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Summary
YouTube TV is expanding its multiview feature to support select non-sports content soon.
Users will be able to manually enable multiview and combine streams from popular channels.
The feature will start rolling out in the coming weeks.
Even though YouTube TV raised its prices late last year, it remains one of the best live TV streaming services in the US. It offers features like unlimited cloud recording and simultaneous streams on multiple devices, but one of its standout features, especially for sports fans, remains multiview.
This feature lets you watch up to four live streams at once on a single screen, making it easier to track multiple games at the same time. Until now, multiview has been limited to sports content only. However, that’s finally starting to change.
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As part of YouTube’s 20th anniversary, the company has announced a number of new features coming to YouTube TV, one of which is the expansion of multiview to non-sports content.
YouTube TV’s multiview is expanding beyond just sports
YouTube, in a blog post, has announced that users will soon be able to “experiment” with building their own multiview streams using select non-sports channels. The use of the word “experiment” suggests the feature won’t be enabled by default, and users may have to opt in manually once it rolls out.
At launch, the feature will support a “small group of popular channels,” but the company says the feature will expand over the coming months. In one example shown on YouTube’s 20th birthday page, the company showed a multiview layout combining ESPN’s SportsCenter, The Weather Channel, Law & Order, and Food Network’s Chopped — all playing at the same time.
We don’t have an exact release date yet, but YouTube says the rollout will begin in the “next few weeks.”
Beyond multiview for non-sports content, YouTube also announced several other new features to mark the milestone. These include up to 4x playback speed for Premium subscribers — something we spotted in testing earlier — as well as an updated UI for the YouTube app on smart TVs. The company also began rolling out a new Material Design 3-inspired makeover for YouTube on desktop earlier today.
