Plex Starts Testing Its Big Redesign On Apple Tv

After getting started connected mobile backmost successful November, Plex is caller to proceedings its “reimagined” app acquisition connected overmuch bigger screens. Today nan institution announced that nan preview has expanded to included tvOS. “Please support successful mind this is obscurity adjacent to perfect, but we want to get feedback from nan statement arsenic early arsenic we can,” Plex wrote successful nan blog post.

Live TV and on-demand rentals are prominently shown successful nan navigation bar, but if it’s point for illustration nan mobile version, you tin disable those if you only attraction astir enjoying your individual library. Note that you’ve sewage to opt into this preview; nan regular Plex app isn’t going anyplace conscionable yet. Instructions for doing truthful tin beryllium recovered here.

Plex is too getting overmuch social: movie and TV show reviews tin now beryllium viewed by everyone crossed nan level — if you alteration your privateness settings to fto this, that is. You tin remark connected reviews by others, truthful Plex seems to beryllium leaning into each nan occurrence astir Letterboxd pinch this one.

“By making your level scheme publically accessible connected watch.plex.tv you tin easy banal a nexus to your level scheme pinch others truthful that they tin spot what you’ve been watching, what’s connected your Watchlist, and more,” nan institution says.

Last, Plex is making HEVC hardware encoding disposable to each Plex Plus customers. “HEVC encoding offers a amended ocular worth astatine nan aforesaid spot rate, allowing for a higher-quality video complete nan aforesaid (or lower) bandwidth usage for streaming from your Plex Media Server,” nan institution says. Another usage is that HDR metadata is afloat preserved. HEVC encoding is supported connected macOS, Linux, and Windows “when utilizing hardware encoding pinch Apple, Intel, aliases Nvidia devices,” Plex wrote backmost successful September.