Smart TV’s and Playstation 3/4 get updated Plex app with new functionality

I know a lot of you out there use Plex on your phones, tablets, Fire TV, Fire TV Stick, XBox, PC and plenty of other devices. If you also happen to own a smart TV and have been using the application there, then you will be happy to know that a number of supported TV’s are getting updates to bring more goodies to your daily viewing enjoyment. Plex made an announcement this morning that select supported Smart TV’s along with the app for Playstation 3 and Playstation 4 have an updated user experience bundled with some new features that may seem long over due to the heavy user.

Among the changes you will find the addition of Plex Channels which gives you access to streaming media from Vimeo, TED Talks, Soundcloud and more. You will also see Plex Companion which will let you, finally, fling content from your Plex connected devices to the TV. Filtering and sorting is now available as well. Simply put, you can sort and filter your content by  number of predefined options such as genre, decade, unwatched and others. Finally, you will also now have access to movie trailers along with other movie extras.

None of that will seem like that big of a deal to those of you that use Plex daily on connected devices, but for those who wanted the same experience on their Smart TV and Playstation’s without connecting something else to it will be excited about the changes. Feel free to check out the full announcement blog post from Plex for additional details. For questions on how to get the app on various Smart TV’s such as LG, Toshiba and Vizio, checkout the Plex Support page.