Starting today, watching TV can be good for your health: Samsung is rolling out six new apps on its Tizen-based smart TVs to improve your health and well-being. Included in the launch are Jillian Michaels Fitness, obé Fitness and Echelon, as well as Fitplan and the popular meditation app, Calm, which are free to download. As part of the rollout, Samsung and its fitness partners are offering users free access to 5,000 hours of workout and meditation content at launch, which they believe could help home consumers amid the pandemic. of coronavirus. Unfortunately, though, you'll still have to wait to track all this health data, as Samsung says it won't be bringing the official Samsung Health app that was unveiled at CES 2020 until later this year, but courses The Open Bar, guided meditations and celebrity-led personal training sessions are powerful incentives to start training as soon as possible.
Samsung Health on Samsung TVs?
Ultimately, Samsung's ultimate goal is for you to have a Health app that's in sync across all your devices, including your phone, smartwatch, and TV. Training with one of these devices and health information will carry over to the next. As we said when the feature was first announced at CES, we're actually a bit concerned about how this data is shared and stored, as smart TV operating systems have proven to be easy to use. hacked in the past, but a Samsung representative at CES told us that everything is encrypted and not stored locally on any device. The other issue is that according to Samsung, only 2018 and newer TVs will receive the apps and possibly the Samsung Health app; If you have a 2017 or earlier TV, you probably won't see these apps available and will receive the Samsung Health update. That may change later, but for now, you'll need a fairly new TV to enjoy this daily recording*. (We use this expression colloquially, DailyBurn has not yet been supported.)