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Facebook Launches 'Video' App for Fourth-Generation Apple TV

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Facebook tonight launched its Facebook Video app for the fourth-generation, tvOS-based Apple TV. The app allows users to watch videos from friends, liked pages, top live videos and more.

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Videos are split into six channels: Shared by Friends, Following, Recommended for You, Top Live Videos, Saved Videos and Recently Watched. Following contains videos by both friends and liked pages while Shared by Friends only lists videos from friends.

The app is more robust than Facebook's fullscreen video mode on the web or iOS, which only lists select recommendations and autoplays the next video in the recommendation queue.

Earlier this month, Facebook's VP of Partnerships said the app would not feature ads at launch and will require a Facebook account to use. Facebook is also reportedly in discussions with media companies to license long-form "premium" content to bolster its video selection.

The app is not a standalone app. Instead, it's built into Facebook for iOS. Apple TV users will access the video app while iOS users will only be able to access the standard Facebook app.

Facebook Video is available in the Apple TV App Store for free [Direct Link]

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The scrolling is backwards! The lack of user interface consistency across various apps needs to be corrected on tvOS. Do you swipe right to go right?...or do you pretend that your are physically moving the object on the screen, and swipe left to go right?? Apple needs to be stricter on these kinds of things because the Apple TV experience is pretty confusing at this point.
 
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The scrolling is backwards! The lack of user interface consistency across various apps needs to be corrected on tvOS. Do you swipe right to go right?...or do you pretend that your are physically moving the object on the screen, and swipe left to go right?? Apple needs to be stricter on these kinds of things because the Apple TV experience is pretty confusing at this point.
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This!
I am used to it by now. But my wife still messes up tvOS 'scrolling' aka going from one App to the other on the Home Screen. I, too, am not sure whether the current implementation makes a lot of sense... especially for Apple.
It's like with scrolling on the computer... natural scrolling... once you're used to it... feels more natural...
 
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The scrolling is backwards! The lack of user interface consistency across various apps needs to be corrected on tvOS. Do you swipe right to go right?...or do you pretend that your are physically moving the object on the screen, and swipe left to go right?? Apple needs to be stricter on these kinds of things because the Apple TV experience is pretty confusing at this point.
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I second that. Was using a friends ATV4 the other day and i kept moving the wrong way all night. Drove me nuts
 
I guess I'll try it but what do I watch? It's not like there are any quality material available. At least not if it's the same crap that comes up in my feed.

And the clips are usually 30 seconds max so it's not like I will fire up the ATV just to finish a clip there instead..
 
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I must check what the existing Facebook videos app is on my Apple TV then if this has only launched now.
 
I think Facebook should actually make a quality video before releasing an app to view them...

On about every network I use, YouTube streams seamlessly, as does xfinity, but Facebook stutters and freezes and I rarely get through a video.
 
I was actually kind of excited about this. I save quite a few videos that pass on my newsfeed to view later, and being able to view these (mostly news and music vids) easily on my big screen would be sweet. Unfortunately, I have found the app has serious problems - the videos often start and stop, it's just a smooth viewing experience. If they work out the buffering, I would find it useful.
 
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