Google TV replace provides choice to manually filter ‘Continue watching’ row

Google TV, the brand new sensible TV interface that debuted on Google’s most up-to-date Chromecast, seems to be getting a small however essential tweak for its “Continue watching” row. Over on Reddit (via 9to5Google) consumer u/Alfatango97 has noticed a brand new choice to manually disguise entries from the row, which is designed to let viewers shortly soar again into unfinished TV exhibits or movies.

When it really works, the Continue watching row is a handy approach choose up from the place viewing was interrupted. But often it might probably get cluttered with content material you began watching and haven’t any intention of ending, or content material that’s completed however whose credit are so lengthy that it nonetheless exhibits up as in-progress. Being capable of manually filter the row ought to make it simpler to see the exhibits and movies you really wish to end.

It’s the most recent instance of Google’s two TV interfaces — Android TV and Google TV — slowly converging. 9to5Google notes that the power to manually prune titles from the “continue watching” listing has been attainable in Android TV for some time, it’s simply now shifting over to Google TV. Meanwhile, Android TV has acquired a collection of updates which have made it look and carry out increasingly more like Google TV. The convergence appears inevitable provided that Google TV is about to replace Android TV over the next two years.

9to5Google notes that the characteristic is but to extensively roll out. We’ve contacted Google to ask when it’s because of be out there to everybody, and can replace this text if we hear again.