Don’t want your 6-year-old braving the wilds of the app store? Wish there was a trusted place to find free, worthwhile games for kids, without having to comb through reams of reviews or worry about in-app purchases? Well, lucky you. Launching today is a new free app from PBS Kids that collects many of its …

Streaming video, whether it’s from Netflix, YouTube, Amazon Prime, Watch ESPN or PBS Kids, is more popular than ever. And the selection of devices to get those shows and movies from the Internet onto your TV continues to expand. In the last six months or so all of the major players in TV-based streaming — Roku, Amazon, Google and Apple …

Streaming video, whether it’s from Netflix, YouTube, Amazon Prime, Watch ESPN or PBS Kids, is more popular than ever. And the selection of devices to get those shows and movies from the Internet onto your TV continues to expand. In the last six months or so all of the major players in TV-based streaming — Roku, Amazon, Google and Apple …

Now playing: Watch this: You’ll pay more for Amazon Prime if you pay monthly 2:19 In the history of no-brainers, spending the extra $2 per month to get full Amazon Prime ranks up there with quitting smoking to get healthier. No question you should do it. If you want to subscribe to Amazon video on a monthly basis as opposed …

“Gee, Samsung, what are we going to do tonight?” “The same thing we do every night, TV viewer. Try to take over the house!” The biggest TV maker in the world has little in common with the most ambitious mouse in cartoon history, but Samsung and The Brain do share one burning desire: to control more stuff. The company’s 2016 …

Samsung is nuts for nits. The world’s largest TV maker has rolled out five new series of its high-end SUHD TVs today, encompassing up to four sizes each. They range from a $1500 43-inch set up to a $20,000 88 incher, and can get brighter than ever before. Now before I delve into the details it’s worth remembering a couple …

If you snoozed through the past few generations of TV “innovations,” you’re not alone. 3D was a bust. The “advantages” of 4K are imperceptible even if you squint. Curved TV screens are pretty useless. And smart TV is great, but all those cool streaming services are just a Roku, Chromecast or Fire TV away. But for 2016 and beyond, there’s …

Cord-cutters who want live TV can now watch American Horror Story, The Simpsons, and maybe even local Major League Baseball games for $20 a month. As long as they’re willing to give up SportsCenter. Today Sling TV, the first major nationwide provider of live TV channels delivered over the Internet without a cable subscription, now has Fox. A new base …

Now subscribers to Dish and Netflix with a Hopper 3 DVR can get the 4K version of “Daredevil,” “House of Cards” and the rest without having to fire up a smart TV app or buy another device. The company’s feature-packed DVR joins the Roku 4, Nvidia Shield and Amazon Fire TV in delivering 4K Netflix to compatible TVs. To watch …

Following the lead of HBO Now and Showtime, premium cable channel Starz has launched a standalone subscription service. For a monthly fee of $8.99, anyone in the US with an Internet connection and a compatible device can binge on original series like “Outlander” and “The Girlfriend Experience,” and movies like “Ant-Man” and “Inside Out.” The new app effectively consolidates the …