Kommersant: LG supplies TV sets assembled in Poland to Russia

Kommersant: LG supplies TV sets assembled in Poland to Russia

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At the Polish plant of the South Korean company LG, software for Smart TV is installed on TVs, adapted for the Russian market, Kommersant writes.

In particular, the Alice voice assistant, as well as the Wink, Okko, and Kinopoisk applications are preinstalled on these TVs. There will be no Russian applications on an unadapted Smart TV: only Prime Video, Netflix and others, the F + tech – Marvel company, which also supplies electronics, explained to the newspaper. They put the standard shell of Android TV, depending on the region.

The fact that LG TVs from Poland with a working version of Smart TV are supplied to electronics stores was also told by the administrator of one of the Moscow stores selling LG equipment. The newspaper notes that the store on the Russian website of the vendor is listed as an LG branded store. The equipment is assembled on the line of the plant in Mlawa, where they created a separate line for assembling TVs for the CIS market, including Russia, the source said. According to the newspaper’s source in the electronics market, major electronics manufacturers do not make separate firmware for other CIS countries, except for Russia.

Experts note that by assembling TVs adapted for the Russian market, the Polish plant LG does not formally violate the sanctions. However, if the plant then provides some consulting services to support such software on their devices, the company may have problems, from fines to criminal cases.

Source: Rosbalt

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