{"id":28053,"date":"2019-05-13T13:00:55","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T17:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stage-web-alb-2136653291.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com\/us\/?p=28053"},"modified":"2019-11-01T13:51:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T17:51:00","slug":"samsung-becomes-first-tv-manufacturer-launch-apple-tv-app-airplay-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/samsung-first-tv-manufacturer-apple-tv-app-airplay-2-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Becomes First TV Manufacturer to Launch The Apple TV App and AirPlay 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/img.us.news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/14102523\/Image-Samsung-Apple-TV-Airplay-2-Launch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"snr-media-image aligncenter wp-image-28055 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/img.us.news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/14102523\/Image-Samsung-Apple-TV-Airplay-2-Launch-950x679.jpg\" alt=\"[Image] Samsung Apple TV Airplay 2 Launch\" width=\"730\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/img.us.news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/14102523\/Image-Samsung-Apple-TV-Airplay-2-Launch-950x679.jpg 950w, https:\/\/img.us.news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/14102523\/Image-Samsung-Apple-TV-Airplay-2-Launch-600x429.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span class=\"press-release-open\"><strong>SEOUL, Korea \u2013\u00a0May 14, 2019<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013<\/span> Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. announced that beginning today, all 2019 Samsung Smart TVs and select 2018 TV models with a firmware update will feature the all-new Apple TV app in more than 100 countries and offer AirPlay 2 support in 176 countries.\u00a0Samsung customers are now able to enjoy Apple TV channels and iTunes movies and TV shows on Samsung Smart TVs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the last decade, Samsung has been at the forefront of offering the broadest selection of content available to consumers on our Smart TV platform,\u201d<strong> said Won-Jin Lee, Executive Vice President, Visual Display Business at Samsung Electronics.<\/strong> \u201cAs the first TV manufacturer to integrate the Apple TV app on a Smart TV platform, Samsung continues to offer our customers incredible value and access to the Apple TV app experience on the largest screens available today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fully integrated into Samsung\u2019s Smart TV platform, users can simply select the Apple TV app icon to access all of their iTunes movies and TV show purchases and browse more than 100,000 iTunes movies and TV shows to buy or rent, including titles available in 4K HDR, in pristine picture quality. Customers around the world can also\u00a0subscribe to Apple TV channels within the Apple TV app \u2014 paying for only the ones they want\u00a0\u2014 and watch\u00a0on demand\u00a0directly in the app.\u00a0Samsung Smart TV users will be able to enjoy Apple TV+, Apple\u2019s original video subscription service, in the Apple TV app across the same model lines when the service launches this fall.\u00a0With AirPlay 2-enabled Samsung Smart TVs, customers can now also effortlessly play videos and other content from their iPhone, iPad or Mac directly to their Samsung Smart TV.<\/p>\n<p>The Apple TV app will work seamlessly with Samsung\u2019s Smart TV Services, such as Universal Guide, Bixby and Search, to create a consistent experience across Samsung\u2019s platform.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Samsung\u2019s Smart TVs, please visit\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.samsung.com\/us\/televisions-home-theater\/tvs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.samsung.com\/us\/televisions-home-theater\/tvs\/<\/a>.\u00a0<\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL, Korea \u2013\u00a0May 14, 2019\u00a0\u2013 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. announced that beginning today, all 2019 Samsung Smart TVs and select 2018 TV models with a firmware update will feature the all-new Apple TV app in more than 100 countries and offer AirPlay 2 support in 176 countries.\u00a0Samsung customers are now able to enjoy Apple TV [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":28055,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29727,29718,17548,29728],"tags":[5833,451,125],"blue-badge":[],"class_list":["post-28053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-product-home-entertainment","category-product","category-tv-and-audio-samsung-innovation","category-product-home-entertainment-tv-home-theaters","tag-bixby","tag-smart-tv","tag-television-tv"],"acf":{"turn_off_retargeting":false},"fimg_mobile_url":"https:\/\/img.us.news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/14102523\/Image-Samsung-Apple-TV-Airplay-2-Launch.jpg","fimg_url":"https:\/\/img.us.news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/14102523\/Image-Samsung-Apple-TV-Airplay-2-Launch.jpg","primary_category":{"term_id":29727,"name":"Home Entertainment","slug":"product-home-entertainment","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":29727,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":29718,"count":343,"filter":"raw","term_link":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/category\/product\/product-home-entertainment\/","term_path":"product\/product-home-entertainment"},"badge":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28053"},{"taxonomy":"blue-badge","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blue-badge?post=28053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}