These announcements cover releases to the Plex for Smart TVs preview available to Plex Pass members. Supported devices are primarily Opera TV based devices from Sony, Vizio, and more.

June 22, 2017 • 3.8.0 NEW TiVo: Now Direct Play and Direct Stream more UHD content on your UHD capable TiVo devices. The Plex for TiVo app will now Direct Play UHD content in MP4 and MKV files. The video must be HEVC (H.265), <= 3840x2160, and <= 60FPS. We can now also Direct Stream UHD and HEVC…

July 12, 2017 • 3.8.0 - Samsung Tizen (2016-2017) Add support for Alexa Voice Control and improved companion support See 3.3.0 and 3.8.0 release notes above for other changes.

September 25, 2017 • 3.13.1 NEW: Include support for updated Plex privacy policy - https://www.plex.tv/about/privacy-policy-update-notice/ . Acknowledge the metrics collection preferences set on plex.tv .

November 21, 2017 • 3.13.7 NEW: Vizio SmartCast: whitelist EAC3 audio in all supported video containers. FIXED: All: Pressing Left, Right, Up, or Down remote control buttons during initial video buffering now correctly navigates between video player control buttons. All: An supporting devices,…

January 23 2018 • 3.13.9 NEW: TiVo: Direct play 10bit HEVC. Works best with lower quality 4K content. TiVo: Remove the ability to Direct Stream videos using HEVC video codec. We’ve filed a bug report with TiVo. webOS: Identify webOS displays and capabilities using platform library. webOS: New Set…

January 25 2018 • 3.13.10 FIXED: Hisense: Correct identification issue causing startup failure ( thread ). webOS: Include support for mpeg2video video codecs within MKV containers.

January 30 2018 • 3.13.11 FIXED: webOS: Revert changes to playback initialization, in webOS 1 and 2, which may result in the inability to resume playback at a non-zero time position. webOS: Remove AVI direct play capabilities from webOS 1 and 2. webOS 3 continues to play AVI files with MPEG4 and …

March 06 2018 • 3.13.13 FIXED: All: Prevent the movie and tv show detail page for the first poster in a hub or list from mistakingly loading much more data than necessary. This could lead to devices freezing or crashing. All: Mixed photo and video libraries will progress through slideshows correc…

April 10 2018 • 3.13.15 This is a release for only LG webOS devices. FIXED: webOS: Correct 3.13.9 regression which prevented resuming Direct Stream and transcoded video playback at an offset on webOS 1.

April 11 2018 • 3.13.16 This is a release for only LG webOS devices. FIXED: webOS: Correct 3.13.15 video playback regression for webOS 3+ displays.

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January 25 2018 • 3.13.10

FIXED:

Hisense: Correct identification issue causing startup failure (thread).
webOS: Include support for mpeg2video video codecs within MKV containers.

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