The Roku Channel Kicks Off Holiday Hub Of Seasonal Content
Roku announced Wednesday that it is bringing to its ad-supported The Roku Channel special seasonal programming featuring thousands of movies and TV shows, live TV channels, and kids & family entertainment geared to the holidays. U.S. Roku Channel will be transformed into winter hub for…
Holiday Classics Top JustWatch User Streaming Lists, Nov. 21-28.
The arrival of Black Friday week sparked a spate of classic holiday movie watching, with The Grinch, Planes, Trains & Automobiles and Elf leading the top 10 most streamed of searched for movies Nov. Nov. 21-28, 2021 in the United States, according to data gathered…
New 8K Content Comes To Roku TVs Via The Explorer Channel
Roku has begun supporting 8K UHD streaming content through The Roku Channel, via a premium subscription to The Explorers Channel, available to owners of 8K Roku TVs. The announcement was made Tuesday by Roku and Roku TV manufacturing partner TCL, which was the first TV…
Netflix Expands AV1 Codec Streaming To Smart TVs
Netflix has begun streaming content encoded with the three-year-old high-efficiency codec AV1 from the Alliance of Open Media (AOMedia) on supporting smart TVs, expanding the range of devices beyond Android mobile products. The world’s largest video streaming network announced the move in a blog on…
Netflix Subscriber Growth Surges In Q3-2021
Netflix reported this week that it added 4.4 million subscribers during Q3-2021, more than doubling the number from the previous quarter, and far above the forecasted 3.50 million. The No. 1 global streaming giant ended the quarter with 213.56 million subscribers. The Q3 growth, which…
Comcast Officially Launches Retail Hisense XClass 4K UHD TVs
Confirming leaked reports, Comcast officially announced Tuesday the introduction of its private-label 4K UHD XClass TVs, manufactured by Hisense and sold through Walmart Stores and Walmart.com nationwide. The giant cable TV multi-system operator is integrating the XClass TVs with its X1 broadband/conditional access technology as…
`Free Guy’, `Squid Game’ Top JustWatch Lists For Oct. 4th-10th
Free Guy (Disney+), Venom (Apple TV+, various) and Halloween (Shudder, The Roku Channel) represented the top three movies streamed or searched for in the United States for the week of Oct. 4-10, 20201, according to data gathered by online recommendations service JustWatch. Squid Game (Netflix),…
`Terror On Tubi’ Horror Classics, Originals Coming This October
Horror and paranormal programming lovers are in for a treat next month when the ad- supported video on-demand streaming service Tubi begins its “Terror on Tubi,” slate of programming timed for the weeks leading up to Halloween. The “festival of horror” streaming content bounty will…
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