The new Apple TV app and Apple TV Channels: 9 things you need to know – AppleTV 4 Jailbreak (appletv4jailbreak.com)
After months of speculation, rumors, and leaks, Apple has finally taken the wraps off its plans for the future of TV, and it comes in two parts: There’s a new subscription service coming this fall called Apple TV+, and an overhaul of the Apple TV app, coming this spring.
We’ve covered Apple TV+ in a separate article, but here’s what you need to know about the new TV app, and the way Apple hopes it will change streaming and become the new destination for cord cutters.
A new design, but not many new features
Though the TV app has a newly refreshed design, you’ll recognize many features from the current app. The Up Next section—which shows a list of next episodes for shows you’ve watched, as well as TV shows or movies you stopped in the middle off—is still there. So are the sections for TV Shows, Movies, Sports, Kids, and your Library of shows or movies you own.
The new TV app has most of the same features of the existing app, with a refreshed look.
It work with a just few cable and streaming TV providers
Apple’s TV app will show content from a few traditional TV providers through their streaming apps, like Spectrum, Optimum, and DirecTV. It also works with streaming providers like Hulu, fuboTV, and PlayStation Vue. None of this is new—the TV app does that today. And unlike Apple TV Channels, you won’t be able to subscribe to these services from within the app. Instead you’ll have to install the appropriate apps, which you’ll use to watch the content. You’ll just see their content integrated into your recommendations and Up Next list.
The new Apple TV app works with these services, just as the current TV app does. But you can’t subscribve to them from within the app.
Apple TV Channels integrates on-demand services
The biggest change to the TV app is the addition of Apple TV Channels, where you can subscribe to a host of premium TV offerings right from the TV app. Apple showed a list of 26 partners, including Starz, Epix, CBS All Access, Comedy Central, Showtime, HBO, and Cinemax. You’ll subscribe (or start a free trial) to any of these Channels from right within the TV App, using your existing Apple ID, with just a few taps.
Apple’s got a lot of Channels on tap, but there are lots of notable exceptions.
Then you’ll be able to enter each channel to see the content it offers, all available on demand, playing directly within the app. There are no additional apps to install, and Apple promises the highest quality picture and sound available, full Siri integration, and quality of life features like a “skip intro” button.
Apple also says that Channels content will be downloadable to watch offline.
The Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu situation hasn’t…
https://www.macworld.com/article/3384097/the-new-apple-tv-app-and-apple-tv-channels-9-things-you-need-to-know.html
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