YouTube has also made some improvements since I first wrote this story: Thumbnails are larger and less pixelated than they used to be, and bringing up the previews on Apple TV devices is easier you can just swipe left or right on the touchpad to see them. YouTube TV’s visual preview is near the head of the class, with a small thumbnail popping up on Roku and Android TV when you hit the directional pad (to jump ahead in measured increments) or the fast-forward (for continuous scrolling through the video). My only gripe is that clicking the directional pad advances the video by 30 seconds, which is prone to overshooting the commercial break.
Like Philo, it provides a preview with both directional-pad scrolling (on all platforms except Apple TV) and with your fast-forward and rewind buttons. Sling TV also gets high marks for its implementation of visual preview, which was available on every platform I tested, including Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, and Android TV. The Apple TV experience is slightly inferior-there’s no preview when you tap left or right on the Siri remote-but you can still see a preview by pausing and scrolling forward or backward.
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