The dedicated Google Play Games app is slightly deceiving, as it's currently rather empty and initially made us think there simply weren't many games available for Android TV. This means that you can get immersive sound from Netflix and Google Play content (amongst others). Where supported, the Nexus Player supports Dolby Digital surround sound via its HDMI output. Our guide on how to use the Plex server tells you everything that you need to know. This gives you native support for Plex servers, including transcoding on the fly, so any content will play.
However, a more elegant solution is to use the Plex app available for the Nexus Player.
MKV files, you shouldn’t need to transcode too much content in order to get it to play. As the Nexus Player has pretty good codec support, including. You do this by browsing media servers from your phone or tablet and then Casting the content to the Nexus Player. If you want to stream content from your home server using DLNA/UPnP, you’ll need to use an Android app that supports the server, such as the excellent Bubble UPnP. It’s a little disappointing, but in order to get all of the catch-up services, you need a box, such as the BT Mini YouView box. There’s no 4oD, ITV Player or Demand Five support, nor support for Sky Go.
At the moment that means that you’re limited to using the BBC iPlayer app for iOS or Android. Instead, you’re limited to using apps that support Chromecast. There’s no support for catch-up TV from dedicated Android TV apps.
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