Samsung App Store On TV

Last January, Samsung announced that it would bring support for Apps to their upcoming HD TV’s, with distribution through Samsung’s existing App Store.

Now Samsung opened up their Apps platform for TV’s, with the launch of an SDK and the first applications available to download on the new Samsung TV’s.

Together with this announcement, Samsung is opening a competition for the best TV apps, offering $500,000 in cash and prizes for the individuals or teams that develop the best looking, most brilliantly conceived, and most functional apps. More info on how to enter this competition can be found here.

To vitalize the Smart TV market, it is crucial to provide quality local content tailored to consumers of different countries. We are expanding the Samsung Apps Contest from Korea to the US and Europe and will work hard to create an environment where developers, consumers and Samsung win together. (Boo-keun Yoon, president of Samsung’s Visual Display division via Mobile Entertainment)

A European version of the contest will launch later this year.

from: distimo