The Kids section on Sling TV Phil Nickinson / Digital Trends Picking a streaming service isn’t as easy as it used to be. With the most popular streaming services delivering a combination of classic favorites, […]
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If watching a single NBC-adjacent news channel on Peacock isn’t enough to tame your election-related addiction, you’re in luck. The streaming service is adding multiview in time for the November 5 festivities with a three-view, […]
When it comes to picking from the best streaming services, audiences today have plenty of options to choose among. Whether you’re more interested in the VOD library for on-demand streams or you want a streaming […]
Phil Nickinson / Digital Trends When it comes to cutting the cord on cable, you’ve got plenty of options to choose from. Sling TV is as close as you can get to à la carte […]
It’s a little hard to believe we’ve gone through most of 2024 without a new Amazon Fire TV Stick. That is, until now. The Fire TV Stick HD has been announced, with the $35 device […]
Philo is one of the least expensive live-streaming services out there. LG makes some of the most popular smart TVs. And now you get the former directly on the latter, without any additional hardware. In […]
Roku today announced updates that will bring even tighter integration between the platform’s operating system and smart home features. And in case you’d missed it, Roku got into the smart home game in 2022 as […]
If you have a Chromecast with Google TV and have been looking longingly at Google TV Streamer and its ability to view camera feeds and adjust temperature and turn lights off and on, you can […]
Amazon and Apple have announced that the Apple TV+ streaming service will be available via Prime Video later this month. The subscription price is the same — $9.99 a month — and you’ll get the […]
If, like me, you’ve been checking for updates to your Chromecast with Google TV every day or two in search of the Android 14 and Google Home updates — well, today is not that day. […]
If you want to cut the cable but you aren’t ready to let go entirely, one of the best live TV streaming services out there is Hulu Plus Live TV. Billed as a Multichannel Video […]
Phil Nickinson / Digital Trends When it comes to live TV streaming services, Sling TV is one of the best, offering up the channels you want while not breaking the bank. While it isn’t the […]
When it comes to the best streaming services, your mind probably goes right to video-on-demand (VOD) services like Netflix, Disney+, or Amazon Prime Video. They’re super popular, and have tons of paying subscribers. However, they […]
Fubo today announced that it’s testing multiview in beta form on some Roku devices. That’s the feature by which you can watch up to four things at once, though that initially will depend on which […]
Caleb Denison / Digital Trends There basically are two kinds of folks when it comes to smart TVs and how we use them to access all of our streaming services. There are those who just […]
When you’re comparing the best streaming services, there are plenty of metrics to go by. Comparing streaming services only by their number of subscribers isn’t exactly a fair fight. After all not all streaming services […]
We now have two new contenders in 2024 to take the top spot for the best Google TV device you can buy. (You Nvidia Shield folks pipe down over there — that thing’s almost as […]
Roku OS 14 already is official and theoretically has been rolling out to some users, but today it’s officially official, along with the announcement of the new Roku Ultra for 2024. And perhaps more important, […]
There aren’t many devices that have a through line going back nearly a decade. But the Roku Ultra is one of them. And eight years after its debut (its lineage really goes back much farther […]
Phil Nickinson / Digital Trends One of the more simple — if important — new features of the Google TV Streamer is the addition of a tiny speaker in the new microphone that enables it to chirp […]
Phil Nickinson / Digital Trends Google TV Streamer is the latest streaming video platform from Google. It replaces Chromecast with Google TV — but actually does much more than that with the addition of hardware support […]
We’ve entered a new era for Google in the streaming video platform. And smart home platform. And in the battle for the major players — that includes Amazon, Roku, and Apple — to keep customers […]
Google TV Streamer MSRP $99.00 “Google replaces Chromecast with a worthy streaming platform.” Priced at a sweet spot Google TV is smoother Improved remote control Includes smart home features Can’t hide behind a TV Smart-home […]