Roger Fingas
Apple has silently added Australia's Stan to the list of services supported by universal search on the Apple TV, representing the first time the feature has gone beyond U.S.-based companies.
As long as the Stan tvOS app is installed, Australians should now see whether a movie or TV show is available on the service when running text- and Siri-based searches. Previously, just iTunes and Netflix results were displayed.
Only the U.S. has a substantial number of services listed in universal search, 35 in all. Canada, France, Germany, and the U.K. are limited to iTunes and Netflix, and any other countries are restricted to iTunes movies, not even TV content.
In the past year Apple has been working to expand the number of listed providers, but concentrating primarily on the U.S., its biggest market.
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Stan the man.
And still no universal search support for Home Sharing or Plex.
Hopefully they add the catch up TV apps soon also. Then it will start to be very useful.
Finally Stan supports Universal search, it would be great if they could update the app so it's not so buggy and tweak the interface, something about the existing UI feels a bit off like it's been ported straight from the 3rd Gen Apple TV without changes to make it feel more like a true 4th Gen Apple TV app. That said, Stan are doing a decent job at acquiring interesting content, here's hoping they can establish a strong foothold here in Australia.
Stan seems more interested in content range than Netflix Australia
Any reports on Siri performance on Apple TV translating an Aussie accent?
i think you will be waiting a long time for home sharing universal search,freediverx. I have been waiting a long time for the Apple TV to support an external drive so it can turn into the home NAS/server without chewing power.