Plex is looking to add more to your home theater experience. The company just announced plans to start streaming all sorts of extras to TiVo-based home theater systems. The goodies will be available to all TiVo subscribers starting on June 8.
The Plex app compiles your entire movie and TV collection, your music library, and all of your photos and home videos into one place—and allows you to share all of that media across both home and mobile devices. This partnership will allow those users to stream everything right to the TiVo box, so you can have access to it in those home theater systems. That way, you’ll be able to enjoy everything on the big screen.
Other features include the option to save online videos for viewing later, as well as easy navigation with movie posters, plot summaries, cover art, and descriptions. It even allows you to share those personal media collections with other TiVo boxes, so friends and distant family members can have access to media and memories. Users can also easily keep track of recently added content, since Plex keeps it all front and center.
The Plex Media Server can run on Windows, Mac or Linux computers, as well as iOS, Android, Windows Phone 8 or Windows 8.1 devices. For other home theater options, the Plex also works on Chromecast, Amazon Fire TV, Roku, Android TV, Xbox, PlayStation, VIZIO, and many late-model smart TVs. Plex is even available on most network-attached storage devices.
When the Plex integration launches on June 8, it will put all of these features in home theater systems that include the TiVo Roamio, the TiVo Mini and TiVo Premiere devices. If you received a TiVo box from a cable provider, you should be able to use Plex on the TiVo T6, Quad, Preview, TiVo Mini, and XG1 devices.
Richard Gunther says
I’ll reserve comment until this goes live. This has a few strikes against it from the onset. First, this will be an Opera App, meaning that you likely won’t be able to get to it the way you can the other over-the-top apps like Hulu, Netflix, etc. Additionally, content from your Plex library won’t appear in TiVo search, OnePass or any other TiVo discovery tool. And finally, there’s reason to believe that the app will be the somewhat limited version of the app and that it will only play video up to 720p. So…it sounds good at first glance but may turn out to be a bit disappointing at launch. I’m certainly looking forward to trying it, though!