Uscreen is now offering Samsung TV Apps!
That's right! Uscreen is adding Samsung TV as a whole new app platform, for you to share and distribute your membership. Samsung TV is a potentially powerful platform. 35% of all smart TVs are Samsung. This is a larger market share than Roku, Android TV, and Fire TV.
Want a Samsung TV App?
What does the Samsung TV App do? ✅
Samsung TV has many typical TV app features, similar to the Uscreen AndroidTV and FireTV, because they use similar underlying technology, with adjustments for each platform, to handle platform nuances.
Download and Install from the Official Samsung App Store
Easy sign in with QR code
Sign into an existing account
Catalog of videos
Featured category and Vertical Thumbnails
Search, Favorites, Mark As Watches, My Library
Video Chapters
Live Events
Compatibility 📺
Our Samsung TV apps are built using modern technology optimized for the latest devices. They require a TV running Tizen 6.5.0 or later. So, if you have a Samsung TV from 2022 or later, you should be ready for our apps!
(We are carefully considering compatibility with Tizen 6.0.0/2021 devices, but we must ensure a smooth and pleasant experience. Stay tuned!)
Rollout and Availability 🌐
With its global market reach, Samsung designed its app rollout process in its own way. This is how it works:
Samsung app rollout is slow. It can take a month or more for the initial rollout, and for subsequent rollouts as well.
App rollout will gradually approve the device models. During this period, the app may not show up on searches for every device.
Apps will initially release in the US. After the initial release is complete, we can change availability to global, or to your desired target regions. Changing regional availability will take several days to complete.
If you don't have distribution rights to the US, you can still release the app and use geoblocking to restrict the content, until we switch app availability to your target region.
18+ apps can't be released in South Korea.
Depending on your content, apps can't be released on Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates due to local culture.
Before releasing the app in Brazil, an age recommendation certificate from the Brazilian Ministry of Justice is required. This certificate can be requested here.
The app will not be available in China.
Limitations ✋
Though there are the following Samsung TV limitations, Uscreen plans to include these in later versions, with ongoing development. We are purposely excluding certain secondary features, for the sake of delivery speed. But check back often, as we make improvements.
No sign-up or In-App-Purchases. Your members can not subscribe and can not pay for your membership in Samsung TV, yet.... But they can subscribe and pay on the web or mobile, then access that content on Samsung TV.
No playback speed adjustment
No change audio output
No live rewind
No calendar
Older devices can't run Tizen modern apps.
Other Caveats 🤔
You need a D-U-N-S number.
You need to create a Samsung Account and enroll as a Samsung Apps TV Seller. Check out the steps in this guide.
Creating a Samsung Developer Account is free
Samsung has a 30% revenue share when we build in-app purchases.
Samsung does not have a small business program, for a reduced revenue share.