“Smart TV” is even more common than ever this year among the TVs of 2012, …

Netflix held a conference call in the US on Tuesday to discuss its less-than-stellar Q3 earnings. CEO Reed Hastings acknowledged that it failed to meet a quarterly goal for signing up new customers to its streaming service, and will now miss its full-year target of 7 million new streaming customers. According to its revised subscriber numbers, Netflix will now finish …

Samsung’s Smart Hub now is now the content king. Sarah Tew/CNET The one major streaming service heretofore absent from Samsung’s TVs, Amazon Instant, is now available. Today Samsung announced that the popular video service is available for immediate, free download to all 2012 Samsung Smart TVs. The Amazon Instant catalog includes more than 140,000 movies and commercial-free TV shows at …