The Discover screen works like most streaming services homepage, giving you recommendations on what to watch next, but with the ability to display content from many different directories. However, it should not overwhelm you with options that you do not have access to. There is a setting that allows you to select only the services you have. Plex has been working for several years to become a legitimate one-stop-shop for streaming – and a free ad-supported TV business model – which the new menu can finally accomplish. The Discover screen, which is currently in beta, displays content from Disney Plus, HBO Max and Apple TV Plus.Image: Plex There is also a new “watch from these sites” feature, which helps you if you know what you want to watch but not where to find it. Adds a section to the movie and TV info page that shows what streaming services this content offers. On some versions of the app (which is available on devices such as Apple TV, Fire Stick, Roku, PlayStation, smart TVs, etc.), Plex may even take you directly to streaming service from page. “Watch from these sites” makes it so that you do not have to search in many applications to find a specific show. Look how small this scroll bar is. The Plex support page says that “not all platforms allow the user to submit to the respective streaming application”. From reports on Reddit, it seems that a big platform that can not make the connection is Roku. When I tried it on my Apple TV, it seemed to work fine, but it was clearly a beta. I could open links to Netflix, Hulu, and Apple TV Plus, but I got an error trying to open links for HBO Max and YouTube. Plex said the applications were not installed, even though they were. In the web version of Plex, it worked for every platform I could think of to try (although when I opened things up on YouTube, it just took me to the search results page for the title instead of the actual page for the movie itself). Personally, this may be what ultimately makes me use Plex. I recently experienced what the company blatantly refers to as “the flow race”, where my wife and I spent an hour figuring out what to watch. Most of the features that Plex adds here are not unique to this – Apple TV has built-in universal search and lets you create a watch list (although these features have very limited support for Netflix content). Google is doing a decent job of informing you which services a show or movie is available on, and other smart TV platforms also have universal search capabilities. But it would definitely be nice to have them all in one place and in a relatively neat interface that works on many different devices. These features should be available for free on most platforms if you are using the latest Plex application. I did not have to sign up for a beta program to access them, but you may need to follow the Plex instructions to find them according to your settings.
