Never again the past: understand the Evolution Kit of Samsung Smart TVs

Keeping up with the latest technology on the market is not an easy task. One of the segments that suffers most from the lag is, without a doubt, that of Smart TVs. Although the screens remain pleasing to the owners, with a high quality size and image, the rest of the specs may need updating.

With this niche in mind, Samsung created some time ago a category of “Upgradeable Smart TVs“. When purchasing an upgrade kit, called a evolution kit, it is possible to bring to the present the specifications and resources of a Smart TV older.

O Evolution Kit is a small little box that updates both the hardware and the software of the Smart TV. Depending on the version, it can mean an interface update, TV system update, new connections available and even a replacement of the current processor with a more powerful one. With this, the integration of the TV hardware with the news of the TV itself is improved. Samsung or other devices you connect to it.

In addition to the more powerful hardware, the Evolution Kit can take charge, for example, of replacing the operating system of the TV for the new Tizen OS da Samsung, or even the new gaming platform by streaming of the company, the GameFly.

In this way, the consumer who purchases televisions from the premium da Samsung manages to keep up to date with the brand's new systems and processors, without having to change the TV fully. THE current version of kit is connected to TVs, similar to what we do with a computer's CPU, giving them the performance of a octa-core processor. In addition, the equipment adds the HDMI 2.0 support (for 4K playback at 60 frames per second) and reproduction patterns MHL 3.0, HDCP e VP9.

For Brazil, the Samsung recently brought the Evolution Kit SEK-3500U. compatible with as UHD (4K) Smart TVs of the lines F9000 (out of 2013) to HU6900 and above (out of 2014), it adds to these televisions the operating system Tizen – one of the highlights of the line of Smart TVs da Samsung in 2015 – with all the features that the new system offers.

To learn more, visit the page of Evolution Kit SEK-3500U.

And then, is it worth investing in a Evolution Kit da Samsung, or is it better to save for the purchase of a new device? Tell us!