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What is Samsung TV Plus? Everything You Need To Know
Check this Samsung TV Plus guide and explore the FAST Channel
This page breaks down Samsung TV Plus for streaming and media teams: the core idea, the practical workflow, and the decisions that affect cost and viewer experience.
A clear look at Samsung TV Plus
Samsung TV Plus puts your catalog on the big screen and in every pocket through device-native applications. In streaming terms, multi-device apps sits at the center of how audiences discover, watch and pay for your content.
What happens under the hood
Apps are published to the relevant stores, updated centrally, and share one identity and billing layer so a subscription bought on the web unlocks the TV app instantly.
A shared backend powers native apps built to each platform store guideline, so sign-in, entitlements and continue-watching follow the viewer from phone to living-room TV. Each app is tuned to its remote, input model and store certification rules.
Capabilities that matter
- Store-compliant builds and managed certification submissions
- iOS, Android and responsive web from the same content backend
- Native apps for Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, Android TV, Samsung, LG and more
- Single sign-on and shared watch history across every device
What to watch for
- Budget for store certification timelines on each TV platform
- Test real devices, since codec and DRM support varies by model and year
- Design for the remote and 10-foot UI on TV, not just touch
Building this on LinqTV
LinqTV ships and maintains native apps for web, mobile and every major TV platform from a single content backend, with shared sign-in and watch history.
Running these capabilities on one platform lowers total cost of ownership and removes the integration debt of stitching separate vendors together.
Frequently asked questions
Will a subscription carry across devices?
Yes. With shared identity and billing, a viewer signs in once and their plan, entitlements and continue-watching follow them to every device.
Can we keep our existing tools?
APIs, webhooks and prebuilt connectors integrate with common CMS, CRM and payment systems, so you extend your stack instead of replacing it.
How quickly can we launch?
Most teams pilot in a matter of weeks by importing a representative content set, configuring a monetization model, and testing playback on their top devices, then expand from there.
Next steps
Ready to put multi-device apps to work? Explore LinqTV One for an end-to-end streaming platform, or talk to our team for a tailored walkthrough of how Samsung TV Plus fits your roadmap. The links below are a good place to start.
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