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Vestel announces the launch of TikTok on its Smart TVs

Vestel, the largest TV manufacturer in Europe, is today announcing the arrival of TikTok on its vast range of Smart TVs. The app collaboration will see Vestel now bring the video sharing phenomenon to more than twenty high-profile and premium TV brands, including its own portfolio of brand licences.

Especially designed for TV, the TikTok app is already available on all Vestel-designed Android Smart TV ranges for brands in the UK, Germany and France. The roll out of TikTok for Vestel Linux-based Smart TVs started on the 20th, January, with the app set to launch on Vestel 2021 UHD TV ranges in early February, and on Vestel 2020 UHD TVs by the end of March.

Supporting the display of high definition TikTok content, the Vestel-manufactured Smart TVs bring more detail, vibrancy, and colour to the screen for a larger-than-life home viewing experience.

With TV features, such as 4K upscalers, and Micro Dimming, the picture quality of all TikTok content, including standard definition videos, can be further sharpened, and brightened to bring videos bang into focus.

Whether for chart-topping singles that have inspired the latest viral TikTok dances, or the latest news, the audio is also clear and life-like, thanks to the TVs’ Dolby Audio feature.

The TV app makes it easy for everyone to enjoy and experience TikTok, even if they are unfamiliar with the platform, or don’t have an account. Those who have signed up to TikTok can log into their accounts and access personalised video selections, which include content from creators they actively follow, and video suggestions from their “For You” feeds. For a more interactive TikTok experience, fans can also use the remote to “like” videos.

Those without a TikTok account can still tune in, and access the “Discover” feed, which highlights a broad selection of pre-watershed, family-friendly trending clips, as well as new videos that are gaining traction across the platform.

To help everyone navigate TikTok’s endless library of content more quickly with the remote, the videos are divided into twelve categories, which range from animals and comedy to food and gaming.

Anyone looking for edutainment can easily search for the popular #LearnOnTikTok videos, which offer everything from cooking hacks to fitness tips and fun facts.

 “At Vestel, we are committed to keeping Smart TVs at the forefront of the entertainment experience”, said Barış Altınkaya, Vestel Vice President of Marketing and Product Management. “With the addition of TikTok to our Smart TV ranges, customers will now be able to access all the latest user-generated content from TikTok just as easily as TV series from the most popular streaming apps. The TikTok for TV app offers a family-friendly “big screen” viewing experience, and in the best possible audio-visual quality, enabling more people to enjoy TikTok together from the comfort of their sofas. 

Accessing TikTok on Vestel-manufactured Smart TVs is simple. While the app will be pre-installed for all future Vestel Linux-based Smart TVs, current 2021 ranges only require customers to switch their TVs off and then on again for the app to appear on the Smart platform. For Vestel Android TV ranges, customers just need to search for the app and download it on the Google Play store. The app can be downloaded from the Google Play store.

Vestel introduces TV remote app for fifty TV brands across Europe

Vestel is set to bring viewers around Europe extra features for their Smart TVs with the launch of its TV Smart Centre app. Free-to-download, the new TV remote control app is designed for Smart TVs from fifty popular as well as premium brands, offering more personalised control, as well as ultra-convenient and fast access to TV listings, apps, and screen share functions.

Split into five sections – Home, Guide, Remote, Applications, and Settings, the app simplifies the navigation process, enabling users to enjoy a more intuitive user experience from their connected iOS and Android mobile devices.

Home screen 

To help narrow down searches, the Home screen’s Dashboard features extra information for up to thirty programmes and films, providing insightful synopses about shows and movies, as well as more detail about the genres and casts. While the Primetime section picks out and highlights specific programmes for peak evening viewing times between 8pm and midnight, the “For You” section does so for programmes, regardless of when they are scheduled.

The Home screen also offers quick and easy access to a whole range of flexible, and customisable viewing options. With one tap of the screen mirroring button, viewers can bring their saved videos, music, and photos straight to the big screen, and with one tap of the red control, record or set a reminder for their favourite TV series.

From the Home screen, Follow Me TV can also be accessed, enabling users to tune into live TV content on any connected mobile device from anywhere within range of the user’s home WiFi network.

