TV Assist

After downloading 5 or 6 of these TV casting apps and all of them not working with my stupid Samsung SmartTV, I was all but given up hope. This was a complete surprise that this app really works. The ads are annoying and there is no option to hide the file name at the beginning of each picture, but for free I cannot complain too much. Maybe after a month of use and it doesn’t annoy me too much, I might fork out the money and actually pay for this app. Which is saying a lot from this cheapskate —> me.

This app does consistently recognize my TV where as other similar apps fail to find it, and it plays my music on my phone perfectly, BUT..... The app crashes consistently after about 1 to 2 minutes of launching it, and when I play music, after about 30 to 45 seconds of starting a music file playing on the TV. It crashes, then, about another 30 seconds after it crashes, my TV says there is a disconnection, the music stops playing, and it switches back to regular TV. The app is a very good app that works as described, but the key is when it works. The reason I’m giving it 5 stars is because, if the crashing bug can be fixed, it will be a top app, plus, it is the only app I have found that will play music on my TV without an “Unrecognized Codec” error coming up on the TV. All other apps I have tried that actually recognize my TV end up with that “Unrecognized Codec” error coming up on the TV when I press the button to cast music in those other apps which totally makes no sense because the TV is not doing any legwork other than to play the audio while the app does the actual legwork of playing the music file and getting the audio to the TV so that the TV doesn’t have to figure out how to do it. When I press the button in this app to cast the music, it immediately starts playing with no problem and with perfect audio quality. If this app can do it then the rest of the apps out there should be able to do it also. It’s just that after about 30 to 45 seconds of the music starting to play, the app crashes, and about 30 seconds after that, the music stops playing, the TV then says there is a disconnection, and then switches back to regular TV. This app just needs the crashing bug fixed, and will then it be a killer app.

I can’t tell if it is a Scam or Deficient programming but I paid to remove adds yet I still have them and they want let you get out of them. I continually try watching 10 second videos and it will play a couple videos then an add will pop up on your screen and not allow you to X out of it as your tv starts blaring what ever program you had it on before you started the app. At the same time on your phone you have to watch the whole advertisement as you continually try to X out of it anywhere from 5 to 15 times then it automatically re-directs you to the App Store to download or buy the advertised app and you can’t go back to the TV Assist app so you have to cancel then start all over by clinking on the app you’ve already paid for. If you use this app don’t bother paying to remove adds and steer away from anyone that has been on this app that may be mentally unstable.