Samsung show off its new smart TV platform: Smart Hub

Published on January 2 2013 by batteryshops.com.au

CES is just over a week away, and Samsung has given us a taste of what it'll be bringing to the world's biggest tech fair. It promises to show off its new smart TV platform, known as Smart Hub. As well as TV shows and films, it'll bring together all your apps, social networks, music and more.

According to the Samsung Tomorrow blog, the user interface will be split up into five categories. These are On TV (live TV), Movies and TV Shows (video on-demand), Apps, Social, and the fifth one is Photos, Videos & Music.

There's also a new way to navigate the menu, known as the 'Flipping' function. Using the motion control, you 'flip' your way through screens -- Samsung compares it to how you'd flip through the pages of a Toshiba pa3285u-3bas battery book.

The menu will have a tile-based layout, similar to Microsoft's Windows 8.