VIDAA Smart TV

No muss, no fuss, no coconuts. TV instantly opened code window the moment app started. After verifying and 3 step guide app is ready to use. Just miss the feel of the buttons and the hardware layout. Touch buttons are great, until you blindly reach at the screen. While the virtual remote is perfect usable, I prefer the physical. Off to the store to get those damn AAA batteries, yet at a lifespan of 2 yrs with stock batteries, it's not that big a deal. What to do with all the extra AAs around 🤔

There is a fatal flaw with this app. You can play a vid, cast to tv or you can use the remote part of the app but not together so while you're casting your vid you can't control the volume. And it doesn't remember where you're vid position so when you jump out to adjust the volume you have to restart the vid and hope you remember where you were up to.

It would be great if the app could read media files from a USB or external drive connected to the phone. It unfortunately only reads files stored directly from the phone with no option to select another location. VIDAA is a terrible OS as far as media playing goes - they do not cater to the majority of video codecs. My previous 8 year old smart TV could read all video formats, so the fact that Hisense/VIDAA cannot do this makes no sense in this day and age, and is a massive step downward.