I think the target audience for the Mormon Channel (announced for this particular medium but not yet ready), as well as BYU TV, is the universe of rank-and-file member households and even beyond, to the interested public. The church obviously has a concerted effort to broaden access to church audio-visual content in a variety of electronic media venues beyond Roku.JohnShaw wrote:So how useful is this if we can't stream anything in our meetinghouses? Why put dev resources into doing something that is against the stated go-forward intended process of online media usage for meetinghouses?
If memory serves, I found the BYU TV app this way: First I opened the Samsung Apps area found on the upper-right of the Smart TV screen. Browsing within the "What's New" section (or some similar label), I found the BYU TV icon. Selecting it installed the BYU TV app, which thereafter appears in the scrollable rows of installed apps at the bottom of the Smart TV screen.DavePeterson wrote:Where did you find the Samsung app? I am not able to find it in the catalog of apps on my Samsung Smart TV.
I contacted BYU and submitted the concerns and it should be noted that BYU did not build or submit this app.RossEvans wrote:In sampling BYU TV programming on the Samsung app this week, I have noticed a persistent problem with the video and audio being badly out of sync.
I've seen no indications that an app for smart TVs is even on the drawing board, let alone under development. Given the limited development resources of the Church, and the many pending projects of considerably higher priority, it's my personal opinion that such apps will never be built by the Church. But even if they were, it would be well into the future. So I think it would be unwise for you to make plans on any assumption that such apps will arrive in the next year or two; if you need a solution in the near future, you'll need to use existing technologies, such as Roku.ornery75 wrote:Has it happened yet. I just bought an LG Smart TV and I would like to have Mormon Channel. I have a roku, but it is for the TV upstairs. Is that really the only solution I have is to go out and buy another Roku?
The lds.org link at the top of this thread still says the app for the Samsung TV is "coming."aebrown wrote:I've seen no indications that an app for smart TVs is even on the drawing board, let alone under development. Given the limited development resources of the Church, and the many pending projects of considerably higher priority, it's my personal opinion that such apps will never be built by the Church. But even if they were, it would be well into the future. So I think it would be unwise for you to make plans on any assumption that such apps will arrive in the next year or two; if you need a solution in the near future, you'll need to use existing technologies, such as Roku.ornery75 wrote:Has it happened yet. I just bought an LG Smart TV and I would like to have Mormon Channel. I have a roku, but it is for the TV upstairs. Is that really the only solution I have is to go out and buy another Roku?
Depends on if TPTB see it as a missionary opportunity.aebrown wrote:Given the limited development resources of the Church, and the many pending projects of considerably higher priority, it's my personal opinion that such apps will never be built by the Church. But even if they were, it would be well into the future.
True. I probably shouldn't be so pessimistic, but it's been almost a year since that was posted, and there has been no update. That makes me think that other projects have a higher priority, or that there is some delay in the approval process, perhaps because this is part of a larger strategy.RossEvans wrote:The lds.org link at the top of this thread still says the app for the Samsung TV is "coming."
