Samsung to expand UHD content offering with Amazon 4K streaming

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Samsung is looking to position itself as a leader when it comes to 4K Ultra HD TV, confirming plans to launch Amazon's 4K VOD streaming service this October, deliver a 4K download service and produce more original 4K content.

With IFA 2014, Europe's biggest consumer technology show, just a couple of weeks away, we're seeing plenty of news in advance of new product launches at the show. Samsung is the latest manufacturer to release some news, confirming the imminent arrival of Amazon's 4K Ultra HD video streaming service to Samsung TVs.

The service will roll-out globally in October on compatible Samsung TVs, joining the Netflix 4K streaming service which launched back in March.

All this is part of Samsung's plans "to further expand its UHD ecosystem", as the company lines-up more 4K TVs on the back of the likes of the UE65HU7500, which was our first five-star 4K TV.

Joe Cox
Joe Cox
Content Director

Joe is the Content Director for What Hi-Fi? and Future’s Product Testing, having previously been the Global Editor-in-Chief of What Hi-Fi?. He has worked on What Hi-Fi? across the print magazine and website for almost 20 years, writing news, reviews and features on everything from turntables to TVs, headphones to hi-fi separates. He has covered product launch events across the world, from Apple to Technics, Sony and Samsung; reported from CES, the Bristol Show, and Munich High End for many years; and written for sites such as the BBC, Stuff and The Guardian. In his spare time, he enjoys expanding his vinyl collection and cycling (not at the same time).