![]() What do you think about Plex’s plans? Are you ok with the company’s continued expansion? Tell us down in the comments. Plex is clearly still in the early stages of planning these features, but they make quite a bit of sense if the company is looking to become a one-stop-shop for streaming media. Ideally, Plex says that it would put together a “set of 15 to 20 SVOD channels” for users. Specifically, Valory noted that through the work Plex has done securing deals for its ad-support library, it has found numerous studios and companies who are also interested in delivering their subscription services through Plex. If we can make a feature relatively easy for users and they love it, that’s what we as a company have always done.” “But if those deep-linking opportunities present themselves earlier, we’re also optimistic. “We want to have a critical mass of content available before we have the deep linking capabilities,” noted Valory, speaking to TechCrunch at CES. ![]() But, features like channels and deep linking on are the list: Or use the full search capabilities including voice dictation (requires tvOS 9.2). ![]() Find what you want quickly and easily with a smart home screen design as well as individualized displays for each media type. Plex CEO Keith Valory told TechCrunch that the company’s current goal is to continue expanding its ad-supported content library, which it launched last year. Access all of your Emby media now from your Apple TV device. The TV app offers a similar functionality. For instance, the Plex app could surface content from Hulu, but you’d be kicked to the Hulu app to actually watch that content. Meanwhile, deep linking would integrate content from services that aren’t available as channels into the Plex app. This includes support for channel add-ons like Apple TV Channels and “deep linking.” Subscription channels would allow you to pay for services like HBO through the Plex and watch the content directly in the Plex app. In many ways, Plex is seemingly looking to integrate features offered by the Apple TV app. Specifically, Plex is looking at “subscription video, a transactional marketplace for rentals and purchases, and a way to launch streaming content Plex can’t host.” ![]() TechCrunch reports that Plex is working on a handful of new features that will help it better integrate more content beyond what it can host itself. At CES this week, Plex has teased the next steps in its efforts to become a one-stop-shop for streaming content, including subscription services, rentals and purchases, and more. I'll keep checking in with it-I'd prefer to use the native app-but there is an alternative in the meantime.Plex has dramatically expanded its focus on streaming in recent months, and now it’s taking things even further. I actually prefer Emby's library views, up next tiles, and lack of a "library sync" (Infuse needs to sync like Kodi) etc-but the constant playback issues and the app breaking in hilarious ways every time there's an OS update mean I had to switch for the time being. Audio/video is in sync, HDR works, and there are even thumbnails while scrubbing. The only hope I have is for this iOS player backport that has been mentioned, maybe if they have both platforms sharing some code the quality of the app will improve, but it was pretty rough on tvOS 15, and as it stands right now on tvOS 16 it's unusable for me.Īfter tvOS 16 I switched to Infuse and playback is perfect. I'm sure the userbase for this app is way smaller than the others so there's not as many resources being put into it, but it's pretty disappointing for those of us that do use an Apple TV.Īudio/video sync is still a huge issue when going through a receiver, movie playback transcoding issues are constant, and "Auto" playback quality is picking 720p 5mb streams for a friend of mine remotely and when he sets it manually to 4k 60mb it direct plays fine. If any of them used it regularly it would have been obvious right away. It's pretty clear no one on the Emby team is a regular Apple TV user, evidenced by basic things like navigation being broken for weeks after tvOS 16 was released until a couple of people mentioned it here on the forums and the devs asked questions about how to reproduce. ![]()
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