The Vimeo channel on Apple TV received a huge overhaul today, just hours after Vimeo rolled out a major update to its own video-editing app on iOS, Cameo. The make over mostly involves a redesigned user interface, better video discovery features and a push on their video-on-demand contents.

The channel now has a Featured, My Vimeo, My Feeds, Search and Settings tabs, which are pretty much self explanatory. The Featured section however, sports an array of curated contents including the Staff Favorites, Custom Playlists and Albums, Trending and Popular channels and a separate scroller for Videos-on-demand.

The redesigned video details page now shows the metadata including “background images, additional clip metadata such as audience ratings, reviews, extra features, and more content from creators.”

Besides the UI changes, Vimeo also aims to “provide viewers with a seamless living room experience” by reducing the number of remote clicks needed for navigation.

The update also makes it possible to easily add videos to the Watch Later queue, to filter results properly, to better access the Video-on-Demand Trailers and to easily discover related contents using the dedicated “More” button.

Vimeo also let in on a couple of hidden features of the channel:

“Enjoy continuous playback anywhere — simply press the play button on your remote while any video thumbnail is selected. Also: Quickly like or add a video to your Watch Later queue by holding down the center (select) button on your remote.”

This is by far the biggest update received by the channel and users on various forums are welcoming it, especially the new search and the ‘lesser number of clicks’.

The update is available automatically to Apple TV users around the globe, starting today.

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Apple has already confirmed that shows purchased on Apple TV can be re-downloaded on other iOS devices (TV shows has been added to the “Purchased” sections of iTunes on both iOS and Mac/PC applications). All the shows previously purchased on other iOS devices or with iTunes automatically show up as available to play on Apple TV.

“In other words, Apple just rolled out a cloud-based storage locker for TV shows,” commented Daring Fireball‘s John Gruber.

This feature, however, may be U.S.-only: TUAW’s readers from UK, Canada and New Zealand are reporting they are getting just Vimeo support.

Obviously, if you don’t have SHSH blobs saved, stay away from the update if you don’t want to lose your jailbreak.

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