Samsung: use your TV as a remote control for your entire home

Announced at CES, Samsung's new TV features a SmartThings hub that allows control of your lights, thermostat and door locks

Samsung's product launches at the vast Consumer Electronics Show are traditionally the biggest and most lavish - lavish by tech industry standards, that is, if not Las Vegas.

This year the South Korean firm wanted to talk about connectivity, and how you and everything in your home can soon be better connected - starting with television.