Hulu on Wednesday said it's rolling out an improved Live TV Guide for Apple TV, Roku and the web. Customers with Hulu + Live TV can now. Today Hulu is rolling out the new live TV Gride Guide on Roku and the Apple TV according to a report.
Today Hulu is rolling out the new live TV Gride Guide on Roku and the Apple TV according to a report from Tech Crunch. Hulu is also updating how it displays content to you. In the past as you scroll around the home page it only shows one TV show or movie at a time.
Here is what the new Hulu Grid Guide looks like:
“Finding something to watch on Live TV is now easier and faster than ever. Today, we are thrilled to share that one of our most requested features, a new and improved Live TV Guide, is rolling out on Roku® devices and tvOS. The guide is also available on Hulu.com.” Said Charlie Moran, Senior Product Manager at Hulu.
Update: This updated Hulu app on Roku is slowly rolling out. Not all Roku models have been updated but over the next few days and weeks, all Roku players should get the new Hulu user interface.
Here is what you will find in the new updated Hulu app:
- Access a full two-week grid guide that lets viewers see what’s ahead, record upcoming
shows, movies, and games in advance, and channel surf to their heart’s content. - Add channels to “My Channels” that allows for access to their favorite channels and
programs directly from Home and the Live Guide. - Easily find recommended TV shows and movies that are airing on live TV right now from
Home. - Browse live content collections to quickly jump to sports, news, movies, and kids content
that’s live right now and coming up in the future.
Here is what the new grid guide looks like:
Here is what Hulu posted on Reddit when they first announced this roll out a few weeks ago:
It’s been quite a while since CES, and there’s been a whole lot of chatter about when the new guide is coming. We heard you, and well, we did it you guys! The new Live Guide is ready for Hulu + Live TV subscribers on Hulu.com today, and we’ll be rolling it out to more devices in the coming months.
With this latest release, you can plan 2 weeks of streaming ahead of time, go to the details page, and record, all right from the guide. You’ll also be able to check and see if that one game is blacked out in your area (with plenty of time to get to the bar before kickoff, just in case). If you’re not sure exactly what you’re looking for, you’ll find Live TV genre collections to help you narrow things down and save you some scrolling.
Get the full breakdown here.
Enjoy
-Paul
-Paul
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Yesterday, Hulu began rolling out an updated version of its mobile app sporting the brand-new interface the company first unveiled at CES in January. However, it was missing one of the pre-announced and more-requested features: Hulu’s revamped and expanded live TV guide. Today, that updated Live Guide is launching — but only to select TV platforms for the time being.
The updated Live Guide is coming today to Hulu.com on the web, Roku devices and Apple TV.
As promised at CES, Hulu’s expanded TV guide will now allow viewers to scroll to see what’s airing in the next two weeks, as well as schedule recordings on upcoming shows, movies and sporting events.
It’s also easier to navigate, as filters like “Recent,” “My Channels,” “News,” “Movies” and “Kids” have now been relocated from the top of the grid to the left-hand side.
A green vertical line with a lightning bolt icon overlaid on the guide will help you to visualize how much of the program or movie has aired so far.
Users also can add channels from the guide to their “My Channels” list, which is now available from the Live Guide itself, as well as from the Home page.
This update follows Hulu’s revamp of its mobile app on Tuesday, which dropped the confusing “Lineup” section from the Home screen while adding a way to see more content in each section.
Getting the Hulu interface right is a big priority for the company, given that its last big makeover didn’t go down all that well. At one point, a complaint about Hulu’s redesign became the most-upvoted item on the company’s user feedback forums, as many agreed that Hulu’s user interface was too difficult to navigate and had a confusing layout.
In the many months since, Hulu has been working to make changes to address user complaints by rolling out the live grid guide initially, then tweaking its appearance and functionality over time.
Unlike Sling TV, PlayStation Vue or YouTube TV, for example, Hulu has been challenged with merging its vast on-demand library and original content with a more traditional live TV service.
Today, Hulu with Live TV is available on a range of devices — including the web, mobile, Apple TV, Fire TV, Echo Show, Xbox One, Windows 10, Chromecast, Android TV, Nintendo Switch, VIZIO SmartCast TVs and select Samsung and LG smart TVs. But the updated Live Guide is only coming to a subset of those — Hulu.com on the web, Roku and Apple TV — as of today.
Hulu says it will roll out to more platforms and devices “soon.”