Roku’s rollout of support for Apple’s AirPlay 2 and HomeKit is now underway. On Wednesday the streaming giant announced that it has begun issuing the update, part of Roku OS 9.4, to a variety of its devices including its Ultra streaming box, Streambar and Smart Soundbar speakers, as well as the Streaming Stick Plus and Premiere …
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Nielsen, the television ratings giant, is making a change to its rules that may mean the commercials you watch on TV start to feel like the ones in your Facebook feed: better targeted to you and your interests. But advancements in ad targeting bring questions about the privacy of your data, and TV’s data practices are still developing. “Typically, when …
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Rolling into the holiday season, Epson has launched several new and updated home theater projectors that span from $600 to $1,000. New, inexpensive HD projectors that throw a ton of light are always welcome. Perhaps most interesting are some updates to projectors we’ve looked at before, notably the Home Cinema 2150 that we liked a lot. The prices have gone …
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When Sony’s PS5 game console launches on Nov. 12, it will feature a newly designed media center that introduces the Apple TV app. That app will also be available on the PS4. Sony on Thursday confirmed some of the entertainment apps that’ll be available for its new console on day one, including Netflix, Disney Plus and, now, Apple TV. Spotify, Twitch, YouTube and Crunchyroll apps …
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TV deals are heating up. Walmart, for example, will be selling a 55-inch TCL Roku TV for just $148 on Nov. 11, which is bonkers. Meanwhile, if you’ve been biding your time on a really big screen, bide no more: For a limited time, and while supplies last, Best Buy has the Insignia NS-70DF710NA21 70-inch 4K UHD Smart Fire TV …
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In an attempt to pull in more viewers by expanding to TVs, Quibi has launched apps for Apple TV, Android TV and Amazon’s Fire TV and Fire TV Stick. The streaming service was previously mobile only, launching in April with series that are a maximum of 10 minutes per episode. Quibi costs $5 a month after a free 14-day trial. …
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After launching on Android and iOS last month, the Roku Channel, the streaming company’s free, standalone TV service, is now available on Amazon Fire TV devices, the company said in a blog post Thursday. That includes Fire TV streamers and also Fire TV Edition smart TVs and soundbars. With 115 live channels and a library of more than 100,000 ad-supported …
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After a few days of relative quiet on the deal front, things are suddenly cooking all over. Amazon has a bunch of new pre-Prime Day deals, Google is giving away its new Chromecast (with purchase) and a $200 true wireless earbud set is on sale for $65. Before all that (and more), a few notes: The Cheapskate newsletter has a …
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Google on Wednesday unveiled a new $50 (£60, AU$99) Chromecast streaming device, dubbed Chromecast with Google TV, in a revamp of its bare-bones TV dongle to better suit the streaming world’s dramatic changes in the four years since the $70 Chromecast Ultra came out. And this time, the latest iteration of Chromecast adds both a remote control and a tailor-made interface called …
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Google’s big Launch Night In event Wednesday was the latest in a flurry of September tech announcements. The virtual event, which saw the unveiling of the Pixel 5 and Google’s first entry into the 5G space, followed its unveiling of the Pixel 4A budget phone in August. That event confirmed the existence of Google’s next flagship phone, the Pixel 5, and the Pixel 4A …
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