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Already a favourite service in many households, Netflix has become an indispensable service for on-demand entertainment consumption. With successful ventures into original programming, where do they expand from here?

It’s an interesting combination; a payment solution within your smart TV. Yet, for South Korean manufacturer LG and payments facilitator PayPal, it has only been officially announced this week. So is this a match made in heaven?

Samsung is set to showcase its new Smart TV design at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2013 show in Las Vegas on January 8-11, with the rumour mill going into overdrive as to what features it will contain.

A video posted by Malta-based security firm ReVuln has shown potential security weaknesses in an unspecified Samsung Smart TV.

A report from NPD DisplaySearch has revealed that even though smart TV shipments have gone up by 15% worldwide, there’s a definite lag from North America.

TV apps have a long way to go before they constitute a major channel in the minds of either advertisers or consumers, according to an expert industry panel at Apps World this morning.

Accedo, the Smart TV provider, has announced a partnership with NDS to enable pay-TV operators to launch their own app store, as well as potentially monetising apps.

With pure-play on-demand video offerings now commercially viable, we see new companies appearing almost monthly and existing companies like Netflix launching in new territories. What are the dynamics of the future battleground in this growing market segment?