-Samsung Electronics Co.(KSE), the world’s largest maker of flat-screen televisions by shipments, said Saturday it will roll out a blue-ray DVD player using Google Inc.’s (GOOG) software platform.
“Samsung will launch the blue-ray player that integrates Google’s [operating system],” Samsung Electronics Visual Display President B.K. Yoon told reporters in Seoul ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. “But we are still reviewing whether we will make the Google TV set or not.”
The remarks come at a time when Google, which last year teamed up with Japan’s Sony Corp. (6758.TO) and developed a new Web-connected TV powered by Google’s operating system, suddenly asked some manufacturers to hold back on product announcements after receiving negative reviews.
Yoon also said on Friday that the Korean electronics giant aims to sell a total of 45 million flat-screen televisions this year, up 15% from the 39 million units sold last year.
Of the total, the company said it plans to ship 12 million units of smart TVs–around 27% of its total flat-panel TV sales–and to sell as many as 10 million units of three-dimensional TVs this year.
In 2010, Samsung sold 5 million smart TVs and 2 million of 3-D TVs.
Yoon also said the company will also focus on developing environmentally-friendly technologies and will invest KRW23 trillion ($20.5 billion) in green businesses by 2020.
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