Channels 6.2 for Apple TV & iOS

Full Dolby Vision playback, Franchise support, and more. Channels 6.2 for Apple TV & iOS is now available.

Dolby Vision

Channels now supports Dolby Vision playback. If you have a compatible TV and content, Channels will play it back in Dolby Vision. It works exactly like the existing HDR support. This is available on both Apple TV and iOS.

Dolby Vision Profiles 5, 7, and 8 are all supported. While profiles 5 and 8 will play back in Dolby Vision, Profile 7 will fall back to HDR mode.

There’s nothing you need to do. Just update your Channels app and start watching.

Franchises

Channels 6.2 has added optional support to stack your movies into franchises. You can toggle this in the Library section of Settings.

Franchise Stacking

When browsing all your movies together, your movies will be stacked based on their corresponding franchise, rather than appearing individually. This is a great way to refine your list of movies while browsing all of them.

Your movies will only be stacked if you have more than one movie that belongs to the same franchise.

Franchise Browsing

There’s a new “Franchises” option in the Movies section if you have Enhanced Library Browsing enabled. This will show you a list of all the franchises in your library. Selecting a franchise will show you all the movies in that franchise.

Kids Section

Franchises also respect Library Visibility, so all the same things work in the Kids Section, where franchises can be even more helpful.

More!

There’s even more little changes and fixes in this release.

• View upcoming airings of a show, sport, or movie directly from the context menu in Guide and On Now.
• A Watch Channel button is now available in the details modal of a an upcoming sporting event, allowing you to tune to the channel right away.
• Long Personal Section titles now render correctly in the Sidebar navigation.

You can read the full release notes on the Releases page.