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Image: RokuRoku has announced a whopping 17 new channels added to its Live TV lineup—and they’re all free. These channels cover everything from local news across the United States, to drag queens, to 80's toys, and beyond. In its press release, Roku revealed a new deal with ABC to livestream even more news channels from across the country, including those in New York, Houston, and San Francisco. At the same time, Roku has added Latin channels Azteca Internacional and Corazón for Spanish-speaking viewers, as well as…

There was a time when you could hop onto Netflix and feel like you had pretty much any movie or show at your fingertips. Those years are long gone. Now consumers have a growing number of streaming providers all clamoring for attention, splitting up the media catalog against dozens of services and making finding the best one a surprisingly difficult task.Reuniting With Tyra BanksIn the past year, numerous streaming services have raised prices on subscription tiers. There’s been rounds of layoffs at HBO, Netflix and more.…

Through the recent history of digitized movies and TV shows, there have been two main options: Watch for free and put up with a few adverts, or pay your money and get to enjoy whatever you’re watching without adverts. As streaming services have become more popular, so has the first of those options, but the second one is now making something of a comeback.How to Enable 4K Streaming on Your DeviceWe’re now seeing more and more FAST (Free Ad-Supported Television) channels appearing, and they’re really a throwback to the old…

Pluto TV is working to revolutionize the television industry with free ad-supported TV sets which will reportedly be released later this year. Co-founder Ilya Pozin has quietly created the startup Teevee Corporation, which will produce complete TV sets that willinclude a second screen solely for advertising, Lowpass reported. Prime Day Ain't That 'Green'The company aims to make a return on investment through the constantly streaming advertisements and informational widgets on the secondary screen. This TV is expected to…

Do you miss the pre-streaming days of clicking through a TV guide? What about stumbling upon three-quarters of an action flick or the last 15 minutes of My Cousin Vinny in a delightful channel-browsing haze? Well Google TV has a remedy for your nostalgia. The smart TV operating system is moving forward into the streaming future with something of a blast from the past. Google’s Antitrust Case Is the Best Thing That Ever Happened to AIGoogle TV has expanded its lineup of free, ad-supported streaming (FAST) channels for…

Westworld is back online, after being cancelled by HBO and subsequently removed from the company’s HBO Max streaming platform at the end of 2022. The popular sci-fi series re-emerged on The Roku Channel on Wednesday, as reported by Tech Crunch.Andrew Callaghan Talks 'This Place Rules' Along with Westworld new content on Roku’s platformalso includes The Nevers and Raised by Wolves, two other sci-fi shows that got the axe much earlier in their respective runs than the four-season long Westworld arc. In total, some 2,000…

Photo: Reed Saxon (AP)I’m not a sports fan, but I know the necessity of keeping up with more than one game at a time, particularly during playoffs. I have seen friends juggle a smartphone, a TV screen, and a tablet in pursuit of tuning into multiple streams at once. They’ll be relieved to hear YouTube TV is making this easier with a new multiview feature.Multiview lets you stream up to four channels simultaneously while watching on a smart TV or streaming dongle. Google’s support page mentions multiview will eventually …

Screenshot: Pluto TVPluto TV is a regular fixture in picks of the best free Roku channels out there (of the thousands available), and with good reason: You get hundreds or even thousands of sources of news, sports, music, shows, and movies, all witha straightforward interface that makes it easy to get to the good stuff as quickly as possible. It’s fair to say you’ll never run out of content to watch, and the variety that’s on offer is to the credit of Pluto TV—the movie selection, for example, runs the gamut from the…

The Roku Plus TVs are part of the brand’s premium lineup and will feature voice-activated remotes with programmable buttons. Image: RokuRoku’s making its own TVs, and they’re available to buy starting today. The Roku Select and Roku Plus TVs follow the initial announcement at CES 2023 that the company would be getting into manufacturing its own displays, perhaps as a response to how many TVs come with streaming capabilities built-in these days, or to ape Amazon’s strategy of releasing heavily subsidized TV hardware. Roku…

Image: Ink Drop (Shutterstock)YouTube announced it is introducing free, ad-supported streaming channels in a product test as the company grows its video platform. The new hub, known as FAST, would create competition for other industry players including Roku, Pluto TV, and Tubi.The rollout was first reported by the Wall Street Journal and will be part of a test experiment in the U.S. which will appear in YouTube’s movies and TV storefront, according to YouTube. The hub will introduce up to 100 titles on YouTube’s mobile…