Remote screen 

Bringing together all the most frequently used functions to one centralised place, the TV Smart Centre app Remote screen features a power button to switch the TV on, a 4-way D-pad, and buttons for several alternative search style options. These include modes for searching with numerical and alphabetical keyboards, and a touchpad, as well as a voice search function for simple remote control commands.

To stream the most highly sought-after content quickly and easily, there are also shortcut buttons for Netflix and YouTube, and a selection of media player controls that are immediately to hand.

Guide and Apps 

Giving viewers more personalised control and flexibility, the Guide screen offers further access to the screen mirroring button and the Follow Me TV function, along with the latest, most up-to-date TV listings with its “What’s on TV” section.

Searching for must-see VoD content is also quick and easy, thanks to the Apps screen. Viewers can count on one-click access to all the streaming apps available on their Smart TVs, including Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and YouTube as well as Rakuten, Twitch, Amazon Music, YouTube Kids and Red Bull TV2.

“We are pleased to introduce an app that can help to maximise the Smart TV user experience,” said to Barış Altınkaya, Vestel Vice President of Marketing and Product Management . “Whether you prefer to search by voice, touch, or traditional D-pad, the TV Smart Centre app gives you more personalised control, enabling you to choose the search styles that work best for you from your own connected mobile device.  

With features, such as one-click access to streaming apps, and selections of popular recommendations, the TV Smart Centre app is also ideal for navigating vast libraries of entertainment, ensuring that viewers can browse less, and find more of what they most like to watch, or listen to.” 

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Vestel rolls out Red Bull TV app to Smart TVs in Europe

Vestel, one of the top three TV manufacturers in Europe, is today announcing the launch of Red Bull TV on its vast line-up of Smart TV ranges.

Available now, the app has been rolled out by Vestel to more than twenty TV brands across Europe, giving viewers front row access to a world that’s beyond the ordinary with exclusive video from globetrotting adventurers, new music and entertainment, and live events.

With no paywalls or advertisements, the Red Bull TV app offers entirely free and uninterrupted access to live and on demand streams, categorising content into clearly defined channels, such as adventure, culture, music, biking and water sports for ease of navigation.

Through the app, Vestel Smart TV customers can tune into an eclectic mix of content from the latest gaming tournaments to all the most spectacular sports events, including Mercedes-Benz UCI MTB World Cup, as well as the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series. Streams to exclusive films, shows and documentaries can also be accessed, along with world-renowned dance competitions like the Red Bull BC One World Final.

Whatever the content selected, according to Barış Altınkaya, Vestel Vice President of Marketing and Product Management, customers can count on life-like audio-visual quality: “This is an exciting app addition, enabling Vestel to offer a big-screen, edge-of-your-seat viewing experience for the latest and greatest events and action sports. Without setting foot outside their living rooms, customers can step into the on-screen action, and feel part of sports championships and pioneers’ adventures from every corner of the globe.” 

For a life-like cinematic viewing experience, Vestel Smart TVs come in 55”, 60” and 65” big screen sizes, with ultra-slim bezels, and wider, more inclusive 178 -degree-viewing angles. As well as supporting the display of Red Bull videos filmed in ultra-sharp and punchy 4K HDR, Vestel 4K HDR Smart TVs, and premium OLED 4K HDR Smart TVs enhance the viewing experience for content in every resolution. Maximising the picture quality of all the on-screen action, they refine and upscale Full HD and HD video, while also optimising the dynamic contrast ratio with Micro Dimming.

Features, such as motion blur reduction technology, MEMC (Motion Estimation Motion Compensation), allow the Smart TVs to keep up with even the fastest sports scenes, offering a smooth, crisp, and clear picture for every shot. The Sports mode is also ideal for fast-paced sports and action sequences, boosting the colour, contrast, and brightness of televised sports, as well as the TVs’ motion handling.

With Dolby Atmos-powered integrated speakers, the 4K HDR Smart TVs offer an equally impressive audio performance. For videos mixed in Dolby Atmos, they envelope and fully immerse viewers in the on-screen sound, re-creating the atmosphere of sporting events and action adventures in every household living room.

The Red Bull TV app is available now for free on all Vestel-manufactured Smart and Android TV ranges, including those produced from June 2018.