### Save your faves with the unlimited DVR
You can save all the movies and shows you love and watch them on your schedule with our unlimited DVR. Just click the “+ Save” button on anything that is currently airing or scheduled to air, and the DVR will save it for 30 days (or for up to 1 year if you subscribe to Philo’s new $25. price package - available as of June 8th). When you’re ready to start watching, click the “Saved” tab to see a full rundown of all your recordings. Best of all, our DVR feature lets you fast forward and rewind through all of the commercials so you can spend more time enjoying the stuff you love.

### Watch shows from the beginning or live
By default, Philo plays everything from the beginning—if you select a show that’s airing on the Guide, it will play from start to finish and you don’t need to miss a beat. But if you prefer the traditional TV experience of jumping into a channel’s live broadcast, that’s okay too! On the Settings page is an option to adjust your playback preference. What if you’re watching live, changed the channel to avoid ads, and now you’re back but the ads are still there? Philo picks up where you left off, but you can simply click and hold the fast forward button on your remote to Jump to Live and you’ll be taken to the “most live” position. 

### Catch recently aired shows with Look Back
Did you miss the big reveal last night that everyone’s talking about? It’s not too late to catch up! If you go to the Channel Profile by clicking the channel logo on the Guide page, you’ll see a schedule row that lists past, current, and future airings. Our Look Back feature allows you to watch almost everything from the last 3 days, no saving required. And while you’re on the Channel Profile, check out the top shows and movies for some ideas on what to throw on next. 😊

### See everything new and popular in one spot 
If you don’t want to waste time deciding what to watch, try the Top page. There, you’ll see the recently aired shows and movies that are getting the most attention from our subscribers. Like the Guide, the Top page lists your favorited channels at the top. Scroll down to the bottom and you’ll find free channels like Crackle with thousands of hours of on-demand shows and movies to enjoy.  

### Keep the party going with autoplay
With autoplay, there’s no need to keep grabbing the remote. If you’re in the mood for a show marathon, simply go to the Show Profile to see all the playable episodes, choose one to start playing, sit back, and relax—after it ends, the next available episode will play automatically. And when you reach the end of the list or you’re ready for something new, check out the Related and Recommended rows on the Show Profile for suggestions on other content you might love.

### Seek with ease using the thumb stream
Want to rewatch that last scene, or maybe skip the one coming up? Don’t bother with the clunky fast forward or rewind buttons—Philo’s thumb stream makes it delightfully easy to choose where you’d like to resume your viewing. When the player is open, you can click the left or right directional arrow on your remote to see a row of images representing the video over time. Just move left/right to pick the scene you want and click the OK or Select button to play. Easy!

Between work, family, and the new hobbies that we’ve all picked up during quarantine, life can get pretty busy—and finding time to watch TV or catch up on the stuff you love can be a challenge. At Philo, we believe that TV should be easy, fun, and most importantly, work around your schedule. So we put together a few tips to help you get the most out of your TV viewing experience:


Six Tricks to Getting the Most with Philo 

Hey everyone, I wanted to let you know about some upcoming changes to Philo. The summary is that as of June 8th we are changing our price for new subscribers to $25. Everyone who is subscribed to Philo before June 8th will keep their current package and their price won't change. As part of the new $25 package, we are also extending the time we keep recordings in our unlimited DVR from 30 days to a year, and existing subscribers can upgrade to this plan if they want access to the extended DVR.

So, why are we doing this? Maybe this seems like a strange question to ask since it is common for TV services to raise their prices year after year, sometimes by eye-popping amounts. Still, at Philo, we haven't raised our prices since we launched more than three and a half years ago, even as we've continued to add content to the platform, so why do it now? 

As many of you know, our contracts with our content partners include fees we pay that go up every year, and a significant part of the cost of Philo is driven by our platform and billing partners. We are relentless in our focus on keeping our price low, so we do everything we can to reduce our overhead while managing these increasing costs. Even with those efforts, we can't offset these rising costs indefinitely, and this change reflects that reality. Still, we have chosen to make this transition in a way that allows our existing subscribers to keep the package and pricing they currently enjoy, while new subscribers gain the added value of the newly extended DVR. Again, nothing will change for anyone who is a subscriber to Philo before June 8th — if you continue your subscription, you will keep the price you have today. If you are an existing subscriber and you want to upgrade to enable the extended DVR, you will be able to do that on the account settings page after June 8th.

On behalf of the entire team at Philo, I want to thank you for choosing to watch with us, and I want to assure everyone who is considering Philo now or in the future that we will always fight to offer you the best value and experience out there.

Hey everyone, I wanted to let you know about some upcoming changes to Philo. The summary is that as of June 8th we are changing our price for new subscribers to $25. Everyone who is subscribed to Philo before June 8th will keep their current package and their price won't change. As part of the new $25 package, we are also extending the time we keep recordings in our unlimited DVR from 30 days to a year, and existing subscribers can upgrade to this plan if they want access to the extended DVR.


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### Who We Are

Philo was founded to create the television experience we’ve always wanted — one that our subscribers love as much as the shows we watch. In order to do that, we believe that we need to build a team united by passion, innovation, and the desire to be a part of a company that puts people before profits.

### Our Name

Our name was inspired by the lifelong inventor and television pioneer Philo T. Farnsworth. Our headquarters are even located across the street from his original San Francisco laboratory on Green Street where he successfully transmitted the first electronic TV signal.

Philo Farnsworth grew up from humble beginnings on a farm in rural Utah. With little formal education, he happened one day upon a trove of popular electronics magazines, which sparked his interest in invention and led him to conceive of the idea for electronic television at the age of 15. Story goes that while harrowing the hayfields on his family farm, he realized that just like plowing the rows of a field, you could detect and transmit an image line-by-line, electronically.

His inventiveness never slowed. By the time of his death in 1971, he had earned more than 300 U.S. and foreign patents for electronic and mechanical devices, including devoting the later part of his life to the quest of generating practical fusion power. Philo lived an inspiring life and his spirit of curiosity and innovation continues to inspire our company as we continue to push forward the boundaries of the medium he pioneered.

### Our Philo-sophy

At Philo, our values are inspired by Farnsworth's wide-eyed optimism about the future and his indomitable drive to improve the world by bringing his ideas to life — it's the reason we continuously strive to create a better way to watch TV. Like Philo Farnsworth, we don't shy away from building things from the ground up if we think there is a better way, and we work hard to surmount obstacles to discover more elegant solutions. Just like it took hundreds of prototypes and product generations to create television, we are constantly iterating and looking for ways to improve on what we've built. The work we do relies on our collective passion, thoughtfulness, and diverse experiences. Our dedication to openness and collaboration helps us benefit from ideas and perspectives that come from unexpected places, and lets us see the broad horizon of possibility ahead of us.

Lastly, we’re all just a bunch of TV fanatics building an exceptional experience for other TV fanatics of all stripes. We look forward to sharing this new space with all of you to talk about the next steps in our journey as a company, share big news about our product, offer insights into how we work, and so much more.


Philo was founded to create the television experience we’ve always wanted — one that our subscribers love as much as the shows we watch. In order to do that, we believe that we need to build a team united by passion, innovation, and the desire to be a part of a company that puts people before profits.


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