Following Samsung’s launch of the Acetrax Movies app on its internet-connected HDTVs yesterday, fellow Korean TV maker LG Electronics today announced the addition of nine online applications to bolster its Internet TV offerings. Google Maps, Facebook, Twitter, Acetrax movies on demand service, vTuner internet radio app, and of course the increasingly indispensable BBC iPlayer are but some of the new services that will grace the NetCast portal on LG internet-enabled TVs (IETVs).
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While present in the company’s 2010 batch of flat-screen televisions since the beginning of this year, the LG NetCast platform has to date only offered access to a very limited number of web services such as YouTube, AccuWeather and Picasa. However, recognising that more and more people are multitasking while watching TV, and that its competitors are also enhancing their respective IETV functionalities, LG has taken swift action to update its NetCast service with some of the more useful web applications to keep their viewers engaged and entertained in front of the television.
Existing owners of LG NetCast-enabled HDTV sets can download all nine new web apps simply by hooking up their LG NetCast televisions to broadband internet connection (either through Ethernet, or wirelessly via a compatible LG wifi USB dongle), and then pressing the [NetCast] button on the remote. A software update will ensue, after which the new services will be accessible through the NetCast menu interface, bringing the total number of web applications on the NetCast portal to twelve. Here they are:
LG LED and LCD HDTV displays that are immediately eligible for the updated NetCast services are:
The following LG plasma TVs will receive the NetCast update by the 1st of December:
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