Network TV 2.1.1

We’ve seen a wave of personalized TV apps in recent months, and we can’t help but wonder if traditional box & cable TV is finally going away. With all due respect for the cable companies, we hope that’s the case. The Internet is endlessly more versatile and fun, and we wish they were on the same page with us, the customers.

Web TV is getting awesome

N3TWORK is an internet TV network (as its name implies) which you can control. When the introductory video is over, you get to select the stuff you’re interested in, such as sports, science, comedy, and so on and so forth, and the app just serves up highlights from those categories. No need to fiddle with channels and search. You just swipe through the previews and tap to play.

iOS 8 users can share their favorite videos from the Photos gallery, as well as Internet videos via Safari. The app also takes advantage of the Today widget, enabling you to see what’s on N3twork straight off the bat, without having to worry too much.

The tool has added Google Chromecast support, which should make users of the Google dongle quite happy. Of course, it’s a year and a half after the device was originally launched, but better late than never. The TV button will help you connect to Chromecast.

Cursive interface

N3TWORK’s UI is very lean and friendly. Everything just flows under your fingertips. The video preview loops endlessly underneath the transclucent description overlay until you tap to play, and also there you can like and comment on the video, even whisk it away to your later viewing box (which doesn’t work offline, unfortunately).

Social ties and options

It connects to Facebook and Twitter (but it’s not mandatory) to gather information about your tastes. You can regard this as intrusive, but how else is the app going to know what you care for? Actually, there is a way. You can just create a N3TWORK account with your email address and then make your picks manually. The setup process takes less than a minute.

Sharing content to Facebook and Twitter is extremely easy and only requires a few touches to the screen. More social features have been added to the mix, recently, allowing users to find N3twork friends from Facebook and Twitter.

Other options include AirPlay mirroring (to put the content on a bigger screen), and the ability to create your own channel where you publish your stumble-upons. You can also go online and just fetch the content yourself to publish it to your channel and become unique. Not surprisingly, you can upload stuff even from your camera roll. Be careful with that, by the way.

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