Earlier this year, Samsung introduced its Made For Samsung Program that would bring the best and most popular app brands to its mobile devices (including its Tizen-powered Smart TVs). Now at year's end, the Korean giant is still doing that, with a new HTML5-based Vimeo Smart TV app for its Tizen-powered TVs in the works.
“We've built brand new native experiences for Apple TV and Android TV, and are introducing our first-ever HTML5-based TV app to provide the best possible viewing experience and promote greater content discovery,” said Vimeo TV Apps Senior Product Manager Will True. The Vimeo Samsung Smart TV app was built from the ground up and is more than simply a “scaled up” version of the Vimeo app on current mobile devices. Upon activating the Vimeo app, a list of pre-set curated content starts playing, and, if you already have a Vimeo account, your saved and uploaded video content should still be accessible.
Vimeo is a video service that allows you to upload, share, and view video content. While Vimeo's new Apple TV app is available now, and Android TV's app is also available (though with limited features for now, until the gradual rollout of remaining features), the HTML5-based Samsung Smart TV app won't launch until in the coming weeks (no definite time has been specified). You can see just how Vimeo's Smart TV app for Samsung's Tizen-powered TVs will work by viewing the YouTube video below. In the meantime, you can always download the new Spotify app that has now landed for your Smart TV.
Samsung Smart TV users, glad to see Vimeo come to your TV? Been a long time Vimeo user? Do you see it as a competitor to YouTube?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jct0MXvK0j4&feature=youtu.be
