Plex users are in luck. And it is that recently we have discovered the arrival of a very useful function to continue enjoying streaming content through this platform. Plex welcomes its ‘Discover’ feature, a section where we will discover content recommended for us that is available on current streaming platforms.
The peculiarity of this new function is that, through Discover We will have collected all the content of Netflix, Prime Video, HBO Max, Disney + and company, being able to open any of these apps from Plex itself. In this way, the platform becomes a center where we can see all the content we like and have it all at hand. In this article we show you how to access this function and configure our favorite streaming services.
How to access Discover, the new Plex feature
For a start, we will have to download the Plex application on our Smart TV. This app is available for the vast majority of televisions, media players and consoles on the market, as well as mobile devices. To use it, we will need to create an account through its website. If we wish, we can also access through our Google, Facebook or Apple ID profile.
After having downloaded Plex on our Smart TV and having registered, we will have to link the TV to our account. To do this, we open the app and enter this link through an external device and enter the characters that appear on the screen of our television.
From here, we already have access to Plex, a platform in which we will have collected the movies, series and shows that are in streaming and broadcast, together with the content that we have stored locally on our computer, which we can access through the creation of a server. In this article we will focus on the entire Discover part, although we have already warned you that Plex is well worth it if your intention is to unify all your content.
What can we find in Discover
The Discover feature is still in Beta, though is now accessible to everyone. If it still does not appear in the application, you may have to update it. If you have it available, it will appear in the Plex sidebar.
This section collects the recommended movies, series and shows on our favorite platforms. If this is your first time on Plex, A screen will appear to select the streaming services you want to add to Plex. To add more services, just go to the settings panel and select ‘Streaming services’. Here we will have a long list to choose from. We miss popular platforms in Spain such as Movistar+, ATREPlayer and others, although we must also emphasize that it is an app that gives much more priority to popular content in the United States.
Once we have added our favorite services, in Discover we will have access to popular titles from the platforms we follow, as well as trailers for new movies and series, what’s to come, and even titles categorized by genre or platform. In this way, finding something to see will be more comfortable for us by having everything more at hand.
Best of all, when searching for any content on Plex, in the information section They will also show us in which streaming services the movie, series or show we want to see is available., a tremendously useful tool that will save us from looking for where the content we want to see is located. However, when we select the service in which we want to enjoy the work, Plex will take us directly to the app of the streaming service in question, not being able to access the content from Plex itself.
The idea of Plex is be compatible with up to 150 video on demand services. In this way, it is possible that in the future we will also end up seeing content from Spanish platforms.