Google TV

Google LLC

About this app

Google TV, previously Play Movies & TV, makes it easy to find and enjoy the entertainment you love in one place. With Google TV, you'll be able to:
Find what to watch next
Browse 700,000+ movies and TV episodes from across your streaming apps, all in one place and organized into topics and genres. Discover new things with recommendations based on what you love and what’s trending across the services you already have access to. Search for titles to see which streaming apps offer them.
See the latest releases
Buy or rent the newest movies and shows right in the Shop tab. Purchases are stored in your Library and can be downloaded to watch when you're not connected. Watch instantly on your laptop, Android phone or tablet, or on your TV with Google TV or on Play Movies & TV where available.
One list for all your discoveries
Add interesting shows and movies to your Watchlist to keep track of your new discoveries and view them later. The Watchlist is shared between all your devices, so you can even add to your Watchlist from your TV or phone and laptop through Search on any browser.
Use your phone as your remote
With a remote built right into the app, you can find something great to watch even when the couch has eaten your remote. And you can use your phone’s keyboard to quickly type complicated passwords, movie names or search terms on your Google TV or other Android TV OS device.
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Separate subscriptions required for certain streaming services or access to certain content.

Ratings and reviews

When you mark a movie as "watched" it does NOT go away from the recommendations page. Also when you first install the app, the recommendations include movies you have already marked as disliked in your Google account. You have to tap on every single one to make it go away! I send in error reports about this, but no one is thinking about this issue. I would really love to use this to find NEW movies to watch. Currently, it's just full of things I want to get off the screen.

Most recent version is a big step backwards. When casting videos (as I do 100% of the time when using the app) the app doesn't remember what video is playing, so controls to fwd/rev are useless. When the app loses focus, it returns to the launch screen when waking rather than the last screen you had navigated to, as it did prior to the update - frustrating if you had navigated to the next video to play after the current one ends. App still lacks a video queue function or a favorites function.

Playback options are terrible. There's no way to watch a show from the beginning if you never finished it, you have to hold rewind down on the remote, which takes forever. The UI feels overly clunky when compared to all the other similar apps out there. Good luck finding anything you've purchased. Movies in my own library are frequently recommended for me to BUY with no option to watch my already paid for movie. It's ridiculous how bad it is.

What's new

Find where your favorite shows and movies are streaming
* Discover something new in just a few taps
* Add thumbs up or down to get personal recommendations based on what you like to watch
* See which streaming apps offer the show or movie you want to watch