Channels: Whole Home DVR 12+
Live TV & DVR on your devices
Fancy Bits, LLC
Designed for iPad
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- Free
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Description
Cut the cord without missing your shows. You don't have to lose your DVR just because you canceled your cable.
Channels is easy for the whole family to love.
Watch your favorite programs on every TV and device, from the living room, hotel room, or even on your commute. Channels delivers a unified experience across all your TVs, devices, and streaming platforms.
Learn more about Channels and how it works at http://getchannels.com/features/
-- Record Your Shows --
• Record in one place, watch on every TV & iOS device.
• Pause in one room and resume in another, or on your iPhone or iPad.
• Pick your favorite shows or teams, and choose to record all or just their new airings.
• Browse or search through 21 days worth of guide data that updates daily.
• Schedule a recording from your phone while you're away from home.
• Watch your favorite shows or teams while you're away from home. Live or recorded.
• Watch your shows while they're currently recording. Don't wait for them to finish.
• Your recordings get their commercials indexed, and can be automatically skipped.
-- Watch Live TV --
• Pause, rewind, and fast forward live TV.
• Support for full 5.1 surround sound.
• Full support for closed captioning and alternate audio tracks.
• Mark channels as favorites. Browse them for quicker access to your favorite networks.
• Full support for VoiceOver. Browse and watch TV with ease.
NOTE: DVR features require Channels DVR Server installed and running on your home computer or NAS to stream to your devices. Learn more at https://getchannels.com/dvr-server/
-- People Love Channels --
"One of the most capable cord-cutting replacements for a cable DVR" - TechHive
"Apple TV just became the best box for streaming live broadcast TV" — Macworld
"Apple TV already has at least one 'killer app'. The new third-party Apple TV app, Channels." — MacDailyNews
"I can tell you it’s buttery smooth" — Zatz Not Funny!
For questions, concerns, bug reports, and feature requests, contact us on twitter @getchannels or via email support@getchannels.com
What’s New
Version 5.9.0
• NEW: The Library section has been renamed to Home and moved to top of the sidebar navigation on tvOS
• NEW: Library movies now show quality ratings
• NEW: Optionally disable the iOS/iPadOS seek gestures (swipe left/right)
• IMPROVED: Jump to Last Channel setting is now available and respected on iOS/iPadOS
• IMPROVED: Better Popularity sorting for movies
• IMPROVED: Remote streaming algorithm to reduce buffering pauses on highly variable connections
• IMPROVED: Performance after app has been running for long periods of time
• IMPROVED: Background performance for large libraries while video player is active
• FIXED: Video player was occasionally dropping frames if the app was opened for too long.
• FIXED: Playing a recording to tvOS from iOS while watching live TV was not consistently working.
• FIXED: Playlists was not an available section in the Show Section Siri actions
• FIXED: Videos were not launching correctly via the Show Section Siri actions
• FIXED: Video player went blank when launching playback of a Show or Playlist or Collection via the Siri actions
• FIXED: Sidebar would some times get stuck hidden when using button shortcuts or Start Up sections
• FIXED: TV Shows were not sorted alphabetically when shown in a Siri action for picking one.
• FIXED: When experiencing many timeouts the adaptive bitrate handling could sometimes not lower the bitrate when it should
• FIXED: Legacy audio driver could fail on older iOS/tvOS versions
Ratings and Reviews
Top in Class Developer
If all developers listened to their customers like they do, life would be a better place. They actively monitor and respond within minutes to every post put on their Community forums support pages. They listen to customer feedback and routinely implement feature requests from the community. I’ve been using their Channels app since back when it first came out and you had to pay for the app separately for each platform you intended to use it on. I can assure you, this is the best app in the Apple App Store.
Decent but disappointing
I purchased this application today for my Apple TV and my iOS devices. After a complicated setup that included addressing issues on my NAS drive and spending money for a subscription to the “plus" service, I learned that the main feature for which I undertook this effort, picture and picture (PIP) on Apple TV, does not work as at least I had expected - perhaps I misunderstood, but I don’t think it is clear.
When the application puts the source video into the PIP box, the video stops when another video application on the device starts playing video. THAT IS NOT PICTURE IN PICTURE. True Picture in Picture permits watching two video sources at once. For example, watching a game in the PIP box while watching a movie full screen. All you can do is navigate the device and run non-video apps (e.g., read email) while watching the video in the PIP box. I can do this already with my spectrum tv app on my iPad so what does Channels actually do for me that I couldn’t do already?
While I am disappointed, this application works as advertised by playing tv from my server to numerous devices.
Thanks for allowing Channels on the M1 Macs
I've been using Channels for years on the iPad and Apple TV and have been very happy with it. It works flawlessly.
I'm especially happy with the current version(s) that work equally well on the M1 MacBook Air. Unlike a lot of iPad software, either the app is prevented from running by the developer or is unsuited for real use because of screen scaling or some other issue. Not Channels, it just works.
Thanks for a great app.
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Information
- Seller
- Fancy Bits, LLC
- Size
- 127.7 MB
- Category
- Entertainment
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple TV
- Requires tvOS 15.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 12+ Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References Infrequent/Mild Simulated Gambling Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity Infrequent/Mild Medical/Treatment Information Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Copyright
- © 2020 Fancy Bits, LLC
- Price
- Free