Vevo has been trying to fill the void that MTV left us in his best years. With the latest version of Vevo, you can start using this application on your Apple TV with a single window for music videos. The application looks very complete and with great features that we will see below.
Lots of videos to choose from
Vevo is a lot like a modern interpretation of what the MTV channel used to be, it serves more than 150.000 video sequences music on demand. Unfortunately, browsing through videos can be awkward unless they're at the top of a list; So far the app has no way to navigate specific genres of music.
Make the artists you follow public
Vevo's hub for Apple TV is the focus for the user, a Automatically created video playlist based on your own favorite artists. You can choose your favorite musicians through the Apple TV application or on your iPhone, and then Vevo takes care of processing that information to offer you a playlist based on your musical interests. It's like Pandora, but for music videos.
Easy navigation and excellent video quality
The videos on Vevo follow the stream from Apple TV to 1080p resolution, with 128kbps / 44,1kHz AAC audio. This is great quality, and the looks and sound of the music videos are amazing on a big screen TV. Navigating the video playlist is a breeze, as the app makes great use of the Siri remote's capabilities. Just place your thumb on the touchpad, and a navigation overlay displays until you drop a favorite artist, play the video, or visit your playlist.
Synchronize it with the iPhone app
If searching for favorite artists is too cumbersome for the user using the virtual keyboard function, Vevo for Apple TV syncs with the iPhone app, so you can pick and choose your favorite artists on your phone and have them automatically displayed on your cable box.
Mark Hall, vice president of product management at Vevo, told Macworld that what we see now on Apple TV is just the beginning. «We are starting with Spotlight, which is our first effort, and that much more is going to come in terms of using Vevo as a whole way more adapted to your tastes and personal interests ». We agree that Vevo for Apple TV is off to a great start, and we look forward to seeing what's to come for the app.
To get started with Vevo and relive the glory days of MTV, just go to the tvOS application store and put in the search «Vevo», is a free download.