Plex is starting to test its big redesign on Apple TV

After starting to use the mobile phone Back in NovemberPlex is ready to test the “reimagined” app experience on much larger screens. The company announced today that the preview has expanded to include tvOS. “Please keep in mind that this is nowhere near perfect, but we want to get feedback from the community as soon as possible,” Blix wrote in Blog post.

Live TV and on-demand rentals are prominently displayed in the navigation bar, but if it’s anything like the mobile version, you can disable them if you only care about enjoying your personal library. Note that you must opt ​​in to this preview; The regular Plex app isn’t going anywhere yet. Instructions to do this It can be found here.

Plex has also become more social: Movie and TV show reviews can now be viewed by everyone across the platform — if you change your privacy settings to allow it, that is. You can comment on other people’s comments, that’s what it looks like for Plex Leaning into all the success around Letterboxd With this one.

“By making your profile publicly accessible on watch.plex.tv, you can easily share a link to your profile with others so they can see what you’ve been watching, what’s on your watchlist, and more,” the company says. .

Finally, Plex is making HEVC hardware encoding available to all Plex Plus customers. “HEVC encoding provides better visual quality at the same bitrate, allowing for higher-quality video over the same (or lower) bandwidth usage as streaming from your Plex Media Server,” the company says. Another benefit is that HDR metadata is completely preserved. HEVC encoding is supported on macOS, Linux, and Windows “when using hardware encoding with Apple, Intel, or Nvidia hardware,” Plex wrote. Back in September.