Despite Samsung’s TV dominance, Tizen OS trails Roku, Fire TV, and Google TV

Samsung has been the world’s number one TV brand for 20 consecutive years. Given that dominance, you might expect Tizen OS, the operating system the company’s smart TVs use, to lead the streaming platform market. Surprisingly, it doesn’t — not even close. The Streamable has published an analysis of smart TV and streaming device operating […]

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Samsung TV auto firmware updates: How to turn them on or off

Samsung TV software updates are starting to feel a lot like phone firmware releases. Samsung now rolls out one major Tizen OS version per year and supports modern TVs with seven years of updates. Not to mention that Tizen OS for TVs also gets a refreshed One UI layer. Still, Samsung TVs aren’t completely caught […]

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Select Samsung TVs runnung Tizen OS 8.0 get Tizen OS 9.0 update with many new features

Today, our Samsung S90C OLED TV in India received a new major software update. It carries firmware version 6500, replacing the firmware with version 2024 that the TV was running. It upgrades the TV’s operating system from Tizen OS 8.0 to Tizen OS 9.0, which Samsung introduced last year, and as a part of it, […]

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Google Photos finally comes to Samsung TVs, but there’s a catch

Earlier this year, Samsung announced Google Photos support for its TVs, replacing OneDrive integration. Now that its 2026 TV lineup has started going on sale in select countries globally, Google Photos is officially available on those models. Google has also shared more details about how the experience works on Samsung TVs. Google Photos is now […]

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