would be launched on the family hub 2.0 model (2017 and later) in July this year. The live TV option is only available in the United States and Korea.
At present, users with Samsung smart refrigerator can cast the screen on the refrigerator through Samsung TV or Samsung smart phone, and watch TV on the built-in touch screen of the refrigerator. However, if you don't have one of these devices, your refrigerator will waste such a large screen.
However, the verge, a foreign technology media, is not too optimistic about this combination. Media editors said that they had watched TV on the family hub, but the experience was not very good. It can only use a small horizontal area in the middle of the 21.5-inch vertical screen of the refrigerator. Google nest hub Max or echo show 10 can make a better kitchen TV, but they will take up counter space. Samsung's refrigerator also serves as a smart speaker, supporting Amazon's Alexa and Samsung's Bixby.
He also tried to watch Samsung TV Plus on Samsung TV. Although there are more than 200 free, advertising supported live TV channels and on-demand content, these content is completely random. Yes, there are CBS News and CNN replay, as well as many food channels and children's channels, but there is also a channel that only plays the 24/7 beach rescue team, and a channel for Antiques Roadshow.