ParallaxTV
Your library as live TV
LG and Samsung TVs · coming soon

Your own movies and shows, on channels.

ParallaxTV turns the library on your Plex, Jellyfin, Emby or Kodi server into numbered TV channels with a program guide. Pick a channel and something is already on, partway through, just like broadcast TV. No more scrolling a wall of posters trying to decide.

Coming soon to LG and Samsung TVs How it works
The ParallaxTV program guide: channels such as Double Feature, Prime Time, Laugh Track and Center Stage down the side, with the programs on each laid out across the evening and a red line at the current time
The program guide, built from your library

How it works

Everything happens on the TV. There is nothing to install on your server and no account to create.

Connect your server

Link Plex with a code on your phone, or sign in to Jellyfin, Emby or Kodi. Pick the libraries to use.

Get a lineup

ParallaxTV builds a starter set of channels from what you have: movies, comedy, drama, a channel for a favorite show.

Change the channel

Channel up and down, type a number, or open the guide to see what's on now and next. Every channel keeps running while you're away.

Make any channel you like

Keep the starter lineup, or build channels around whatever you feel like watching.

The new channel screen, asking what the channel should play: a whole library, a show, genres, a mood, a decade, a custom filter or hand-picked titles
A whole library, one show, genres, a mood, a decade, or your own picks
The Channels screen listing numbered channels, each with its source and how many titles it draws from
Number, rename, reorder and switch off channels

What it does

Feels like real TV

  • Tune in and a program is already partway through
  • Program guide for the next 24 hours
  • Channel banner with what's on now and next
  • Direct channel numbers from the remote

Works with your server

  • Plex, Jellyfin, Emby and Kodi, several at once
  • Plays files as they are when the TV can, and asks the server to convert them when it can't
  • Captions, including ones the server burns in
  • Optionally shows up under Now Playing on your server

Channels your way

  • By library, show, genre, mood or decade
  • Custom filters on genre, years, length and rating
  • Episodes in order, shuffled, or a classic mix of shows
  • A day that starts when you choose

Made for the remote

  • Arrow keys and OK everywhere
  • Point and click with the LG Magic Remote
  • Text sized to read from the couch

Privacy, plainly

No ads. No analytics. Your library and what you watch never leave your home network.

The TV talks straight to your own media server. Your server's address and sign-in stay on the TV, and nothing about what you watch is sent to us.

If you buy Pro, we keep the email address you pay with so we can send your license key, and a short list of the TVs it is used on. Stripe handles the payment; we never see your card. Everything is spelled out in the privacy policy.

Free, with a one-time Pro upgrade

No subscription. Pro is bought once, on your phone or computer, and covers up to five TVs in your household. Not happy? Ask within 14 days for a full refund (terms of sale).

Free

Everything you need for a lineup of your own.

  • Up to 8 channels
  • The program guide
  • Every kind of channel, and the starter lineup
  • Plex, Jellyfin, Emby and Kodi

Pro, one-time purchase

For the full broadcast feel, and every TV in the house.

  • Unlimited channels
  • Commercials, bumpers and station idents between programs, from your own clips, with shows starting on the half hour
  • Every TV in the house shares one channel lineup and stays on the same moment of the same program, to within a second
  • Kids mode: children's channels only, locked with a PIN
  • Live channels from your own IPTV playlist, in the same guide
  • Color themes: Broadcast, Phosphor, Velvet and Graphite, plus genre themes for Horror, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Western and Fantasy

Going further: the ParallaxTV Hub

An optional companion you run in Docker on a PC or NAS. You don't need it to use the app. How to set it up.

Folders as libraries

Point it at movie and TV show folders on a PC or NAS, and play them without a media server.

Commercials from a folder

Drop your own clips into a folder and Pro channels play them between programs.

Your channels in other apps (Pro)

An M3U playlist and XMLTV guide for IPTV player apps, and a tuner that Plex and Jellyfin Live TV can add.

What you need

ParallaxTV's guide lives in the app. LG doesn't let apps add channels to the TV's own built-in guide, so the Hub offers an IPTV playlist and guide for apps that can use one instead.

Who makes it

ParallaxTV is made by the Free Radicals Group, a small independent studio. Setting up or stuck? The help page covers installing, connecting your server, Pro and common problems. Questions, bug reports and ideas are welcome, and a person reads every one: support@freeradicalsgroup.com.