Plex is not exactly a full alternative to the higher-priced live TV streaming services like Sling TV, DirecTV Now, Hulu’s live TV service, YouTube TV, and PlayStation Vue. Plex’s plan in venturing the live TV space is to offer consumers interested in cutting the cord a way to complement their Netflix or Amazon Prime Video subscriptions with access to the sort of television they would otherwise miss – especially local news and sports. The Program Guide also helps you find something to watch by making recommendations, based on what else you’ve been watching on Plex, and it will alert you to upcoming movies, sports, and other items of interest – like shows with new episodes or those starting soon. The results are displayed using large, photo thumbnails of the program, along with other details like channel and how many minutes are left in the program. You can also click to see “Shows on Now,” which lets you see which movies, sports, news, or TV series are currently airing. (A full list of supported tuners will be posted here.)Īs for the live TV interface itself, you’re able to filter the available programming by channel, genre, year, content rating or even actor.

Users can now take advantage of USB tuners from Hauppauge and Avermedia, for example, among several other brands. Today, with the added support for live TV, Plex is also expanding its lineup of supported vendors for digital tuners beyond the HDHomeRun. The company, whose background is in organizing users’ personal media collections, expanded to go after the cord cutter market last fall with the introduction of DVR capabilities for recording over-the-air TV.Īt the time, however, Plex required users to buy a digital antenna and an HDHomeRun digital tuner. To be clear, Plex only offers channels that you can get over the air – that means, broadcast stations like ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, PBS, CW, Univision, etc. The result is a low-cost, do-it-yourself version of a live TV streaming service – a popular new category in the streaming market, which offers a pay-TV live experience over the internet.

Plex is doubling down on its support for capturing over-the-air signals from digital antennas this morning, with the announcement that it will now not only let users record TV programs, it will also allow them to watch live TV.

Hdhomerun plex