After getting began on cellular back in November, Plex is able to take a look at its “reimagined” app expertise on a lot greater screens. Right this moment the corporate introduced that the preview has expanded to included tvOS. “Please take into accout that is nowhere near good, however we need to get suggestions from the group as early as we are able to,” Plex wrote in the blog post.
Dwell TV and on-demand leases are prominently proven within the navigation bar, but when it’s something just like the cellular model, you possibly can disable these in the event you solely care about having fun with your private library. Be aware that you just’ve obtained to decide into this preview; the common Plex app isn’t going wherever simply but. Directions for doing so can be found here.
Plex can be getting extra social: film and TV present opinions can now be considered by everybody throughout the platform — in the event you change your privateness settings to permit this, that’s. You’ll be able to touch upon opinions by others, so Plex appears to be leaning into all the success around 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.
Final, Plex is making HEVC {hardware} encoding accessible to all Plex Plus prospects. “HEVC encoding gives a greater visible high quality on the identical bit fee, permitting for a higher-quality video over the identical (or decrease) bandwidth utilization for streaming out of your Plex Media Server,” the corporate says. One other profit is that HDR metadata is absolutely preserved. HEVC encoding is supported on macOS, Linux, and Home windows “when utilizing {hardware} encoding with Apple, Intel, or Nvidia gadgets,” Plex wrote back in September.