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REVIEW
ScandiTVPlayer is an unknown quantity asking for your channel list.
A new April 2026 third-party video player on Samsung Tizen with no description, no screenshots, no ratings, and a single-developer credit. It looks and behaves like a generic IPTV shell waiting for a user-supplied playlist.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 10, 2026 · 3 MIN READ
ScandiTVPlayer
ALMIN SAHINOVIC
OUR SCORE
4.5
SAMSUNG TV
★ —
PRICE
Free
ScandiTVPlayer arrived on the Samsung Tizen store in April 2026 with the kind of listing that makes a reviewer pause. There is no long description. There is no short description. There are no screenshots. There is no user rating, because no rating data exists yet. The publisher field reads “Almin Sahinovic” — a single name, no studio, no website link, and no public footprint we can find in 2026 search results. The name of the app implies a Scandinavian TV use case; the absence of any content partnership or broadcaster credit implies something else entirely.
Apps with this profile on a smart-TV store almost always belong to one category: third-party IPTV player shells that ship empty and ask the user to supply a playlist URL. Those apps are technically legal in most jurisdictions — the player itself is not infringing — but they are most commonly used with unlicensed M3U lists that restream paid broadcast channels without the rightsholders’ consent. We do not know that ScandiTVPlayer is used that way. We also have no evidence that it is not, because the developer has published nothing about what it is for.
For a Samsung TV owner in 2026 the practical guidance is simple. The Nordic broadcasters all have official Tizen apps — NRK TV, SVT Play, DR TV, Yle Areena, TV2 Play, Viaplay — and those are the apps that legitimately deliver Scandinavian TV on a Samsung set. ScandiTVPlayer, as it stands today, is an unverified box on the store shelf. Until the developer fills in the description, posts screenshots, and explains what content source the player expects, the honest review is to leave it alone.
An empty store listing on a Samsung TV is a red flag, not a feature. ScandiTVPlayer needs to explain itself before anyone trusts it with a playlist.
FEATURES
ScandiTVPlayer is a free Tizen video app published in April 2026 by a single developer credited as Almin Sahinovic. The Samsung store listing carries no long description, no short description, no screenshots, no rating, and no review count — every metadata field that would normally tell a viewer what the app does is empty.
The name and the absence of any first-party content credits point to the same pattern that dominates this corner of the Tizen store: a generic IPTV player shell. Apps in this category typically launch to a setup screen that asks the user to paste an M3U playlist URL or upload an Xtream Codes login, then stream whatever channels that playlist points at. The app itself does not host or license any video — it is a remote-control-friendly wrapper around HLS streams the user has to source themselves.
Without a published feature list it is impossible to confirm what protocols, EPG formats, or parental controls this particular shell supports. Comparable Tizen IPTV players in this category (Smart IPTV, OTT Navigator, MaxPlayer, IPTV Smarters Pro) typically advertise M3U + EPG XMLTV, catch-up, multi-screen, and a remote-friendly grid. ScandiTVPlayer advertises none of this in its store entry, which is unusual even for the category.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
The only verifiable strength is the price — the app is free with no listed in-app purchases. For Samsung TV owners who already have a paid IPTV subscription with their own playlist URL and want to try another player without spending anything, the cost of experimenting is zero.
Beyond that, there is genuinely nothing to report. The store page provides no evidence of what the app does well, and no third-party coverage of the developer or app exists at the time of writing. That is the honest answer. We do not write fake praise around an empty listing.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
Everything. The Samsung store entry needs a description, screenshots, and a clear statement of what content source the player is designed for. A Tizen video app released into the store with no metadata reads, to a viewer, as either an unfinished publish or a deliberately opaque listing — both of which are reasons to be cautious about granting the app a playlist URL or login credentials.
The grey-market context matters and we will say it plainly. Many free IPTV-shell apps on smart-TV stores are used in practice with unlicensed playlists that restream Scandinavian, Balkan, and Middle Eastern broadcast TV without the rightsholders' permission. We are not accusing this specific app of anything — we have no evidence either way — but the pattern the listing fits is the pattern the legal services (Viaplay, TV2 Play, NRK TV, SVT Play, DR TV, Yle Areena) do not fit. If you are a viewer in the Nordics looking for legitimate Scandinavian TV on a Samsung set, the named broadcasters' own apps are on Tizen and are the safer choice.
CONCLUSION
Skip ScandiTVPlayer for now. With no description, no screenshots, no ratings, no developer presence on the public web, and a category strongly associated with grey-market IPTV use, there is no responsible way to recommend installing it on a Samsung TV — let alone giving it a playlist URL or a username and password. If you are after Scandinavian broadcast TV, install Viaplay, TV2 Play, NRK TV, SVT Play, DR TV, or Yle Areena directly from the Tizen store. If the developer publishes a real description, a content source, and screenshots in a future update, the app deserves a fresh look.