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- Users are reporting they’ll now not discover Netflix on Google TV throughout the latter’s official software.
- This doesn’t appear to stop folks from watching Netflix exhibits on their Chromecast with Google TV — not less than not but.
- Google would not affirm the reason for this concern or touch upon if it’s a everlasting change or a easy bug.
Along with the most recent Chromecast with Google TV streaming gadget got here a revamped Google Play Movies & TV app. Within this app, you could find exhibits and movies to look at and add media to your watchlist. The huge good thing about this operate is that you may search throughout streaming suppliers — of which there are too many.
Unfortunately, although, it seems the largest media service of all is now not displaying up throughout the Google TV app (h/t 9to5Google). Netflix exhibits and movies nonetheless seem in the app whenever you seek for them, however you possibly can’t add them to your watchlist. The Netflix service additionally seems to be gone from the companies choice display screen throughout the Google TV app.
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Now, don’t freak out fairly but: there’s nonetheless Netflix on Google TV by the Chromecast. If you may have beforehand linked your Netflix account to your Chromecast with Google TV, you possibly can nonetheless watch Netflix content material and even entry the service by the Netflix button on the companion distant. You simply can’t discover Netflix content material in the app itself.
Google is mum on why Netflix on Google TV is gone
We reached out to Google about this bizarre drawback. Unfortunately, the corporate gave the identical canned response to us because it did to 9to5Google:
With
TV, our objective is to deliver the greatest of our search and discovery options throughout your subscriptions to your favourite gadgets. We work with every content material accomplice to allow these leisure experiences, and the stage of integration will range by accomplice.
That doesn’t actually reply any questions on this. It additionally doesn’t satiate any considerations customers might need about how Netflix will (or received’t) work throughout the Google TV app going ahead. Hopefully, this matter will get some readability quickly.
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