Sogou Video App

[jbradfor]

I recently came across the Sogou app; it’s available in the Windows store, Android store, and iOS store.  In the Windows store you need to search for “搜狐视频”, not sure about other stores.

 

I played with it for a couple of nights, and thus far it seems really nice for casual viewing on a tablet, much easier than using a web browser.   I have to admit I’m impressed, the interface is much better than I would expected from a free Chinese app.  When you start it, the shows are organized by category (hot, TV shows, movies, etc).

 

For learning Chinese, it does have the first two shows I tried, 家有女儿 and非诚勿扰 (the game show, not the movie).  It did not have, unfortunately, 北京遇上西雅图, which I wanted to watch as apparently this show is partially responsible for our rising house prices.  [searching did find it, but playing it brought up the web browser, and you had to pay to watch it.]

 

You can tag movies for later viewing.  There does not seem to be a way to setup an account to have your tagged movies sync across multiple devices, although I could have missed it due to my reading ability (or lack thereof).   This would have been useful to, for example, search for shows on a laptop, but view on a tablet.  I believe there is a way to download shows for offline viewing, but I didn’t try it.

[maomao2014]

you can try 腾讯视频 .I try to search 《非诚勿扰》and 《北京遇上西雅图》 it has both.