
New UI update enhances discoverability across Netflix, Hulu, PlayStation Vue, YouTube, and more.
Starting today, the TV & Video experience on PlayStation 4 is getting a complete refresh in the U.S. The new design puts content front and center, making it easier for you to discover and watch the best movies and TV shows available across your favorite streaming services, such as Netflix, Prime Video, Hulu, and YouTube, in addition to PlayStation Video and PlayStation Vue. Canadians will also enjoy the same refreshed interface with access to streaming services like Netflix, Prime Video, YouTube, and Crunchyroll, in addition to PlayStation Video.
- Browse in one place – You can now find trending content or discover new movies, TV shows, live TV events and user-generated content from your favorite video services in a single place, without jumping in and out of apps. TV & Video is now a central destination for exploring content and easily renting, purchasing, or subscribing to services that give you access to the content you want to watch.
- Featured and Spotlight categories – The ‘Featured’ section shows you a mix of the best content from various video services. We also have a ‘Spotlight’ section that shows you popular content based on a rotating theme, such as “Superheroes” or “Award Season.”
- Personalized YouTube experience – You can link your YouTube account to your PlayStation Network account to get personalized recommendations in the YouTube section. Personalized recommendations for other services are coming soon too!
- Currently trending live channels on PlayStation Vue – The PlayStation Vue section shows you live channels that are most popular now in your area. PS Vue subscribers get one-click access to the livestreams and the content shown will be tailored to your subscription plan.
- Direct app access – With the updated interface, you still have fast access to the video apps you use most, a full list of all available video services, and your PlayStation Store video library in ‘My Videos.’
We hope you enjoy the new look and feel of the PS4 system’s TV & Video experience, and we’ll continue to update with additional features… so stay tuned and keep checking back!
Very much needed as at times it was a chore to search for certain things. Thanks!
Well so far I hate it. Why does improving things mean always adding extra steps or clicks to get to where you want to go. Why can’t things be quick, clean and efficient.
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This hurts my soul
I filed a complaint in the chat support and asked the person to direct it to the proper department. I hate it… More steps to do the same thing, smaller icons, and a bunch of “recommended” fluff filling the stee that I don’t need nor want.
filling the *screen*
This is genuinely ugly, way too much on screen, I purposely made sure I could do as little scrolling as possible with the current UI, I will not be updating to this or won’t be using my ps4 much if I’m forced to use this
Just let me put my streaming apps on the main ribbon and stop hiding them behind your own forced content. I will NEVER purchase a damn thing through your video services if this is how I’m treated after dropping hundreds of dollars on your system. You’re garbage for doing this and your new ‘experience’ is bad.
Complete garbage. I’m about to use my chrome cast in place of my PlayStation because of this for when I want to watch anything. The only reason I can see for this change is to throw more advertisements in front of us. Apparently cramming other apps into a giant list wasn’t enough
I’m just not sure why you we don’t treat these the same way as games, just apps on the XMB. Then let me sort it into my own folders. I can tell you right now I won’t be browsing the movies below at all, I’ll be opening whatever app I want and browsing within there. Just my feedback. You can show me the downloadable WWE Network all day long, I still won’t click on it and download it.
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Absolutely hate it. Everything is so slow and YouTube and Netflix used to be easy to find
Ok, now how do I disable it? I gave it a chance and it is the worst. It takes significantly longer to do the same thing, since it won’t display even the core streaming apps until it loads everything on the page. Even when I select a video it still just goes to the home page of the service anyway. Please make this feature optional…
This “new experience” has apl but ruined my enjoyment of the ps4 for videos. I now have to load an application to load another application. Most of the time it has problems loading just the tv & video page. Then the application I use is almost hidden accross the top. Rather stream my phone to my tv than deal with this mess. Horrible decision sony. Just horrible.