From CNET: Samsung may be releasing Tizen on all of its 2015 smart TVs, but owners of its older devices are out of luck.
Joe Stinziano, executive vice president of Samsung Electronics America, told CNET on Monday that it won't work for the company to update older Samsung smart TVs to Tizen.
"It is not possible as far as I know," he said in an interview after Samsung's press conference at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show. "We've been discussing that. Right now I don't believe we're going to be able to go back and combine those operating systems."
Still, Samsung plans to keep updating and supporting apps for its older smart TVs, Stinziano said.
Starting this year, all of Samsung's new smart TVs will run Tizen, the operating system that's been under development for years at the South Korean electronics giant. The software simplifies the company's user interface compared to earlier Samsung smart TV operating systems, and it allows users to more easily connect their TV to nearby Samsung smartphones, tablets and smartwatches. Consumers will also be able to watch live broadcast TV on their mobile devices, anywhere on their home network, even when their TVs are turned off.
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