Google TV’s Watchlist and Different Options Rolling Out for Android TV

Google TV options are coming to Android TV, together with Watchlist, improved suggestions, and element pages, and customers will begin seeing the brand new options this week. Google TV was introduced as a brand new interface primarily based on Android TV in September 2020, and subsequent good TV fashions got here with the Google TV person interface. Older fashions working Android TV had been then up to date to make the interface look extra like Google TV and now these options are supposed to take the expertise a step additional. Google shared the event on its Android TV neighborhood discussion board.

Google’s Android TV neighborhood supervisor Aamir F. posted that new options are coming to Android TV to make the expertise “extra immersive and useful than ever.” These options embrace Watchlist, advice tuning, and immersive element pages. Watchlists will enable Android TV customers to create a listing of reveals or films that they will add to a listing and save them for watching later. The Watchlist will seem as a row on the Uncover tab and customers can add content material to their watch checklist from a cellphone or laptop computer utilizing Google Search or Google TV cellular app.

So as to add a present or film to your watch checklist, long-press on the content material from the Uncover tab and choosing Add to Watchlist. It will also be accessed from the main points web page.

The Enhance your suggestions possibility will show you how to get higher suggestions which are more-fine-tuned primarily based on what you want to observe. Yow will discover it within the Uncover tab or head to Settings > System Preferences > House Display screen > Content material Preferences. Right here, you possibly can choose ‘Much less like this’ or ‘Extra like this’ for the content material you’re introduced with. You’ll then see content material extra suited to your preferences within the Uncover tab.

Lastly, the element pages have been up to date to provide a cinematic expertise. Trailers will now play robotically and this characteristic is just like what Netflix does on its platform. It may be turned off as effectively and to take action, head to Settings > System Preferences > House Display screen and switch off ‘Allow video previews’.

These new options have already began rolling out and Android TV customers ought to see them beginning this week.