Notes on Connected TV Technical notes on OTT playback and Smart TV apps: hosted Vega, Tizen and webOS apps, and AVPlay vs MSE on Samsung TVs. Hosted Vega apps, with device APIs — I ship Vega applications as hosted TV apps with full device API access - the same class of work as hosted Tizen and webOS, on new living-room hardware. Hosted Tizen and webOS apps — I ship hosted Samsung Tizen and LG webOS applications with native device APIs - production TV apps, without a store release for every product change. AVPlay vs MSE on Samsung TVs: pick the player the hardware can run — When Samsung AVPlay beats Media Source Extensions for HLS and DASH on Tizen - DRM, live streams, legacy devices, and a player layer that can switch.