New: play video from an SMB (Windows/NAS) share There is now an SMB source alongside the FTP and SFTP browsers. From the menu, choose Streams, then Browse SMB, to connect to a Windows file share or a NAS and play video files straight off it. Enter the host, share name, username and password; saved connections are kept in the Keychain and persist between launches. There is a saved-connections list, a browse and rename and delete page, and a folder browser, matching the existing FTP and SFTP screens. Confirmed working on a real Apple TV against a live NAS. New: don't interrupt Apple Music or a podcast Launching AnalogTV used to stop whatever else was already playing, even with Sound off. Sound off now genuinely means the app won't take over audio, and there is a new Background Audio setting for finer control over mixing with other apps. New: A/V Sync Settings now has an A/V Sync control, next to Sound and Volume, for correcting a fixed lead or lag between picture and audio on a source that is itself slightly out of sync. New: Audio Effect toggle Settings now has an Audio Effect switch to turn the analog audio processing (hum, buzz, tape effects) on or off independently of the picture. Changed: the default test card is now PM5544 instead of SMPTE colour bars. Fixed: applying a Look from the gallery no longer changes your source or knocks you out of the Looks list. Fixed: the FTP, SFTP and SMB connect screens no longer lose the field name on the fullscreen keyboard, and the SMB connection form no longer clips its Save button off screen. Fixed: SMB video playback now has the same smooth audio sync as SFTP.

New: play video from an SFTP (SSH) server There is now an SFTP source alongside the FTP browser. From the menu, choose Streams, then Browse SFTP, to connect to a NAS or server over SSH and play video files straight off it. Enter the host, port, username and password; saved connections are kept in the Keychain and persist between launches. There is a saved-connections list, a browse and rename and delete page, and a folder browser, matching the existing FTP screens. Playback smoothness over Wi-Fi was tuned with a larger read buffer and read-ahead, and an unresponsive server can no longer hang the browser or a playing video. New: Aspect fit Settings now has an Aspect fit control (Off, Crop, Box) in the Display group. 16:9 video played on the simulated 4:3 tube used to come out squeezed horizontally. Crop, the new default, fills the tube face and trims the side edges. Box fits the whole frame with bars above and below. Off keeps the old pass-through behaviour. This is separate from Picture fit, which only sets the shape of the whole tube on your screen. Teletext weather in your local units The Teletext weather pages (400 to 406) now show Fahrenheit and miles per hour for viewers in the United States, and metric elsewhere, instead of always using Celsius and km/h. Fixed slow Plex browsing Browsing a Plex library could be very slow when the server's preferred connection address had stopped resolving, because every action waited out a long timeout on that dead address first. The app now moves on to a working address immediately and remembers which one to use.

Menu reorganized The main menu is now Sources, Teletext, Games, Clock, Streams, NDI, Looks, Settings, and System Settings. Looks now opens straight into the built-in catalog, with My Looks and the community Gallery one row down. Test Cards moved under Sources. Settings has been split in two so nothing is crowded: Settings covers Display and Screen Saver, System Settings covers Network and System controls. Menu remembers where you left it Backing out of Settings, Gallery, My Looks, or any saved-connection list now returns you to the same row you were on, instead of scrolling back to the top every time. New: Scroll Type Up/down was always one swipe per row. This version adds an optional hold-to-drag mode for long lists — press and drag to keep scrolling instead of one swipe per row. System Settings > Scroll Type chooses Swipe (default) or Drag; switching to Drag reveals a Touch Calibration page to tune the feel to your remote. New: scan to sign in to Plex The Plex sign-in page now shows a QR code alongside the existing typed code, rendered right in the Teletext graphics. Scan it with a phone already signed in to Plex and the pairing code fills in automatically. Fixes Fixed Plex browsing failing outright when its preferred connection address didn't resolve, even though the server was reachable another way. Fixed a Plex video continuing to play after signing out. Fixed the paused-video noise bar still showing through the menu in some cases even after last version's fix. Fixed the test tone playing for every test card instead of just colour bars. Fixed colour-bars tone and Snow's hiss continuing to play under the menu. Fixed Teletext pages cropping real content (the bottom fastext row, the page number, the clock) at nonzero Overscan settings by giving every edge a proper safety margin. Fixed the menu becoming visibly corrupted after exiting a MUSE ("Hi-Vision") Look. Fixed NDI received audio drifting out of sync over a long viewing session. Also Added a toggle to turn off the on-screen source-name banner. Added a configurable refresh interval for the Headlines RSS feed. Added Headlines as a new screen-saver option alongside Clock, Snow, and Colour bars.

Bypass Mode Watch a source exactly as it arrives, with the CRT simulation switched off, so you can confirm what's actually coming in before deciding how to age it. Available from the NDI page, with a persistent badge while it's on. CEEFAX-style weather art Four new weather Teletext pages, redrawn from scratch in the style of real 1980s/90s CEEFAX weather art instead of plain text: a weather symbol page, a 24-hour temperature chart, a rain-chance bar chart, and a local map with city markers for wherever you are. All four render through the same mosaic-graphics Teletext renderer as the rest of the app, not a bitmap overlay. Top Shelf The Apple TV Home Screen now shows a live carousel of test cards when the app is installed. Select one to jump straight into it. Also NDI sources now default Sound on, the same as streams and FTP playback already did (previously the only source on tvOS where you had to find the Sound toggle yourself). Fixed a rare crash when an NDI source disconnected mid-receive. Fixed teletext mosaic graphics rendering with visible gaps in what should be solid colour blocks. Small decoder-accuracy fixes shared with the rest of the app.

Sign in to Plex Sign in with a PIN, the same way any keyboard-less Plex client works: the app shows a short code, you approve it on your phone or computer, and you're in. Browse your real servers and libraries, and TV shows go all the way down, show to season to episode, not just a flat list. Playback runs through the same CRT pipeline as everything else in the app. IPTV playlists Add any #EXTM3U playlist URL, including FastChannels-style feeds, and browse its channels the same way as a saved stream. VCR-style transport on streams and FTP Pause, rewind and fast-forward now work on stream and FTP playback, not just local files, including the Siri Remote's dedicated Play/Pause button. Pausing a stream looks like pausing a tape, not just freezing a frame. Also Saved FTP connections and streams can be named and renamed. Sound now defaults on for stream and FTP playback. Switching Looks no longer switches your source out from under you. RTSP streams carry audio, and HLS audio correctly follows the Sound setting. Fixed a crash on Apple TV HD (4th generation, 2015) that showed "NO PICTURE" on every launch. Small decoder-accuracy fixes shared with the rest of the app.