Reports: Roku Considering Investment Stake In Starz
Roku is reportedly exploring a 20% investment stake in Lionsgate Entertainment’s Starz premium movie and TV program service. According to a Wall Street Journal report Wednesday, the smart TV ecosystem company could be preparing to team up with Apollo Global Management to take a minority…
Discovery+ App Comes To LG U.S. WebOS Smart TVs
The Discovery+ app is now available on LG Smart TVs in the U.S., including OLED and QNED mini-LED TVs, LG USA announced Wednesday. The Discovery+ is a subscription video on demand (SVOD) service bringing a range of informational and reality TV series covering, true crime…
Spectrum TV App Returns To Roku App Store
Roku and Spectrum TV ended a nine-month feud this week that removed the Spectrum TV cable service app from the Roku app store over the period. The new agreement means that subscribers to Charter Communications’ pay-TV services will once again find the provider’s app in…
Disney+ Hits Samsung, LG, Roku, Android TVs & More
As promised, the Disney+ streaming service launched today offering a compelling selection of PG-13 or softer original and library content from the company’s significant collection of content assets. And from our brief experience this morning signing up with the Verizon one-year-free service offer and activating…
Amazon, Google Officially End Streaming Conflict
Amazon and Google each issued blogs Tuesday announcing the official end (or at least a cease fire) to their long-running conflict that has kept the Amazon Prime streaming app off of Chromecast devices and certain Android TVs and Google’s YouTube app off of Amazon Fire…
LG WebOS Smart TVs Add On-Demand Apps For Showtime, Starz!
LG Electronics this week launched the addition of on-demand streaming apps for both the Showtime and Starz! cable networks on the TV maker’s webOS smart TVs, including the 2018 versions with ThinQ AI built-in that will be coming to market shortly. Showtime Networks said its…
Vizio Adds 9 Google Cast Soundbars
Vizio introduced this week nine soundbars which take a page from some of the 2016 “entertainment display” lines by adding support for Google Cast audio streaming from connected mobile devices. Vizio’s new soundbars incorporate Wi-Fi connectivity but don’t require embedded audio-streaming apps in the…
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