Digital switchover with Samsung
When Scottish inventor John Logie Baird, one of the pioneers of television broadcasting in the world, broadcast television motion over a long distance nearly a century ago, he had no idea that he was launching the most influential mass media of the 20th century. Today, for example, 4,1 million households in Hungary have at least one television set, and the time spent watching television for the entire Hungarian population is 4 hours 21 minutes a day.
Hungarian inventor Dénes Mihály also played a significant role in the birth of television with his special ideas and about 300 patents. He can also be considered the inventor of sound film in today's sense. The first color TV was made in 1929, but the creation of a color television standard that could be used in practice took another nearly ten years. His creation is also named after a physicist of Hungarian origin, Péter Károly Goldmark. Although the BBC began experimental broadcasting in England as early as 1929, television has only existed in Hungary since 1954, and the first television produced by Orion was only available from 1956. Color television came to Hungary in 1969. The history of analogue terrestrial broadcasting in Hungary, which began in 1954, will end on October 2013, 31 - when analogue terrestrial broadcasting will be switched off in the last areas as well. From 2013, the whole of Hungary will be digital.
Samsung turned to television technologies in the 1970s. Since the early 1970s, when the company’s first black-and-white television, the 30-inch P-3202, was completed, the company has contributed to the development of TV through continuous innovation. The creation of the world's first digital television (1998), the world's first LED TV (2009) and the world's first three-dimensional HD LED TV are also named after Samsung. The importance of continuous improvement to Samsung is well illustrated by the fact that in 2012, it spent a total of $ 33 billion on research and development at its 10,8 development centers. The success of the development is exemplified by the huge successes: for seven consecutive years, Samsung has become the world’s largest TV maker, with 100 TVs sold in the world every minute. Hungary also plays a major role in the history of Samsung and television: the Jászfényszaru factory has produced about 24 million TVs and monitors in the last 60 years, the vast majority of which have entered the world market.
Today, approximately 4,1 million households in Hungary use more than 3,3 million subscription television services. The vast majority of the remaining nearly 800 households watch digital and analogue terrestrial broadcasts that can be received with a roof or room antenna - the latter being affected by the ongoing digital switchover. In order to receive digital broadcasts, you need a separate set-top box or a device with a built-in DVB-T tuner - a DVB-T tuner that is currently available in all Samsung televisions. Thus, with the help of Samsung televisions, the population can be fully prepared for the digital switchover and can continue to receive television without interruption.
In addition, the company is celebrating the digital switchover with a special promotion: among the owners of Samsung TVs purchased between June 2013 and July 15, 31, MOL worth HUF 100 per day for one week from the registration on http://registracio.samsung.hu a fuel card is drawn.
