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How to watch movies on Smart TV absolutely free - Best tips

Today, when there are hundreds of new TV models on the technology market, which we could only dream of 10 years ago, many have become interested in the question of how to watch movies on Smart TV for free.

After all, the Smart TV application is available on many modern TVs, in particular on equipment from Samsung, Sharp, LG, Philips, etc.

And, in fact, this useful feature allows you to watch movies, and even some channels online absolutely free directly through your TV. Now let's figure out how this is done.

Launch of Smart TV

– this function must be built into the TV. And there is a button on the remote control to start it.

Therefore, to start Smart TV, you just need to find the corresponding button on your remote control and press it.

This is what this button looks like on Samsung TVs.

And this is how it works on Philips remotes.

Advice! On TVs from other companies, you need to go into the settings or press the “Menu” button and somewhere there you will find the Smart TV item (as in LG). In general, you need to re-read the instructions for the TV. It will say exactly where to find Smart TV

In general, after the user clicks on the desired button, he still needs to configure this application.

Settings

To set up Smart TV, you need. The easiest way to do this is to use your home wi-fi.

Let's look at how this is done using the example of a Philips TV model 32PFL5007H (depending on the model, the appearance of the window may differ, but the steps still remain the same).

So, step-by-step instructions for setting up Smart TV are as follows:

• After clicking on the Smart TV button, the user is informed that he needs an Internet connection. Click “Next”.

• Select the Internet connection option – wireless or wired. In the second case, you will need to connect a regular cable with an RJ connector to the TV. In the example under consideration, the house has, so we choose the first option.

• To find your wi-fi, you need to click on the “Scan” button.

• In the list of found networks, you need to select yours, after which the user will see the menu shown in the figure.

• Click the “Enter Key” button and see the window shown in the image. In the field circled in red, you need to enter the password for your network and click the “Done” button, circled in green.

• After this, the user will see a window similar to the one shown in the image. There you need to select one of the sites that allow you to watch movies for free. In our case, the standard menu already has one such site – Zoomby.

• Click on this tab and go to the service page.

Where to watch movies?

Service Zoomby.ru

In the example described above, we immediately went to the page Zoomby.ru, one of the sites that allows you to watch movies and TV shows for free using Smart TV.

As you can see in the image, on the left side there is a convenient menu where you can select the genre of the film or search for it by name.

The main advantage of this service is that it has a truly huge selection of films.

True, like most other sites for Smart TV, there are a lot of low-quality films here that are made by amateurs.

But you can also find something worthwhile here. On some sites you can even find 3D films. We will consider other popular sites for Smart TV below.

Service ivi.ru

In Russia, ivi.ru has one of the largest repositories of films and TV shows - more than 60,000 different files, most of which are provided for free.

Although there is an offer to subscribe here.

A subscription makes it possible not only to have access to all possible ivi.ru files, but also to watch movies without advertising.

Without a subscription, any movie will be interrupted from time to time for a commercial break, just like on regular television.

However, this is typical for the same Zoomby and other Smart TV sites. This is what the ivi.ru window looks like.

Tvigle service

Another very popular service. At tvigle.ru the emphasis is on Russian films, with a lot of Soviet classics. All files are divided into categories (there are 18 in total).

True, new films practically never appear here, but everything else is absolutely free.

And the largest online cinema ivi.ru announce the results of their annual cooperation in the development of the LG Smart TV platform in Russia. ivi.ru first appeared on the LG Smart TV platform in July 2011 and since then has remained the most popular and in-demand application on the platform. Already in the first month, the ivi.ru application for Smart TV became more popular than a similar service from Youtube. Today the application gives free access to more than 30 thousand films, TV series, TV shows and cartoons from the best foreign and Russian studios from the catalog of the ivi.ru portal.

Remaining one of the most popular LG Smart TV applications, ivi.ru today generates more than 25% of all traffic consumed by owners of smart TVs of this brand. The ivi.ru application for Smart TV allows you to watch films from Russia’s largest free and legal film library of the ivi.ru Internet cinema online and in excellent quality. By pressing one button, viewers can access both Russian and the best foreign films, TV series, cartoons and popular TV shows.

The LG Smart TV platform itself has also continued its active development over the past year. In addition to the growth in sales of TVs with an Internet connection, such an important indicator as the Activation Rate - the ratio of TVs actually connected to the Internet to the total number of models sold with this capability - has doubled. A year ago, AR was 17%, while now this figure has doubled to 35%. That is, if a year ago only 17 out of a hundred people connected their TV to the Internet, today every third owner of a “smart” TV does so. In addition, the number of views of all 20 premium LG Smart TV services exceeded 1,000,000 in July 2012, thus increasing 10 times compared to the same period in 2011. The number of films watched by one user has also increased. If in July 2011 each LG Smart TV user watched no more than 3 films per month, today - more than 20.

“Consumers have appreciated the convenience of LG Smart TV technology and have now begun to actively explore its capabilities. Today it is extremely important for us to maintain popularity by offering viewers the most convenient interface and the largest film library. Over the past year, we have radically changed the interface of our application and tripled the catalog presented in it. This is what accounts for our popularity!” - comments Irina Grandel, head of business development of the online cinema ivi.ru.

“Our users constantly monitor updates in the services that are presented in LG Smart TV. So we can absolutely say that the constant updating of the catalog is one of the reasons for the success of the ivi.ru television application. The second reason, in my opinion, lies in the daily painstaking work of the development team to improve both the design and ease of use of the service,” comments Jay Ku, head of LG Smart TV in the CIS countries.

About LG Electronics
LG Electronics is a world leader in the production of high-tech electronics, modern mobile communications and household appliances. The company employs more than 93 thousand people in 120 branches worldwide. The company consists of four divisions: Home Entertainment, and Air Conditioning & Energy Solution, with total global sales of KRW 54.3 trillion (USD 49 billion) in 2011. For more information, please refer to www.LGnewsroom.com.

About LG Electronics Home Entertainment
LG Electronics Home Entertainment is a leading global player in the market of flat panel televisions, audio-video players for the consumer and business segments. Products manufactured by LG Electronics Home Entertainment include LCD and plasma televisions, home theater systems, Blu-ray players, audio devices and video players. The company produces feature-rich, stylish, high-tech devices that take home entertainment to the next level.

About the internet cinema ivi.ru
ivi.ru is the largest online cinema in Russia, which is the most popular video service on the Runet with legal professional content. The ivi.ru catalog already contains more than 65,000 pieces of content, including feature films and documentaries, TV series, TV shows, cartoons and music videos. The total duration of all videos presented on the site is 20,000 hours - this is more than 2 years of continuous round-the-clock viewing. The monthly audience of the project ranges from 10 to 16 million users. More details

We continue to consider entertainment applications for Samsung Smart TVs, and today we will talk about the widget of the largest Internet cinema in the RuNet, ivi.ru. All such services have a “video on demand” format (that is, you choose what you like and watch at a time convenient for you) and ivi is no exception.

In order to start using this wonderful service, you will need to go through the menu of your Smart Hub TV to the Samsung Apps application store and select this application in the “Video” section. After installing the application, you do not need to configure anything additional. Just launch the application and you can enjoy watching the largest catalog of licensed videos in excellent quality absolutely free, without registration. You will no longer need to spend money and time downloading movies and buying discs. The widget's user interface is very concise and simple. Finding the right movie or cartoon is not difficult even for a child. In the application, it is possible to read the description of the video and see its rating. Unlike other similar services, ivi.ru has a fairly large number of foreign films in its database.

At the time of publication of this article, the catalog already contains more than 60,000 pieces of content. Daily updates range from 50 to 100 licensed videos.