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YouTube TV Aims to Convert Cord-Nevers to New Subscribers
YouTube TV has premiered in several cities with 40+ channels of entertainment, news and sports at $35/month. The aim is to entice so-called cord-nevers — millennials who have never paid for cable — to...
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Netflix Launches Two New Interactive Digital Shows for Kids
Netflix is embarking on an experiment in interactive online storytelling with children’s programs “Puss in Book: Trapped in an Epic Tale” (available now) and “Buddy Thunderstruck: The Maybe Pile”...
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Mira’s $99 Prism Turns Apple’s iPhone Into an AR Headset
For Apple iPhone users looking forward to augmented reality, there will soon be another option to looking at images on the phone’s screen. Due to launch later this year, the Mira Prism, which looks...
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Roku Refreshes Product Line to Compete With Apple, Amazon
Following its recent Nasdaq debut, Roku is updating its product line with new specs and pricing in addition to a number of software enhancements. Roku’s entire line — from its streaming stick to home...
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YouTube Aims to Deliver TV Everywhere With Smart TV App
Eight months after launching YouTube TV on smartphones, the company now has an app for smart TVs, set-top boxes, and game consoles, all of which will work with a remote. The idea, says YouTube, is that...
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Comcast, Charter Reportedly In Talks to Ink Deals With Hulu
Comcast and Charter Communications are reportedly in talks with Hulu to offer its on-demand content via their set-top boxes. Currently, Comcast offers Dish Network’s Sling TV, Netflix and YouTube with...
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Caavo to Ship Universal Remote Control With Machine Vision
Caavo is a universal TV control system that uses machine vision (which the company dubs Caavo Vision) to navigate behind the scenes of every streaming, cable and satellite box. The company, which first...
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Nvidia Introduces Big Format Gaming Displays to Las Vegas
Nvidia unveiled the first big-screen TVs designed for gamers this week at CES. The company’s “Big Format Gaming Displays” (BFGDs) are 65-inch, 4K screens that tout impressive features such as HDR, low...
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New Optoma 4K Projector Comes With Alexa Voice Assistant
One of the big stories coming out of CES this year is the growing list of products adding Amazon Alexa … from computers, wearables, vehicles, smart refrigerators, appliances — even shower systems and...
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Consumers Are Using Phones to Control Smart Home Devices
Smartphones could be on their way toward becoming the new remote, as a recent GfK survey of 1,000 Internet users 18 and older found that 89 percent use their phones to control connected home products...
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TiVo DVRs Add Support for Amazon’s Virtual Assistant Alexa
TiVo is introducing voice control to its DVRs with support for Amazon’s digital assistant Alexa. Consumers who have TiVo devices including the Premiere, Roamio and Bolt boxes will be able to interact...
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Finding the Ideal TV Guide for Multiple Services and Devices
As the number of options for watching great content has grown, the ability to search and find that content has lagged behind. An ideal TV guide, from a single remote control (or smartphone), would...
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How DJI Osmo Action Cam Stacks Up Against GoPro Hero
Drone maker DJI just introduced its Osmo Action, a camera that some say will give GoPro a run for its money. Among its strong points, the Osmo Action shoots 4K at 60 fps and 1080p at 240 fps. It offers...
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TiVo DVRs Add Support for Amazon’s Virtual Assistant Alexa
TiVo is introducing voice control to its DVRs with support for Amazon’s digital assistant Alexa. Consumers who have TiVo devices including the Premiere, Roamio and Bolt boxes will be able to interact...
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Finding the Ideal TV Guide for Multiple Services and Devices
As the number of options for watching great content has grown, the ability to search and find that content has lagged behind. An ideal TV guide, from a single remote control (or smartphone), would...
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How DJI Osmo Action Cam Stacks Up Against GoPro Hero
Drone maker DJI just introduced its Osmo Action, a camera that some say will give GoPro a run for its money. Among its strong points, the Osmo Action shoots 4K at 60 fps and 1080p at 240 fps. It offers...
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Dish Releases AirTV Mini, its Next-Gen 4K Streaming Stick
Dish Network’s AirTV subsidiary has launched the AirTV Mini, a 4K streaming dongle powered by Android TV that promises more memory and a faster processor than similar devices from competitors such as...
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An Insider Peek at Google’s New Android TV Streaming Device
Google has a lot of assets: consumer tech, social networking, messaging, music streaming, Chromecast. Yet when it comes to streaming television, it falls behind the big players, such as Amazon and...
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Matter Could Soon Become Smart Tech’s Universal Language
The Amazon-led universal connectivity protocol, Matter, is being marketed as the first universal casting standard to reliably work with Apple, Samsung and Google protocols, among others....
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YouTube Helps Integrate TVs and Smartphones with New App
YouTube has reimagined the remote control with a new feature that not only controls basic TV functions using an app, but lets users integrate more deeply with YouTube content — sharing videos, browsing...
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