Help:OmdbOnTV

 

There is a new experimental page to make a minimal version of omdb available in web browsers on TV devices: http://tv.omdb.org/

Usually web browsers on TV devices use the remote control for navigation, like with a computer mouse. This makes navigation on normal webpages difficult. This is why omdb on TV only has 4 possibilities to navigate: in, out, next, previous. The default way to navigate is: in: OK button, out: back button, next: right button, previous: left button. Unfortunately there are a lot of different web browsers and the navigation does not work on all of them. This is why there is an additional navigation bar on the bottom of the page.

omdb on TV contains infos about a movie, trailers and streams. You can start the streams from within omdb. In a perfect world, if you have an app of a streaming provider installed and it, as well as the web browser, supports “deep linking”, the movie will start within the streaming app. Unfortunately at the moment there are only 2 browsers known to support this: Silk on Fire TV and Chrome on Android TV. The latter is not officially supported and has to be sideloaded to Android TV. In all other cases, simply the web page of the streaming provider with the movie will appear.

omdb on TV is supposed to be used as a logged in user, with the movies you want to watch already put on your watchlist and your streaming providers set in your settings. But you can also send movie pages from your PC or smartphone to omdb on TV by clicking on “Send page to TV” at the bottom of every movie page.