HBO Max, the latest Netflix rival that will cost $14.99 a month and launch in May 2020, will have pantsloads of TV shows and movies. Ten thousand hours worth, parent company AT&T said Tuesday, including exclusive new shows like the Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon, new episodes from HBO shows such as Westworld and …
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Ever since the original — a 5-inch Android “tablet” grafted onto an Xbox-style gamepad that launched in 2013 — the Nvidia Shield has been weird. Subsequent iterations became a bit more normal but the device has always embraced its geeky, gaming-centric roots while it slowly morphed into a do-it-all TV device focused on video streaming. Now playing: Watch this: Nvidia debuts …
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Apple has its own app for streaming TV shows and movies, and in typical Apple fashion the name is dead simple: It’s called the TV app. But how it works can be surprisingly complex. One basic thing about the app is the same on every device: You’ll need it to stream Apple TV Plus, Apple’s Netflix rival that launched Nov. 1 …
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Starting today owners of Roku media streamers and Roku TVs can download Apple’s TV app, allowing access to Apple’s video content on their devices for the first time. The app is the exclusive home for Apple’s upcoming Apple TV Plus service, due Nov. 1. The service is a Netflix rival that will launch with nine confirmed titles, including a drama …
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My perennial advice for TV shoppers is to wait until the Black Friday season, around the end of November, for prices to drop before pulling the trigger on that fancy, new TV they’ve been eyeing. In 2019 that date seems to have come earlier than ever: Best Buy’s latest sale, through its high-end Magnolia subsidiary, basically guarantees Black Friday pricing …
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In August TCL gave us details on its new 2019 TVs, including an upgrade to the superb 2018 TCL 6-Series that adds QLED color and costs $800 for the 65-inch size. Now the Chinese TV maker’s higher-end model, the TCL 8-Series, goes on sale, bringing even better image quality specs and a price to match. It’s available for preorder starting today exclusively …
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Fresh off introducing its first soundbar with built-in streaming, Roku has taken the wraps off its complete lineup of new 2019 media streamers — the little boxes and sticks you hook to your TV to get Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, YouTube TV, Sling TV and, coming soon, Disney Plus and Apple TV Plus. As befits that bewildering array of services, Roku has …
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One of the biggest surprises at Apple’s iPhone 11 event concerned the price of its new Apple TV Plus service. No, we’re not talking about the normal price: $5 per month, with the first shows starting streaming on Nov. 1. We’re talking about the throw-in price: free. Apple TV Plus will be free for the first year — ostensibly a …
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When Apple CEO Tim Cook introduced the current HD version of the Apple TV streaming box in 2015, he famously said, “The future of TV is apps.” Now an Apple app on a bunch of other devices could make that box obsolete. Four years later, at the iPhone 11 event on Sept. 10, Cook and company once again took the …
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Sound bars are one of the most popular ways to add improved audio to your TV, and now they let you add streaming too. The Roku smart sound bar, available for pre-order today for $180, has a full Roku operating system suite onboard, complete with thousands of apps like Netflix, Hulu, YouTube and Spotify — no need to add a …
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