After getting began on cell again in November, Plex is able to check its “reimagined” app expertise on a lot larger screens. Today the corporate introduced that the preview has expanded to included tvOS. “Please take into account that is nowhere near good, however we need to get suggestions from the neighborhood as early as we will,” Plex wrote within the weblog put up.
Live TV and on-demand leases are prominently proven within the navigation bar, but when it’s something just like the cell model, you possibly can disable these for those who solely care about having fun with your private library. Note that you simply’ve acquired to decide into this preview; the common Plex app isn’t going anyplace simply but. Instructions for doing so might be discovered right here.
Plex can also be getting extra social: film and TV present opinions can now be seen by everybody throughout the platform — for those who change your privateness settings to permit this, that’s. You can touch upon opinions by others, so Plex appears to be leaning into all of the success round Letterboxd with this one.
“By making your profile publicly accessible on watch.plex.television you possibly can simply share a hyperlink to your profile with others in order that they’ll see what you’ve been watching, what’s in your Watchlist, and extra,” the corporate says.
Last, Plex is making HEVC {hardware} encoding out there to all Plex Plus prospects. “HEVC encoding affords a greater visible high quality on the identical bit charge, permitting for a higher-quality video over the identical (or decrease) bandwidth utilization for streaming out of your Plex Media Server,” the corporate says. Another profit is that HDR metadata is totally preserved. HEVC encoding is supported on macOS, Linux, and Windows “when utilizing {hardware} encoding with Apple, Intel, or Nvidia units,” Plex wrote again in September.
