Peacock, the streaming service from Comcast’s NBCUniversal, launched Wednesday across a range of the biggest devices, but the two most popular ones to stream to televisions are missing: Roku and Amazon’s Fire TV. It’s a replay of the same standoff in May that pit Roku and Amazon against AT&T’s HBO Max, marking a new stage in the …
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For the company that rules search, Google complicated the Android app launch of Peacock, a streaming service from Comcast’s NBCUniversal, Wednesday, when the Google Play Store failed to show the app in search results for much of the app’s launch day. Android’s Peacock app published overnight in the Google Play Store as planned, and it was available to download if you had a link to find …
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I’ll just say it: Hamilton is the single best thing to happen in 2020, and it’ll cost you only $7 to see it. That’s the price of a one-month Disney Plus subscription. Alas, the service no longer offers a free trial — but here’s a way you can get that month for free. In fact, you’ll actually make a dollar …
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Disney Plus will release a Hamilton special Friday that interviews the musical’s cast and director, as well as a Harvard professor to discuss the show’s historical context, coming a week after Disney’s filmed version of the Broadway hit stoked a surge of interest in Disney Plus. The special, Hamilton: History Has Its Eyes on You, features Good Morning America host Robin Roberts conducting remote …
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Amazon Prime’s streaming service now has the option of creating up to six profiles on each account. Much like what was already available on Netflix, Hulu and Disney Plus, Amazon Prime Video now lets you personalize profiles for multiple users on the same account. It’ll be available worldwide, with the rollout starting Tuesday. Like on other streaming services, individual profiles …
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Comcast’s Peacock is the latest entrant into the “streaming wars” and like AT&T’s HBO Max before it, the new service could very well launch nationwide next week without apps on the two most popular streaming device platforms, Roku or Amazon Fire TV. And in an interview with CNET, the executive in charge of the Peacock says that’s fine. “When it …
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HBO Max, HBO’s hot new streaming service, launched in May with 10,000 hours of content. For $14.99 a month, subscribers can find almost every Studio Ghibli film, the Harry Potter movies, classics like Casablanca, all 10 seasons of Friends (and a promised reunion episode) and cult favorites such as Rick and Morty — along with all the HBO movies and series …
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Peacock, a new streaming service from Comcast’s NBCUniversal, launches in the US next week, but if you’re hoping it will bring you some surprise new movies to stream during your coronavirus lockdown, don’t hold your breath. Peacock won’t likely deliver any Hamilton-style launches along the lines of Disney Plus — at least, not soon. “Certainly nothing near term,” Matt Strauss, the …
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Disney Plus mobile-app downloads jumped 72% in the US last weekend as the streaming service dropped Hamilton, the highly anticipated film version of the award-winning musical that Disney originally planned to release in theaters more than a year from now. Mobile app downloads surged 72.4% in the US on Friday through Sunday, compared with the average number of downloads during the four preceding …
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Amazon isn’t one to let Netflix Party have all the fun. The company just announced a new service for your next binge watch with friends: Amazon Prime Video Watch Party. You can use it to watch hundreds of movies and shows from Amazon’s catalog while chatting with up to 100 friends, no plugin or download required. Amazon started rolling out the …
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