Consumers will be able to finally experience Samsung's very own Tizen operating system outside of smart wearable devices as the South Korean electronics giant announced that its 2015 televisions will run the homegrown OS.

Samsung's chief executive of its consumer-electronics branch B.K. Yoon confirmed that starting in February, Samsung televisions will come with Tizen onboard.

"We've been at [Tizen development] for years and a lot of money was spent," Yoon said. "We're going to continue upgrading the platform."

Samsung has been hard at work for years developing the Linux-based Tizen as a way of weaning itself off its reliance on Google's Android operating system. While Samsung has enjoyed enormous success on an international level selling smartphones, tablets and other accessories based off the Android platform, the company has made it clear it wants to eventually call its own shots.

Lack of developer interest, however, has kept Samsung from releasing Tizen smartphones or tablets. In short, there aren't enough apps to make it a viable competitor to Android or Apple's iOS -- a problem that Microsoft's mobile Windows operating system is currently facing. Yoon did also confirm that Samsung intends to release a Tizen smartphone in India sometime in 2015, although he declined to give further details.

Instead, Samsung is choosing to focus on introducing Tizen through its popular televisions. According to Yoon, this will be a better strategy since televisions aren't as app-reliant as smartphones or tablets.

"If we have our own [TV] platform it will give us much greater flexibility in what we want to do," Yoon said.

According to the official Tizen website, "Tizen for Smart TV delivers a complete, open standards-based Linux stack, optimized for living room devices, such as Blu-ray players, set top boxes, and digital TVs. It is designed for an Internet-connected TV experience, allowing users to enjoy access to multiple applications, services, and personal media, all while watching TV."

Sadly, the newer, smoother Tizen won't be seen on any older Samsung television sets, according to Joe Stinziano, executive vice president of Samsung Electronics America.

"It is not possible as far as I know," he said in an interview after Samsung's 2015 Consumer Electronics Show press conference. "We've been discussing that. Right now I don't believe we're going to be able to go back and combine those operating systems."

Samsung will continue to provide support for older television sets in the form of firmware upgrades, but the company has bigger plans for its future lines. It hopes to "future proof" its televisions by allowing consumers to simply upgrade a box within the set, rather than having to spring for a completely new telly.

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