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Orange TV available on Samsung Smart TV without TV box/decoder

There is a still unknown aspect of Samsung Smart TVs, their unique ability to replace or extend the TV box option provided when taking out an internet subscription. With significantly improved ergonomics. The proof once again, after the B.tv+ (Bouygues) and Oqee (Free) applications, with the recent availability of the Orange TV application for subscribers of the incumbent operator.

Orange or Sosh subscriber and owner of a 2018 and later Samsung Smart TV, you can benefit from the Orange TV application. The latter, neither more nor less, than the dematerialization of the TV box within Samsung Smart TVs. Once installed on the television, the application indeed offers all the functionalities of the decoder/TV box (direct, Replay, Star-Over, Recording, management of user profiles, several concurrent screens), or almost. VOD and subscription to bouquets are not yet in order, but it's coming soon, says the incumbent operator.

Orange TV application, how does it work?

As mentioned, to take advantage of it, you must of course subscribe to Orange or Sosh. If in any case, you have to pay an additional €5 per month to take advantage of Orange's TV option, customers with Orange Up and Orange Max offers can normally request to benefit from it for free. Sosh subscribers should make sure to activate the Appli TV option.

Done the additional decoder/box

This gives Orange customers, who must have a TV box, the possibility of enjoying IP TV on a second television set in the home without the need for an additional decoder/box, provided that it bears the Samsung logo. Interesting also for the television of a second home or a place of vacation. For Sosh customers, this allows you to take advantage of IP TV without having to use a decoder/TV box. Result, fewer cables (between the decoder/box and the TV, less energy consumption and better overall integration with, for example, the possibility of managing everything using a single remote control, that of the TV and the elimination of the installation of a decoder/box.

Namely, to activate the Orange TV application, nothing simple, all you have to do is enter your identifiers to access the operator's channels.

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